The House Select Committee on the January 6 Capitol Hill riot was a made for TV movie, literally. Thousands of hours of video and thousands of pages of testimony were edited by professional Hollywood producers to create a narrative that an ugly riot, in which some people committed violence, was an attempt to seize control of the government. That narrative has been used to prosecute and imprison people who committed no violence and in some cases merely walked through open doors to the Capitol to look around and then left.
Contrast the government and media reactions to Six Months of Antifa/BLM Looting, Rioting, and Chaos. and the May 2020 Assault On The White House: 60 Secret Service Agents Wounded, President Trump Taken to Secure Bunker. Big Tech also got in the act, falsely accusing Parler of being the organizing ground for the riot and using that as an excuse to wipe Parler off the internet, when in fact most of the organizing took place on Facebook and Twitter, as we covered at the time, The claim that Parler represents some unique risk to public safety is a lie driven by politics.
It is consistent to condemn the riot, and also to note that Democrats and the media have lied relentlessly about that day for political purposes. That’s my position: the riot never should have happened, particularly as an attempt to interfere with the congressional counting of electoral votes, and the people who committed violence should be prosecuted, while at the same time acknowledging that the riot has been maliciously exploited for political purposes.
One of the most pernicious lies, that Officer Brian Sicknick was beaten to death, continues to be repeated to this day. In fact, D.C. Medical Examiner: Officer Brian Sicknick died of stroke from natural causes, not result of assault.
When the live broadcasts of J6 Committee hearings started in June 2022, I wrote, I’m Not Watching The Made-for-TV J6 Show Trial Narrated By Hoaxers, Liars, and Leakers:
There was a riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. No one other than Ashli Babbitt was killed, despite the lies repeated that several policemen were killed. The riot shouldn’t have happened, we’ve been clear about that from the start. But neither should the hundreds of violent riots by BLM. The J6 riot has been roundly condemned, but it’s been turned into a political cudgel, and that’s what this produced-for-TV prime time hearing is about.The Committee and hearing are run by Russian-collusion hoaxers, liars, and leakers like Adam Schiff, and will be narrated by disinformation spreaders at MSNBC and elsewhere. The web of lies spread by government and mainstream liberal corporate media is so pervasive we are in a post-truth world, and key institutions like the FBI are part of that problem. Trust is gone.
Tucker Carlson has been all over the many lies about J6 and the failure of the government to release the actual unedited evidence:
Axios reports that Kevin McCarthy has given Tucker’s producers access to the video captured on Capitol Hill surveillance cameras:
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given Fox News’ Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 riot, McCarthy sources tell me.
- Carlson TV producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove, which includes multiple camera angles from all over Capitol grounds. Excerpts will begin airing in the coming weeks.
Why it matters: Carlson has repeatedly questioned official accounts of 1/6, downplaying the insurrection as “vandalism.”
- Now his shows — “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News, and “Tucker Carlson Today” and “Tucker Carlson Originals” on the streaming service Fox Nation — have a massive trove of raw material.
Carlson told me: “[T]here was never any legitimate reason for this footage to remain secret.”
- “If there was ever a question that’s in the public’s interest to know, it’s what actually happened on January 6. By definition, this video will reveal it. It’s impossible for me to understand why any honest person would be bothered by that.”
Axios further reports that the video footage is far more than the 14,000 previously reported, which Julie Kelly asserts would mean the government lied in court filings:
Should be interesting.
(BTW, I’m scheduled to be on Tucker Carlson Tonight this Wednesday night, hoping no news events cause me to be bumped.)
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