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Video at link-she is terrific!!
https://crooksandliars.com/2021/01/brianna-keilar-shreds-tucker-carlson-s
1/08/21 2:52pm
CNN Host Shreds 'Propagandist, Liar, Parasite' Tucker Carlsons Racist Insurrection Denialism
Brianna Keilar smashed to smithereens Tucker Carlsons refusal to admit that the MAGA sedition riot at the Capitol was anything more than a political protest that got out of hand.
By NewsHound Ellen
Unable to defend the MAGAites and their cult leader Donald Trump, Carlson has tried to deflect by making the critics and the media the real villains.
CARLSON: What happened yesterday, they're telling us, wasn't simply that a political protest got out of hand after the president recklessly encouraged it. That is in fact what happened, but it's not what they're saying. Instead, they're calling it domestic terrorism. CNN describes it as an insurrection. Today, CNN unveiled a Soviet-style enemies list to make it a little easier to find all those Trump supporters and then destroy them.
Keilar quoted from Merriam-Webster and aired video (since this guy pretends not to understand big words) to show that yes, indeed, the armed takeover of the Capitol this week was an insurrection and sedition, incited by the president calling his supporters to action.
But whats especially despicable about Carlsons whitewash of the MAGA insurrection is how it compares to his demonization of Black Lives Matter protests. Keilar brought receipts:
These are not protests. This is not about George Floyd. This is not about systemic racism, whatever that is. America is not a racist country. They flood the streets with angry young people who break things and they hurt anyone who gets in the way. When they want something, they take it.
Theyre the armed militia of the Democratic party. Theyre working to overthrow our system of government. They're trying to put themselves in power. That's all obvious now.
Then she pounced. Heres the shot.
Yes, looting is criminal behavior punishable under the law. But what we saw on Tuesday is so much more than that. And saying otherwise is false equivalence. To liken the siege on the Capitol to the violence and property damage during the summer of Black Lives Matter is to ignore that this is the United States Capitol, the seat of government, at a moment in time when the vice president is presiding over a joint session of Congress, both the House and Senate present, as they were in the process of making Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election, a fair election, official.
This isn't a Target store. This isn't a statue. This is the Capitol, supposedly one of the most secure buildings on earth.
Since he needs things explained to him in pictures, here is one. An insurrectionist parading a Confederate flag through the Capitol, the inaugural appearance there of this symbol of the American states that tried to secede from this nation under the mantle of slavery, based on the belief that Black people were inferior to white people and it was God's will to enslave them.
And the chaser:
Brava!
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Or what? These people don't even try to sound rational.
babylonsister
(171,079 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)got a clue what constitutes a valid argument. Any gibberish, no matter how blatantly based, based in lies, and lacking in logic, especially if it blames the people they hate and praises their Dear Leader or his loyalists, is good enough for them.
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)YOU ROCK BRIANA 😍
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)Its good for Ruperts bank accounts.
ProfessorGAC
(65,136 posts)When I read "CNN Host Shreds", I instantly knew it would be her.
I truly admire her " take no prisoners" approach to that crowd.
babylonsister
(171,079 posts)a few months ago to escape Chuck Todd at the 1pm time slot and was hooked from the get-go.
ProfessorGAC
(65,136 posts)...when it was still too cold to play golf, and I wasn't subbing with the schools closed.
I was following the pandemic and her calling the jester's statements about COVID lies hooked me.
Not "misinformed" or "exaggeration" or "mistakes". Lies!
Then she'd have a defender on and tell them "wrong" or "that's a lie".
By early April, I was in the fan club.
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)become more outspoken and fearless as events unfolded during the trump misadministration. She's easy on the eyes too. As I understand it, she's already married. Dang!
ananda
(28,873 posts)We are NOT the Confederacy. That is NOT who we are.
underpants
(182,863 posts)Watching later
radius777
(3,635 posts)She's cool and calm with a fiery edge and puts together some really good segments... deserves a prime time show where she could really let loose.