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US guest of honour and Fox News host Tucker Carlson was granted a lightning visit by military helicopter to Hungary's 175km (109-mile) high-tech, high-cost razor-wire border fence with Serbia this week.
He liked what he saw. After praising the fence for being so "clean and orderly", in contrast to the "chaos" on the US-Mexican border, he told his viewers: "It doesn't require a GDP the size of the US, it doesn't require high-tech walls, guns, or surveillance equipment. All it requires is the will to do it."
And he praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for not allowing "this nation of 10 million people to be changed forever by people we didn't invite in and who are coming here illegally".
To make sure his US viewers understood his message, he contrasted Mr Orban's policies with those of US President Joe Biden.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58104200
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Do we really have to let him back into the US? Since he likes it so well there he can jolly well stay there!
grumpyduck
(6,235 posts)WHITT
(2,868 posts)malaise
(268,997 posts)That is all
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)for the exciting, new form of government republicans plan on bringing to the U.S.
He's trying to convince them that what we see in Hungary is still democracy. It's not fascism, oh no, it's the new "hard line" democracy.
Orban is Europe's Trump, and see how wonderful everything is here?
Whatever bow-tie-boy is doing, rest assured he doesn't have the United State's best interest in mind. Fox is an anti-American propaganda machine and should be torn into bits and burned.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Bristlecone
(10,127 posts)He is a minister of propaganda.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)the fox viewer peasant class, why its wonderful to not have democracy.
sop
(10,177 posts)riversedge
(70,218 posts)We have been hearing bad things out of Hungary for a long while now. Seems very unpatriotic for Carlson to go there and broadcasting his show-praising a dictator!!
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Carlson's visit comes at a useful time for Mr Orban.
After 11 years in almost unchallenged power, he faces a fierce battle for re-election in eight months time, against an unusually united opposition, from left to right, which accuses him of hijacking Hungarian democracy and financially favouring his own coterie of oligarchs and loyalists.
Mr Orban also stands accused of using Pegasus spyware purchased from the Israeli company NSO to tap the phones and mine the personal data of up to 300 independent journalists, lawyers and businessmen not aligned with his Fidesz party.
The European Commission has suspended the disbursement of post-Covid EU recovery funds, citing insufficient safeguards against corruption. Nordic governments have also suspended payment of funds to NGOs, after failing to reach agreement with the government over who should disburse them.
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The pro-government Central European Press and Media Foundation (KESMA), comprising 457 TV and radio stations, online news portals, daily and regional newspapers, have been lavishing praise on Carlson, described as "the most influential conservative thinker in the United States", star-status previously allotted only to ex-Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon or Donald Trump himself.
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11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(9,971 posts)that we don't want him back and he can keep him. Please and thank you.
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)We dont want him back.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)I bet you Serbia doesn't appreciate how "clean and orderly" it is.