Continuing the Fox "News" brand of feeding the rubes the hateful lies they live on, Putin stooge Tucker Carlson is doing exactly what was predicted with the January 6 insurrection tapes provided to him by Squeaker of the House Kevin "Qevin" McCarthy:
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday released security video from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, using footage provided exclusively to him by Speaker Kevin McCarthy to portray the riot as a peaceful gathering.
Carlson acquired the tapes as part of a push by McCarthy, R-Calif., to win the speaker’s gavel. When McCarthy was struggling to gather the votes to lead the House, Carlson used his program to list two “concessions” he could make to win over far-right Republicans. [snip]
Carlson focused Monday’s segment on promoting former President Donald Trump’s narrative by showing video of his supporters walking calmly around the U.S. Capitol. He asserted that other media accounts lied about the attack, proclaiming that while there were some bad apples, most of the rioters were peaceful and calling them "sightseers," not "insurrectionists."
“The footage does not show an insurrection or a riot in progress,” Carlson told his audience Monday. “Instead it shows police escorting people through the building, including the now-infamous ‘QAnon Shaman.’”
He continued: "More than 44,000 hours of surveillance footage from in and around the Capitol have been withheld from the public, and once you see the video, you’ll understand why. Taken as a whole, the video does not support the claim that Jan. 6 was an insurrection. In fact, it demolishes that claim." (our emphasis)
The hours of violent, deadly combat that the Trumpists engaged in with Capitol and D.C. Police? Didn't fit Carlson's whitewashing narrative, so cut! Any broader perspective of the insurrection as the militarized arm of the plan to stop the certification of the electoral votes and overturn the free and fair election? Didn't fit Carlson's whitewashing narrative, so cut!
This isn't "opinion"; it's vile, malicious propaganda only serving the interests of the violent, insurrectionist right and their authoritarian heroes, Trump and war criminal Putin. Carlson's efforts to memory hole the insurrection are just part of the fabric of lies he weaves every weeknight on Fox, whether it's lies about the election results, lies about a "deep state," lies about "woke ideology," etc., ad nauseam. He's becoming a one- man wrecking crew of American democracy, more dangerous in his own way than the Malignant Loser and his imitators. But as long as he serves the Murdochs' interest in "green," he'll keep the wrecking ball swinging.
BONUS: We heartily endorse what VoteVets is asking the Pentagon to do with this propaganda rat's nest. It's long overdue --
BONUS II: via democraticunderground.com (click on image to enlarge) --
(Image: The one true thing ever shown on Carlson's lie fest/ screenshot)
