Tucker Carlson lost. The Jan. 6 committee won.
On Monday, Tucker Carlson used his popular primetime program in an effort to undermine the work of last year’s House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack by presenting footage that, he claimed, would cast its conclusions into serious doubt.
It was a flop.
House Speaker Kevin #McCarthy gave #Carlson more than 40,000 hours of footage from that day, and the Fox News host used it to make the case that the vast majority of rioters were, in fact, peaceful “#sightseers” smeared through guilt by association with a few #bad #apples.
But to all but the most committed (or deluded) MAGA devotees, Carlson’s effort failed.
A growing number of Republican lawmakers — including Senate Minority Leader Mitch #McConnell, Sens. Mitt #Romney, Thom #Tillis, Mike #Rounds, Kevin #Cramer, Lindsey #Graham, Chuck #Grassley, and Joni #Ernst — have #condemned the push to rewrite history.
The episode quickly became a subject of widespread #mockery and #scorn, apparently failing to gain even an iota of traction among the Trump-skeptical conservatives it was designed to entice.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/tucker-carlson-lost-jan-6-committee-won.html