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You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox's Lawyers

The Legal Defense For Fox's Tucker Carlson: He Can't Be Literally Believed : NPR

Rep. Paul Gosar’s (R-Ariz.) brothers on Thursday apologized "on behalf of the actual sane members" of the Gosar family for the Arizona Republican's false claims about the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

During an interview on CNN’s “New Day,” David Gosar thanked Capitol Police for their “bravery and heroism on that day,” and then apologized for his brother, Paul.

“First off, I’d like to thank Officer Fanone and the other Capitol Hill police officers for their bravery and heroism on that day,” David Gosar said, referring to an officer who was injured during the riot.

“And on behalf of the actual sane members of our family — which is everyone but Paul — we apologize on behalf of our family to him for [Gosar’s] despicable comments and disgraceful conduct through this whole incident,” he said.

Paul Gosar, a staunch supporter of former President Trump, has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the Capitol riot.

The Arizona Republican recently came under fire for suggesting during a House hearing that Ashli Babbitt, whom police shot during the breach, was “executed" by Capitol Police.

He was also one of 21 House Republicans to vote against legislation awarding the police officers who defended the Capitol the Congressional Gold Medals, one of the highest civilian honors.

Paul Gosar’s siblings have campaigned against their brother, and are featured in an ad calling on people not to support him because of the Capitol breach.

Adding to David Gosar’s remarks, Tim Gosar said that it’s hard to “get back to truth” once you’ve become a “pathological liar.”

“Once you lose your focus on the truth, once you become someone that peddles in lies, once you become basically a snake-oil salesman ... the truth is a very slippery thing to get your arms around," he said. "It’s really hard to go back to the truth once you’ve become a pathological liar like Paul has become.”

During a separate interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday, Paul Gosar’s sister, Jennifer Gosar, suggested that her brother finds it convenient to keep spreading lies about the Capitol riot.

“The convenience with which Paul finds stories to fuel his anger, his hate and his bigotry. Does he believe it all? I think he probably doesn’t, but it's so convenient and he keeps telling himself that, that he’s able to find the anger and fuel his rhetoric,” Jennifer Gosar said.

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Somewhere else are different stories, e.g. by P.C. Roberts, quoting Tucker Carlson about the "Insurrection", asking why some videos are not presented where the people are shown peacefully walking by the security..

But perhaps a conspiracy theory?

“And on behalf of the actual sane members of our family — which is everyone but Paul — we apologize on behalf of our family to him for [Gosar’s] despicable comments and disgraceful conduct through this whole incident,” he said.

It tells you everything about today's GOP and its supporters that a man who supported an insurrection and whose own family begged people not to vote for him is still a congressional representative.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

and whose own family begged people not to vote for him is still a congressional representative.

It is key to point out that it is a big family who happen to be well-educated and quite successful, and he is the only trumpanzee.

Originally Posted by Klondick

people are shown peacefully walking by the security..

No one is questioning that there were some that were not violent, But there’s no denying that many of them were.

Originally Posted by Klondyke

"Insurrection”
perhaps a conspiracy theory?

You’re an idiot

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Somewhere else are different stories

Of course there are . . . here's an example:

Originally Posted by beachbound

You’re an idiot

It never happened - it was the FBI dressed up as arseholes - it was Antifa dressed up as arseholes - it was liberals dressed up as arseholes

or

it was right wing nutjob arseholes

Q-tards are baffled why Trump has announced a fund-raising series of talks because it overlaps with the time he was supposed to be reinstalled as POTUS.

These people are so fucking stupid that they will probably even still buy tickets.

They deserve to be bilked for everything they have.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Q-tards are baffled why Trump has announced a fund-raising series of talks because it overlaps with the time he was supposed to be reinstalled as POTUS.

Hang on . . . you meant THIS August?????

Just a little bit of history.

Democrat/GOP Vote Tally on 1964 Civil Rights
Act - WSJ

^ Just a little more history for you to read up on.


How the ‘Party of Lincoln’ Won Over the Once Democratic South

The night that Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, his special assistant Bill Moyers was surprised to find the president looking melancholy in his bedroom. Moyers later wrote that when he asked what was wrong, Johnson replied, “I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come.”


It may seem a crude remark to make after such a momentous occasion, but it was also an accurate prediction.


To understand some of the reasons the South went from a largely Democratic region to a primarily Republican area today, just follow the decades of debate over racial issues in the United States.

MORE How Republicans and the 'Southern Strategy' Won Over the Once Democratic South - HISTORY

I do like Chris Wallace. He tackled some Republitard who keeps bleating about how "Joe Biden wants to defund the police" and asked him why his vote against Biden's bill giving $350Bn to the Police isn't "Defunding the Police".



‘Republicans are defunding the police’: Fox News anchor stumps congressman | Fox News | The Guardian

Tucker isn’t going to stop being a looney any time soon!


Tucker Carlson Lashes Out At NSA “Lies” As Intel Agency Denies Spying On Fox News Host

The National Security Agency has given Tucker Carlson a lesson in spycraft and fake news. One which looks certain to crank up the volume in the now war of words, real and imagined.


In a rare social media rebuke, the agency shot down the Fox News Channel host’s recent self-described “shocking claim” that he and his primetime show were caught in an intelligence web.

Just now Carlson on-air called the NSA’s comments “an infuriating dishonest formal statement.” He went on to call it, “a entire paragraph of lies written purely for the benefit of the intel community’s lackeys at CNN and MSNBC.” Carlson then bloviated “the NSA has read my private emails without my permission, period. That’s what we said. Today’s statement from the NSA does not deny that.”


“The message was clear, we can do whatever we want,” Carlson exclaimed, citing the NSA’s alleged refusal to answer his staff’s questioning if their boss’ email was truly being combed over by intelligence agencies. “Orwellian does not begin to describe the experience, it was like living in China,” the former CNN and MSNBC frontman said in his standard outraged voice.. “Now that the Biden administration has classified tens of millions of patriotic Americans, the kind who served in the military and fly flags in front of their homes, as potential domestic terrorists, white supremacists saboteurs, we’re going to see a whole lot more of this kind of thing,” Carlson frothed, tossing red meat from the “recipe for tyranny” out to his Red State audience.

Like so much of the discourse in American public life, this clash between Carlson and the intel agency feels and reads like alternative universes colliding.


“Yesterday, we heard from a whistleblower within the US government who reached out to warn us that the NSA, the National Security Agency, is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air,” top rated rabble rouser declared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Monday night in his bombshell of sorts


In the hours that followed said bombshell, it did not escape notice that no one else on the Rupert Murdoch-owned conservative outlet backed up Carlson’s outlandish assertion. Nor did any other FNC show cover what would be a huge story in almost any other context. That is a contrast to the headlines generated in The Washington Post, The New York Times and CNN when their reporters were informed that Justice Department attorneys had secretly subpoenaed their phone and email records as part of a leak investigation.


Then again this is the same Tucker Carlson that a federal judge penned last year shouldn’t be taken too seriously because the “‘general tenor’ of the show should then inform a viewer that he is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary.'” The opinion by Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, a Donald Trump appointee, actually quotes from arguments made by FNC’s own lawyers in what was their successful attempt to have a slander lawsuit against Carlson from Karen McDougal, the former Playboy model and paramour of the Celebrity Apprentice host, tossed out.


Interestingly, Carlson himself did not mention the spying claim tonight until well into his show. Perhaps he wouldn’t have at all, if it hadn’t been for the well timed NSA tweet that dropped just as TCT went to air. Breaking news being what it is on cable nowadays, Carlson’s writing and production staff were likely scrambling to come up with outrage bullet points to get up on Carlson’s teleprompter following the missive from the agency.


Consequently, for most of the first half of his one-hour show, the Daily Caller founder pounded on about immigration at the nation’s southern border, corresponding drug trade and how it is “killing America.” Carlson also took swipes at VP Kamala Harris and somewhat surprisingly Texas Gov. Greg Abbot not sealing the border with the Lone State’s National Guard.


On the other hand, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked about Carlson’s claim during a press gaggle Tuesday. A reporter wanted to know if the Biden administration is “aware of any espionage of listening efforts on U.S. citizens by the NSA, and is Tucker Carlson one of them?”


Psaki said that the NSA “is an entity that focuses on foreign threats and individuals who are trying — attempting to do is harm on foreign soil. So that is their purview. But beyond that, I would point you to the intelligence community.”


“For their part, the Biden administration did not deny the story,” Carlson asserted over 20 minutes into tonight’s TCT in response. “They can’t, they know it’s true,” he added, clearly overlooking that the NSA’s tweet called his claim “untrue.” He also played audio of Psaki’s response: “It’s like she reading Wikipedia …no denial.”


In many ways, Carlson’s latest target isn’t exactly unexpected.


For one, it pulls from the Deep State chorus in Donald Trump’s hymn book.


Also Carlson, whose show now tops all other cable news programs, has in recent weeks unleashed a volley of conspiratorial claims and statements, seemingly designed to stir outrage among his viewers and draw the attention and pushback of public officials. Last week, he referred to Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as “a pig” and “stupid.” The week before, he pushed the claim that the January 6 insurrection was orchestrated by the FBI, a conspiracy theory that also has gained some traction among some Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.


Tucker Carlson Slams NSA Again Over Spying Claims – Deadline

^ Fox News hasn’t even picked up Tucker’s claim the NSA is spying on him. That aught to tell you right there he has no evidence of what he is saying is true.

If the NSA were spying on him, it would be a scandal for the ages.

If the NSA were illegally spying on any American it would be like the plot of a movie... you could put James Earl Jones in it, and call it "Sneakers" or something....

Originally Posted by havnfun

Just a little bit of history.

Democrat/GOP Vote Tally on 1964 Civil Rights
Act - WSJ

If you have to go back over half a century to find something against the Democrats of today, you've got nothing. Your desperation is hilarious.

They are actually mentally ill.

A Pennsylvania pizzeria owner arrested and charged in connection to the January 6 Capitol attack demanded the removal of "any and all" defense attorneys on her behalf, arguing that she is a divine entity immune from the court's laws.
Prosecutors say Pauline Bauer was among the hundreds of pro-Trump protesters who broke into the US Capitol on January 6 in an attempt to halt the certification of Joe Biden's election victory. Court documents say Bauer attempted to organize mass transportation to bus people to Washington for the Trump rally that preceded the attack and, once inside the building, told the police she wanted to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"Bring Nancy Pelosi out here right now," Bauer can be heard saying on body-camera footage from inside the Capitol Rotunda, according to prosecutors. "We want to hang that f---ing b----."
Now, in a series of bizarre court filings made late last month, Bauer is insisting on representing herself and is claiming to have special legal privileges as a "self-governed individual."
A court-appointed lawyer for Bauer did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.
In a Zoom court appearance on June 11, Bauer told the judge she was attending "by special divine appearance," according to The Daily Beast.
"I do not stand under the law," Bauer said, according to the outlet. "Under Genesis 1, God gave man dominion over law."
Bauer was later removed from that video proceeding "due to her inability to show qualm and decency to the Court," records show. She was ordered to appear again in person later that month.

A Capitol riot defendant who threatened to hang Nancy Pelosi said she didn't need an attorney because she was divinely immune from the court's laws

Including Mel Gibson but we already knew that.

Mel Gibson seen saluting Trump at UFC match

I’m gonna look on the bright side of this news. This could raise the national IQ tremendously.



GOP vaccine resistance poses growing challenge in pandemic fight

Growing GOP resistance to COVID-19 vaccines is raising alarms among public health experts and creating a major challenge as the U.S. tries to move past a pandemic that has lasted almost a year and a half.


Attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference cheered talk of a lower-than-expected vaccination rate over the weekend. Tennessee is ending outreach to adolescents on vaccines, including for COVID-19, amid pressure from state GOP lawmakers. And a range of conservative media hosts and lawmakers have expressed concerns over the vaccine and the Biden administration’s outreach efforts.


The resistance helps explain why more than 30 percent of U.S. adults remain unvaccinated, with even higher percentages in Republican-leaning states, leaving places with lower vaccination rates at risk of localized surges of the virus.




“It’s really profoundly sad to note that essentially almost 100 percent of every person who’s admitted to the hospital today with COVID could have been prevented,” said William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.


More than 99 percent of the people now dying from the virus are unvaccinated, experts say, and the vaccines have been found to be remarkably safe and effective after tens of millions of people have received them.


Some Republicans, however, are casting doubt on that consensus.


Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) held a controversial event last month warning of the side effects of vaccination. He told HuffPost on Tuesday that he is “not an anti-vaxxer” but is instead “trying to provide accurate information.”


Other GOP lawmakers have pushed back on President Biden’s call for a “door to door” vaccination effort, misrepresenting the outreach while doing so. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) tweeted that an “army” led by Anthony Fauci, Biden’s chief medical adviser, would be knocking on doors to “push the experimental COVID vaccine.”


The White House has clarified repeatedly that the individuals participating in the door-knocking campaign, which has been ongoing since April, are local doctors, faith leaders and other members of local communities and that they are not representatives of the federal government.




The vaccine resistance from some on the right has prompted other Republicans to push back.


“I think it’s an enormous error for anyone to suggest that we shouldn't be taking vaccines,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) told reporters on Wednesday. “The politicization of vaccination is an outrage and frankly moronic.”


Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has also spoken out repeatedly, including in his home state of Kentucky, in favor of vaccinations.


“I'm perplexed by the difficulty we have in finishing the job,” McConnell told reporters on Tuesday. “If you're a football fan, we're in the red zone, but we're not in the end zone yet, and we need to keep preaching that getting the vaccine is important.”


When asked about Johnson and other Republicans raising doubts about the vaccine, McConnell said, “I can only speak for myself.”


And after a Newsmax host suggested during a segment last week that vaccines go “against nature,” a Newsmax spokesperson distanced the network from the comments by issuing a statement saying it “strongly” supports the Biden administration’s efforts to distribute coronavirus vaccines.


The divide is starkly apparent on the map. The top 21 states for adult vaccination rates all went for Biden in November, while the bottom nine states went for former President Trump, according to data compiled by The New York Times. In states like Missouri and Arkansas that are now seeing surges, only about 55 percent of adults have at least one shot.


Trump has said that people should get the vaccine, but he has not made it a priority by taking steps such as appearing in public service announcements. The vaccines were developed during the Trump administration, which has received credit for its Operation Warp Speed program.


Harold Pollack, co-director of the University of Chicago Health Lab, said anti-vaccine messages are “having a harmful effect” but acknowledged that the magnitude of that effect on overall vaccination rates is still unclear.


White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that the administration will continue to work with local partners in states to push back against vaccine misinformation and communicate that the vast majority of those hospitalized with COVID-19 are not vaccinated. On Wednesday, the administration was focused on reaching a younger audience as Biden and Fauci cut videos encouraging vaccines with pop star Olivia Rodrigo.


“There is misinformation out there. Sometimes that’s traveling on platforms, sometimes that’s traveling, unfortunately, out of the mouths of elected officials,” Psaki said. “The most important thing we can do is not see this as a partisan issue because certainly the virus is killing people, whether they’re Democrats or Republicans.”


Psaki forcefully pushed back against GOP South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s criticism of the door-to-door vaccine program last week, saying the failure to provide accurate health information is “literally killing people.”




She declined to comment directly on Tennessee’s decision to end outreach to adolescents but emphasized that the more contagious delta variant remains a threat to Americans of all ages.


Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is expected to appear in the White House briefing room on Thursday to talk about health misinformation, further elevating the issue at the White House.

Some experts say they think persuasion and incentives are reaching their limits and that employers should start mandating the vaccine for their employees, something that could become easier once the Food and Drug Administration grants full approval.


Still, Pollack said the responsibility largely falls at the feet of prominent conservatives to adopt a sound message on vaccines and push back against misinformation and irresponsible rhetoric.


“They are trusted messengers on this issue, which is politically polarized, in a way that the Biden administration is not,” Pollack said. “It is a failure within the conservative movement to provide a culturally competent public health message that is at the core of this problem.”

GOP vaccine resistance poses growing challenge in pandemic fight | TheHill

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Including Mel Gibson but we already knew that.

Mel Gibson seen saluting Trump at UFC match

Such a heinous crime to salute the ex-POTUS:

Mel Gibson’s survived charges of sexism, racism and anti-Semitism… but saluting Trump could finally get him canceled

Mel Gibson’s survived charges of sexism, racism and anti-Semitism… but saluting Trump could finally get him canceled — RT Op-ed