It turns out that alleging the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol was a hoax doesn’t sit well with a lot of people.
Tucker Carlson this week debuted a trailer for his fantastical upcoming “documentary” that claims the insurrection was a “false flag” operation. The trailer has drawn the ire of politicians & media figures from both sides of the aisle. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) bashed Carlson after the trailer was released. So too did fellow Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera, who called the “false flag” claim “bullshit.”
He elaborated in an interview with The New York Times. “There are some things that you say that are more inflammatory & outrageous & uncorroborated,” he said. “And I worry that — & I’m probably going to get in trouble for this — but I’m wondering how much is done to provoke, rather than illuminate,” he said.
The Anti-Defamation League is also dismayed by the forthcoming film. The group wrote a letter to Fox News on Thursday expressing “deep alarm” at the film. “Let’s call this what it is: an abject, indisputable lie & a blatant attempt to rewrite history,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the league’s CEO & national director, wrote. “As an organization committed to fighting antisemitism and all forms of hate, we remain deeply concerned that the false narrative and wild conspiracy theories presented by Carlson will sow further division & has the potential to animate violence.”
Making matters worse is that the film’s co-writer, Scooter Downey, has ties to Pizzagate & other unfounded conspiracy theories.
Downey & Carlson both have a writing credit on Patriot Purge, the 3-part documentary series set to air on Fox News streaming service Fox Nation. In a trailer for the film, which is set to premiere Monday with a “week-long” promotion on the network, a woman is shown saying that “false flags have happened in this country, one of which may have been January 6th.”
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Source: Rolling Stone
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