Stephen Colbert devoted greater than half of his opening monologue to Fox Information host Tucker Carlson’s try and rewrite the historical past of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol carried out by Donald Trump supporters.
“You’d assume that after the individuals gaslighting you each day have been revealed to be liars, say, in a number of textual content messages in a $1.6 billion courtroom submitting by Dominion Voting Techniques, they'd pump the brakes,” Colbert stated. “However apparently, some individuals are simply hooked on being dicks.”
He was referring to courtroom filings that present Carlson and different personalities on the right-wing community knew they had been mendacity to viewers by parroting Trump’s false claims of election fraud, however continued to take action anyway.
Now, Carlson is taking it to the subsequent stage after Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) gave him unique entry to safety footage from the Capitol from Jan. 6.
Carlson has used cherry-picked footage to assert the rioters had been not more than vacationers and sightseers.
“Sightseers? Sightseers, actually?” Colbert stated in disbelief. “Seize a rock, honey, we’re going to the Louvre. I wish to peacefully smear my crap on the Mona Lisa, see if she retains smiling after that!”
See extra in his Tuesday evening monologue:
“Tucker can attempt to change the narrative all he needs however everyone knows what we noticed that day,” Colbert stated.
Colbert’s staff additionally put collectively a video of Carlson reviving “Jaws” the best way he’s tried to vary the narrative of Jan. 6:
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