Posted on 03/11/2023 7:29:22 AM PST by Twotone
Unlike some of my friends on the Right, I understand the criticism of Kevin McCarthy’s decision to give Tucker Carlson exclusive access to the footage of January 6. Partisans can manipulate video, especially 41,000 hours of it, and even Tucker presumably wouldn’t disagree that he’s a partisan. It’s easy to slice up video to serve the narrative you prefer, to enhance and manipulate it, and to add dramatic flourishes to increase its emotional impact.
And we can understand that by discovering what the January 6 committee did with the video, which appears to include all of the above. I missed this over the weekend, but Miranda Devine reported that the early word from Carlson’s review is how silent the source video was:
But when you see what Carlson’s team has put together over the past two weeks of combing through thousands of hours of video, you will be struck by how different the reality was inside the building that day compared to the J6 committee’s deceptively edited primetime dramas, produced by a former ABC News president for maximum emotional impact.
For instance, Carlson’s team says the J6 committee added audio to silent CCTV footage, inserting screams and other crowd mayhem sounds, to make it seem more ominous. The bookmarks on the video trove show the J6 committee had access to the same footage yet chose to show America only what suited its divisive narrative.
There’s no sugarcoating what happened that day: J6 was shocking and violent in parts. It remains a stain on the nation, but it was not an “insurrection” or a “terrorist” attack.
Sound effects? Really? The use of a former ABC News exec to package the video was well known prior to McCarthy’s grant of exclusive access to Carlson...
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Morrissey wants “equal time” to Tucker? After thousands of hours of coverage for the committee’s narrative? As Rush Limbaugh used to say, I am equal time”. Tucker IS equal time.
The dude from The Smiths?
Let me guess - it was a no bid contract, never advertised on sam.gov (which is much less transparent than fedbizopps was).
The entire truth would have been out already
They should be decorating lampposts.
Agree. I can’t even look at any of the Obamas without wanting to throw up. I wish they would just go away and stay away.
There was no EXCLUSIVE ACCESS, Tucker literally said, “We were the only ones who asked for access”. That tells you all you need to know.
PASS IT ON, Tucker is on record as saying “I didn’t have exclusive access, I was the ONLY ONE WHO ASKED.”
That is enough said.
Tucker was the only one who asked for the access. It wasn’t released to Fox/Tucker. That is a narrative. Tucker said “NOBODY ELSE ASKED to see it”.
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