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The Ordeal of Q Anon Shaman
[Powerline] I have watched Tucker Carlson’s reporting on the previously suppressed January 6 tapes over the past three evenings along with his reconstruction of events. Nauseated by the incessant palaver about the supposed “insurrection,” I can’t help but want to hear the full story. I support his efforts to redress the Democrat/media hysteria. Yet his account seems to me lacking in its own way.

Last night Tucker acknowledged and accepted the assessment that 114 police officers were injured during in the mostly peaceful riot. He condemned the assaults on police officers.
Tucker condemns the riot that delayed the certification of the 2020 election by Congress, but that’s not the whole story. He argues that the protest was “mostly peaceful,” or “mostly peaceful chaos.”

We mocked CNN et al. when they took this precise tack on the George Floyd riots of 2020 in Minneapolis and elsewhere around the country. Tucker’s take on January 6 seems like a satirical echo of the media echo chamber, and yet he is serious.

This is what he had to say Monday evening, per Jacob Sullum’s Reason column:

“Hundreds and hundreds of people, possibly thousands,” entered the Capitol over the course of two hours that day, Carlson said. “The crowd was enormous. A small percentage of them were hooligans. They committed vandalism. You’ve seen their pictures again and again. But the overwhelming majority weren’t. They were peaceful. They were orderly and meek. These were not insurrectionists. They were sightseers.”

Sullum comments:

That gloss is misleading in a few ways. Carlson mentioned vandalism but not violence against police officers, which indisputably occurred even if it was not typical. His characterization of the Capitol invaders as “orderly” is hard to reconcile with his description of the scene as “mostly peaceful chaos.” The adjective meek likewise seems inapt for people who entered the Capitol without permission as Congress was ratifying the results of the 2020 presidential election, precisely because they objected to that ceremony, which they erroneously saw as confirming an illegitimate result.


Last night Tucker acknowledged and accepted the assessment that 114 police officers were injured during in the mostly peaceful riot. He condemned the assaults on police officers. “Mostly peaceful” doesn’t quite cut it.
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Posted by: badanov 2023-03-10
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