us every bad thing you notice around you is, of course, vladimir putin s fault and the media have backed him up, but suddenly, they aren t backing him up anymore. ready to be shocked again? watch a group of liberal toady s demolish the biden white house s favorite talking point. here it is. every time we talk about gas prices, president biden is saying it s putin s price hike. they re trying to invasion the russian trying to blame the russian president and putin for the gas. biden has called it a putin price hike but most americans aren t buying it. with the midterms now just a few months away and inflation at a record high, the president now putting the blame squarely on vladimir putin calling this a putin price hike. gas prices were already rising before russia started this war. the white house is trying to do to do both, blame putin, blame the oil and gas companies, but americans just don t agree.
ukrainians the way americans want him to, but not escalating in the way that americans really don t want him to, and on that, you know, the media beats him up the worst, right? because he s threatening that elite point of view. tucker: that is so true! and i think i mean, what do i know? i m not in touch with biden every day, but just watching him on tv, he did not his first instincts wasn t to escalate. he didn t want a war with russia. americans want to support ukraine. they don t want a hot war with russia. fair? exactly. exactly. he s trying his best to resist pressure from both parties by the way from the elites in both parties but not from this show because you tell it like it is, tucker. tucker: i appreciate that. no, it s certainly the republican party pushing him. it s totally crazy. thank you so much for coming on, batya and what you re doing on newsweek. appreciate it. thank you so much. thank you. tucker: you hear enough about the censorship stories and get
that opinion now qualifies as treason. this war is being used by domestic political actors to settle domestic political scores. or am i imagining this? no i think that s exactly right. you know, i think there was a time after 9/11 when most people came to realize we kind of went too farm far, but in that case, our country was attacked. i remember being in new york on 9/11. it was incredibly traumatizing. it s where i lived and worked. this isn t a war with the united states being attacked. the level of sense being allowed is less than after 9/11. anyone who steps out of line, even a little bit, questions why we should be risking a nuclear war with russia or direct war with russia over ukrainian wars is instantly being accused of being a traitor. that s what those are about. tucker: it s not really about helping the ukrainians. if you see some atrocity or pictures of it or dead people always very upsetting and immediately leverage that to attack people you have a political grudg
former dead-beat father who didn t pay his child support ordered by the court. he used to be a hard-core republican. liberals hated him. then he suddenly became this extremist democrat who makes up quotes in order to accuse people of being russian agents in my case, rick wilson also used to be a republican now gets rich off liberals inside of a group, the lincoln project that got caught hiding a child predator and built liberals out of $65,000 claiming he was making a trump film that never came. we have good fabricators. it s amazing twitter claiming to have to censor all the time to stop disinformation allows these quotes to go viral and so many dumb people in our media and political elite circles believe these quotes. that was the purpose of it. tucker: it s just it s just i actually don t know what your position on the war in ukraine is, but it s interesting, i think a lot of people feel really bad for the ukrainians, speaking for myself, don t think the united states should g
campaign on behalf of human rights, are you? i think this is the key point is any decent person that looks at any war, not just the war in ukraine tucker: that s right. is horrified. more war is the most horrific thing humanity could unleash on itself. sitting online every day and denouncing vladimir putin and calling everyone a russian agent is not doing anything for the ukrainians. only a diplomatic solution to the war could help them. if you suggest that, you get called a russian agent. they re exploiting ukraine to get vengeance on their political adversaries and feel a sense of purpose and strength to do everything but help the ukrainians this episode reveals that very vividly. tucker: man, is that true? that s the truest thing and so nicely articulated. as always, glenn greenwald, thank you very much. good to be with you, tucker. thanks. tucker: good to see you. politicians in washington spent the last two years fretting