![]() ![]() The New York Times was rightly applauded for having run this leaked material in 1971. ![]() My acquaintance and personal hero Daniel Ellsberg was rightly lionized by the Left for having illegally leaked the Pentagon Papers. You don’t have to agree with Carlson’s interpretation of the videos, to notice the latest hypocrisy by the Left. “In a democracy, records belong to the people,” explains the National Archives. I don’t agree with Mr Carlson’s interpretation of the videos as depicting “mostly peaceful chaos.” I do think it is a mistake to downplay how serious it is when a legislative institution suffers a security breach of any kind, however that came to be.īut you don’t have to agree with Mr Carlson’s interpretation of the videos, to believe, as I do, that he engaged in valuable journalism simply by airing the footage that was given to him.Īnd remember, by law that footage belongs to us - it is a public record, and all public records literally belong to the American people. This is a statement from McConnell about orthodoxy - not a statement about a specific truth or untruth. He said, rather, that it was “a mistake” to depart from the views of the events held by the chief of the Capitol Police. Sen Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate minority leader, did not say the video on Fox News was fake or doctored. Isn’t the press supposed to want full transparency for all public interest events? How can you “over-use” real footage of events of national relevance? The Guardian characterized Mr Carlson’s and Fox News’ sin, weirdly, as “Over-Use” of Jan 6 footage. Rather, he warned that it was “shameful” for Fox to allow us to see it. There is no way for anyone thoughtful, even if he or she is a lifelong Democrat, not to notice that Sen Chuck Schumer did not say to the world that the footage that Mr Carlson aired was not real. The USCP medical examiner states that this Officer died of “natural causes,” but also that he died “in the line of duty.” Whatever the truth of this confusing conclusion, and with all respect for and condolences to Officer Sicknick’s family, the circumstances of his death do matter to the public, as without his death having been caused by the events of Jan 6, the breach of the capitol, serious though it was, cannot be described as a “deadly insurrection.” Sadly, though the contrary was what was reported, Officer Sicknick died two days after Jan 6, from suffering two strokes. There is no way to unsee Officer Brian Sicknick, claimed by some Democrats in leadership and by most of the legacy media to have been killed by rioters at the Capitol that day, alive in at least one section of the newly released video. This would be the same Congress that convened the January 6 Committee subsequently, and that used millions of dollars in taxpayer money to turn that horrible day, and that tragic event, into a message point that would be used to tar a former President as a would-be terrorist, and to smear all Republicans, by association, as “insurrectionists,” or as insurrectionists’ sympathizers and fellow-travelers. While “fact-checkers” state that it is “misinformation” to claim that Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was in charge of Capitol Police on that day, the fact is that the USCP is under the oversight of Congress, according to - the United States Capitol Police. The footage was released by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson. The proximate cause of this letter of apology is the airing, two nights ago, of excepts from tens of thousands of hours of security camera footage from the United States Capitol taken on Jan 6, 2021. And, as a result of these lies, and my credulity - and the credulity of people similarly situated to me - many conservatives’ reputations are being tarnished, on false bases. But that erasure of personal and public history would be wrong. ![]()
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