You do realize that critically commenting on his essay (which is what your linked article does) and sitting there with a stupid face letting him ramble about nonsense unchallenged for two hours are two very different things?

One is a responsible(ish) journalistic approach to a difficult topic, the other is just making yourself his vicarious agent for the sake of the outrage and money.

I wouldn’t criticize that someone would interview him in a journalistic responsible way but that’s not what happened, because Putin would not let that happen.

You yourself said in your first comment that the Kremlin turned a lot of journalists requests for interviews down - gee I wonder why? I wonder why they turned down people trying to interview him that have at least an ounce of journalistic integrity and instead invited someone who is repeating Russian propaganda for almost two years now.

I’d say this was actually a great outcome of an interview as most people heard his ramblings, laughed at it, and turned it off. Further making Putin and Russia look bad. That’s a great outcome.

Sure, you and I laughed about Putins nonsense, Tuckers stupid face and whatnot but Tuckers audience has been primed with Russian talking points for almost two years, those people will have open ears for this revisionistic bullshit. The outcome is not positive at all, it is dangerous, a grade A demagogue and puppeteer sat down with a puppet and was able to throw his ideological corner stones over the border of his own state controlled media and that is frightening.