Kevin McCarthy said last year "no one would disagree" that Jan 6 was a violent insurrection.
— Arthur Delaney 🇺🇸 (@ArthurDelaneyHP) March 7, 2023
Tucker Carlson disagrees, and now McCarthy is helping him lie about what happened. https://t.co/o4HL8DEFjc
If you give information to a propagandist, you get propaganda. I'm not here to tell you how Tucker Carlson's narrative is wrong --you, my readers, know it is. We need to organize a pushback about why Carlson is to be disbelieved. Because some people just don't know what he is. A monster.
UPDATE: This post was just a placeholder until I had more to say. I wanted to see the reaction--of course, Carlson fans and pro-insurrectionists like MTG will pretend that the handful of minutes Carlson showed somehow negate footage we've already seen. We know from the trials of the insurrectionists what they did, how many were armed, the damage they have done.
What McCarthy has wrought by giving Carlson access to the footage is another kind of damage. Minimizing what happened that day is like normalizing it--making it okay for something like this to happen again.
Of course, there now has been pushback from reality-based people who understand what actually happened. But an essential part of the GOP base will want Carlson's story because they are uninterested in the truth. They will want lies about 1/6 in the same way they still want lies about the 2020 election--and Carlson still gives that to them too.
But at the heart of this is: A coward gave an important task to a liar, and fools will lap up the result. It's disgraceful, but the GOP has major problem and it boils down to cowards, liars, and fools.
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