‘Four Hours at the Capitol’: Powerful HBO documentary takes no sides

chicago.suntimes.com ^ | October 19, 2021 | Richard Roeper

[lowbridge]

Perhaps some viewpoints WILL be changed by watching this documentary, which carries no distinct political slant and employs an old-fashioned “fly on the wall” technique, thus allowing the footage and the comments from participants on both sides to speak for itself. You can hear the sometimes-heartbreaking recollection of U.S. representatives and their staffers, journalists who were in the midst of the fray and police officers who were under attack and in some cases feared for their lives, and then hear from the insurrectionists who speak with boastful pride and zero regret about their nauseating actions that day — and while I can’t imagine how anyone with a respect for facts and a fundamental understanding of the Constitution and an appreciation for basic decency can side with the criminals, I certainly don’t expect most of those who have sided with the violent and the uninformed to reverse their stances. Still, one can hope.

The sentiment of the rioters is summed by one Bobby Pickles, a Proud Boy who says, “We chant ‘1776’ because it reminds us of revolting against our government … people were pushing and I kind of just followed right along with them … it was just everybody acting in unison, and that’s when all hell broke loose … It’s bedlam, nobody cares about law or anything like that … there was a lot of fighting between patriotic people and Capitol Police.”

Between patriotic people and Capitol Police. Amazing.

We also hear from Officer Daniel Hodges of the D.C. Metropolitan Police, who says, “A guy came up and got this thumb in my right eye and tried to gouge it out,” and D.C. Police Officer Mike Fanone, who was dragged out of the Capitol and was being pummeled when he recalled “yelling out that that I had kids,

[BRL]

If the Suntimes is behind then it is not neutral.

[dead]

and then hear from the insurrectionists

Yeah, I'm done reading a review where the writer says there's no political slant, then he writes that phrase at the end of the sentence. It's HBO, they literally slant the weather.

"Insurrectionists!" LOL!

[marktwain]

I was there. I wrote several articles reporting on it.

I reported with numerous pictures and audio recordings of interviews.

They never contacted me.

[Az Joe]

The author, a sick Liberal.

“Roeper was suspended from the Sun-Times on January 29, 2018, pending an investigation into allegations that he had purchased Twitter followers. On February 2, the Sun-Times released a statement stating that their investigation did find that Roeper purchased over 25,000 fake followers. He was later reinstated by the paper, though he was required to begin using a new account on which he was explicitly disallowed from buying followers.”

[coloradan]

“journalists who were in the midst of the fray and police officers who were under attack and in some cases feared for their lives, and then hear from the insurrectionists who speak with boastful pride and zero regret about their nauseating actions that day”

Yep, completely neutral and unslanted reporting.

[freedumb2003]

>>Powerful HBO documentary takes no sides<<

Impossible in today’s liberal-charged media. It will be hit piece on the protesters.

[DoodleDawg]

The documentary may or may not be neutral but this article certainly isn’t.

[euram]

“You can hear the sometimes-heartbreaking recollection of U.S. representatives and their staffers, journalists who were in the midst of the fray and police officers who were under attack and in some cases feared for their lives, and then hear from the insurrectionists who speak with boastful pride and zero regret about their nauseating actions that day...”

Sure sounds like it doesn’t take sides.

Didn’t Sumner Redstone (Rothstein) own HBO?

[dynoman]

Didi you hear about this?

WATCH THIS: Newly released footage of January 6th shows someone handing out weapons from behind a false wall in the Capitol building pic.twitter.com/QzbLE6PwqT— djcalligraphy (@DJcalligraphy) October 25, 2021

[liberalh8ter]

then hear from the insurrectionists who speak with boastful pride and zero regret

Headline boasts “takes no sides” but author doesn't get the concept.

[cgbg]

The only time HBO “does not take sides” is in debates between Maoists and Trotskyites!

[rktman]

hbo=fair and balanced now? Did they include a drag queen portion?

[rktman]

They probably thought you might have a particular bias? :-}

[unread]

"Roeper purchased over 25,000 fake followers."

Really.? Who sells such a thing.?? and why....?

[BenLurkin]

HBO documentary carries no distinct political slant?

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/laughs.wav

[z3n]

“takes no sides” is media speak for propaganda

[Pollard]

You can hear the sometimes-heartbreaking recollection of U.S. representatives and their staffers, journalists who were in the midst of the fray and police officers who were under attack and in some cases feared for their lives, and then hear from the insurrectionists who speak with boastful pride and zero regret about their nauseating actions that day

Well if the documentary is anything at all like the article, then it's hardly neutral.

[libertylover]

thus allowing the footage and the comments from participants on both sides to speak for itself. You can hear the sometimes-heartbreaking recollection of U.S. representatives and their staffers, journalists who were in the midst of the fray and police officers who were under attack and in some cases feared for their lives, and then hear from the insurrectionists who speak with boastful pride and zero regret about their nauseating actions that day — and while I can’t imagine how anyone with a respect for facts and a fundamental understanding of the Constitution and an appreciation for basic decency can side with the criminals, I certainly don’t expect most of those who have sided with the violent and the uninformed to reverse their stances.

Yeah, probably about as neutral as that passage.

[kenmcg]

“HBO documentary takes no sides”........yeah sure pure bull spit.