'Bulls---': GOP senators rebuke Tucker Carlson for downplaying Jan. 6 as 'mostly peaceful'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other Senate Republicans on Tuesday lashed out at conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson after he characterized the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as "mostly peaceful chaos."

At a GOP leadership press conference, McConnell said he wanted to associate himself with the letter sent to the U.S. Capitol Police force by Chief Thomas Manger, who denounced Carlson for spreading “offensive and misleading conclusions” about the Jan. 6 insurrection, including a “disturbing accusation” that Officer Brian Sicknick’s death had nothing to do with the riot.

"I want to associate myself entirely with the opinion of the chief and the Capitol Police about what happened on January 6," McConnell said as he held up a copy of the letter. "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.” A handful of other Senate Republicans on Tuesday pushed back on Carlson's claim that Jan. 6 was "peaceful chaos," with Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina blasting those remarks as “bullshit.”

Carlson, the popular but controversial figure on Fox, made those comments to his millions of viewers Tuesday night as he aired select clips of never-before-seen surveillance footage of the Capitol on Jan. 6 and downplayed the violent insurrection that injured 140 police officers during an hourslong assault. “I think it’s bullshit,” Tillis told reporters in the Capitol.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/bulls-gop-senators-rebuke-tucker-carlson-downplaying-jan-6-mostly-peac-rcna73764

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[Marcuse]

1. Tuckface as "Shock jock"?

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said it’s “really sad to see Tucker Carlson go off the rails like that,” saying that he’s “joining a range of shock jocks that are disappointing America and feeding falsehoods.”

[sakabatou]

9. Howard Stern was a shock jock.

Tuckface is a propagandist.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. And similarly, Imus was a shock jock

And Fucker Carlson is a putrid gasbag.

Many of us remember him when he was like this -

[GB_RN]

30. I Remember Bartcop's Name For TucKKKer.

Bartcop called him “Bowtie Boy” and would show photos like that one. TucKKKer used to be just a putz, but he’s gone full-on fascist and I wish Bart was still around to skewer his punk ass.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. I remember when he was on Crossfire

and Jon Stewart did an epic take-down!

[Drum]

33. Epic indeed!

[GB_RN]

34. Stewart Was Spot On.

TucKKKer is a dick. And that's the most positive thing you can say about him. It's all downhill from there.

[SeattleVet]

35. Backpfeifengesicht

"a face that’s badly in need of a fist"

[Ahpook]

19. He's ultimately just lying to FOX viewers

The ones that are still hanging with this Trump asshole are complete traitors by default in my opinion. They aren't changing their minds on anything, ever no matter what is proven to them otherwise. They're out of it!

My main concern is that Garland upholds the rule of law and tosses that POS Trump in jail where he belongs. To hell with Tucker and his attempt at white washing this nightmare. We all know what we saw!

[mcar]

2. Love watching them eat their own

[ificandream]

3. You'd think with all the blowback Fox has gotten with the recent testimony ...

... they'd have thought a little before airing this crap. I think Keith Olbermann is right. Dominion is loving this.

[True Blue American]

16. I was thinking the same thing.

Now that Mitch McConnell and other Republican Leaders have spoken against Carlson I am beginning to wonder if his days are not numbered the way they got rid of him at CNN when Jon Stewart exposed them as hurting the country.

Maybe the 2 sons can step in on Murdock. He is finished.

[Escurumbele]

27. Mitch McConnell's response was a cowardly response, he made it sound like the chief "thinks"

his statement does not confirm that what happened on Jan 6 2021, the chaos, the deaths, the violent attack to the Capitol are FACTS.

But nonetheless, it is more proof for Dominion.

[oldsoftie]

28. I dont believe he meant it that way or he wouldnt have signed on to it

He's pretty much saying "What he said"

[Dustlawyer]

4. Everyone needs to keep the heat on FOX as liars not to be trusted!

It is obvious that being outed as a liar will not change FOX's behavior since their viewers won't hear about their lies. We need to call them out at every opportunity as the propagandists they are! Put pressure on the cable and satellite TV companies that we don't want to pay for FOX to be a part of our programming!

[SouthernDem4ever]

41. +1

Makes me sick that my cable bill includes money to that filthy organization.

[Justice matters.]

5. Not having the courage required to save democracy by supporting hair furhair's removal...

NOT ONCE BUT TWICE!!

Told you so! See the consequences now mcturtle??

17.75 months to go...

[DENVERPOPS]

11. You beat me to it............

Mitch and ALL the other Republican Senators had their chances, TWICE, to stop the out of control, Treasonous Corruption, and every last Republican Senator voted to find him not guilty and impeach him......The epitome of enabling in any book. AND Mitch and all the rest of the Republican Senators persecuted Cheney and other Republicans, when they tried to hold Trump accountable.....

Fuck you, you Republican Senator Hypocrites, now pretending that you were upset also.......You MFers may try to be through with history, but history sure as hell ain't through with you. YOU despicable sub human pieces of excrement.....

You Republicans are all 100% behind DeSantis, who is, in many ways, much worse than Trump, if that is even possible.

[InstantGratification]

17. I agree with your overall sentiment

In the interest of accuracy, 7 republican senators did vote to remove.


Richard Burr of North Carolina

Bill Cassidy of Louisiana

Susan Collins of Maine

Lisa Murkowski of Alaska

Mitt Romney of Utah

Ben Sasse of Nebraska

Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.

[Justice matters.]

40. I hope they read chapters about the infamous Night of the Long Knives...

On second thought, I don't really care. They didn't vote to Remove the criminal fascist the first time...

[MayReasonRule]

25. Yep, those that support the same, are the same.

McConnell is as much a Nat-C/Nazi as any of the rest of the Nat-C GOP.

McConnell and sitting SCOTUS member Roberts give lip-service to "liberty" by putting lipstick on their pigs before they parade them on view...

They're both malevolently delusional with three goals:

Intimidation
Incarceration
Extermination

...of anyone or anything that dare oppose their unbridled Machiavellian Nat-C depravity.

Same as it ever was.

May reason rule.

[Evolve Dammit]

6. Heart be still. GOP called out a MAGAT propagandist??

[SouthernDem4ever]

42. Have we heard from any repugs in the House?

So far they seem to be in lock-step with the anti-democratic liars.

[Evolve Dammit]

45. doubt it and yes they are.

[Dustin The Wind]

7. Peaceful Chaos

I think that comes right before IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!

[halfulglas]

8. Are the feces and urine peaceful also?

[thesquanderer]

10. "Mostly peaceful" is like Jeffrey Dahmer saying, "yeah, but look at all the people I DIDN'T eat." nt

[forgotmylogin]

15. I don't honestly think "Mostly peaceful" can apply to an event resulting in several deaths. n/t

[hvn_nbr_2]

18. The bank robbery was mostly peaceful. They were only shooting during ten seconds of the whole event.

[Hekate]

12. I hope Tuckums fries in Hell next to Quisling Kevin

[SouthernDem4ever]

43. And Mush Limbaw

They deserve each other.

[kimbutgar]

14. I hope this leads to the end of Tucker on TV

He might have gone too far in trying to disinfect the poison of January 6th.

[Fiendish Thingy]

20. Subpeona Tucker's ass

Time for a senate investigation.

[Grokenstein]

21. "It was a mistake, in my view"

It was no mistake, McConnell, and you know it.

[ShazzieB]

22. Does anyone else find this reaction from the GOP interesting?

Does anyone else find it interesting that so many Republican lawmakers are suddenly willing to stand up and publicly criticize this attempt to spin J6 into something that was "mostly peaceful"? It's like they're no longer terrified to risk offending Trump!

Because come on, we all know that he's going to be pissed off at them, and I'm sure they know it. And yet, they went ahead and did it anyway!

That, my friends, seems like a big change to me. Did they suddenly find their spines, OR is this a sign that Trump's power really is waning, such that they're no longer mortally afraid of him? I vote for the latter.

[llmart]

24. I think they're now more likely to do this because...

they have another asshole in the wings to support (DeSantis) that doesn't come with as much baggage as their last asshole.

[LiberalFighter]

23. Stage an insurrection at Fox while he is broadcasting?

How would he feel?

[Escurumbele]

26. McConnell is such a coward.."what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks."

Why can't he say "what the facts show", but no, he has to stay out of it and just pass it on to someone else...

Its not what he "thinks" you coward, it is what the facts show.

[usaf-vet]

29. Here is a story about ..ucker Carlson I imagine most people don't know.

I say most people because not everyone is a fly fisherman, and even fewer are fly tyers. But several years ago ..ucker Carlson was featured in one of the better fly tying magazines.

The magazine and its editor got significant pushback from those of us who tie flies and don't make a living lying to the American people.

The editor realized it was a mistake to have put him in the magazine, but the damage was done. I know some subscribers canceled their subscriptions. I had just renewed mine for an extended time frame because it is a fine magazine.

I received a personal letter from the magazine apologizing for featuring him and promising to never again put a national TV host or public figure in the magazine's pages in the future and keep politics out of the magazine.

But to this day, every time a new edition arrives in the mail, I am less enthusiastic about opening the pages and remembering the damage he does to this country every day.

He is a poison who hopefully will someday pay for his evil ways.

[muriel_volestrangler]

31. Musk publicly positions himself to the right of McConnell and these others, brownnoses Carlson

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday joined the right-wing chorus denying that a violent riot took place at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after Fox News aired cherry-picked footage of the incident provided by Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Replying to the communications director of a Freedom Caucus-aligned organization who alleged that members of the House committee investigating the riot had lied, Elon took to his social media platform to write: “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.”

“This is crazy. The public was misled,” Musk said in a separate tweet about the footage, which aired Monday on Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s show.

After right-wing conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich wrote that “the Big Lie of the January 6th” had been “exposed,” Musk replied, “Shocking indeed.”

And in response to a Twitter user who accused the BBC of not covering “the Jan 6 new evidence,” Musk tweeted at one of the broadcaster’s accounts, writing: “What say you, @BBCWorld? Your credibility is at stake.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/elon-musk-jan-6-denial-twitter_n_64074f7ce4b018d7c56cd6a2

How I wish that Douglas Adams and Iain M. Banks, 2 sci-fi authors he is known to read, were alive to tell him how he has completely failed to understand them.

[Cha]

37. Of course he does.. Fucking Nazi

pimping Fascist.

TY

[GenThePerservering]

39. Pasty white incel boy

says what?

[Cha]

36. Wonderful! On the Way to my

Hope it BACKFIRES BIG TIME WISH!!

TY BRDS!

Link to tweet

[NullTuples]

38. McConnell is such a wonderful actor, isn't he? Maybe even better than Carlson.

He's so good at bringing about terrible changes in America and then complaining about the more visible details that arise as his work plays out.

[SouthernDem4ever]

44. Agreed. His hypocrisy is astounding

Too late for McConnell to take the high road - he might as well stay lock-step with the morons in the house.

[mwb970]

46. Fox's prospects are not looking good these days.