Fox News host Tucker Carlson targeted the Washington Post on Tuesday night, accusing the newspaper of pushing Russian propaganda while confronting one of its reporters.
Carlson told Washington Post reporter Erik Wemple that his paper had for years carried "paid propaganda for the Russian government" with its "Russia Behind the Headlines" section, which looks like normal news coverage but contains information paid for and pushed by Moscow. The Fox News host called out Wemple and the Post for accusing others of "carrying water" for the Kremlin while having Russian propaganda in their own publication.
Wemple said the question was interesting but he knew little about it.
"Why didn't you write about them [the Russian inserts into the paper]?" Carlson asked.
"That's a good question," Wemple said. "I think I've got a lot to write about, but I am interested in that topic and I appreciate you bringing it up."
"But it's your own paper," Carlson pointed out. "I mean, you cover the media."
Carlson went after Wemple for carrying the Russian propaganda in question while Wemple himself never reported about it.
"Why don't you cover your own paper's shortcomings?" Carlson asked.
The two later strongly disagreed about a piece of Wemple's regarding a power plant in Vermont being hacked and how the Post reported the story.
Wemple became defensive of the Post, saying he has more freedom than other media reporters. Carlson rebuffed the claim and called out Wemple for some of his own pieces.
"When you write something that brown nosy, do you feel guilt?" Carlson asked. "Do you feel like I'm doing my job as a hard-hitting media reporter? 'A spectacular run of my own publication, my own employers?'"
Wemple, barraged by Carlson, then attacked Fox News. Carlson pointed out that Wemple seems obsessed with Fox News and said that he has covered Fox 23 times more than MSNBC in the last 10 months.