Friday, June 10, 2022

No wonder FOX did not want their audience to hear the January 6 Committee hearing broadcast..

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time".
Abraham Lincoln(attributed)   as well as PT Barnum
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FOX did not carry the June 9 hearings of the January 6 Committee. No wonder FOX did not want their audience to see this. Some viewers may realize they had been fooled by both FOX and Trump and FOX feared that. The videos and sworn testimony of witnesses June 9 spoke louder than a thousand words that pundits, reporters, or politicians could ever write, orate,  or opine. 

Their audience would have heard AG Bill Barr's sworn testimony that in December, he told Trump there was no evidence of fraud. The election was not stolen,  To claim otherwise was bullshit. Another staffer in charge of analyzing the vote agreed.  After being told that, Trump doubled down on his message that the election was stolen. That is one reason Barr said he resigned. The importance of that was that Trump knowingly lied as he continued to say the election was stolen.  No wonder FOX did not want their audience to see the video and capitol police testimony that this was no peaceful demonstration. Testimony by a surviving police officer was riveting, as she slipped on the blood of her fellow officers and saw combat while she herself was wounded. No wonder FOX did not want their audience to learn 250 Proud Boys were in place at the Capitol, ready to commit violence hours before the Stop the Steal Rally, and sprang into action when the Rally attendees arrived at the Capitol to provide the mass they needed to become violent. No wonder FOX did not want their audience to learn that it was Pence who called Gen. Milley to send in the National Guard because Trump was AWOL during the riot and unresponsive to calls by his family and staff to stop the riot    

FOX and their like-minded base their reasons for not carrying the public hearings because they do not agree it is legitimate.  That is their BS opinion but not the court that ruled. on the RNC complaint. On May 1, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that none of these concerns were enough to stop the committee's work. The ruling was made by Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee.

Kelly wrote that concern over the numerical divergence was "not an unreasonable position,’" but he added that the court "must give ‘great weight’ to the House’s own actions," including two occasions in which House Republicans failed to challenge the committee’s underlying legitimacy before casting votes related to the committee" PolitiFact | The legitimacy of the Jan. 6 committee, explained"

Jan. 6 Capitol riot arrests climb as Select Committee hearings start (usatoday.com)


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