6 committee and the media to avoid the possibility of any nuance whatsoever regarding the riots. Just click here.Ī decision was made by the Jan. 6 committee went out of its way to present certain footage but avoid other footage. 6, as ugly as it was, was a riot and not a "danger to our democracy" that many of those in the Capitol were in fact gawking rather than rioting and that the Jan. But Carlson isn't wrong that tape appears to show some of the people in the Capitol wandering around aimlessly, not violently, or that the media's original portrayal of Sicknick's death - it was widely reported that he had been directly murdered by the crowd - was incorrect.Īrgue with Carlson's framing all you want I have significant disagreements with it. In that riot, dozens of officers were injured some 1,000 people were arrested. Now, to be certain, a riot took place on Jan.
These were not insurrectionists - they were sightseers." He said, "A small percentage of them were hooligans. 6, he aired a special in which he disclosed two particularly pertinent pieces of tape: first, tape showing Capitol Police apparently walking alongside the QAnon Shaman, Jacob Chansley, through the hallways second, tape showing Officer Brian Sicknick gesturing animatedly to fellow officers after he had already been attacked by the crowd outside.Ĭarlson seemed to downplay the violence of the day based on the tape. What, pray tell, did Carlson do that merited the Senate Majority Leader calling for his silencing? After House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., granted him access to some 41,000 hours of as-yet-unreleased footage from Jan. 6 was a "violent insurrection." And in order to preserve democracy, Schumer stated, Fox News should take Tucker Carlson off the air. 6 was, according to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, "the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War." Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer explained that the riot of Jan.
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