Trutherism redux: Tucker Carlson is to January 6 what Alex Jones was to September 11

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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-leading-16-truth-movement

In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks came the so-called “9/11 Truth” movement, whose adherents claimed that the attacks had actually been an “inside job” perpetrated by the U.S. government. This crackpottery had few prominent advocates, but enough Americans bought into it to lift up people like Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist radio host who has claimed that the feds used “controlled demolitions” to bring down the World Trade Center and whose website has described him as one of the “founding fathers” of the movement.

Nearly two decades later, the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by violent Trumpists has generated new cries of an inside job. But this time, the conspiracy theory is backed by the most-watched host on cable news, Fox News prime-time star Tucker Carlson.

On Tuesday, Carlson alleged that “some of the key people who participated on January 6 have not been charged,” citing charging documents in which “the government calls those people unindicted co-conspirators.” He then exclaimed: “What does that mean? Well, it means that in potentially every single case they were FBI operatives. Really? In the Capitol on January 6?”

Carlson was citing a report from Revolver News’ Darren Beattie, who he then brought on. Beattie is not a credible source -- he left his job at the Trump White House after CNN asked about him speaking at a 2016 conference alongside well-known white nationalists. But even Beattie suggested that Carlson was taking his work too far -- when Carlson said that his piece explains that “the FBI was organizing the riots of January 6,” he replied that it only “suggests that possibility.”

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[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Fucker Carlson is an absolute loon.

But referring to an unwillingness to just take Bush & Cheney's word as gospel truth about 9/11 as "crackpottery" is wrong.

They lied about everything else.