Fox News host and the current cable news king Tucker Carlson announced that after much research and investigation, he’s releasing a multi-part series about the January 6 riots that cuts through a lot of the media posturing and speculation and gets down to the facts.
Starts Monday pic.twitter.com/MRbx5FKVAc
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 28, 2021
It is one of today’s most controversial topics, with many unanswered questions and oddities. It’s these oddities and questions that Carlson is looking to address, and get as close to the truth as he possibly can.
This is making it difficult for many left-leaning parties to get along. The narrative that Carlson was a conspiracy theorist with no sanity has begun.
“Tucker Carlson Made a Jan. 6 ‘Documentary’ and It Looks Completely Unhinged,” reads a Vice headline.
“He’s Writing Tucker’s Deranged Jan. 6 Movie—After Directing a Pizzagater’s Opus,” said the Daily Beast of co-writer Scooter Downey.
“Rep. Swalwell: New Tucker Carlson documentary on Jan. 6 ‘a tribute video for the terrorists’,” cried MSNBC.
“TUCKER CARLSON GOES FULL 1/6 TRUTHER IN NEW FOX DOC,” reads Vanity Fair.
But it’s not just leftist media sources throwing hissy fits. Hard-leftist groups are also expressing their opinions. Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League wrote an open letter to Lachlan Mudoch, Fox News’ CEO. He used every buzzword possible to press him and viewers to not believe it.
Greenblatt, before even having seen the documentary, wrote that he’s “once again” writing Fox News about his “deep alarm about the dangerous misinformation” that the network continues to allow Carlson to relay to his viewers. He proceeded to call the people Carlson interviewed about the matter “a laundry list of disinformation artists.”
“Let’s call this what it is: an abject, indisputable lie and a blatant attempt to rewrite history,” wrote Greenblatt. “As an organization committed to fighting antisemitism and all forms of hate, we remain deeply concerned that the false narrative and wild conspiracy theories presented by Carlson will sow further divisions and has the potential to animate violence.”
Greenblatt went on to suggest that Carlson is a white supremacist while he chest thumped about how his group has been monitoring “hate groups” for decades. Greenblatt then tried to find the boundary and inquired how many others needed to die for Fox to cease being Fox.
To @FOXNews that this “documentary” is nothing short of absurd and it will continue to fan the flames of extremists and conspiracy theorists. This is dangerous, and it’s no surprise that Tucker Carlson is leading the charge bringing fringe ideas to the masses. pic.twitter.com/aSIpHuxz43
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) October 29, 2021
To be clear, Greenblatt and the ADL have been targeting Carlson and attempting to convince others that he’s somehow a white supremacist for some time. Carlson’s status as the number one cable news show, far outpacing left-leaning news programs, has made him the target of many outrageous claims from the left, including the ADL.
The ADL, a fringe hard-left organization that backs leftist politics with very few exceptions, is not a mainstream party. As Tablet magazine covers, it’s an organization dedicated to combating antisemitism that spends an inordinate amount of time focusing on instances (and non-instances) on the right and almost none on the left. The same ADL issued a guide for how to dress your child in Halloween costumes to prevent cultural appropriation, and to not reinforce gender norms. It spends its time supporting the terrorist radical group Antifa.
The ADL embraced the radical left philosophy of intersectionalism and has since become an organization that utilizes its once great name to bludgeon the left’s political opponents and push leftist narratives.
“The ADL has lost its identity… I can only imagine how sad Abe [Foxman] must be,” a former ADL staffer told The Federalist. “He dedicated his entire life to try to help Jewish people feel they had someone who had their back. And then less than five years after he leaves, his life’s work is in ashes… [Greenblatt]The ADL should be considered a Jewish-lite organisation that does not get involved in hate crimes or fights against minorities. It’s not their lane. It’s bad, but not anti-Semitic.”
Greenblatt is an ex-Obama staffer.
This history of the organization and Greenblatt should be understood as it helps one understand that when it comes to Carlson’s documentary, it’s likely not about the potential to inflame violence from the right. The ADL prefers to defend groups like Antifa or Black Lives Matter, which are more responsible for violence and destruction than the right in particular 2020.
Carlson is essentially disrupting the narrative by introducing new angles and facts. It’s likely that there will be a good bit of this information that’s wholly inconvenient to the left, and the ADL, Vice, MSNBC, and other leftist organizations can’t have that.
Moreover, if they’ve gotten pre-screenings or information on what is featured in the documentary, and they’re reacting this viscerally to it, then Carlson must be hitting a nerve somewhere in there. They’re attempting to sell the idea that this documentary is dangerous, and one has to wonder “to whom?”
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