National Review plays defense for J6 Committee, attacks Tucker Carlson

American Thinker ^ | 03/08/2023 | Thomas Lifson

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I know, I know; National Review is still the outfit that published the infamous “Against Trump” issue as a last ditch effort to foil the successful 2016 candidacy that led to four years of peace, prosperity, low inflation, and disproportionate gains for the lower end of the income scale under President Trump. But still, it comes as a bit of a shock that the publication I must credit for opening my eyes to the virtues of conservativism seems to be throwing in with Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and the rest of the J6 kangaroo court crowd that censored thousands of hours of Capitol surveillance footage in an online article titled, “Tucker Carlson’s January 6 Revisionist History.”

The article, written by Noah Rothman, who recently joined NR after years at NeverTrump Commentary, summarizes Carlson’s charges about what the footage reveals, only to summarily debunk it:

The previously unseen footage, Carlson said, “from inside the Capitol overturns the story you’ve heard about January 6.” It “does not show an insurrection or a riot in progress,” he added. Rather, the footage is of revelers who “revere the Capitol.” The trespassers were “peaceful,” “ordinary,” and “meek.” If you have internalized some other perception of the day’s events, that’s only because you’re so easily manipulated. “By controlling the images that you were allowed to view from January 6, they controlled how the public understood that day,” Carlson declared. “They could lie about that day, and you would never know the difference.”

This monumental allegation is not supported by the facts Carlson presented. The footage of that day’s events confirms from discrete angles an account of events already well established by media outlets and congressional investigatory bodies.  

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Strangely, There is no hint that NR is bothered by the suppression of video evidence denied to defendants in trials for the J6 incident. Why, there’s plenty enough already available.

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Here’s the problem with the National Review apologia for the J6 Committee:

1) Carlson did not deny that some demonstrators were violent and unruly, only contending that many were not, as the newly seen videos document. Should all of the defendants, including those who peacefully strolled through the Capitol after being waved in through open doors, be treated as violent insurrectionists, so threatening to the Republic that fundamental constitutional rights to a speedy trial and access to exculpatory evidence be denied?

The article is silent on this point, and apparently untroubled. The fate of people held in solitary confinement under severe conditions without trial for over 2 years is of no concern, one gathers.

2) The article chastises Carlson for using the word “murder,” which “has a legal context” to describe the killing of Ashli Babbitt when she was climbing through a broken window, unarmed, and too small in stature to conceivably pose a physical threat to the scandal-plagued Capitol Police officer who shot her.

3) The snide treatment of Tucker’s analysis of Ray Epps may be the most offensive part of the article. Note the scare quotes and use of “conspiratorial” to dismiss without evidence.

[lowbridge]

Et tu, National Review?

[antidemoncrat]

The Deep State is running scared now that the House is controlled by Republicans who are exposing their actions for the last two years.

[1Old Pro]

National Review went the way of Drudge and so many other outlets.

[KC Burke]

National Review is sadly a wife of a serial abuser that can’t live without their abuser in their outlook on life and the future. They know that no one will rise up in the marketplace and take their spot so they continue trying to curry favor from the mass media.

[Starboard]

Tucker disturbed the nest of the State Aligned Media and they are attacking him like a bunch of hornets.

[wildcard_redneck]

Every convection of the January 6 protesters will be overturned on appeal because the government withheld evidence from trial. Totally Illegal and totalitarian.

[laconic]

I think they are kept going by the Koch brothers and other billionaires who want to keep a false front “conservative” magazine in existence which otherwise would have gone bankrupt two decades ago. Now its a bunch of neocon warmongers, elitists who think the world of themselves and aren’t even a pale imitation of NR under William F Buckley. Victor Davis Hanson was the last vestige of the “old” NR but finally he got disgusted and left.

[1Old Pro]

Tucker disturbed the nest of the State Aligned Media and they are attacking him like a bunch of hornets.

It is so rich, CBS this morning saying Tucker is trying to trick viewers by lying, basically accusing Tucker of doing what they have been doing. One thing this reveals is that the uniparty is real, thanks to Mitch and Mitt et al.

[DeplorablePaul]

No surprise here. NR has been lost ever since they turned on the Tea Party.

[Antoninus]

Are we still caring what the official organ of the GOPe says? I stopped paying any attention to them years ago.

[wildcard_redneck]

iPhone voice dictation is horrible.

“Every convection conviction of the January 6 protesters will be overturned on appeal because the government withheld evidence from trial. Totally illegal and totalitarian.”

[BobL]

“Et tu, National Review?”

When you have government resources at your disposal, you can pretty much BUY UP all of the opposition media (and sprinkle operatives throughout the web, including here).

[Sirius Lee]

Et tu, National Review?

For a long time. The pedoglobulist infection took hold there years ago. At The Economist even earlier.

[ohioman]

You took the words out of my mouth. The Uniparty is real and is busily destroying the Republic.

[dfwgator]

You’re shocked by this? NR is Bushie Central.

[Da Coyote]

That rag died when Buckley passed.

[hardspunned]

All of these Uniparty (R) Judases came out of the closet during the coup. On 1/7/21 the entire DC Uniparty (R) machine rubber stamped the insurrection. No surprises here, more federal statist stooges plying their trade.

[Lisbon1940]

Didn’t Buckley go to Yale?