Post by addisona on Feb 28, 2022 16:12:50 GMT
Tucker Carlson And The Far Right Want To Recast Jan. 6 As A False Flag By The deep state
The conspiracy theory — that the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol was a false flag event orchestrated by the FBI — traveled the way so many conspiracy theories do in America: from a fringe far-right site run by a white nationalist to this country’s most-watched cable news show.
“Strangely, some of the key people who participated on Jan. 6 have not been charged,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson told millions of viewers on Tuesday. “Look at the documents. The government calls those people ‘unindicted co-conspirators.’ What does that mean? Well, it means that in potentially every single case, they were FBI operatives.”
Carlson was citing a report written by Darren Beattie for Revolver News. Beattie is perhaps best known for being forced out of the White House of former President Donald Trump in 2018 after CNN revealed he’d spoken at a white nationalist conference. Since then, Beattie has allied himself with open white nationalists and founded Revolver News to push his specific brand of far-right propaganda.
But none of this background was mentioned on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Tuesday when Carlson introduced Beattie as a guest on the program.
www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-fbi-capitol-riot-conspiracy-darren-beattie_n_60cbd794e4b0c101b70b2f74
The conspiracy theory — that the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol was a false flag event orchestrated by the FBI — traveled the way so many conspiracy theories do in America: from a fringe far-right site run by a white nationalist to this country’s most-watched cable news show.
“Strangely, some of the key people who participated on Jan. 6 have not been charged,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson told millions of viewers on Tuesday. “Look at the documents. The government calls those people ‘unindicted co-conspirators.’ What does that mean? Well, it means that in potentially every single case, they were FBI operatives.”
Carlson was citing a report written by Darren Beattie for Revolver News. Beattie is perhaps best known for being forced out of the White House of former President Donald Trump in 2018 after CNN revealed he’d spoken at a white nationalist conference. Since then, Beattie has allied himself with open white nationalists and founded Revolver News to push his specific brand of far-right propaganda.
But none of this background was mentioned on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Tuesday when Carlson introduced Beattie as a guest on the program.
www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-fbi-capitol-riot-conspiracy-darren-beattie_n_60cbd794e4b0c101b70b2f74