Tuesday, March 07, 2023

Oh, Mon Dieu! 😱

So Carlson released his version of the security tapes last night; or a few minutes of it, anyway. And if it weren't for a few people on Twitter, I'd never know he'd done so.  I say that not because I'm the High Emissary of The Public Pulse.  I know it says something about me that, if I don't see it on Twitter, did it happen? (Yeah, I'm pretty much that bad about "news."  Then again, most news is gossip, and Twitter is the best national backfence I know.)  But FoxNews has a minority audience of the minority of people still hooked up to cable/satellite TeeVee.  I'm beginning to think the people who want us to be scared of their "power" are the same people who want us to be scared of Loser Trump:  they need the attention, too.

So a lot of the response is like this:
Yeah, I really don't see the news value of airing more widely what Tucker did just so you can air more stuff to debunk it. I'm happy to wait for Comer and Gym Jordan to put it into a committee hearing so the Democrats can get out their lawnmowers again. I'm pretty sure the audience for those hearings matches the audience for Tucker, so it's a win/win for the rest of us. I mean, this guy is an idiot: He's been compared to Rush Limbaugh, but Limbaugh was on radios across America. Tucker is on TeeVee at night on cable. Sure, old white people who still think cable is the way to get TeeVee are watching him, but the waiting rooms and public areas are pretty empty at that hour, so I think his reach is a great deal more limited than Limbaugh's ever was. Mockery is the best medicine. This doesn't hurt, either: More on that in a moment.

Let me be clear: Tucker Carlson is a very bad guy.
But "silencing" him can only take place by ignoring him. He can't be shamed, he can't be fought, you can't shut down his show or his channel. The only way to do the latter is to stop watching him and cut the cord/disconnect the satellite. That's it. Consign him to oblivion. Laugh; long and loud. He's a joke, not a terrorist.
Yup. This is good, too:
"You know, we heard the term 'big lie' so often with regard to the claims of the 'fraudulent' presidential election, but this is the next big lie, that Jan. 6, didn't happen. It wasn't violence. It was fabricated, ginned up, fabricated by the government, people are political prisoners," said Figliuzzi. "Now, I want to point a couple of things out. First of all, it is dangerous. It could lead to yet another attack, but there is also a macro-strategy here, which is, you know, we have a former president who is under investigation for his role in inciting the very violence that happened on Jan. 6. And what Fox News seems to be implying is any prosecution of a former president or high ranking official for that kind of violence is bogus because that never happened. So, what we're seeing here in selective editing is not just a calm before the storm, but a calm minus the storm."

He continued by saying that there are a number of Americans that live in a "rabbit hole" with Tucker Carlson that Jan. 6 was largely non-violent. This week, the Justice Department reached its 1,000th arrest from Jan. 6.

"By the way, the guy that was featured so prominently with Tucker last night, the 'Qanon Shaman,' he pled guilty to the charges against him and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is calling for him to have a new trial," Figliuzzi explained. The man, Jacob Chansley, attempted to appeal his guilty plea. He then dropped it about eight months later. "He didn't have a trial because he conceded he did what he was charged with and he regrets doing it."

"I was wrong for entering the Capitol," Chansley said in a statement of remorse. "I have no excuse. No excuse whatsoever. My behavior’s indefensible. But I'm in no way, shape or form a violent criminal. I'm not an insurrectionist."

"The notion that is out there is that the Capitol Police let everybody in. There is no idea they committed any crime and this is all a sham," Figliuzzi continued. "The reality is six Capitol Police officers had been dismissed for their conduct that day, and many of the officers were trying to survive by not doing battle with a greatly larger crowd than the police officers could match."

Yes, I'm repeating some of this.  Repitition is good, you know. The point is, our opponents are remarkably stupid.  Chansley should have a new trial?  HE PLEAD GUILTY! You don't get to say "But I had my fingers crossed!"

So far my favorite bit (I've only seen any of this on Twitter) is the scenes of Congress members running to safety, a wise move under the circumstances.  That doesn't erase the image of Josh Hawley running so fast the rabbits couldn't catch him.  That's comedy gold, Jerry!  GOLD!

I suppose we could join forces with the RINO's (told you we'd come back to it): Although politics makes strange bedfellows, that's almost too strange. Still, when he's right, he's right: I still think a stopped clock is right more often, but you can't always pick your allies, huh? As I was saying...

Although honestly, unless Tucker is going to run this 24/7 to the end of time, who cares?  In fact, I wish he would. Familiarity breeds contempt.  And boredom.  I'm on the side of contempt for this kind of thing, which, frankly, is scarier than Tucker Carlson:

One of the things criminal organizations are known for is intimidating judges, law enforcement, prosecutors, and juries, right? So should we also bomb Mar-A-Lago?
We're going to work closely with the Mexican government to ensure that justice is done in this case," White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters. 
What? We're not just going to bomb Mexico?  What's our military for, then?

I honestly expect this clown show to close in 2024.
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