The ex-Fox News anchor appears in a trailer on state-run Rossiya 24 but exact details are not clear.

Russian TV news channel Rossiya 24 has aired a trailer for a weekend show featuring former Fox News journalist Tucker Carlson.

The state-run broadcaster did not make clear whether it will feature original content or be a translation of his regular English-language videos on X.

Carlson abruptly left Fox News in April where his populist conservative takes were renowned.

Rossiya 24 has not yet said when the show will air.

The advert, first shared earlier this month, aired again on 22 September with the words “on the weekend” but no further details.

  • @Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
    45•10 months ago

    Pretty wild how the Republican party went from calling various actors and others Russia lovers (and destroying their lives over it in the McCarthy hearings) to unabashed testicle chortling of a Russian dictator in just under 70 years.

      • Davel23
        30•10 months ago

        From an insider’s perspective they seem quite anti-American.

      • @TheJims@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8•10 months ago

        Don’t sell them short like that. They’re also anti democracy, anti truth, anti justice, anti women, anti diversity and anti human rights.

      • Gramatikal
        5•10 months ago

        It’s right wing populism. It’s the second Lavender Scare. Populism has never worked, it’s too chaotic. But that’s what regular folks are goaded into by people like Tucker Carlson. He’s a multimillionaire being paid to defend billionaires. He is the wealthy owner class he screams about on TV.

      • @Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
        4•10 months ago

        True, but maybe not as vehement as when Joseph McCarthy went hunting for reds.

        Funny thing about that… His right hand man was Roy Cohn who was a big inspiration to… The orange idiot of course. Small world sometimes.

        • drhoopoe
          1•10 months ago

          I’m guessing you’re not old enough to remember Ronnie Reagan calling the Soviets “the evil empire.” Tensions were incredibly high in the early 80s, and the Republicans were super hawkish about it. I was a kid at the time and convinced we were all going to die in a nuclear holocaust.

          • @Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
            2•10 months ago

            I was there and remember the same. You’re saying that was worse than the McCarthy Hearings?

            I wasn’t saying things were flipped long ago, just an wild flip.

    • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
      3•9 months ago

      But that was only in service to Tar and Feather socialism. By misrepresenting it as leninism. As soon as Russia adopted fascism like America. Republicans were overjoyed. Which is why they now defend their fascist friends. And use China or North Korea now to misrepresent socialism.