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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFux Noise Brit Hume Panned For Very Poorly Timed Jan. 6 Tweet
Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume got a Twitter dragging Wednesday over a tweet that aged poorly almost immediately.
Heres a thought. Lets base our view on whether 1/6 was an insurrection on whether those arrested are charged with insurrection. So far, none has been, the conservative commentator wrote, sharing a link to a Wall Street Journal opinion post that he apparently disagreed with about calling the Jan. 6 Capitol attack what it was: a violent insurrection.
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Within a few hours of Humes post, news broke that 11 members of the right-wing Oath Keepers, including founder Stewart Rhodes, had been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to the attack on the Capitol. Its the most serious charge yet in the sprawling investigation, which has seen more than 700 people charged.
Both seditious conspiracy and insurrection against the government are serious federal crimes, though seditious conspiracy actually holds more severe penalties than insurrection up to 20 years imprisonment. Charges of insurrection or incitement of insurrection involve fines and imprisonment of up to 10 years.
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Fux Noise Brit Hume Panned For Very Poorly Timed Jan. 6 Tweet (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jan 2022
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Blue Owl
(50,347 posts)1. Oh, the Hume Hannity...
NoMoreRepugs
(9,405 posts)2. Brit Hume - please continue.....
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)3. The most remarkable thing about that tweet is that Brit Hume actually claims to be thinking.