U.S. Capitol Officer Caroline Edwards, left, and British director Nick Quested swear in as the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its first public hearing on Thursday. (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)
Tucker Carlson aired his show on Fox News on Thursday afternoon, making it clear that neither he nor Fox News – unlike any other major news channel – would broadcast the historic House’s selection committee hearing on the January 6 attack. 2021. in the US Capitol.
The hearing, Carlson said, was “outrageous” and “offensive” and he simply refused to “play together”.
“This is the only time on an American news channel that will not broadcast its propaganda live,” Carlson said, comparing the hearing to what you might see in “totalitarian regimes.”
“They are lying and we will not let them do it.”
And so, as the House committee aired previously unseen footage of the shocking violence by a mob of Donald Trump supporters on Jan. 6 for nationwide viewing, Carlson instead broadcast panoramic shots of members of Congress watching the video.
He and his producers supported hysterical circuits all over the screen to see their millions of viewers: “ON JANUARY 6, CMTE feeds FALSE NARRATES AS FALSE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES”. “LEADERS WILL PASS 90 MINUTES GIVING ETHICAL LECTURE.” “OUR LEADERS ARE FOCUSED IN JANUARY. 6 WHILE IGNORING THE REAL THREATS. “
Carlson also welcomed a series of assassins to his beloved guests, including spokesman Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), right-wing expert Michael Tracey and Darren Beattie, a former spokesman for former President Donald Trump, who was ousted by White to speak. at a conference for white supremacy.
Beattie was one of the main interlocutors of “Patriot Purge”, Carlson’s January 6 conspiracy documentaries on Fox Nation.
Carlson used his first hour on Thursday to summarize the savage January 6 review story he promoted in The Patriot Purge: that the violence at the Capitol was actually instigated by the FBI as a pretext to arrest Trump supporters. massive.
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Carlson also tried to compare the January 6 attack to the 2020 anti-racist uprisings, a false equivalent that his guests ran with joy.
“When political violence benefits them, they turn a blind eye to it,” said Matt Slap, president of the American Conservative Union. “When real Americans get angry, they want to put them in jail.” (Schlapp did not explain what constituted a “real American.”)
Fox News did not break an ad for the entire time of Carlson’s show.
“Carlson spent all his time without a break,” wrote Matthew Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters, the liberal media watchdog. “Fox desperately wants to prevent its viewers from switching to another channel and watching the show in real time.”
“Fox News is not just letting Tucker Carlson do his regular show, but also without commercials,” Gertz added. “They want to push his propaganda so much that they leave money on the table to do it.”
At one point on his show, Carlson, while arguing that what happened on January 6 was not an uprising, seemed to be threatening another uprising.
“It was not an uprising,” he said of the attack to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 Electoral College vote, “but do you know what an uprising will do to you?” If you ignore the legitimate concerns of a population. If you brush them aside as if they do not matter when the petrol goes to $ 5 and say “Buy an electric car”. When cities become so dirty and dangerous that you can not live there. When the economy is so distorted, your children have no hope of getting married and having grandchildren. “When you do not care about any of these and all you do is talk about yourself, non-stop, you can get upset if you behave like that, talking about rebellions.”
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
