This past week, it seemed like almost anywhere we surfed cable TV or internet news, we encountered a talking-head or print-pundit citing the identical quick-quip to summarize the central flaw in the newest controversy that Fox’s Tucker Carlson just ignited about the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol.
We kept hearing it right after we saw snippets of nonviolent scenes Carlson had culled from the massive free video that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had given him – followed by Carlson’s bizarre claim that: “These were not insurrectionists. They were sightseers.”
As if Carlson’s words would somehow erase from your mind-eye all those hours of video showing insurrectionists bashing doors, breaking windows, beating police and illegally entering the Capitol while senators and representatives fled in fear.
