Tucker Carlson Appears to Trash Fox News Colleague Who Debunked Ukraine Bioweapons Conspiracy Theory (1 Viewer)

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Tucker Carlson Appears to Trash Fox News Colleague Who Debunked Ukraine Bioweapons Conspiracy Theory

3.10.22
On Thursday's episode of his Fox News show, Tucker Carlson let forth quite a rant bashing unnamed reporters who have debunked a conspiracy theory he keeps plugging. And on his list of bash-ees? Apparently one of his own coworkers, FOX national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin. Tucker Carlson has for the last couple of weeks has frequently talked about one of the lies Vladimir Putin has advanced to justify his invasion of Ukraine: accusing the United States of funding bioweapons research in Ukraine. Tucker Carlson seems to believe this is true or at least possible, but it actually isn't true. In fact, what actually happened is that the U.S. has been funding efforts to safely convert old Soviet-era bioweapons labs for use in more benign purposes.

Of course, this nonsense keeps being debunked by multiple, otherwise ideologically different reporters, even on Fox News. But on Thursday's episode of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Tucker Carlson doubled down and all but directly accused those reporters of openly lying on behalf of the U.S. government. And in one telling aside, he appears unmistakably to include Griffin in those accusations and insinuations. "You 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 that they were a lie? Maybe they did. On the other hand, how would they know? They didn't bother to do any reporting what. So. Ever," Tucker Carlson said with an angry scowl.

The Nunn-Lugar Act (Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program) was passed in 1986 and provides US funding and expertise for states in the former Soviet Union (including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan) to decommission nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon stockpiles, as agreed by the Soviet Union under disarmament treaties such as SALT I. The "bio-weapons" lab in Ukraine that's being pushed by Kremlin propaganda is an old Soviet lab that under Nunn-Lugar has long been devoted to discovering, anylizing, and combatting pathogens and viruii such as the Covid-19 virus. Almost every country in the world (and certainly in Europe) has such a lab.

Tucker Carlson is a shill for Kremlin propaganda, and is upset that FOX's own national security correspondent (Jennifer Griffin) debunked his conspiracy garbage.

 

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Tucker Carlson Appears to Trash Fox News Colleague Who Debunked Ukraine Bioweapons Conspiracy Theory

The Nunn-Lugar Act (Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program) was passed in 1986 and provides US funding and expertise for states in the former Soviet Union (including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan) to decommission nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon stockpiles, as agreed by the Soviet Union under disarmament treaties such as SALT I. The "bio-weapons" lab in Ukraine that's being pushed by Kremlin propaganda is an old Soviet lab that under Nunn-Lugar has long been devoted to discovering, anylizing, and combatting pathogens and viruii such as the Covid-19 virus. Almost every country in the world (and certainly in Europe) has such a lab.

Tucker Carlson is a shill for Kremlin propaganda, and is upset that FOX's own national security correspondent (Jennifer Griffin) debunked his conspiracy garbage.

Of course, Tucker Carlson is doing exactly the same thing - taking the word of those (experts?) who hold a different opinion on what they feel is likely to be going on inside some (unnamed) locations inside Ukraine - which they have never personally visited.

 

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Of course, Tucker Carlson is doing exactly the same thing - taking the word of those (experts?) who hold a different opinion on what they feel is likely to be going on inside some (unnamed) locations inside Ukraine - which they have never personally visited.

Personally, I wonder how long it is supposed to take to "decommission nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon stockpiles"? It's been over 30 years since the end of the Soviet Union.

How stupid does a person have to be to believe that this is STILL the purpose of these things?

 

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Tucker Carlson Appears to Trash Fox News Colleague Who Debunked Ukraine Bioweapons Conspiracy Theory

The Nunn-Lugar Act (Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program) was passed in 1986 and provides US funding and expertise for states in the former Soviet Union (including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan) to decommission nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon stockpiles, as agreed by the Soviet Union under disarmament treaties such as SALT I. The "bio-weapons" lab in Ukraine that's being pushed by Kremlin propaganda is an old Soviet lab that under Nunn-Lugar has long been devoted to discovering, anylizing, and combatting pathogens and viruii such as the Covid-19 virus. Almost every country in the world (and certainly in Europe) has such a lab.

Tucker Carlson is a shill for Kremlin propaganda, and is upset that FOX's own national security correspondent (Jennifer Griffin) debunked his conspiracy garbage.

Griffin didn't debunk anything.
Nuland said ..."Ukraine has biological research facilities which, in fact, we’re now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of, so we are working with the Ukrainians on how we can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach."
If the labs are totally benign why would Nuland be so concerned who gains control of them?

 

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The Nunn-Lugar Act (Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program) was passed in 1986 and provides US funding and expertise for states in the former Soviet Union (including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan) to decommission nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon stockpiles, as agreed by the Soviet Union under disarmament treaties such as SALT I.

My father, SALT I negotiator.

 

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Personally, I wonder how long it is supposed to take to "decommission nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon stockpiles"? It's been over 30 years since the end of the Soviet Union.

How stupid does a person have to be to believe that this is STILL the purpose of these things?

Yep, but TC stated that there were initially over 80 such ‘bio weapon‘ facilities (in all former USSR satellite nations combined) and there might be two such sites which had been converted into ‘research facilities’ inside Ukraine. TC admits that he has absolutely no idea what is currently going in those two Ukrainian ‘bio research facilities’ in Odessa and Kiev, yet believes (based on ???) that they should not have been allowed to exist. TC is using the Racheal Maddow technique of asking ‘is it possible that these facilities are doing gain of function research?’ - based on nothing but a desire to create doubt as to their current mission(s).

 

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Yep, but TC stated that there were initially over 80 such ‘bio weapon‘ facilities (in all former USSR satellite nations combined) and there might be two such sites which had been converted into ‘research facilities’ inside Ukraine. TC admits that he has absolutely no idea what is currently going in those two Ukrainian ‘bio research facilities’ in Odessa and Kiev, yet believes (based on ???) that they should not have been allowed to exist. TC is using the Racheal Maddow technique of asking ‘is it possible that these facilities are doing gain of function research?’ - based on nothing but a desire to create doubt as to their current mission(s).

There is no reason I can think of that we would be funding these facilities in Ukraine, TODAY, that doesn't involve the desire to hide something from the American public.

 

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There is no reason I can think of that we would be funding these facilities in Ukraine, TODAY, that doesn't involve the desire to hide something from the American public.

What makes you think that “these facilities” are US funded?

Fact Check: No, There Are No U.S.-Funded Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine

False claims are going viral on social media.

thedispatch.com

 

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Tucker Carlson Appears to Trash Fox News Colleague Who Debunked Ukraine Bioweapons Conspiracy Theory

The Nunn-Lugar Act (Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program) was passed in 1986 and provides US funding and expertise for states in the former Soviet Union (including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan) to decommission nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon stockpiles, as agreed by the Soviet Union under disarmament treaties such as SALT I. The "bio-weapons" lab in Ukraine that's being pushed by Kremlin propaganda is an old Soviet lab that under Nunn-Lugar has long been devoted to discovering, anylizing, and combatting pathogens and viruii such as the Covid-19 virus. Almost every country in the world (and certainly in Europe) has such a lab.

Tucker Carlson is a shill for Kremlin propaganda, and is upset that FOX's own national security correspondent (Jennifer Griffin) debunked his conspiracy garbage.

Tucker is about as anti-American as one can get. Now that he can't outright say, "I'm pulling for Putin", he resorts to trashing America and Ukraine to support Putin.

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