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| The Ordeal of Q Anon Shaman | |
| 2023-03-10 | |
[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.
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. Read the rest at the link | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 Powerline is in the same orbit as CONservative treehouse. Pretends to hate McConnell but actually doesn't and insists DeSantis is head of the deep state. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-03-10 16:36 |
| #5 Myself and the comment section of Powerline do not have a very high opinion of the articles author, Scott 'little pecker' Johnson. "Scott... clutching pearls and swooning towards the fainting couch is so unmanly. Don't spend your remaining days as an invertebrate." "Thanks for your opinion Scott. Out of 15,000 people, a few hundred got out of line. And those were a bunch of misdemeanors, with a few exceptions. Pay your fine and go home. Not years in prison. The whole leftie proposition that this was a “wiolent inthureccshun” is beyond preposterous, but it sure fits their narrative." My snark of the day is from Powerline comments, ha!: "Is it too soon to speculate that Tucker won't be showing any new J6 video footage?" |
| Posted by: mossomo 2023-03-10 16:29 |
| #4 Some time ago, [oh no here comes a story!] I was standing near the White House entry gate guardhouse. Three CAPOs were lightly chatting with a fellow in a fashion to 'draw him out'. Sitting on a (1)desk corner, (2)leaning in a doorway, (3)walking to the fellow with a fresh hot cup of coffee, the three were doing a covert interview. All ready to move on the guy. "Oh, you with a tour group?" "What time is the tour?" "Where are you from?" "I'm John, what's your name again?" "That your backpack? What's in it?" "When did you get here? Come with anybody?" "What kind of medicines in the bag? You get carsick?" "That pack looks heavy, got a bottle of water in there? Why don't you set it down." All pointed, each CAPO carrying a theme but redirecting the last question, listening for conflict, confusion or verbal response triggers. Turned out the guy was on a personal 'day in the park' break from his meds for schizophrenia. He had a thermos of soup and a sandwich in the backpack. He had left his gun at home that day because they didn't allow guns on the tour bus. Some CAPOs police, some just shoot tourists. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-03-10 14:00 |
| #3 We just want the video so that we can decide. We are for accountability, especially for the instigators. We have questions about whether it was coordinated, manipulated or acerbated by the Feds. Show me video of Qanon Shaman doing some heinous violence and I am down for his long sentence as long as all the BLM rioters are held to the same standard. Equal Protection is guaranteed. Also Brady Material like this video needs to be lawfully surrendered to defendants. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-03-10 13:07 |
| #2 "The adjective meek likewise seems inapt for people who entered the Capitol without permission..." When a Uniformed Capitol Police Officer visibly opens doors in the Capitol Building and visually directs people into areas of the building, it seems reasonable to presume at least some level of tacit "permission". Thus a blanket assertion of knowlingly illegal entry is specious. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-03-10 12:30 |
| #1 We mocked CNN et al. when they took this precise tack on the George Floyd riots of 2020 in Minneapolis And yet it worked. You keep playing by the Marquess of Queensberry Rules in politics while your opponent is practicing Marxism. You lose. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-03-10 08:22 |