Right Wingers are indignant that Tucker Carlson got accosted and insulted while shopping. Can you imagine if the guy had hit him on the head with a fire extinguisher? Sprayed him with toxic chemicals? Dropped a tire iron on his foot? Squashed him against the wall with a zamboni?
Can you imagine how Carlson would feel if all his listeners reacted with contempt? For him! If they dismissed the attack as a minor incident enacted by a grumpy customer whose intent to insult him "got out of hand."
That is how Carlson describes the insurrection on January 6 - "a peaceful protest that got out of hand."
"Getting out of hand" is what happens when a teenager whose parents are away throws a party, guests bring not weapons but controlled substances, and someone drives a car into the swimming pool.
If uninvited guests show up in full tactical gear, having planted bombs around the patio, and beat the residents and invited guests to a bloody pulp, that's called a home invasion. If someone dies as a result of their injuries, it's called murder.
But Dr. Carlson, who is a medical examiner in his spare time, insists that Brian Sicknick did not die of his injuries. It was just a coincidence. Like it was a coincidence that the unguided tour of the Capitol happened to be on the same day as the certification of the election. Like it was a coincidence that TFG happened to have a rally that day when all those people in tactical gear showed up for their tour.
Colonel Carlson also mocked Sgt.Gonell's response to a question, describing how January 6 was worse than Iraq with the comment, "Because actually what happened on January 6, according to video, did not look a lot like Iraq. It’s not Fallujah.”
No of course it's not Fallujah! It's Washington D.C. HOME! Where you are not expecting to be in hand to hand combat! Where you are restrained from using your weapons. Where you are not outfitted for battle. Where it's so-called Americans who are attacking you! Where you are outnumbered 45:1.
Where the tradition of the peaceful transfer of power held fast until that day.
This would be a good time to bring up Carlson's reaction to the mob that attacked his home in 2018. Well, actually, it wasn't a mob. It was according to Alan Pyke from Think Progress, "... less than 15 people chanting in the dark, with a tambourine."
Well, okay, I guess a tambourine could be a weapon of mass frustration if you're trying to sleep.
Tucker claimed they cracked his door. Witnesses say one protestor knocked three times. So ... cheap flimsy door? Cops reportedly laughed off the claim.
Tucker claimed they threatened to pipe bomb the house, while the mention of pipe bombs was about those sent to others as part of the violence and white supremacist terror Carlson had been inciting.
Notice a pattern here? When he's the victim, it's overstated. When his side are the perps, it's dismissed.
I think they taught that at trump U.
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