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Frida Ghitis: Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin was a far cry from Biden 's White House press conference.
She says the two presidents' media events took place in dramatically different circumstances and for different reasons.
But politics, whether global or national, has nothing to do with what is fair or reasonable, Ghitis says.
Ghitis asks: If Putin was the winner of this week 's propaganda battle, that was largely by default.
Frida Ghitis: Putin made an effort to appear statesmanlike and well informed in an interview with Tucker Carlson .
She says he's skilled at throwing shade, clouding the issue and twisting the knife.
Ghitis says Putin is nowhere near being a deep thinker or an intellectual, but as an intelligence professional he’s skilled at shade.
He says Putin made the familiar case that the U.S. and NATO broke a post-Cold War promise not to expand the Western military alliance into the former Soviet bloc.
John Avlon : CNN 's John D.S. interview with Vladimir Putin was a useful-idiot.
He says he was unsuccessful at baiting Putin into endorsing Donald Trump or proclaiming some alliance with right-wing Christians in the West .
VR Score
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Informative language
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Offensive language
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Known propaganda techniques
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