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Government Corruption
With the J6 footage release, the mainstream media begin to panic
2023-02-27
Panic in that quarter is a good thing.
[American Thinker] Practically within minutes of January 6, the Democrat establishment, both politicians and the media, had their narrative in place: It was a violent insurrection that justified the biggest FBI manhunt in history, saw Democrats conduct a kangaroo congressional hearing to cement the narrative, deprived hundreds of people of their constitutional rights, and cowed Biden’s opponents into silence lest they too be accused of "insurrection." For those same two years, the Democrat establishment resisted making public 14,000 hours of video footage showing J6 events in and around the Capitol, claiming that to do so was too dangerous. Now, though, with Kevin McCarthy having made the footage exclusively available to Tucker Carlson, the media are singing a very different tune.

One of the sure things about Democrats is that they firmly believe that, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.... With consistency a great soul simply has nothing to do." Or, put another way, when you’re a narcissist, the one consistent point when it comes to "truth" and "narrative" is that both must always serve your needs. (I’ve never had a high opinion of Emerson, and I have a very low opinion of Democrats.) Nothing shows that more clearly than the "turn on a dime" response in the media regarding the 14,000 hours of video.

For the past two years, the media have insisted that the 14,000 hours of video footage are irrelevant and that making the footage public would permanently endanger those who work (and posture) in the Capitol. Even more disgracefully, the DOJ has had the same attitude, refusing to make exculpatory footage available to J6 defendants and doing so selectively only when the court’s applied force.

However, when it comes to footage that advances the narrative, the DOJ and the media have been thrilled to squeeze out a little here and there. A few months after events on January 6, the media became positively orgasmic when the DOJ released small, carefully curated snippets intended to show that a group of unarmed people, mostly elderly, waving flags and taking pictures, was about to take down the entire American government.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#6  The Deep State had a gut full of Trump rallies and rally goers. If you wanted to orchestrate an anti-Trump sting operation, what better venue for total law enforcement and punitive judicial cooperation than a D.C. Trump rally ?

BTW, (not to be mistaken as military personnel) that cluster of fat arssed recent Quantico Academy grads is one of my personal Agent Provocateur favs. Those arsses been sit'n in some swivel chairs.

Yea you, Joe 'Oakely' Boy... with the banana in your pocked. We're taking a happy-snap of you !

Posted by: Besoeker   2023-02-27 15:43  

#5  
Posted by: Frank G   2023-02-27 13:53  

#4  ^ Yes. Agents provocateurs implies an amount of premeditation.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-02-27 13:50  

#3   Practically within minutes of January 6, the Democrat establishment, both politicians and the media, had their narrative in place:

Wrong. They had the narrative all ready to go well before January 6, 2020. Talking heads at all of the legacy networks and cable outlets knew exactly what to say and were all on the same page as the events unfolded.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-02-27 13:36  

#2  Skilled editing was crafted to create an apparent visual proof of an attempted coup. 14,000 hours of Americans, unarmed, almost entirely peaceful, often freely admitted to the nation's capital, seeking redress for grievances and to question a very, very sketchy election, makes that lie abundantly obvious.

The depths of vile deception by demokrats to subvert the Republic never ceases to amaze me. Such things must not be forgiven or forgotten, there is a huge Pipers bill to be paid for this, one way or the other.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-02-27 12:10  

#1  Withholding possibly exculpatory evidence from defendants is neither legal nor is it Constitutional - those ought to be the same thing.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-02-27 12:08  

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