House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told reporters Tuesday evening he does not regret giving Fox News’ Tucker Carlson exclusive access to more than 40,000 hours of Jan. 6 security footage, despite an onslaught of criticism of the Fox News segment from his GOP colleagues.
When asked about the push-back Carlson’s commentary received from Senate Republicans, McCarthy refused to comment, saying everyone “can come up with their own conclusions.”
“Each person can come up with their own conclusion but what I just wanted to make sure is I have transparency,” [
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Oh, you’re transparent, alright. Transparently partisan. If McCarthy actually wanted everyone to “come up with their own conclusions” he would have made all 40,000+hours available to ANYONE, not just Carlson.
Of course he doesn’t regret it. He’s still Speaker, right? That’s worth way more to him than any dignity or integrity.
Didn’t we all already see what transpired? There was enough shown on the actual day and further during the investigation. Nothing had to released for the truth to be known.
Is it time to start a pool on ‘weeks until Tucker enters into contract negotiations with Newsmax, OANN or RT?’
McCarthy, on the other hand, will stay around until the Freedom Caucus decides they want a new sock puppet.
Those platforms aren’t big enough for his ego.
By doing this, he maintains his position until the next pound of flesh is demanded of him.
If he could do this, what more can he do to advance his cause?
Circling the wagons while he circles the drain.
Slight typo
That should be McCarthy not McConnell
Of the three, only RT can afford him.
Kevin would make an excellent toilet paper spokesman for a very cutrate brand of toilet paper, being such an asswipe himself. But try as he might, he will never be able to wipe the shit stain of Trumpism off our body politic’s ass with this sorry excuse of an asswipe attempt. I’ve seen dogs do a better job of it using grass and some twerking.
Big picture, yes. But nobody has seen every last minute of the security video.
Note that Uncle Tucker’s basic point – that most of the people who entered the Capitol didn’t commit any violence against anyone and didn’t participate in trashing the place – is entirely uncontroversial. Roughly 60% of the defendants charged to date have only been hit with misdemeanors like trespassing and parading. That in no way negates the hundreds of defendants charged with violent felonies and corruptly obstructing the electoral vote count.
My first question to McCarthy would be do you agree to give Carlson these tapes as a condition to get votes to be Speaker of the House?
That said, what is interesting about Carlson’s response is that he obviously cares about his own income first and not much about Republicans. Furthermore, Carlson and Fox are becoming a real problem for Republicans.
I mean Carlson’s response to Republican criticism, “They kind of outed themselves. They sort of showed their membership cards of whatever club this is to the public. So keep a list. If you want to know who’s actually aligned, despite the illusion of partisanship, we found out today,”
I take this as Carlson telling his viewers do not support these people and if that happens many of the worst Republicans will lose to Democrats.
Carlson is preaching to a choir that is different than the choir McConnell and other “establishment” Republicans preach.
It may be worth it to RT, if they’re already paying Faux to air footage from Tucker’s show.
I suspect he may be needing a paycheck in the none to distant future.
Qevin agreed to do this as the price of getting the votes needed to finally put him over the top for Speaker. The Qrazy Qaqus has less leverage to extract new concessions because there’s no clear outcome where they’re in an improved position with the next Speaker, should they even manage to get one elected. And losing Qevin as a member of the House (he’ll never stay in if he gets removed, that’s far too embarrassing) makes their margin even narrower.
McQarthy is following in some deep footsteps: “The truth is out there. But so are lies.” - Dana Scully
Change the headline. McCarthy says he has no regrets. Who knows. He’s a liar.
Next with Tucker: All the people the Donner Party didn’t eat. (https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author )
Some were eaten.
A pound at a time at this rate, Qev will be able to quit politics and sell diet books.