Tokyo Rose was an American-born Japanese woman who read radio propaganda broadcasts in English that American troops could hear. Unlike Tokyo Rose, no one has been coercing Carlson or Fox
It’s a strange thing for Americans to witness a major TV news network and its most popular host taking the side of a brutal dictator over a small country trying to forge a democracy.
But that is how it’s been for Fox News and its most popular host, Tucker Carlson.
They’ve been like a Greek chorus regurgitating the praise heaped on Russia’s Vladimir Putin by former President Donald Trump.
As far back as December, after Carlson appeared on 60 Minutes, a member of the of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Public Council, Igor Korotchenko, who is also editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine, said, “Excellent performance, with which we can only express solidarity".
It got worse last month when a Russian TV propaganda outlet provided Russian subtitles and rebroadcast Carlson defending Putin. Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Carlson wrote off the dangerous situation as a “border dispute.”