Democrats continued to hit Fox News host Tucker Carlson and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) with staunch criticism on Wednesday over Carlson’s latest cherry-picked take on the deadly Jan. 6 attack.
The GOP’s Big Lies are spread by Fox News. Any truths are slandered as false by Fox and its GOP friends.
Fox News is really Faux News.
So it’s Kevin and the Deplorables vs. Dems, the rest of the GOP and every decent person on earth. I’ll take those odds.
Fucker Tiresum.
Okay, so Dems and a few repubs with brains are pummeling Kev, what can they do about it? Kev is impervious to criticism and also lacking a soul and a brain and heart. He’ll keep on keeping on because he sold his soul to become speaker, but as Nancy Pelosi once said 'He’s a moron" and so Dems will continue to be enraged. Then what?
Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
Timothy Snyder,
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Hit on the connection between him and Faux news, the mouthpiece for GOP lies.
McCarthy owns Cucker Tarlson and vice versa.
Faux News is the center of GOP deception.
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." – Voltaire
“It’s shameful,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) told TPM. “I thought it was so shameful that Jan. 6 happened and he just picked those aspects of the thousand of hours [of footage] to push out that these were just a group of tourists.”
“It’s such bullshit I can hardly stand it,” she added.
Oooh, TPM quoted a sitting senator saying “bullshit”, and a democratic one at that. Does that mean it’s ok with certain self-appointed hall monitor language police for us to say “bullshit” here?
“Bullshit!” There. I wrote it and I’m glad. Ha ha ha ha!
Two things:
Mitt Romney referring to Carlson as a shock jock? Seriously, has he been under a rock for the last 30 years?
“It’s such bullshit I can hardly stand it” needs to be Dems slogan going into 2024.
I’m pleasantly surprised so many (eg. more than one) GOP senators have come out against carlson’s propaganda edit. Any others?
McConnell (R-KY)
Romney (R-UT)
Cramer (R-ND)
Tillis (R-NC)
Kennedy (R-LA)
ETA: I am told Lindseymat (R-SC) should be on the list.
ETA2: Mike Rounds (R-some very small state where the AG kills a pedestrian and doesn’t go to prison for it)
FOX has had decades to pummel us.
We’re just getting started
I am not surprised so many GOP senators have come out against insurrection. I mean if the insurrection had succeeded and Trump became a dictator, who the hell needs a Senate let alone a Senate minority or majority leader.
That is all of the people you name have no issue with stealing an election by law or otherwise suppressing votes. But by using mob rule or otherwise just saying voting does not matter and we have a strongman dictator ends any role and thereby power and economic advantage of being a US Senator.
So to protect their own positions it is no surprise several Republicans in the legislative branch, a branch that would have become completely unnecessary had the insurrection succeeded, coming out against the insurrection, in fact against all insurrections both past and future.
Pay Back is a B+tch I hear.
About damned time.
Fox and Tucker richly deserve to get a bowl of comeuppance shoved down their throats
Now lets us see some indictments of trump et al.
It is nice to hear that at least some Republicans don’t have their heads up their asses.
Well, there was a better course of action to protect themselves … and democracy to boot. It starts with “Im” and ends with “peach.”
But they rejected that, and so here we are, still mired in the sludge.
The standard GOP (and Fox) behavior in the MAGA era has been to double down when called-out for bad acts. It is looking as Jan 6 is the bridge too far for this tactic to work.
If Carlson continues trying to bluster through GOP responsibility for the insurrection, that is a gift that will keep on giving for everyone else.
It’s “really sad to see Tucker Carlson go off the rails like that,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT)
Romney then reviewed more than 40,000 hours of the Tucker Tapes in a Quixotic quest to cherry pick select moments when he wasn’t off the rails.
Only one of those five senators voted in favor of conviction in TFG’s second impeachment trial, held only a few weeks after the capitol invasion.