Tucker-Carlson compared the people who stormed the Capitol in an effort to overthrow an election with a TV crew who seemingly overstayed...
Tucker-Carlson compared the people who stormed the Capitol in an effort to overthrow an election with a TV crew who seemingly overstayed their welcome while filming a comedy segment.
On January 6, 2021, hundreds of donald trump supporters raped the Capitol after Trump spent two months telling them the election was stolen from him. As a result, they attempted to prevent certification of the elections by both houses of Congress. Four people died. The next day, a police officer who had responded to the scene died of a stroke after being sprayed with chemicals during the riot. Subsequently, four officers who responded to the riot committed suicide. More than 100 police officers were injured.
On June 16, 2022, seven staff members of the Last show with Stephane Colbert were stopped Thursday at the Longworth Office Building across from the United States Capitol. This included Robert Smigel, the longtime puppeteer of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, a vulgar, cigar-chewing dog who brutally mocks his interlocutors. The police charged the seven people with illegal entry. Indications are that the group did not attempt to overthrow the republic on Thursday.
“Talk show host Stephen Colbert has sent a group of seven of his employees to Washington, DC,” Carlson began in his monologue on Tuesday. “Their job: Break into the US Capitol complex and harass lawmakers inside.”
However, according to CBS, the production team was there to conduct “authorized and pre-established interviews”.
The Fox News host said the crew was there to “disrupt” Congress.
“Once on federal property, Colbert’s employees did what they came to do, which was to disrupt the business of Congress, and apparently they weren’t subtle in doing so,” he said. Carlson continued. “They knocked on doors and shouted. Whatever they did caught people’s attention. It takes a lot for a police force controlled by Nancy Pelosi to arrest a group of entertainment personalities.
Carlson questioned why those arrested were released after a night in jail when many Capitol rioters were prosecuted and some were even held pending trial.
“All seven were charged with unlawful entry,” the host continued, “this is the same charge for which hundreds of the January 6 defendants were prosecuted. But, unlike the January 6 defendants, the Colbert employees weren’t sent to DC prison for a year and a half in solitary confinement. No, they were released after a night behind bars and then fled to New York. Why so?”
He went on to say that Reps. Jake Auchinclos (D-MA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) invited Colbert employees to the Capitol complex specifically to “harass” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
“Preventing her, or any other member of Congress, from performing official duties as a representative is by definition an attack on democracy,” he continued. “So how is what Stephen Colbert did different from what the January 6 protesters were convicted of? That’s a very good question.
He then played a clip of Colbert denouncing comparisons between the arrest of his employees and the Capitol riot.
“To equate rioters storming our Capitol to stop the counting of ballots with a toy biting a cigar is a shameful and grotesque insult to the memory of all those who died,” Colbert said. “And it obscenely trivializes the service and courage shown by the Capitol Police on that terrible day.”
Carlson reacted by mocking Colbert’s criticism.
“In other words, ‘When you criticize me, you really criticize the brave Capitol police officers who arrested the people who work for me – those who committed the crimes I asked them to commit. And for my part, I won’t put up with that. That’s what he just said.
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