Posted on 02/01/2024 1:28:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Key members of the since-disbanded Select Committee on January 6th admit in a new PBS documentary that the entire operation was an election-year publicity stunt.
On Wednesday, Frontline PBS published a new documentary, “Democracy on Trial,” chronicling the House committee’s work. Pivotal players on the partisan probe conceded in the two-and-half-hour documentary that the panel’s public performances produced for prime-time television were orchestrated as entertainment media.
“The one thing that we knew was the information that we have is compelling,” said Illinois congressman-turned CNN commentator Adam Kinzinger. “The thing we needed to do was tell that to the American people in a compelling way.”
The Jan. 6 Committee turned to former ABC News President James Goldston to produce their hearings that occurred just months before the 2022 midterms. The panel also hired another producer whose résumé included stints at Bloomberg, ABC News “Nightline,” and “Good Morning America.”
“I got a call pretty much out of the blue from the January 6th committee,” Goldson told the documentary. “They wanted a storyteller.”
“While they were brilliant lawyers,” Goldston added, “storytelling for a mass audience is not what they do.”
“To bring in a guy like this who would think outside the box really did prove to be fruitful,” Robert Draper of New York Times Magazine tells the PBS documentarians. “It was Golston who really began to envision this as in a way a kind of miniseries that there would be sort of nine episodes and that these episodes would tackle particular themes.”
The first episode in the summer series ultimately pulled dismal ratings despite the...
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Well then when do the real perps go to jail?
Sickening.
Now, where do the political prisoners they’re responsible for go to get their lives back?
When do these clowns trade places with them?
When do the political prisoners get released?
These people are monsters! Unworthy of their positions and should have zero access to taxpayer money.
How much did they spend on this charade!
Kabuki Theater needs a stage manager.
Central Casting sucked in the production of this fantasy.
Does Goldston have the purposely destroyed taped depositions? That would be an interesting twist.
I guess Leni Riefenstahl wasn’t available, so they got this Goldston guy.
I guess Leni Riefenstahl wasn’t available
Joseph Goebbels would be proud. The left continues in his tradition.
The J6 Committee members need to be indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to the punishment for traitors.
“It worked didn’t it?”
__Harry Reid
I _still_ don’t miss Harry Reid. Or John McCain. Or Henry Kissinger. Or...
Let's call it what it has been: a pre-meditatively false, serially-mendacious claim!
Bookmark
This is imo a typical ‘ rat playbook move, one of them at least.
Go hog wild, make up shite etc.... then say later- ha haha we just made it all up
worse then a bad friend / co worker / fam ily member. People do this all the time to each other in one on one relationships. Its not healthy behavior. The ‘ rats do it, just on a very much larger level.
bttt
It was all just a smarmy, melodramatic, scripted farce which would embarrass everyone that participated if they had an ounce of integrity and sense... They don't.
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