Chris Cuomo Trashes Tucker for Putin Interview: ‘Don’t Compare Tucker Carlson to Barbara Walters’

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CUOMO: "To me, it’s a non-troversy, because I don’t care who interviews anybody. You know, this idea that there’s some club and certain people deserve access and others don’t, it's the opposite of a free media. But I think there is something suspicious about the choices Putin makes. But, you know, what is going on here that needs to be checked is, don’t compare Tucker Carlson to Barbara Walters. Don’t compare Megyn Kelly to Barbara Walters. Don’t compare me to Geraldo Rivera. You know, there’s a subtext there of cheapening the standard, that he’s no different, she’s no different than Barbara Walters doing it. That is a B.S. way of tearing down a standard. And Barbara is not here to defend herself and the standard, but I learned at her footstep the same way I learned at your knee, and you guys deserve your place in the pantheon. And we should not cheapen the standard by saying, 'Oh yeah, it’s the same as when she does it.' It is not the same as when she did. She was a different class of individual, let alone journalist. You can call yourself a journalist, but don’t say you're the same as Barbara Walters. That’s a B.S. thing to say. I’m talking about Tucker and Megyn Kelly and comparisons people are making for them. Good luck for their success, but there’s only one Geraldo Rivera and nobody should cheapen the standard.“