GOP Lawmaker Hits Tucker Carlson With Wicked Label For Russian Grocery Store Love
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U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) slammed Tucker Carlson over footage that showed the conservative pundit praising a Russian grocery store experience during a widely condemned trip he took to Moscow.
“Ah yes, Russia is so much better than the U.S. with all those cheap groceries and lavish subway stations!” Tillis wrote on Thursday in response to clipsthat Carlson shared from his trip.
“The Soviets had a term for people like Tucker: useful idiots.”
The former Fox News host, who has also faced criticism for his softball questions in a recent interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, applauded a shopping cart coin-lock system — similar to the kind seen in U.S. stores and elsewhere — toward the start of one clip.
Carlson later gushed about a shopping cart escalator — also used in U.S. stores — and remarked on a loaf of bread. He then praised the total price of his groceries at checkout, estimating that the items would cost $400 in the U.S. but saying that the Russian store only charged $104 for them.
“Coming to a Russian grocery store, the ‘heart of evil,’ and seeing what things cost and how they live, it will radicalize you against our leaders,” Carlson declared. “That’s how I feel, anyway — radicalized. We’re not making any of this up, by the way, at all.”
Tucker is excited that the Russians have figured out a way to keep homeless people from taking shopping carts. pic.twitter.com/R5pJSDEDsf
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 15, 2024
Tucker says after visiting a Russian grocery store he is “radicalized against our leaders” because Russians have it so much better than Americans. pic.twitter.com/Vczo4pf5SK
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 15, 2024
Other critics also slammed Carlson’s Russian grocery store admiration, including U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.).
Dude has never been to an aldis 🤦🏾♂️ https://t.co/rzBJ4a2Bir
— Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@MaxwellFrostFL) February 16, 2024
Tucker in America: "Free speech is the main right you have. Without it, you have no others."
Tucker in Russia, where democracy is a joke and journalists rot in jail : "My, how the grocery store floors glisten like the ice crystals upon Swan Lake!" https://t.co/4g80PDFiyppic.twitter.com/Y2D3cOtfYr— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) February 15, 2024
Has he never been to Publix? Like, my cheese department looks bigger than that whole store. https://t.co/doSYWezerH
— Emily Zanotti 🦝 (@emzanotti) February 15, 2024
If he thinks supermarkets in Moscow show how better off Russia’s citizens are than Americans, I can’t wait until he sees the amazing internet cafes in North Korea.
— Kyle Beshears (@kylebeshears) February 15, 2024
This can't be real. He's just discovering coin-locked shopping carts, but he had to go all the way to Russia to see it? Dude's just admitted he's never gone grocery shopping. https://t.co/0OnMXGzdJy
— Buckley (@ADoseofBuckley) February 16, 2024
1989: boris yeltsin visits a texas supermarket and is radicalized against communism
2024: tucker carlson visits a moscow supermarket and is radicalized against democracy
feels like there’s a marx quote about this somewhere https://t.co/JNdE9vsbuX— Seva (@SevaUT) February 15, 2024