Posted on 06/09/2022 6:38:43 PM PDT by RandFan
As the first prime-time hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol gaveled in, Fox News host Tucker Carlson opened his show Thursday bragging about his network not carrying the proceedings live on its main cable channel.
“This is the only hour on an American news channel that won’t be covering their propaganda live,” Carlson said of the committee. “They are lying and we are not going to help them do it.”
Every other major television network and cable channel offered continuous special coverage of Thursday’s proceedings, including NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN.
Fox News took heat this week from Democrats and media pundits after it announced it would carry live continuous coverage of Thursday night’s hearing only on Fox Business Network and its other streaming, digital platforms. It will also make its coverage available to its local affiliates across the country.
But Fox did not on Thursday pre-empt Carlson’s top-rated opinion program, which the host has used over the last several weeks to cast doubt on the committee’s assertions and suggest the controversy over the violent attack on the Capitol has been overblown.
On Thursday night, the committee made the case that former President Trump and his top allies worked to overturn the 2020 presidential election and incited the mob that stormed the Capitol that day. Carlson called the attack “forgettably minor by recent standards.”
Fox News said this week its primetime anchors would cover Thursday’s hearings “as news warrants.” Carlson played clips from the first hour of the hearing three times, attacking committee members Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) over their statements after doing so.
Yes, thank you for some sanity.
Good for Tucker!!!
Yep! Thank God for Tucker Carlson!
Explain to me how people bent on an insurrection to overturn an election, would leave the premises after 3 hours?
The Dems have jumped the shark tank!
>> Carlson opened his show Thursday *bragging*
>> [ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN] offered continuous special coverage
You’re a dick, Mastrangelo
I wish someone could hack into the satellite feed of the dems and broadcast Tuckers show. Russia, if you are listening...
The other channels will drop out one by one as they realize nobody is watching their political play.
Watched a little of the hearing. So they ended footage of rioters fighting with the police, with a voice over of Trump obviously taken out of context saying a crowd was “full of love”. He obviously was not talking about the rioters.
Then they took Trump being harassed by a reporter at the debate in September about the Proud Boys until he finally said “ok Proud Boys stand back and stand by” then they proceeded to claim this motivated the PB to do things over the next 3 months.
Totally ridiculous hatchet job.
“They are lying and we are not going to help them do it.”
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Never forget that there were plenty of other Assistant Democrats who did help them lie about the Trump/Russia collusion delusion and about January 6.
Hannity is also giving info that counters what Peelousy and her flunkies are claiming.
I’m watching FOX for the first time since the November election BECAUSE they are not showing this dog and pony show.
I predict a ratings plunge for MSM.
He did a great job this evening. I haven’t watched FOX for years but tuned in tonite and glad that I did. That sham of a hearing is directed at ‘us’; to intimidate us into shutting up. Ironically, I think my mouth got bigger.
Would you follow Tucker into battle?
what are you talking about?
“Totally ridiculous hatchet job.”
I wouldn’t expect anything else from these hacks.
Their “playbook” is an easy read.
Fox is Deep State. Any station not promoting actual election fraud investigations and identifying fraudulent peculiarities is not worthy of my viewership. Tucker is banned from direct election fraud reporting in any case. Remember, “Arizona goes for Biden!” with 3% in...
O’reilly was out for himself-it was obvious. Savage too.
The doors lock from the inside and are electronically controlled.
Yet again, people walked in, with police on the inside, the first in alll in black, since those are MAGA, /s
Pelosi’s message during it all in J6 was to ask where the food was. Do not question the Red Queen.
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