Tucker Carlson has spent the week airing selective footage of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol and claiming it was a peaceful demonstration.
His show appears on Fox News, owned by Fox Corporation (FOX).
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Now he's hitting back against Republicans who criticized him for his portrayal of events that day.
On March 6, Carlson showed footage provided to him exclusively by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. It presented scenes of Jan. 6 demonstrators engaged in peaceful activity, not the more newsworthy violent attacks inside and outside the building and on police that are widely available for the public to see.
Carlson used the mild footage to suggest that the violent activity wasn't a major problem that day.
"The footage does not show an insurrection or a riot in progress," Carlson said, according to NBC News.
Several senators, including Republicans, were critical of Carlson's reporting and he, in turn, fired back at them.
"They told the same lies they'd been caught telling, but with even greater aggression this time," Carlson claimed on Fox News. "Who acts like that? Well, sociopaths do and in this case, the sociopaths turned out to be both Democrats and Republicans."
These are the comments from Republicans that Carlson was pushing back against.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.: It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that's completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here in the capital thinks.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C.: I think it's bullshit. When you see police barricades breached, when you see police officers assaulted, all of that, or you had to be in close proximity to it, if you were just a tourist, you should have probably lined up at the visitor center and came in on an orderly basis. I just don't think it's helpful.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah: It's really sad to see Tucker Carlson go off the rails that bad. The American people saw what happened on January 6. They've seen the people that got injured. They saw the damage to the building. You can't hide the truth by selectively picking a few minutes out of tapes and saying this is what went on. It's so absurd.
