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Tucker Carlson, with video provided by Speaker McCarthy, falsely depicts Jan. 6 riot as a peaceful gathering
NBC News ^ | March 7, 2023 | By Sahil Kapur (D-NBC)

Posted on 03/07/2023 1:59:06 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON — 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.

“First, release the January 6 files. Not some of the January 6 files and video — all of it,” Carlson, the most-watched host on cable news, said after McCarthy faced three failed votes. “So that the rest of us can finally know what actually happened on January 6, 2021.”

In the two months since McCarthy won the gavel, he has granted both. Carlson announced in late February that McCarthy had given him exclusive access to 44,000 hours of security video from the deadly riot before he unveiled some clips of the video on his show Monday night.

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.’”

Video that Carlson didn’t air shows police and rioters engaged in hours of violent combat.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; democrats; itwasnotpeaceful; j6videos; journalism; media; mediabias; msdnc; mslsd; msnbo; pmsnbc; press; sahilkapur; thejan6thnarrative; thenarrative; tuckerisaliar; yourlyingeyes
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1 posted on 03/07/2023 1:59:06 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And so the lies continue from the fake media.


2 posted on 03/07/2023 1:59:51 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Native Flamericans at ABC and NBC are circling the wagons.


3 posted on 03/07/2023 2:00:12 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ANTIFA AND THE FEDS WERE THE ONLY ONES DOING DAMAGE !


4 posted on 03/07/2023 2:01:17 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Please take note of ALL the scumbags harassing Tucker. These Traitors will gleefully self identify. Makes removing them easier.


5 posted on 03/07/2023 2:01:22 PM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: unixfox

They are strapping down now that they got the OK from the RINOS to say that Tucker is lying so that the pressure will come down on fox to shut down the videos. That’s what it’s all about folks. It’s about shutting it down, don’t show it to the public.


6 posted on 03/07/2023 2:01:25 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: unixfox
"And so the lies continue from the fake media."

And from the enemdia, like NBC.

7 posted on 03/07/2023 2:01:28 PM PST by Carl Vehse (Make Austin TEXAS Again)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The “talking points” have gone out to the mockingbirds.


8 posted on 03/07/2023 2:01:43 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So predictable


9 posted on 03/07/2023 2:01:52 PM PST by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re all reading the same script.


10 posted on 03/07/2023 2:01:56 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

they have been lying through their teeth for decades so a few more lies will not hurt their reputation and may keep a few followers in. line.


11 posted on 03/07/2023 2:02:53 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This isn’t news, it’s commentary, but nowhere is that noted on NBC’s page. The headline alone is ridiculously biased.


12 posted on 03/07/2023 2:05:58 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NBC, with nothing but the selectively edited clips released by the Democrat party, just keeps on lying about Jan 6 among other things.


13 posted on 03/07/2023 2:06:48 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...police and rioters engaged in hours of violent combat...”

And all those people killed!!!!!!!!

One military veteran shot by police...
One lady beaten to death by a police woman....


14 posted on 03/07/2023 2:06:54 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: unixfox

It’s just like “climate change” and masking: Facts and a rational argument — in this matter, even reality in the form of visible proof — is simply incomprehensible to people fully immersed in a secular religious cult … a cult like the Democrat/Communist/Left in the United States.


15 posted on 03/07/2023 2:07:40 PM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NBC? Claiming that another organization has lied???
Bwahahahhahahahahahahah!
Get a real job, pseudo-media.


16 posted on 03/07/2023 2:07:41 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Personally I don’t trust Tucker and McCarthy...as far as I could throw them.


17 posted on 03/07/2023 2:08:59 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s always a tell, they are pushing a lie, when the leftist media doesn’t have a comment section after an article.


18 posted on 03/07/2023 2:09:08 PM PST by bohica1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Democrats told the world it was ONLY violent and was an ‘insurrection’. They were the people who lied.

Tucker said to look at both sides.

Not just one side.

Tucker’s a truth teller - this guy’s a liar.


19 posted on 03/07/2023 2:11:24 PM PST by GOPJ (The few sowed the wind, and the many reaped their whirlwind. - Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why didn’t they just roll with Trump for another 4 years and allow him to win in 2020? Was he so bad? They have now permanently damaged the country. They have disfigured the country. I think that they miscalculated. Their egos got the best of them.


20 posted on 03/07/2023 2:11:50 PM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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