Posted on 02/24/2023 4:47:00 AM PST by MtnClimber
What we are hearing from the media industrial complex is fear, not concern.
Ever since Axios reported that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) gave Fox News host Tucker Carlson unfettered access to surveillance video captured by Capitol security cameras on January 6, 2021, the corporate media has experienced a collective convulsion bordering on a nervous breakdown.
Guardians of the fourth estate long ago abandoned their self-proclaimed role as watchdog over those in power in exchange for the role of lapdog. But apparently the last ones to get the joke are reporters, editors, and cable news hosts themselves, who still operate under the delusion they maintain a vaunted place in the pecking order of American society rather than rank in popularity just below the toxic sludge smoldering in East Palestine, Ohio.
Not long ago—or maybe it has been a long time?—journalists would salivate at the chance to report on the contents of a massive trove of footage related to what the government calls a terror attack, especially if the same government pulled every trick in the book to keep it under wraps. Compelled by slavish idolatry of the state and contempt for the common man, the media, for lack of a better term, is acting as if the release of unseen video recorded on January 6 is a crime in progress.
This comes, mind you, after two full years of uncritically repeating every talking point about the so-called “insurrection” which involves calling it an “insurrection” even though no one has been charged with “insurrection.” No cop cried too unconvincingly, no lawmaker made too outlandish a claim, no occupant of the White House told one too many lies to jolt the slumbering curiosity, or even innate sense of skepticism, of corporate media apparatchiks.
“Breaking news” bulletins sought to grab the attention of their shrinking audience before airing a cherry-picked clip gleaned from the very collection of tapes now considered sacrosanct.
It’s hard to know where to begin in the January 6 Hall of Hypocrisy, but let’s start with an easy target: Washington Post political columnist Philip Bump. Shortly after Donald Trump won the 2016 election, the Post famously changed its motto to “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
Since January 6, few newspapers have devoted more column inches to the four-hour disturbance that only temporarily delayed the certification of the 2020 election. A three-part series published in October 2021 provided a novel-sized exploration into what happened before, during, and after the protest. Proceedings of the January 6 select committee earned nonstop coverage including reposting, you guessed it, clips of surveillance video played by the committee to an international audience.
Bump now bristles at the thought of fair play. “We should have no confidence that Tucker Carlson will do anything but use the video to which he’s been given access for anything other than promoting his own narrative,” Bump sneered in a February 21 column. “It’s not just that Carlson cannot be relied upon to actually consider the video in an objective way, though he certainly can’t be. It’s also that there is no reason to think that he will present the video in context, to include information that moderates what’s being shown on the screen.”
Darkness, it appears, is not a threat to democracy if it pertains to a blackout of taxpayer-paid recordings that might lay bare the biggest political scandal in U.S. history.
Over at MSNBC, Rachel Maddow fretted that Fox News will “use this government material to concoct an alternative narrative to give us some more convenient revisionist history about what happened on January 6.”
Not to be outdone, Maddow’s MSNBC colleague Joy Reid warned that Republicans could “twist the footage” to help “criminals get out of jail.” This from the same network that infamously reported the 2020 riots were “mostly peaceful” as property burned behind a reporter.
Reid and her guest, Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) then quickly defaulted to the Democrats’ favorite villian: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prideless and shameless after years of portraying Putin as the bogeyman in every fabricated smear operation, Raskin and Reid lamented how Carlson was, once again, doing Putin’s dirty work.
“Tucker Carlson is a pro-Putin, pro-Orban, pro-autocrat propagandist,” said Raskin, the propagandist would-be autocrat who twice attempted to remove a duly elected president from office. “I mean, that really is out of Putin’s playbook.”
“Oh, absolutely,” Reid responded.
Aside from empowering Putin—the Biden regime’s escalating involvement in the Ukraine-Russia conflict notwithstanding—Carlson’s team could endanger “national security” by releasing footage not approved by lawmakers such as Raskin or the bureaucrats running the Capitol Police department.
“Democrats and former Republican members of the Jan. 6 committee say that by releasing the footage to Carlson, McCarthy could divulge security methods used by law enforcement to defend the Capitol complex,” Time magazine claimed this week. Those concerns, however, escaped consideration when the committee broadcast dozens of shots of the inside of the Capitol over the course of 18 months, including then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to a secure location on January 6.
And, of course, no January 6 sob story would be complete without a cameo by Michael Fanone, the former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer turned book author turned CNN contributor. “[This] guarantees that it will be selectively edited to fit an extreme MAGA narrative without care for the safety of Capitol police, members of Congress and congressional staff,” Fanone said in a statement to CNN. “Airing footage of restricted areas of the Capitol and sensitive evacuation protocols all while spreading misinformation about the nature of the attack on the Capitol endangers everyone working in the building.”
Perhaps Carlson can also get his hands on Fanone’s body-worn camera recordings, which remain under protective orders to this day.
What we are hearing from the media industrial complex is fear, not concern. Either ignorant about the underlying facts of January 6 or fully aware of the dirty side until now shielded from the majority of the public, the news media is afraid of what Carlson will reveal. And not even they are braced for impact.
The ability of the leftist media to control the narrative against the J6 defendants has been compromised. That is why there is all of the squawking.
Good writing.
At least she admits the government's j6 hype over the last two years is just a narrative.
It should be noted that only a HANDFUL OF HOUSE SEATS, in VERY CLOSE RACES, is the reason why Tucker is able to view all of the tapes and give the Democrats fits.
If just a few hundred (or maybe a few thousand) Republican voters in those districts stayed home to ‘Teach the GOP a Lesson’ and thereby let the Democrats win, they would not have to worry about this footage being disclosed (some of which is very juicy, by the way).
I wish McCarthy would have also given tape access to Greg Kelly over at Newsmax. He has been on J6 like a pit bull, especially the murder of Ashli Babbitt.
Demoncrazy thrives in darkness.
Well, we haven’t seen them yet ! WHEN WILL WE SEE THE TAPES?
“...could divulge security methods used by law enforcement to defend the Capitol complex,”...”
Irony of ironies. They don’t want them to release the tapes because they are afraid it would show people how to do what “they” say happened on Jan 6.
BTT
You raise a most excellent point sir.
The self-righteous political purity practitioners put their piety over what’s right.
In the last election, I sent a letter to every candidate asking what they actually DID to protect our rights during the illegal lockdowns.
Not one incumbent bothered to answer. They did not earn my vote, however, when the general came along, I voted for those who did win their primary.
the real reason for the rally
https://rumble.com/v181401-january-6th-rally-2021.html
watch it and see there were no insurrectionists there.
As Schumer said, “six ways from Sunday”. J6 , a clear TLA operation to create enemies and the need for more State control by a gaslighted public.
14,000 hours of tapes, all in a jumble? It’ll take a while to organize it and get it ready for public viewing, even with a large, experienced staff, which is not a given.
"Not long ago—or maybe it has been a long time?—journalists would salivate at the chance to report on the contents of a massive trove of footage related to what the government calls a terror attack, especially if the same government pulled every trick in the book to keep it under wraps. Compelled by slavish idolatry of the state and contempt for the common man, the media, for lack of a better term, is acting as if the release of unseen video recorded on January 6 is a crime in progress."
Great article! MSM-Enemy of the people.
And contrary to all the ctiticism of Tucker Carlson, he is doing what approximates journalism, informing the people. That is something the MSM knows nothing about.
Sometimes he knows little of it himself, because he’s shallow and doesn’t reexamine the paradigms he trades in, but depending on how he handles this, he’ll be doing the world a solid. It’s a must see.
And what has Cucker Tarlson done with the video? Anything?
Their default "excuse to hide public information" is always that they can't reveal sources ad methods, it's too secret to be trusted to the people. UGH
It has been reported that he has a team reviewing the tapes and that he plans to start covering findings as they are discovered starting sometime next week.
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