We think already in some ways
Kevin McCarthy gave a whole lot of Capitol Hill riot footage to Tucker Carlson.
US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy is under fire for giving thousands of hours of footage from the Capitol riot to a Fox News host.
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Access to the video has until now been restricted mainly to a congressional committee and lawyers for the rioters.
During his show on Monday, Carlson said: “Some of our smartest producers have been looking at this stuff and trying to figure out what it means and how it contradicts or not the story we’ve been told for more than two years. We think already in some ways that it does contradict that story.”
Great. Fantastic. We’re being governed by Fox News. What could go wrong?
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries blasted the release of up to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage to Fox as an “egregious security breach”.
In a letter to his fellow party members, Mr Jeffries said that “extreme Maga [Make America Great Again] Republicans in the House have provided tens of thousands of hours of sensitive Capitol security footage to a Fox News personality who regularly peddles in conspiracy theories and pro-Putin rhetoric”.
Who regularly lies to the camera, is what he regularly does.
The release comes as a number of Fox News journalists, including Mr Carlson, were named in a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, a company that says the network broadcast false and malicious rumours about voter fraud that harmed its business.
A court filing last week revealed a number of Mr Carlson’s profanity-laced text messages to colleagues in which he disparaged Trump lawyers’ claims of a rigged election, but continued to allow voter fraud conspiracists a platform on his top-rated show.
Top-rated.
But if you are opposed to gender identity ideology, childhood transition, trans women in female-only spaces, etc. and are looking for a platform where you can be heard by millions, Tucker Carlson is one of your only choices. How messed up is that?
Breaching security restrictions means removal from the committee, right? Right guys? Please tell me there’s a consequence.
Haven’t seen the new House rules package but wouldn’t be surprised if that was one rule the political terrorists didn’t put in there.
I will ask, are there specific concerns about the footage? I could see some areas being restricted as high-security zones, I suppose, but really, most of what’s there is something that any legit news org would want access, too. Natch, I don’t trust Tucker to have a single insight that is both novel and true, and most of what he says about it will be neither, but that’s par for the course. I guess I’m asking if there’s any actual harm that will come from this, other than Carlson’s ego getting another fluffing?
The explanation I saw said it was indeed about security, like where blind spots are and other details I don’t remember.