DUPLICITY DECEIT AND DECEPTION, SIMMERED TO PERFECTION IN A RICH BROTH OF HYPOCRISY

We knew it all along from its founding in1996 that Faux Propaganda Channel was as phony as a $7 bill, but seeing it in black-and-white on the page in the Dominion lawsuit filings really puts things in a different perspective, on a different level of reality. So, allow me to congratulate Faux Prop for following up their public exposure that they knowingly lied to their audience about the 2020 election with a demonstration of knowingly lying to their audience about the insurrection on January 6, 2021.

For all the time he has had his show on Faux Prop, which is now the number one show on cable TV, it has been self-evident that Tucker Carlson doesn’t believe most of the bullshit he spouts on his show. We can now enjoy that obvious truth more widely:

“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait. I hate him passionately.” — Tucker Carlson to his producer, January 4, 2021

"That's the last four years. We're all pretending we've got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it's been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn't really an upside to Trump." — Tucker Carlson to his producer on January 4, 2021

“I hate him passionately. … What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.” — Tucker Carlson to his producer on November 16, 2021

“The whole thing seems insane to me. And Sidney Powell won’t release the evidence. Which I hate.” – Tucker Carlson to his producer on November 16, 2021 on the eve of touting the bogus claims about Dominion

And then this last Monday night, Tucker Carlson initiated his bizarre shitshow of revisionism by insisting the violent Insurrection we all watched in real time, really wasn’t an Insurrection at all.

“Taken as a whole, the video record does not support the claim that January 6th was an insurrection. In fact, it demolishes that claim. The footage does not show an insurrection or a riot in progress. Instead it shows police escorting people through the building." – Tucker Carlson introducing his show on Monday March 6, 2023

The text messages and emails from Carlson that were revealed by Dominion Voting systems in their filing supporting a summary judgement against Faux Prop reveal the wildly pro-Trump stance Carlson and the network cultivated has been nothing more than a theatrical performance. Carlson, despite his long defense and promotion of Trump, even to publicly advising him on national security issues, has never been a real Trumper; he just played the role. His support of Trump and Trump-adjacent issues has been from convenience; or when not convenient, a demonstration of how much he fears Trump.

As the Atlantic’s David Graham put it regarding Monday night’s shitshow: “That Tucker Carlson thinks his viewers are stupid is not new, though his first swing at spinning unseen footage of the January 6 insurrection provides a fresh test of just how credulous they are.”

But Tucker’s bullshit convinced at least one idiot: Unreconstructed Afrikaner shitbird Elon Muck; his response being further proof that he is actually the opposite of the “genius” the tinny toy owners think he is. Following Monday night’s show, Muck went on another bizarre Twitter rant in which he attacked members of the House Select Committee that investigated the Insurrection last year. Demonstrating what a braindead boob he is, Muck un-ironically accused them of “misleading the public” while lashing himself to debunked conspiracy theories about the response of the FBI and law enforcement to the Insurrection. He specifically said Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney withheld evidence: “Besides misleading the public, they withheld evidence for partisan political reasons that sent people to prison for far more serious crimes than they committed. That is deeply wrong, legally and morally.” (We really need to stick this fuckwit in one of his tinny toys, stuff it in one of his toy rockets, and fire it into the sun, since unfortunately we can’t put him in a time machine and send him back to be thrown out that top story window by his school mates in South Africa back when he was 12.)

While Muck was demonstrating what a worthless piece of something one scrapes off their shoe he is, the family of Brian Sicknick - the officer who died the day after defending the Capitol - issued a scathing statement after Carlson tried to downplay the injuries Sicknick suffered at the hands of the traitors:

“The Sicknick family is outraged at the ongoing attack on our family by the unscrupulous and outright sleazy so-called ‘news’ network of Fox News who will do the bidding of Trump or any of his sycophant followers, no matter what damage is done to the families of the fallen, the officers who put their lives on the line, and all who suffered on Jan 6th due to the lies started by Trump and spread by sleaze slinging outlets like Fox.”

Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger issued a rare statement ripping “offensive” and “misleading” statements about the attack:

“Last night an opinion program aired commentary that was filled with offensive and misleading conclusions about the January 6 attack,” Manger wrote, adding that Carlson’s show didn’t reach out to the police department “to provide accurate context.”

While the feral bedwetters of the House Republicans were pulling up their plastic pants, Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans quickly distanced themselves from Quiverin’ Qevin’s goatfuck:

Senator Thom Tillis told reporters: “I think it’s bullshit. I was here. I was down there, and I saw maybe a few tourists, a few people who got caught up in things. But when you see police barricades breached, when you see police officers assaulted, all of that ... if you were just a tourist you should’ve probably lined up at the visitors’ center and came in on an orderly basis.”

McConnell explicitly endorsed the Capitol Police chief: "I want to associate myself entirely with the opinion of the chief and the Capitol Police about what happened on January 6. It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks.”

North Dakota Republican Senator Kevin Cramer said that to put what happened “in the same category as … permitted peaceful protest is just a lie.”

Mitt Romney called it “dangerous and disgusting” and compared it to Alex Jones’s portrayal of the Sandy Hook massacre.

South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds said, “I thought it was an insurrection at that time. I still think it was an insurrection today.”

Number Two Senate Republican John Thune said, “I think it was an attack on the Capitol. … There were a lot of people in the Capitol at the time that were scared for their lives.”

The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols thinks the whole thing will backfire:

“As counterintuitive as it might be, perhaps the best thing for American democracy would be for Carlson to keep bumbling his way through more January 6 footage and to keep images of the insurrection in front of millions of viewers for as long as possible.

“If that’s how McCarthy and Carlson intend to restore the image of the GOP as a normal political party, who are any of us to argue with such public-relations geniuses?

“I’m not sure longtime Fox News critics and observers could have imagined a day like Tuesday ever coming to pass. The cable news net’s lies, fabrications, bamboozlement, and misinformation all came home to roost in spectacular fashion.”

The best indication that young Tuck’ms has royally fucked the pooch in front of the world came from how Faux Prop started eating its own yesterday: last night Bret Baier - the “straight news” guy whose texts released by Dominion show believes that the network needed to use more than “mere facts” in determining if Trump had really lost the election - got together with Chad Pergram to counter-program Carlson’s second shitshow. It started with footage touting Carlson’s “new” surveillance video, but then ends with clips by Pergram in Congress quoting the Senators. The segment ends with a hilarious closing from Baier: “And to be clear, no one here at Fox News condones any of the violences that happened on January 6.”

No one deserves the public ass-kicking they’re getting more than the propagandist personalities, the “straight news” hosts, and the assorted gargoyles employed at the Faux Propaganda Channel.

However, Carlson’s antics demonstrate something larger and more important:

Republicans have created a 2024 trap for themselves with the way they are treating the January 6 Insurrection.

According to the feral bedwetters:

There was no insurrection on January 6, and also the people facing criminal charges stemming from January 6 are political prisoners.

This is Trump’s line that he started taking the afternoon of January 6. The party let him do it and said nothing. After doing so, they were forced to agree with him.

And that is a problem for 2024.

What does DeSantis say about January 6? Does he say Ashli Babbitt was a martyr? Does he say the people in the DC jail are political prisoners?

The Republican base says January 6 was a legitimate protest, that Ashli Babbit is a martyr, and that the DC Prison Choir are political prisoners.

What does DeSantis say if he’s the candidate in 2024 and what does that do to him with all the rest of the voters who know what they saw on January 6?

By covering for Trump after January 6, Republicans made it much harder for any other candidate to draw a contrast between themselves and Trump on this today. Worse, they gave Trump the ability to call out any Republican who doesn’t support him.

Watching Republicans try to deal with January 6 for the next 18 months is going to be a much better show than watching Faux Prop try to convince us there’s nobody in that building across the street from 30 Rock but the chickens.

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