McCarthy & Carlson: Threats to Capitol security

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Wed, 22/02/2023 - 01:00
Updated
Wed, 22/02/2023 - 01:00
Coming soon to a RW propaganda outlet near you So, “House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given Fox News’ Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 riot,” Axios reported Monday. Yes, the same Carlson who Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit filings last week showed described then-President Donald Trump as ”a demonic force, a destroyer” off the air. Carlson demanded a Fox fact-checker be fired because she was bad for Fox’s stock price. God bless America. You won’t have to guess what the co-producer of the “completely off the rails,” three-part series, “Patriot Purge,” will do with all that security footage. Carlson’s documentary reinterpreted the history of Jan. 6 into a false-flag operation by deep-state opponents of Donald J. Trump. As The Atlantic‘s Anne Applebaum panned it, “Good people, honest people, true Americans, patriots, people just like you, are being cheated. Sinister forces inside the American government arranged all of this bad imagery in order to oppress you, to remove you, to eliminate you.” Now Carlson will have Jan. 6 footage from every camera in the Capitol complex to edit and present to reinforce the narrative of “Patriot Purge.” Courtesy of Speaker of the House and empty suit, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R) of California. Some of the footage is sensitive because along with camera locations it reveals exit routes officials used to escape to safety from Jan. 6 rioters. It could provide “a roadmap for 2024 insurrection,” tweeted Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat. “It’s hard to…