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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And here comes the leftist cavalry to run interference for their beloved radical Democrats. They are caught - red-handed - in their myriad of lies and now they are going back to their playbook to smear anyone who dares question them by calling them conspiracy theorists, or crazy, or whatever.
It will not work. We now have the evidence. Just like Covid. Just like the vax. Just like the masks. Just like the lab leak. Just like Fauci. You sit on a throne of lies and I do not care what you call me. You are a naked, pathological spawn of satan.
“What evidence do they have that this is a lie?”
None whatsoever. They simply declare it a lie... like they declared massive voter fraud in 2020 a lie... like they declared Hunter Biden’s laptop a Russian hoax.
This is a tough one. Whom I going to believe??? Hmmmm
Baghdad Bob was an amateur compared to this fool.
Wow they never dealt with the actual footage that was shown. They also end the article saying that Trump told people to go to the capital and “fight like h***”.
Of course they know he told them to “peacefully protest”.
Guess they are technically correct that it was a “deadly” event because one protester was shot to death. Of course, that’s not what they are talking about.
Hey, Nancy had 2 years to DNC to supply the same video.
I guess they chose not to do so, because the video destroyed the narratives.
I am so done with the press in America, including Fox News, which surprises me that they have not let Tucker go. He only remains because he is one of their few remaining success stories.
According to multiple sources, Tucker Carlson draws a significant percentage of Democratic viewers. In total-day viewership, Fox News grabbed 42% of Democrats aged 25-54, and Carlson was top among Democrats in the demo across all cable news networks[1][2][3]. Another source reports that 39% of demo-aged viewers surveyed who identified as Democrats chose Fox News[4].
The size of the pushback against tucker carlson is a function of the number of democrats who watch his show. this is the first time that democrats have come up against the real story of j6
Believe them or your lying eyes.
The dead guy in a helmet wandering around just fine must have been a zombie.
The release of the tapes and the truth is pulling the sheets off the media and proving they are nothing more than leftist activists.
Which is why the media is throwing the biggest hissy fit I’ve ever witnessed.
I didn’t read the article. Seeing AP and three authors in the byline tells me all I need to know. One author for the AP will be stupid, two authors 3x as stupid, and three authors 10x as stupid. What little bit of intelligence these authors might bring to the table individually (and it is apparently just a little bit) will be completely overwhelmed by the group stupidity.
“GOP Provided footage” could have been called “congressionally released footage” or “Live footage from event” but our unbiased journalists saves us from making bad assumptions from the video by informing us that it’s evil conservative propaganda. Thanks, watchdog journalists, doing a great job!
+1
If the Ass Press is freaking out over this, then you can bet it’s hitting the right target.
The Democrats depend on quislings.
You need three so that when you get caught in an embarrassing lie they can all point to someone different and say 'it wasnt me, I think they wrote that' and nobody is to blame, time to move on.
What crap. AP trying to discredit the video evidence by associating it with the "GOP". The video was provided by the US Capital Police, not Republicans.
Putin Asks Reporter If USA, ‘Assassinated’ Ashli Babbitt!’
Townhall.com ^ | June 15, 2021 | Leah Barkoukis
During an interview with NBC News, Putin said Russia was no worse than the United States in this regard, and used the government’s handling of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as an example.
Putin showed flashes of defiance when he was asked whether it was a “coincidence” that several other political rivals had been assassinated in recent years.
“We don’t have this kind of habit, of assassinating anybody,” Putin said when he was asked whether he ordered Navalny killed. (NBC News)
He then countered by asking whether the U.S. was guilty of assassinating Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol riot.
“Secondly, I want to ask you: Did you order the assassination of the woman who walked into the Congress and who was shot and killed by a policeman?” Putin said. “Do you know that 450 individuals were arrested after entering Congress? And they didn’t go there to steal a laptop. They came with political demands. 450 people have been detained. They’re facing jail time, from 15 to 20 years. And they came to Congress with political demands. Isn’t that persecution for political opinions?”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2021/06/15/putin-ashli-babbitt-n2591004
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3967964/posts
“Someone needs to ask FBI liar, Chris Wray, how many of the US Capitol protesters were paid informants for the FBI?”
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https://www.frontpagemag.com ^ | Fri Jul 23, 2021 | Daniel Greenfield
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Got to “deadly capitol attack” in the first sentence. That was enough.
What, did you expect the AP to write a true and correct article? There's more of that bias in the following sentences, they are leftist activists, not journalists.
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