Tucker Carlson is the most popular host in all of cable news.
He’s willing to speak his mind, even if it means taking on other Fox News reporters.
But jaws dropped when Tucker Carlson ripped one of his colleagues at Fox News over bioweapons labs in Ukraine.
Victoria Nuland, who is the Secretary of State for Political Affairs, created a huge controversy during her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when she expressed deep concern over Russia potentially seizing control of bioweapons laboratories in Ukraine.
“Ukraine has uh, biological research facilities, which, in fact we are now quite concerned about Russian troops, Russia forces may be seeking to uh, gain control of. So, we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of uh, Russian forces should they approach,” Nuland testified.
Rubio asked Nuland this question because he wanted to dispel so-called “conspiracy theories” about the United States operating bio labs in Ukraine.
However, instead of debunking it, Nuland confirmed the story.
Fox News Channel’s Pentagon correspondent, Jennifer Griffin, used a “fact sheet” put together by the Biden administration that said the labs date back to a 2005 program to eliminate old Soviet bioweapons research as her proof that the story was “debunked.”
“It is a long program that has existed where the Pentagon has partnered with these bio-labs. These were Soviet-era labs that—remember the Nunn-Lugar Bill and trying to deal with proliferation when the Soviet Union ended—that is part of this effort to try to clean up those Soviet-era labs and make sure that nothing escapes from those labs. And so the U.S. has been very open about its involvement there with that. But what Russia does is they take that information, distort it, turn it around, and turn it into disinformation,” Griffin stated.
The following night, Tucker Carlson ripped Griffin and other so-called “reporters” for repeating the Pentagon line, saying they were essentially stenographers for the Biden administration.
Carlson stated:
We do know that the Pentagon talking points you saw reported as fact on television today – and last night – were an utter lie. Did the reporters who repeated those talking points verbatim know they were a lie? Maybe they did. On the other hand, how would they know? They didn’t bother to do any reporting whatsoever. They got a text from some Biden administration flack and they just read it on the air like it was true.
You shouldn’t be surprised because that’s what they do. And it’s possible they’re afraid not to do that. They know if they stray from the script the White House has written for them, they’ll be denounced from the briefing room as tools of Putin.
Of course, Carlson simply asked the question of why has it taken 17 years to destroy old Soviet bioweapons?
But Carlson wasn’t the only one asking what should be a glaring question to anyone paying attention.
National Review’s Michael Brendon Daugherty also cast doubt on Griffin’s reporting, writing “Yeah, if this is the truth you have to ask why is it taking two decades? When was this supposed to be completed? Why wasn’t it hurried after Russia annexed Crimea?”
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
