Posted on 03/07/2023 12:45:44 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Handed some 41,000 hours of Jan. 6 security footage, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson has launched an impassioned new effort to explain away the deadly Capitol attack, linking the Republican Party ever more closely to pro-Trump conspiracy theories about the 2021 riot.
The conservative commentator aired a first installment to millions of viewers on his prime-time show, working to bend perceptions of the violent, grueling siege that played out for the world to see into a narrative favorable to Donald Trump.
He promised more Tuesday night.
The undertaking by Fox News comes as Trump is again running for president, and executives at the highest levels of the cable news giant have admitted in unrelated court proceedings that it spread the former president’s false claims about the 2020 election despite dismissing Trump’s assertions privately.
The effort dovetails with the work of Republicans on Capitol Hill, led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy who turned over the security footage to Fox. The Republicans are trying to claw back the findings of the House Jan. 6 investigation, which painstakingly documented, with testimony and video evidence, how Trump rallied his supporters to head to the Capitol and “fight like hell” as Congress was certifying his loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
Carlson is reviving the falsehoods launched by Trump and his allies, including Republicans in Congress, that the attackers were peaceful protesters and acted like tourists, despite the well-documented carnage of the day and the deaths of five people in the riot and its aftermath. It’s part of an effort to reverse criminal charges for those being prosecuted in the attack, many of whom have pleaded guilty and said they regretted their actions on Jan. 6.
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It took 3 stooges to write this drivel.
If ever an article deserved the Goebbels seal of approval, this is the one.
The liars of the media fight back with more lies from the official narrative.
it is amazing that it takes so many to dispell the truth of the videos, but none of them questioned the selective use of a fraction of the available stock
Full court press
You’re over the target when you’re taking flak.
What evidence do they have that this is a lie?
We say the evidence that backs up what Tucker claims. Where is the AP evidence? Oh they have none.
I’d go after Cheney. Back stabbers are worse than your enemy. Don’t forget Kinzinger.
Got to “deadly capitol attack” in the first sentence. That was enough.
That's a funny way to say "cherrypicked and manufactured evidence".
Even video doesn’t tell the truth according to woke any longer. Remember when those cases were pulled from under tables during the election once all witnesses were told to go home.
I can watch the video and see for myself. They think we are stupid.
There’s no there there in this article.
It does not address the content and is all ad hominem and demonization.
Seems to me that Tucker Carlosn and FOX News have themselves a slander lawsuit against the Associated Press.
They should file on this ASAP.
...u mad bro?
In the words of a former “journalist” who we all know well, “The Camera Never Blinks.”
They say the whole world watched the attack. I watched it on television and nothing violent was seen at any point.
Later we have seen video of some people that forced their way in.
For the most part they were completely peaceful, many were invited in comama and they didn’t do any damage.
We should also focus on the fact that after a couple of hours they all left peacefully.
My jaw dropped as I read this. Tucker presented video footage of the guard who was supposedly struck by a fire extinguisher running around afterwards, directing crowds. Obviously not incapacitated. What’s there to argue over?
Claiming he died as a result of the crowd’s actions was an out and out lie. And, the committee knew it.
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