{"id":10193,"date":"2023-03-10T16:32:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T16:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10193"},"modified":"2023-03-10T16:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T16:32:54","slug":"tucker-carlsons-january-6-lies-throw-republicans-into-disarray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10193","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson\u2019s January 6 lies throw Republicans into disarray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“\u201cVery little about Jan. 6 was organized or violent. Surveillance video from inside the Capitol shows mostly peaceful chaos,\u201d Carlson said, falsely, playing clips of Capitol police security footage that he argued depicted a calm scene. In reality, the insurrection was a violent breach that led to five deaths<\/a> and the assaults of about 140 police officers<\/a>. Carlson\u2019s points echo arguments made by Trump voters and members of the Republican base, who\u2019ve increasingly incorrectly suggested that the riot was more of a legitimate protest<\/a> than a deadly incursion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Carlson\u2019s segment aired, Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger<\/a> issued an internal memo denouncing it and noting that the Fox News host \u201ccherry-picked\u201d footage that portrayed the attack in a \u201cmisleading\u201d way.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“\u201cIt was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that\u2019s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here in the Capitol thinks,\u201d McConnell said at a weekly news conference”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“\u201cI think it\u2019s a very dangerous thing to do to suggest that attacking the Capitol of the United States is in any way acceptable and is anything other than a serious crime against democracy and against our country,\u201d said Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT)<\/a>, who was shown during congressional January 6 hearings as having narrowly avoided an encounter with an angry mob. \u201cTo somehow put [Jan. 6<\/a>] in the same category as a permitted peaceful protest is just a lie,\u201d added Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND)<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/3\/8\/23630960\/tucker-carlson-jan-6-republicans-mitch-mcconnell-kevin-mccarthy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“\u201cVery little about Jan. 6 was organized or violent. Surveillance video from inside the Capitol shows mostly peaceful chaos,\u201d Carlson said, falsely, playing clips of Capitol police security footage that he argued depicted a calm scene. In reality, the insurrection was a violent breach that led to five deaths and the assaults of about 140 police officers. Carlson\u2019s points echo arguments made by Trump voters and members of the Republican base, who\u2019ve increasingly incorrectly suggested that the riot was more of a legitimate protest than a deadly incursion.
\nSince Carlson\u2019s segment aired, Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger issued an internal memo denouncing it and noting that the Fox News host \u201ccherry-picked\u201d footage that portrayed the attack in a \u201cmisleading\u201d way.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“\u201cIt was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that\u2019s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here in the Capitol thinks,\u201d McConnell said at a weekly news conference”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“\u201cI think it\u2019s a very dangerous thing to do to suggest that attacking the Capitol of the United States is in any way acceptable and is anything other than a serious crime against democracy and against our country,\u201d said Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), who was shown during congressional January 6 hearings as having narrowly avoided an encounter with an angry mob. \u201cTo somehow put [Jan. 6] in the same category as a permitted peaceful protest is just a lie,\u201d added Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND).”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,1143,1138,431,1135,1740,1134,1368,847],"class_list":["post-10193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-capitol","tag-capitol-building","tag-democracy","tag-insurrection","tag-political-violence","tag-riot","tag-tucker-carlson","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10194,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193\/revisions\/10194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}