What a difference a few days make.... Just like the Comintern under Stalin in the '30s and '40s, the left wing media operation now running the MSM in the USA seems to be turning on a dime on the "party line" about Tucker Carlson and his three nights of revelations about the false narratives that came out of the Democrats' J6 Committee --- using several lengthy segments of the J6 Capitol Security video that had been released to Carlson by the Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy
--->>> After several days of vilifying Tucker Carlson as having done the worst of all things imaginable by his coverage of the J6 Capitol events based upon the newly revealed Capitol security video --- the left is now saying something like "This Tucker Carlson stuff is not really that much of a big deal after all....." <<<---
Maybe it was because the collective left felt that its initial defenses against the Carlson and GOP pushback against their J6 House Select Committee excesses was failing, and they needed something else to help cut their losses.....
Maybe it was because many of the Democrats' and the MSM's former allies and usual supporters in their false J6 narratives, along with more casual followers, were suddenly skeptical or even openly critical.....
Perhaps the most notable of those openly critical former allies was the iconic leftist feminist Naomi Wolf, whose self-published article in "Substack" late last week, defended and praised Tucker Carlson for his disclosures --- and she even compared Carlson's brave reporting and commentary to the heroic and historic anti-Vietnam War revelations of Daniel Ellsberg to the New York Times and the world.....
A week ago, Tucker Carlson’s program aired a lot of previously unseen surveillance footage of the U.S. Capitol taken during the January 6th incursions into the Capitol that to some extent has undermined the left’s narrative that a “deadly insurrection” had gripped the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Contrary to many critical claims that Tucker Carlson and Fox News entirely glossed over a riotous invasion of the Capitol (called an "insurrection" by many in government and in the left-controlled media), what was shown to viewers by Carlson were many of the graphic scenes of the J6 turmoil that Democrats on the J6 Select Committee and their willing acolytes in the mainstream media had played for Americans repeatedly for many, many months. Carlson never said that any of these video images was fabricated or false in their content in any way. Some of what Tucker DID SAY about them was that “... [t]hese are the pictures you’ve seen of January 6th.... But it turns out there’s quite a bit of video you haven’t seen. And that video tells a very different story about what happened on January 6th....”
Even before Tucker Carlson went on the air last Monday evening, Democrats in Congress and their allies across the spectrum of media outlets were decrying what an outrage it all was; and that was without knowing what the outrageous thing that Tucker might do would be. Of course, once Carlson started his presentations, all hell broke loose. That continued all last week and even included some quality time on SNL for the snickering value for its wokesters in its audience.
But now, there seems to be a sudden change of course. Some in the media including "The Hill" and "Salon" are chiding Carlson for completely missing his marks, and leaving the right without any smokimg gun to prove that January 6th, 2021, was a jinned-up governmental false flag operation to permanently wreck Trump and usher in more dictatorial powers for any non-Trump government.
Some of that sudden change by some of those in the left MSM might be attributable to the broad support that Tucker C. has received by many, including some folks on the left like Naomi Wolf. Wolf was an icon of the left, but in the past she has said that she had been studying the end of democracies for about the last twelve years. and she feared that’s down the road on which the U.S. is headed.
In case you missed it --- among some other good stuff about the whole J6 imbroglio, she wrote in an article that she published in Substack that said: ".... I believed a farrago of lies [about January 6, 2021]. And, as a result of these lies, and my credulity — and the credulity of people similarly situated to me - many conservatives’ reputations are being tarnished, on false bases.... The proximate cause of this letter of apology is the airing, two nights ago, of excepts from tens of thousands of hours of security camera footage from the United States Capitol taken on Jan 6, 2021. The footage was released by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson...." (See "Dear Conservatives, I Apologize -- My 'Team' was Taken in By Full-Spectrum Propaganda" by Naomi Wolf, 3/0/2021, Substack/ Outspoken with Dr Naomi Wolf
[https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-conservatives-i-am-sorry]).
Dr, Wolf opened her lengthy article with this: "There is no way to avoid this moment. The formal letter of apology. From me. To Conservatives and to those who 'put America first' everywhere.... It’s tempting to sweep this confrontation with my own gullibility under the rug — to 'move on' without ever acknowledging that I was duped, and that as a result I made mistakes in judgement, and that these mistakes, multiplied by the tens of thousands and millions on the part of people just like me, hurt millions of other people like you all, in existential ways.... But that erasure of personal and public history would be wrong.... I owe you a full-throated apology.... There is no way for anyone thoughtful, even if he or she is a lifelong Democrat, not to notice that Sen Chuck Schumer did not say to the world that the footage that Mr Carlson aired was not real. Rather, he warned that it was “shameful” for Fox to allow us to see it. The Guardian characterized Mr Carlson’s and Fox News’ sin, weirdly, as 'Over-Use' of Jan 6 footage. Isn’t the press supposed to want full transparency for all public interest events?... How can you 'over-use' real footage of events of national relevance?... I don’t agree with Mr Carlson’s interpretation of the videos as depicting 'mostly peaceful chaos.'... I do think it is a mistake to downplay how serious it is when a legislative institution suffers a security breach of any kind, however that came to be.
But you don’t have to agree with Mr Carlson’s interpretation of the videos, to believe, as I do, that he engaged in valuable journalism simply by airing the footage that was given to him...."
She also went on to say many other very significant things like this: ".... You don’t have to agree with Carlson’s interpretation of the videos, to notice the latest hypocrisy by the Left. My acquaintance and personal hero Daniel Ellsberg was rightly lionized by the Left for having illegally leaked the Pentagon Papers. The New York Times was rightly applauded for having run this leaked material in 1971.... I do not see how Mr Carlson’s airing of video material of national significance that the current government would prefer to keep hidden, or Fox News’ support for its disclosure to the public, is any different from that famous case of disclosure of inside information of public importance.
And she summed up her lengthy piece with this: ".... Through lies, half of the electorate was denied a fair run for its preferred candidate.... I don’t like violence. I do believe our nation’s capitol must be treated as a sacred space.... I don’t like President Trump (Do I not? Who knows? I have been lied to about him so much for so long, I can‘t tell whether my instinctive aversion is simply the habituated residue of years of being on the receiving end of lies).... But I like the liars who are our current gatekeepers, even less.... The gatekeepers who lie to the public about the most consequential events of our time — and who thus damage our nation, distort our history, and deprive half of our citizenry of their right to speak, champion and choose, without being tarred as would-be violent traitors - deserve our disgust.... I am sorry the nation was damaged by so much untruth issued by those with whom I identified at the time.... I am sorry my former “tribe” is angry at a journalist for engaging in —- journalism.... I am sorry I believed so much nonsense.... Though it is no doubt too little, too late... — Conservatives, Republicans, MAGA: I am so sorry...."
Tucker Carlson is being disingenius. Why didnt he air all the footage?
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ReplyDelete"Just like the Comintern under Stalin's in the '30s and '40s"
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Well, 602, Tucker Carlson didn't air all the footage of the Capitol security video, because his show isn't 40,000 hours long.
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't the Democrat Jan. 6 Committee air all of the more than 14,000 hours of footage that they say they had been provided by the Capitol Police?
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