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(The Guardian) Carlson condemned for 'sanitizing' Jan 6 riot footage
Tucker Carlson’s first take on the January 6 Capitol riot footage, controversially provided to him as an exclusive by Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy, was widely condemned on Tuesday for “sanitizing” the deadly insurrection.
The rightwing TV host showed selected clips from Capitol security cameras on his Fox News show on Monday night, including small pockets of supporters of Donald Trump wandering around, and a particular focus on the so-called Q-Anon shaman Jacob Chansley, sentenced in November 2021 to more than three years in prison for his part in the riot.
“The footage does not show an insurrection or a riot in progress. Instead it shows police escorting people through the building,” Carlson told his viewers, parroting Trump’s narrative that the rioters were simply sightseeing. Taken as a whole, the video does not support the claim that January 6 was an insurrection. In fact, it demolishes that claim.”
As NBC points out, footage Carlson didn’t air shows police and rioters engaged in hours of violent combat, or the assaults on about 140 law enforcement officers. Several people, including police officers, lost their lives during or after the attack.
On Tuesday, the family of Brian Sicknick, a Capitol police officer who died a day after a confrontation with the rioters, issued a statement condemning Carlson. “Every time the pain of that day seems to have ebbed a bit, organizations like Fox rip our wounds wide open again and we are frankly sick of it. Leave us the hell alone,” the statement reads in part.
On CNN, Adam Kinzinger, a Republican former congressman and member of the House January 6 committee, called Carlson’s presentation “disgusting”. And Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader, condemned McCarthy’s decision to hand the footage to Fox, adding it could lead to the same thing happening again:
Other media outlets are also trying to obtain the 44,000 hours of security camera footage given to Carlson, so far without success. McCarthy’s office said on Monday it was working to arrange it, but gave no details.
(The Guardian) Carlson condemned for 'sanitizing' Jan 6 riot footage
Tucker Carlson’s first take on the January 6 Capitol riot footage, controversially provided to him as an exclusive by Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy, was widely condemned on Tuesday for “sanitizing” the deadly insurrection.
The rightwing TV host showed selected clips from Capitol security cameras on his Fox News show on Monday night, including small pockets of supporters of Donald Trump wandering around, and a particular focus on the so-called Q-Anon shaman Jacob Chansley, sentenced in November 2021 to more than three years in prison for his part in the riot.
“The footage does not show an insurrection or a riot in progress. Instead it shows police escorting people through the building,” Carlson told his viewers, parroting Trump’s narrative that the rioters were simply sightseeing. Taken as a whole, the video does not support the claim that January 6 was an insurrection. In fact, it demolishes that claim.”
As NBC points out, footage Carlson didn’t air shows police and rioters engaged in hours of violent combat, or the assaults on about 140 law enforcement officers. Several people, including police officers, lost their lives during or after the attack.
On Tuesday, the family of Brian Sicknick, a Capitol police officer who died a day after a confrontation with the rioters, issued a statement condemning Carlson. “Every time the pain of that day seems to have ebbed a bit, organizations like Fox rip our wounds wide open again and we are frankly sick of it. Leave us the hell alone,” the statement reads in part.
On CNN, Adam Kinzinger, a Republican former congressman and member of the House January 6 committee, called Carlson’s presentation “disgusting”. And Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader, condemned McCarthy’s decision to hand the footage to Fox, adding it could lead to the same thing happening again:
Other media outlets are also trying to obtain the 44,000 hours of security camera footage given to Carlson, so far without success. McCarthy’s office said on Monday it was working to arrange it, but gave no details.
