I’ve never watched, from start to finish, a Mr. Potato Head (Brian Stelter) segment. I’ve watched parts (so you don’t have to), but with each tick of the second hand clanging in my head, like barbarians pounding at the gate, I could feel synapses snapping. I don’t mean firing, I mean blowing, like a transformer getting zapped. To get past the absurdity of what I saw, it might take me up to a week of therapy.
You TakenYou can take a bullet for team. You’re welcome.
Reporters @hunterw & @Grace_Segers say they’re still suffering from “PTSD” pic.twitter.com/mknp0OvD3k
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 2, 2022
Brian Stelter was joined by two journalists to talk about their J6 trauma.
This was the in-studio guest Hunter Walker. Walker writes a newsletter called “The Uprising.” He’s written for Rolling Stone and the Atlantic, and he’s writing a book he calls “progressive politics” Rolling Stone has a history of publishing stories it gets sued over, and the Atlantic is well, just garbage.
Grace Segars was also present. She writes for the “New Republic”. The New Republic has gone online — meaning no one was buying the physical mag. Its online readership is unknown because it doesn’t submit circulation numbers. The online audience for the site was around 400,000 monthly in 2014. This is comparable to an equivalent New Hampshire gardening blog. Nana ‘n the Garden.
Stephen Glass is the scandal that made New Republic famous. Perhaps you do not recall it. You might forget it. Glass worked as a reporter at the New Republic back in those days when there were more than twelve readers. Glass fabricated dozens of stories, and the crack team of New Republic editors didn’t notice for about a year.
So, back to “Reliable Sources.” Stelter asked Hunter and Segars about their PTSD from J6. Stelter set up questions to Walker regarding what he had seen. It’s a fact that I am averse to Hunter and any other leftist named Hunter. Leftist and named “Hunter”… that had two strikes from the start. We are sorry, but we’re not sorry.
In any event, Stelter asked him to explain why there was a “disconnect” between people who watched “J6” on TV and those “who were there.”
Mind you, Hunter was “there” but not really “there.” He didn’t see the Buffalo Headdress dude walking around and baying at the moon while inside the building. He didn’t witness Ashley Babbitt being killed by Capital police. Hunter witnessed a large crowd outside the building. He was outside the Capitol — looking at the Capitol, from the outside.
He recounts his “PTSD” and claims that one of the hallmarks of PTSD is vivid flashbacks — things like, and I quote,
It took a moment for me to realize that people were inside…when I hung up with my editor, it took a moment for me to realize that people were inside. And the thing that rang in my head was, that this is bad….that shooting could break out from either side, at any moment.
Hunter called his wife and told her that he loves her. It was like being on the 50th floor in Tower 2 on September 11, 2001. He had to take a moment to “realize” that people were inside.
The host then asked Segars about how she’s dealing with her PTSD. In a plaintive voice, breaking with emotion, she spoke of her “trauma,” and lamented about the trauma of lawmakers and staffers and “fellow reporters” that fateful day. The trauma!
She said she would deal with it “no matter how long it [takes].” Walker also relayed that he wants to look at the Capitol Building someday and “not feel sad.”
My father was a combat vet. My son is also a combat veteran. Each of them lost friends in combat while serving America. Friends were injured and even maimed by their deaths. I’ve listened to their stories and neither had the emotion of these two reporters who watched a crowd of clowns breach the Capitol building. Reporters who were present at the January 6 riot are something that I find fascinating.Th — who describe looking in a window like they were part of the Omaha Beach landing — it turns my stomach.
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