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.
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Kiryandil just reminded me of that fact. Thank you!
George Floyd: Looters Overshadow Peaceful Protests | NBC Nightly News
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c6E2Nd4vXZk
-PJ
“Video that Carlson didn’t air shows police and rioters engaged in hours of violent combat.”
So they can show the video then. And give the exact time on the videos that Tucker has so he can corroborate it.
I agree. They should be released to the public and let the media report or not. But release it all to all of us so we can decide. The crowd sourcing would be amazing. Let’s see what actually how ‘terrifying’ it was right before the politicians were whisked away to their safe place.
But Portland riots can be described as "mostly peaceful protestors."
...and Mitch McConnell is one of the scumbag traitors.
Sure, more information about something never adds to the understanding of anything. If their narrative was so rock solid from the beginning, why not release everything and just make their case with all of the available information?
The Fairness Doctrine is long gone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine#Formal_revocation
They obviously didn’t watch the show, just read some left-wing blog. Carlson showed some of the videos that the Media-Dems cherry-picked and have run in a loop for two years, but then moved on to show some of the stuff that has been deliberately not shown before.
Wow.... youve got serious guts.
I agree with you.
Tucker lied.
And just who is Sahil Kapur, or whoever. No background, no family. Perhaps a Chinese plant? A Uigur?
More DNCDC talking points memo.
Tucker lied.
What, exactly, did Tucker lie about, with this J6 tape report?
i was st home, watching all the speeches and the proceedings.
THERE WAS NO VIOLENCE.
THEY LIE.
All the lefties are in a meltdown twist, over this!!
GO TO HELL, LYING FRAUDS.
I suggest CNN for you!
I dont feel like taking accusations
I could show the 4 planes of 9/11 om the air and say ..
” See, they werent attacking anything”
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