UPDATE December 6:

Tucker (“I was joking” “no I wasn’t”) Carlson has returned to his defense of Putin (Guardian coverage). And here’s Carlson’s response to his critics posted at Real Clear Politics (don’t say I’m not fair and balanced). My response to his title question “What Makes Putin Worse Than A U.S. Ally Like The King Of Saudi Arabia?”: Nothing; they’re both autocrats, which is why Trump likes them. Putin uses cyber warfare against the US, Saudi rulers use oil policy and money.

A story from Vanity Fair about Carlson’s Russophilia.

An editorial from the Washington Post by Max Boot, “The Republicans have become the party of Russia. This makes me sick.”