Tucker Carlson is a very sick man who is out of touch with reality.
FOX should remove him from the public airwaves for re-editing the January 6 video
tapes that McCarthy gave him to show a false
narrative (which it was expected he would do) as Carlson started showing his revised version of January 6.
That is reported on here from CNN with this headline:
“What to know about the Tucker Carlson January 6 footage”
Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired newly released footage from the
January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol that included images of (1) the
rioter known as the “QAnon Shaman,” as well as of (2) Capitol Police Officer
Brian Sicknick, who died following the attack.
Carlson, who used the footage in an attempt to downplay the
violence and defend the pro-Trump mob, claimed he had Capitol Police review the
footage before airing it.
Carlson said on his
show: “We do take security seriously, so before airing any of this video we
checked first with the Capitol Police. We’re happy to say their reservations
were minor and for the most part they were reasonable. In the end, the only
change that we made was in blurring the details of a single interior door in
the Capitol building.”
NOTE: Multiple sources told CNN that Carlson’s show provided only one clip to review and not the others, ergo: Carlson once again proves he is a lying scumbag.
Here’s what was in
the footage that aired Monday re: the QAnon
Shaman’s role: Carlson claimed that new Capitol security footage
taken on January 6 shows Jacob Chansley, known as the “QAnon Shaman,” walking
through the Capitol without pushback from police. In one clip, Chansley is
shown with two officers who attempt to open a door near the Senate chamber. In
a second clip, Chansley, still flanked by the two original officers, walks
between a group of about half a dozen officers and none appear to try to step
in, and there is no audio in the videos.
Prosecutors say that Chansley disobeyed that request and
walked to the Senate floor. Video from that day shows officers following
Chansley around the building, and an officer walks into the chamber with
Chansley and continues to ask rioters to leave.
Capitol Police
officers have testified at several January 6 trials that after the initial wave
of rioters entered the building, they felt outnumbered and were afraid of
escalating violence by engaging with the mob. Members of the crowd were
therefore able to walk into the building without much, or any, physical
resistance, according to the officers.
Chansley pleaded
guilty to a felony charge of obstructing the Electoral College proceedings on
January 6 and was sentenced to 41 months in prison.
Carlson then aired never-before-seen surveillance footage that he said
showed Officer Brian Sicknick, who died one day after the January 6
insurrection. Carlson said he focused on this because Democrats have turned
Sicknick into a “prop and a martyr” by overstating the links between his death
and the insurrection.
Carlson used the new video to try to undermine the known facts
surrounding Sicknick’s death, and to argue that January 6 was less violent and
“deadly” than it has been portrayed.
Carlson argued that Sicknick looks “healthy
and vigorous” in the video, and therefore “it’s hard to imagine” that he was
severely injured by the rioters or that he died because of the insurrection.
On January 6, Sicknick was attacked with pepper spray and physically fought with members of the mob.
An officer testified that she saw Sicknick in significant
distress after he was sprayed. He died one day later after suffering a series
of strokes.
FYI: The DC ME ruled that Sicknick died of natural causes and then added:
“All that transpired that day played a role in his condition.”
Note: Carlson did not mention the ME’s part.
My 2 Cents: Carlson as expected selectively
picked the spots for the maximum effect and pleasure of his FOX audience – that
was apparent by his words about each segment mentioned above with his twists
and turns for his agenda.
Was what he showed and what we saw on that horrible day the same tapes parts, yet, it was but re-editing is with his monologue is dangerous and misleading … is it just “freedom of the press?” Not in my opinion it is not.
It more likely falls into the
category of NOT being information but rather disinformation, and that shows him
and by extension his boss, FOX News, calling for that horrible day to be
repeated in 2024 if the election does not go their way then.
I cite Carlson and his reedited version of January 6 Capitol attack as “content
restriction” historically proven as follows:
“Content-based restrictions” on speech have been permitted only for a
few historic categories of speech: incitement;
obscenity; defamation (libel and slander); speech integral to criminal conduct;
fighting words; child pornography; fraud; true threats; and speech presenting a
“Clear and Present Danger” (grave and imminent threat) that the government
has the power to prevent.”
Absent from these few categories is any general exception for false
statements.
* Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1917-1919),
was a landmark decision of
the Supreme Court concerning enforcement of
the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. A unanimous Supreme Court, in an
opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., concluded that
defendants who distributed flyers to draft-age men urging
resistance to induction could be convicted of an attempt to obstruct the draft,
a criminal offense.
The “bad tendency principle”
is a test which permits restriction of freedom
of speech by government if it is believed that a form of speech has a
sole tendency to incite or cause illegal activity.
The “bad tendency” test (Patterson v. Colorado, 1907) was a test which
permits restriction of freedom of speech by government if it is believed that a form of speech has a
sole tendency to incite or cause illegal activity and it was finally overturned
in Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) and was
replaced by the “imminent lawless action” test which states
that speech is not protected by the First Amendment if
the speaker intends to incite a violation of the law that is both imminent and
likely.
That to me was and is
Carlson’s purpose and intention.
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