Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Senator Johnson Distorts Report on Violence in Defense of His Remarks on BLM, Antifa
In his op-ed, Johnson cited the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project to “push back” at “leftists” who claim that last year’s protests were “mostly peaceful.” But the September report Johnson cited found that “more than 93% of all demonstrations connected to the movement” were non-violent.
“[T]he senator is taking the overall figures out of context and distorting the report’s key conclusions,” Sam Jones, an author of the report, told us in an email.
Jones also said that Johnson’s op-ed overstated the number of demonstrations that involved violence and the number of people who died during them.
Tucker Carlson said he hates Trump ‘passionately’: legal filings
“We are very very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,” Carlson wrote in one text to an unidentified Fox employee on Jan. 4, 2021, according to the filing. “I hate him passionately, I blew up at Peter Navarro today in frustration. I actually like Peter. But I can’t handle much more of this.”
White House goes after Tucker Carlson by name over Jan. 6 coverage
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/08/white-house-tucker-carlson-jan-6-coverage-00086077
“We agree with the chief of the Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false depiction of the unprecedented, violent attack on our Constitution and the rule of law — which cost police officers their lives,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said.
“We also agree with what Fox News’s own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law: that Tucker Carlson is not credible,” Bates added.
Rupert Murdoch: Hannity, Ingraham ‘went too far’ in promoting Trump’s false claims about 2020 election
Rupert Murdoch, owner and co-chairman of Fox Corp., worried to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott that top hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham “went too far” in endorsing former President Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election, new court filings show.
In an email dated Jan. 21, 2021, Murdoch wrote to Scott bemoaning the network was still “getting mud thrown at us” over the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and for suggestions that the rhetoric of top talent at the network could have contributed to the attack.
Supernatural causes problems
Sefer Chasidim (205) One who is involved in oaths for angels or demons or magic incantations will not come to a good end. He himself will suffer physically or his children all his life. Therefore a person should distance himself from such activities as well as questioning through dreams to know which woman to marry or what business investment will be successful.. rather he needs to simply trust in G-d. and pray to Him.
McConnell says Fox News made ‘a mistake’ by underplaying violence of Jan. 6
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) says Fox News made “a mistake” by depicting Jan. 6, 2021, as a largely peaceful if chaotic protest, a revision of history that the Capitol Police chief criticized as “offensive” and “misleading.”
Capitol Police officer dies after being hit in head with fire extinguisher during DC riots
https://nypost.com/2021/01/07/us-capitol-police-officer-dies-after-dc-riots/
A US Capitol Police officer has died from injuries suffered when he reportedly was struck in the head with a fire extinguisher during Wednesday’s riots.
Brian D. Sicknick collapsed when he returned to his division office Wednesday and was taken to the hospital, where he died Thursday, according to a Capitol Police news release Thursday night.
The department said Sicknick was injured “while physically engaging with protesters.”
Video shows Capitol rioter hit officer with fire extinguisher
https://nypost.com/2021/01/11/video-shows-capitol-rioter-hit-officer-with-fire-extinguisher/
Moments later, a rioter tosses the fire extinguisher toward a group of officers below, striking one on the helmet. It’s unclear if the cop who was plunked was Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, 42. He died at a hospital Thursday after being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher during the melee, two law enforcement sources told the Associated Press.
Capitol Police chief tears into Tucker Carlson for claims about Officer Brian Sicknick
WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger ripped Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday for spreading “offensive and misleading conclusions” about the Jan. 6 insurrection, including a “disturbing accusation” about Officer Brian Sicknick’s death that also drew rebukes from his family and partner.
Officer Brian Sicknick: What We Know About His Death WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/officer-brian-sicknick-what-we-know-about-his-death-11619010119
Washington’s medical examiner found this week that Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died a natural death on Jan. 7, a day after he clashed with protesters at the Capitol. That official determination, coming months after the event, was at odds with earlier assertions by Capitol Police that Mr. Sicknick succumbed to injuries incurred during the Capitol riot. Here is how the account of Mr. Sicknick’s death unfolded.
Death of Brian Sicknick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Brian_Sicknick
Within hours of Sicknick's death, the Capitol Police released a statement late January 7 that Sicknick died "due to injuries sustained while on-duty" while "physically engaging with protesters" at the Capitol.[31] On January 8, the United States Department of Justice published a statement by Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen, which attributed Sicknick's death "to injuries he suffered defending the U.S. Capitol, against the violent mob who stormed it".[8] Months later on April 19, the medical examiner reported that there was no evidence that Sicknick had any injuries.[1]
Officer Brian Sicknick Died After the Capitol Riot. New Videos Show How He Was Attacked.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/24/us/officer-sicknick-capitol-riot.html
That evening, Officer Sicknick texted his brother to say he had been “pepper-sprayed” but was in “good shape,” his brother told ProPublica. But shortly before 10 p.m., according to the Capitol Police, he collapsed after returning to his division office and was taken to a local hospital. At some point over the next 24 hours, Officer Sicknick’s condition apparently deteriorated. He was put on a ventilator and treated for a blood clot and a stroke, his brother said. He died at about 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 7.
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Tucker Carlson ripped by Capitol Police, GOP senators for mischaracterizing Jan. 6
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/capitol-police-jan-6-carlson-00085904
And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell held up Manger’s letter during his weekly briefing with reporters, saying that he would “associate myself entirely with the opinion of the chief of the Capitol Police about what happened on January 6th.”