Posted on 03/07/2023 1:32:41 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday accused House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy of helping Fox News stoke conspiracy theories by providing videos that were used by the cable network to portray the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters as peaceful.
On Monday, Fox's right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson used some of the security videos, showing protesters walking through the Capitol, to argue that they were merely "sightseers."
He said only a small number of those who illegally entered the Capitol as Congress was attempting to formally certify President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral win were "hooligans," adding that: "The overwhelming majority weren't. They were peaceful, they were orderly and meek. These were not insurrectionists, they were sightseers."
In a Senate speech, Schumer condemned the broadcast and urged the cable network to cancel any follow-up segment.
The Senate Democratic leader called Carlson's conduct "a dangerous, unforgivable attempt to destabilize our democracy and rewrite the history of the worst attack on our Constitution since the Civil War."
He added that McCarthy was "every bit as culpable as Mr. Carlson" by providing Fox News with thousands of hours of videotape from the day of the attack and accused the broadcaster of using it to piece together a sanitized narrative of the events.
"To say January 6 was not violent, is a lie, a lie, pure and simple," Schumer said.
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LOL! They can’t stand the fact that now the whole world will know they are LIARS!
AND TRAITORS!
The government is the democrat party. In almost every realm of the government the employees donate to the democrats, hire the democrats and vote for the democrats. The democrats are the party of the government. So the democrats have had this video for over two years. Its about time for the republicans to get it. I assume other media will get access to it soon.
Squealing like a stuck pig.
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Why anyone would still listen to this most evil man is beyond me.
“the narrative is OURS...you can’t have it!”
The filthy bastards on the left don’t like the truth. pelosi and the justice department are filthy liars.
Both these men should step down based on their previous
statements on the January 6th situation.
Chuckie sounds skeered. 😅
I don’t normally watch Tucker or Fox News, but I’m watching tonight.
I suspect that Tucker played them just as he wanted to. Maybe I am wrong but I believe that this is EXACTLY the reaction he and his producers wanted. Foolish of Schumer to react this way before seeing all of the footage that Tucker was prepared to use.
Not a regular Tucker viewer but tonight I will tune in, as I suspect many others will as well.
What ever happened to “Democracy dies in darkness?”
Is Schumer no longer a Democrat?
Schmuckee said that Tucker Carlson unfairly selectively edited the January 6th video to make the selectively edited January 6th video released by the January 6th committee look bad...
Earlier, Schumer demanded McCarthy not to release the footage. I guess that demand went unmet.
The urchins should not be allowed to see what they do not want them to see.
I’m sure the NAZIs felt the same way when the Brits released the photos of Bergen-Belson concentration camp.
The greatest coup in the history of man.
Schumer condemns truth, facts, and transparency. A good democrat.
schumer is right. Jan. 6 was violent.
It was the government that was violent.
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