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Hungary
Carlson: If you need proof the media lies, look at how they treat Hungary. We've read many times how repressive Hungary is, but that's wrong
Hungarian prime minister hits back at Biden calling him a 'thug' (video)
Orbán says Western liberals refuse to accept Hungary's success story (video)
Hungary
August 6, 2021 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán - an elected leader who publicly identifies a western-style conservative - sits down with Carlson to discuss how western Europe is changing and how his country in the middle of Central Europe which has no navy, nuclear weapons, is moving further away. Its GDP is smaller than New York State’s. You wouldn’t think leaders in Washington would pay much attention to Hungary, but they do, obsessively. By rejecting the tenets of neoliberalism, Viktor Orbán has personally offended them and enraged them. Just a few years ago, his views would have seemed moderate and conventional. He thinks families are more important. He believes countries need borders. For saying these things out loud, Orbán has been vilified. Left-wing NGO’s have denounced him a destroyer of democracy. Last fall, Biden suggested he’s a totalitarian dictator. Official Washington despises Viktor Orbán so thoroughly that many, including neocons in and around the State Department, are backing the open anti-semites running against him in next April’s elections in Hungary. Hungarian prime minister hits back at Biden calling him a 'thug.' "We’ve watched all of this from the United States, and wondered if what we’d heard could be true. This week we came to Hungary to see for ourselves. We sat down with Orbán for a couple of long conversations. But first, a word about Hungary. Even if you understand that the American media lie, it’s always bewildering to see the extent of their dishonesty. Nothing prepares you for it. We’ve read many times how repressive Hungary is. Freedom House, an NGO in Washington funded almost exclusively by the U.S. government, describes the country as less free than South Africa, with fewer civil liberties. That’s not just wrong. It’s insane. In fact, if you live in the United States, it is bitter to see the contrast between, say, Budapest and New York City. Let’s say you lived in a big American city and you decided to loudly and publicly attack Biden’s policies, on immigration or COVID or transgender athletes. If you kept talking like that, you would likely be silenced by Biden’s allies in Silicon Valley. If you kept it up, you might very well have to hire armed bodyguards. That’s common in the U.S. Ask around. But it’s unknown in Hungary. Opposition figures here don’t worry they’ll be hurt for their opinions. Neither, by the way, does the prime minister. Orbán regularly drives by himself with no security. So who’s freer? In what country are you more likely to lose your job for disagreeing with ruling class orthodoxy? The answer’s pretty obvious, though if you’re an American, it’s painful to admit it, as we’ve discovered".
Note: "This article is adapted from Carlson's opening commentary on the August 5, 2021 edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight." Carlson joined the network in 2009 as a contributor. (Source: FoxNews)
Aug. 06, 2021 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sits down with Carlson to discuss how western Europe is changing and how his country is moving further away. (video): /Source: FoxNews): https://tinyurl.com/j7dsm9b3
August 6, 2021 Fox News host Carlson sits down with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán who claims 'it is not a human right' to migrate to Hungary, calling it "a nation, a community, family, history, tradition, language". Biden's 2020 opponent, Trump, was notably close with Orbán – as the left-leaning Brookings Institution claimed that the then-president's hosting of Poland's Duda was essentially helping him in his reelection bid against a left-leaning Warsaw mayor. Orbán – speaking with "Tucker Carlson Tonight" in August 5, 2021 - was the first European leader to endorse Trump's reelection bid, while Trump lauded Orbán's border security and counterterrorism policies, as well as endeavors to "protect and help Christian communities" throughout the world. During a town hall in 2020, Biden accused then-President Trump of palling around with "all the thugs in the world": "You see what’s happening from Belarus through Poland and Hungary and the rise of totalitarian regimes in the world", Biden said at the time. 'Our current president supports all the thugs in the world.' Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán, a prominent right-wing voice in Central Europe tells Carlson: 'Western liberals can't accept' right-wing dissent'. Hungary's Viktor Orbán fired back at U.S. President Biden for his remark on the campaign trail that grouped the leader in with autocratic strongmen like Belarusian President Lukashenko and North Korea's Kim. The Hungarian prime minister told Carlson that Biden has "limited knowledge" of his country, and therefore cannot understand the issues at hand when he makes such remarks. "Somebody who does not speak our language has a very limited knowledge on Hungary, even in the recent several decades of our life, not understanding of obviously having an opinion like that," he said. "You know, it's by itself, it's a personal insult for all the Hungarians." Orbán spoke to the broader political issue, in that left-wing politicians like Biden cannot fathom a nationalistic or conservative alternative ideology, calling Hungary a "success story." "The Western liberals cannot accept that inside the Western civilization, there is a conservative national alternative which is more successful at everyday life, at the level of them - the liberal ones," he said. "That's the reason why they criticize us. They are fighting for themselves, not against us. But we are an example that a country which is based on traditional values, on national identity, on the tradition of Christianity can be successful – sometimes more successful than a leftist-liberal government." Orbán said Biden and the Democratic Party cannot accept the success Hungary has seen in protecting its Serbian and Croatian borders. In the U.S. Congress, several top Democrats have also criticized Orbán for alleged "xenophobic language" and unacceptable closeness to Russia. Now-former-Rep. Engel of New York, the former chairman of the foreign affairs committee, joined House Hungarian Caucus co-chair Kaptur of Ohio to strongly advise Trump against hosting Orbán as he did last year for those reasons. Orbán spoke at length about the importance of a Christian-Democratic ideology in government, saying that even a countervailing left-wing government in the U.S. will benefit from Hungary's political position. "It's better for the leftist liberal government in the United States to have a good partner, which is a Christian-Democratic one supported long-term by the people, the Hungarian people." Orbán further argued about a strong national defense and secure borders. Host Carlson noted the disparity between the immigration policies of Orbán's Hungary compared to another powerful Central European government – Angela Merkel's Germany. The host also added that the U.S. and other Western governments that have ostracized Orbán and Hungary are doing the opposite of what they once did when he was a young activist bravely speaking out against Soviet occupation in the 1980s. Carlson inferred that Orbán has not changed since, but that the prevailing worldview toward conservative governments like his has – in the host's words, starkly transitioned from universal support to being dubbed a "totalitarian" thug by the United States' leader. Hungarian prime minister hits back at Biden calling him a 'thug' /video/ (Source: FoxNews): https://tinyurl.com/n4t6nuv3
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