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Senate Republican Leader McConnell slams Fox and Tucker Carlson for Jan. 6 portrayal
NPR ^ | March 7, 2023 | By Claudia Grisales

Posted on 03/07/2023 2:35:55 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell joined a chorus of widespread attacks on Fox News host Tucker Carlson for his portrayal of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol since he accessed more than 40,000 hours of security footage.

Carlson and his team had exclusive access to the security tape surrounding the attack thanks to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, drawing concerns the host would use the tapes to spread a new wave of disinformation.

McConnell said he aligned himself with remarks issued earlier Tuesday by U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger to his rank-and-file slamming Carlson's "offensive and misleading conclusions" about the siege. He held up Manger's one-page statement near the Senate chamber on Tuesday.

"It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that's completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks," McConnell told reporters.

Earlier Tuesday, Manger asked his statement be read at roll call meetings for rank-and-file and posted on all Capitol Police bulletin boards. In the memo, which was obtained by NPR, Manger listed out a series of falsehoods portrayed by Fox:

* Carlson pushed "outrageous and false" allegations that officers acted as "tour guides." Manger refuted that characterization saying that officers who were severely outnumbered were using "de-escalation tactics to try to talk rioters.

* The program "cherry-picked from the calmer moments" outside the violent attack to push a false narrative dismissing the violence of the siege.

* The Fox News host claimed fallen officer Brian Sicknick's death had "nothing to do with his heroic actions on January 6." The department maintains, Manger wrote, "that had Officer Sicknick not fought valiantly for hours on the day he was violently assaulted, Officer Sicknick would not have died the next day."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrestmcconnell; claudiagrisales; coupaccomplice; democrats; dumbass; journalism; mcconnell; media; npr; press; sicknick; thejan6thnarrative; thenarrative; tucker; turtle; turtlepower; yourlyingeyes
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

McConnell is deep state status quo. He is not the solution, he is the problem. My apologies for my words below, “when old men have a situation that Viagra will not cure the only aphrodisiac is power.”

Beware of old men in power. Beware of young men wanting power. The old men are more dangerous than the young men.


21 posted on 03/07/2023 2:50:46 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

...and we’re supposed to trust this SAME MEDIA when they report on Ukraine, including who is responsible for starting the war???

Oh please.


22 posted on 03/07/2023 2:51:02 PM PST by BobL
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey Turtle - we saw the videos. We believe our eyes. We don’t believe you and we sure as hell don’t believe NPR.


23 posted on 03/07/2023 2:51:55 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Smoking THEM out.


24 posted on 03/07/2023 2:51:56 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What an absolute piece of crap McConnell is. Screw him and every Senate GOP worm who voted him to another leadership.


25 posted on 03/07/2023 2:52:17 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who would believe McConnell about anything? He’s a lying, backstabbing weasel.


26 posted on 03/07/2023 2:53:24 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Video don’t lie, pubbie dicks...


27 posted on 03/07/2023 2:53:40 PM PST by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s IT. I’ve had it with these treasonous anti-American scum.


28 posted on 03/07/2023 2:53:58 PM PST by Skywise
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Is it time to light up the switchboards?


29 posted on 03/07/2023 2:54:07 PM PST by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Though Trump made some terrible calls regarding some of the “leaders” in the Republican Party he absolutely has ‘Ol Scrotum Chin’s treacherous, traitorous, self-serving number, inside and out.


30 posted on 03/07/2023 2:54:33 PM PST by Rocco DiPippo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Portraying surveillance video footage? Uhmmmm....


31 posted on 03/07/2023 2:54:52 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

McConnell was kicked out of the army reserves for being a homo, then married a Chinese heiress. Said nothing about the stolen election. Refused to recess the senate for the entire four years to prevent his own party’s president from making any recess appointments.

Pure trash


32 posted on 03/07/2023 2:55:39 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: napscoordinator

The released footage actually shows the police ESCORTING the QAnon Shaman guy around inside, giving him a TOUR.

If you haven’t seen it, why does anyone give a damn about your opinion???


33 posted on 03/07/2023 2:56:07 PM PST by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lolzzzzz..... Shut up senile Mitch. Stop complaining about Jan 6th.


34 posted on 03/07/2023 2:57:29 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who you going to believe: the government spokeswonks, or your lying eyes?


35 posted on 03/07/2023 2:57:33 PM PST by Savage Rider
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To: Thank You Rush

“I’ve heard of horse whips but never cow whips. What are they used for?”

Cows.

Not so much to strike them as to just encourage them along.
https://whipsbyhunter.com/


36 posted on 03/07/2023 2:57:55 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: HYPOCRACY
He and Schumer probably added a couple of million more viewers to Tucker’s show tonight

Tucker Carlson has probably gotten about a billion dollars in free advertising over the last 24 hours, with all this leftist Media screaming about his show

will be real interesting to see how many tune in tonite ...


37 posted on 03/07/2023 2:58:52 PM PST by canuck_conservative (if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors, we wouldn't need NATO anymore)
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To: BobL

“...and we’re supposed to trust this SAME MEDIA when they report on Ukraine, including who is responsible for starting the war???”

**************

The media and the administration (but I repeat myself) have lied so often and about so much its hard to believe anyone is naive enough to buy their steady stream of deceitful propaganda about Ukraine or anything else. But sadly they do. It seems you can fool most of the people most of the time.


38 posted on 03/07/2023 2:59:33 PM PST by Starboard
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To: napscoordinator
I haven’t seen it but apparently he took parts and sliced them together making it unwatchable and full of lies

No, he did not take parts and sliced them together to make it unwatchable and full of lies.

You Have Tucker's expose confused with the crapola the J6 Committee put out.

Tucker showed the TRUTH of what really happened.

You say this after not even watching, do yourself a favor and watch it, you just might learn something.

39 posted on 03/07/2023 3:00:14 PM PST by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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To: napscoordinator

You should have watched it before rendering an opinion on it.


40 posted on 03/07/2023 3:00:37 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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