If McCarthy wants to let Carlson further entrench GOP politics in the electoral cul-de-sac of Jan. 6 revisionism, Democrats won’t stop them.
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This week, everyone went back to their favorite early pandemic habit of yelling about Pete Buttigieg. Senate Democrats retained their slim, triple-bank-shot path toward keeping the Senate majority in 2024; one hopeless GOP presidential aspirant suggestedviolently crushing conservatives’ cultural antagonists; and a grand juror in Georgia had the coolest time EVER recommending indictments.Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Politicon.
as part of the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News, after the 2020 election Tucker Carlsonunderstood that Trump’s claims of a stolen election were ridiculous and that Trump himself was “a demonic force.” We also learned, though, that Carlson’s overriding concern was News Corp’s stock price. So, to please the masses, he’s done what he can to
about Jan. 6 being an FBI inside job. This week, we learned that he has a new partner in that effort: Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who granted Carlson and his teamaccess to 40,000-plus hours of Capitol security footage to do with it what they may. McCarthy explained to the New York Times that he was fulfilling a promise. “I was asked in the press about these tapes, and I said they do belong to the American public,” McCarthy. “I think sunshine lets everybody make their own judgment.
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‘I promised’: McCarthy stands by decision to give Jan. 6 footage to Tucker Carlson.SpeakerMcCarthy is standing his ground, saying he'll be sending Jan 6 footage to TuckerCarlson like promised. 'I said they do belong to the American public. I think sunshine lets everybody make their own judgment,” McCarthy said.
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Media organizations demand Jan. 6 videos McCarthy shared with Fox News' Tucker CarlsonIn a letter to congressional leadership Friday, the media companies argue the footage House Speaker McCarthy allowed Carlson and Fox News to access should be made available to other media groups.
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News outlets request McCarthy share Jan. 6 footage that Tucker Carlson says he has access toA group of news organizations ask Speaker McCarthy to share thousands of hours of security footage from Jan. 6 after Fox News host Tucker Carlson said this week that he has been given access to about 44,000 hours of video from the attack on the Capitol.
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News outlets demand release of Jan. 6 footage given to Tucker CarlsonHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Fox News host Tucker Carlson 44,000 hours of unseen footage from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Carlson has yet to air it.
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In Sharing Video With Fox Host, McCarthy Hits Rewind on Jan. 6WASHINGTON — Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to grant the Fox News host Tucker Carlson exclusive access to thousands of hours of security footage from inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack was his latest move to appease the right wing of his party, this time by effectively outsourcing a bid to reinvestigate the riot to its favorite cable news commentator, who has circulated conspiracy theories about the assault. The most conservative Republican members of Congress — many of whom h
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