Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

Why Russian TV Isn’t Tucker Carlson’s Dream Job

The ex-Fox host only used pro-Kremlin rhetoric to rile his political opponents. But their failure to take on his arguments without condescension will undermine US public support for Ukraine.

April 26, 2023 at 4:00 AM UTC

By Leonid Bershidsky

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

Don’t look for him in Moscow.
Photographer: Jason Koerner/Getty Images North America

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Has this ever happened to any leading US television personality? Less than 24 hours after being ditched by Fox News, TV host Tucker Carlson had job offers from two different Russian propaganda outlets:

“We’ll happily offer you a job if you wish to carry on as presenter and host,” Vladimir Solovyov, a prime-time host on state-owned Channel One, wrote on his Telegram channel. “Tucker, come join us. You don’t have to be afraid of taking the piss out of Biden here.”