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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I'm with ya. Using a cow whip on a horse's ass seems out of place.
McConnell is part of the problem.
“ “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”
Oh my! The press isn’t singing along with the chief law enforcement officer? This tells me that this is the expected norm for this clown.
Well, you haven't seen it but that doesn't stop you from shamelessly expressing your ignorance for the whole world to see. Good Grief, if you're going to argue with another man at least understand his argument.
Tucker must be over the Target.
Tucker must be over the Target.
Tucker must be over the Target.
Tucker must be over the Target.
the government spokeswonks
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There are no spokeswonks. Just a bunch of government binders with scripted answers.
Was that worth repeating 4 times?
Actually, YES! 😁
“But sadly they do. It seems you can fool most of the people most of the time.”
And buy-off those that they cannot fool, as is likely the case here, regarding Ukraine.
Wouldn’t you think that the “leader” of the opposition party in the Senate and his acolytes would strongly criticize the majority House Dems for: 1) lying out their teeth; 2) claiming that a Capitol Hill cop had been killed when he wasn’t; 3) staging hearings that looked were structured like the Moscow Show Trials; 4) selectively editing key tapes; 5) showing NO interest in the lopsided “justice” system that locked many of our people up without charges; 7) the hiring of a Hollywood producer to come up with spliced tapes that were nothing more than lying propaganda. No concern by this aging crone of the falsely accused who committed suicide, the families who were ruined, the innocents targeted by the FBI and the “Justice” Dept. for expressing views they didn’t like? McConnell, Romney, Tillis, Thune are NOT our representatives, they are in bed with the odious Chuck Schumers who are poisoning this country.
Oh, that they do for sure.
Wonder how many websites and blogs the government quietly supports to keep them churning out favorable propaganda that misleads the public? You know it goes on, the only question is how much are they spending to do it.
SPOT ON!!!
It looks like a toy version of a bull whip-never saw one before-but I do know how to use a cattle prod-I’d pay real money to see one used on the lying turtle-it would be shocking...
They had ample opportunity to arrest that idiot as he was walking around. Why they didn’t (deescalation techniques) is unbelievable.
OK; how about a cat-o-nine tails or a spiked mace?
Newsman says the election was free and fair. And disgusting comment supporting the “insurrection” narrative.
Only the left would consider actual footage of what happened “misinformation.”
4 posted on 3/7/2023, 2:39:29 PM by freedumb2003
(Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 “riot:” you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)!
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