Fox News' Insurrection Narratives Have Blown Up In Their Faces This Week

Fox News has teetered back and forth between claiming that the January 6th insurrection was either not a big deal, or that it WAS a big deal but that it was carried out by left-wing agents. The text messages revealed this week prove that the anchors on that network knew exactly who was to blame for what happened on January 6th and that they implored then-President Trump to stop it. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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We need to talk about Fox news and obviously the big thing with Fox news this week is the fact that their text messages from their hosts Brian Kilmeade, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham to Mark Meadows, begging him to get Donald Trump to issue a statement to, to get to Capitol rioters to stop, to get them out of there, do something because of the damage that this is causing to the Republican party. Of course they weren't concerned about these rioters wanting to kill the vice president. They weren't concerned about them stealing computers and podiums and breaking windows, because property damage to them only matters when black people do it. So they didn't care about any of that. They cared about the damage it was doing to the Republican party. And as Laura Ingraham said in her text, the damage it was doing to Trump's legacy.

But at the same time, these individuals were also pushing the big lie up to that day and of course, even after that, pushing the big lie that the election may have been stolen. Oh no, Joe Biden's not the dually elected president of the united states. There was fishy things happening. There's funny business. There's all kinds of weird things that need to be investigated, they were telling us, none of which was true. But they pushed it. They helped stoke those people. They helped to push them over the edge and their role in this does in fact need to be investigated. Because if you're gonna look at the president of the United States and his big lie, which is obviously the same, but if you're gonna say that that played a role in getting these people riled up, then you have to say the same thing about the Fox news hosts. I mean, that's just the way it is. You can't only focus on one person doing the bad thing when everybody else was doing it too. Have to get 'em all.

And that is another reason why I say that this investigation at this point is too big for the January 6th committee. They do not have the tools. They do not have the resources. But most importantly, they do not have the time to do this investigation the justice that it deserves. And they don't have the time meaning one, they also have other legislative duties to do. But two, after next year's midterms, if Republicans take over and I'm gonna keep warning you about this, that committee is gone. They will get rid of it and disband it, the Republicans will if they take over. A grand jury needs to have this material, a grand jury with special prosecutor needs to be working on this right now. That's what needs to happen. And it's an absolute, absolute failure of Merrick Garland that it hasn't happened yet. But more importantly, again, the role that these Fox news hosts play.

Because not only in the run up to it did they get people all riled up, but then afterwards, even though they knew it was Republicans, they knew it was Trump supporters, they go on the air and tell us, oh, it was Antifa. Oh, maybe it was a false flag. They let Tucker Carlson put out that ridiculous lie filled documentary saying that Republicans are being hunted down and shipped to Guantanamo. He did literally say that in that documentary, by the way. That's not even a thing. But they said that Republicans are being rounded up and sent to Guantanamo. This needs to be investigated because that network knows well what the truth of it is because they were just as terrified as the rest of us.