Ben Blanchet is a reporter based in New York City. His work has been featured in the New York Post, Insider and The Buffalo News' Sun newspapers. He was born and educated in Upstate New York.
over footage that showed the conservative pundit praising a Russian grocery store experience during a widely condemned trip he took to Moscow., applauded a shopping cart coin-lock system — similar to the kind seen in U.S. stores and elsewhere — toward the start of one clip.
Tucker says after visiting a Russian grocery store he is “radicalized against our leaders” because Russians have it so much better than Americans.Tucker in Russia, where democracy is a joke and journalists rot in jail :"My, how the grocery store floors glisten like the ice crystals upon Swan Lake!"If he thinks supermarkets in Moscow show how better off Russia’s citizens are than Americans, I can’t wait until he sees the amazing internet cafes in North Korea.This can't be real.
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