It rotates around its own axis slowly but continuously, and completes this rotation about once every 24 hours. Reach Montini at more opinions content, please subscribe.Like the other planets, the Earth is a sphere. That is true, but as the late Adlai Stevenson might has said, “I’m afraid that won’t do. They know the mob was not at the Capitol primarily for sightseeing, as Carlson claimed … No one who relies on facts and logic will be fooled.” In Politico, Tom Joscelyn wrote, “Many Americans have already seen some of this footage with their own eyes. Along with that little chant to “Hang Mike Pence!”Ī number of Republican lawmakers have condemned Carlson’s presentation as well. It isn’t too difficult to prove, actually, given the damage done to the Capitol, the ransacked offices and the 140 officers assaulted that day.

PolitiFact declared Carlson’s claim that the Capitol rioters “were not insurrectionists, they were sightseers” to be a “Pants on Fire” lie.

People treat facts as relevant more when the facts tend to support their opinions.” They want to buy Tucker Carlson's Jan. Scientists and researchers have done a number of studies on this phenomenon.Īs researcher Troy Campbell from the University of Oregon explained it, “We find that people will take a flight from facts to protect all kinds of belief including their religious belief, their political beliefs, and even simple personal beliefs such as whether they are good at choosing a web browser. They may be those same people.Īt the Arizona Capitol: Far-fetched election conspiracies continue They’re the political equivalent flat earthers, wearing the same blinders as creationists, climate deniers, 9/11 truthers and vaccine opponents. Their loyalty to the Fox is not fact based, it is faith based.

They want to have reinforced what they already believe. To the viewers of Fox News it doesn’t matter one bit.Ĭarlson and most of his colleagues at the network understand that their audience is not looking for information.

He pointed to the many incidents of violence and vandalism that Carlson ignored, providing references to the mob ramming its way into the Capitol, smashing through doors in the East Rotunda, and busting windows and climbing in. Capitol, Tom Joscelyn, debunked Carlson’s claptrap for Politico. A former staff member on the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S.

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