Topic: WorldNetDaily
Last year, as part of its Capitol riot revisionism, WorldNetDaily hyped the release by Tucker Carlson of cherry-picked video from the Capitol riot, even though experts pointed out that the selectively edited footing of rioters not rioting doesn't negate all the footage of them, you know, rioting. Bob Unurh hyped the latest version of this in a Nov. 17 article:
The House Subcommittee on Oversight on Friday announced a new online viewing room where the thousands of hours of surveillance video from the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is being made available to the public.
Some portions had been released to a few recipients earlier, and we know because of that, for example, that many of those accused of breaking the law to enter the Capitol during that protest-turned-riot actually came through a wide open door that was left unguarded.
The congressional announcement said:
"Today, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (GA-11), Chairman of the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, announced that United States Capitol Police video footage from January 6, 2021 will be made available to the public through two methods, a new online viewing room and in person at the subcommittee’s offices in Washington, D.C.
"Starting today, all video footage previously released to media outlets will be uploaded to an online viewing room for public access. This includes all videos released to Tucker Carlson and other media. Following the initial tranche of footage, the Subcommittee will continue to populate the viewing room with additional footage for public view."
Of course, the fact that a door to the Capitol was allegedly left unguarded did not make it OK to enter that door since doing so broke the law whether or not it was guarded.Unruh went on to repeat bogus claims from Carlson's video release:
At the time, video aired showing Capitol Police officers escorting one protestor, the “QAnon shaman,” through the halls of the building. Tucker Carlson also showed video of Republican Sen. JoshHawley of Missouri being escorted with other members of Congress from the Capitol, saying the Jan. 6 Committee selectively edited it to target Hawley.
In fact, prosecutors said of that cherry-picked footage that the "QAnon Shaman," Jacob Chansley, was "facing off with officers for half an hour outside the Senate chamber or when Chansley refused to be escorted out of the Capitol by an officer and only left after being forcibly removed," adding that "Chansley was not some passive, chaperoned observer of events for the roughly hour that he was unlawfully inside the Capitol." Unruh went on to whine about the riot being called an insurrection:
The controversy that erupted that day still continues, as Democrats are using "lawfare" to try to make certain President Donald Trump cannot win the 2024 presidential race. He's far and away the leading GOP candidate, and recent polls have shown him leading Joe Biden, the presumed Democrat nominee despite his extensive history of mental flubs, fumbles and failures.
Democrats claim that day was an actual "insurrection," in which a mob was intent on destroying the current government and replacing it with a government of its own making, in a scheme that would involve taking over control of the military.
Experts have said that's unrealistic, and it actually was a protest that turned into a riot by hundreds who broke doors and windows and vandalized parts of the building.
Democrats, however, make the "insurrection" claim because they believe then that Trump is barred from holding office again, an argument multiple judges and most experts have rejected as inapplicable.
Notice that Unruh pits "Democrats" against "experts," though he names none of the "experts" allegedly denying that it was an insurrection. An anonymously written Nov. 21 article served up more cherry-picked cliips:
A multitude of reports have been coming out since the House Subcommittee on Oversight recently announced that surveillance video from the U.S. Capitol during that Jan. 6, 2021, protest-turned-riot was being made available to the public.
For the first time, Americans have an opportunity to see for themselves what happened, not just what Democrats on Nancy Pelosi's partisan committee investigating that day decided to show.
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One video posted online shows officers shooting a tear-gas grenade. And while it was aimed at the crowd, the winds apparently blew the gas back onto officers, leaving them scrambling for air and coughing.
It also likely triggered the crowd to move, too, as the gas swept across the concrete plaza at the Capitol.
But it's not news that tear gas was used during the riot -- after all it was reported the day of the riot. The anonymous writer went on to complain that "Another video reveals protesters being fired upon by police with no warning":
The poster said, "J6 protestors were fired upon with NO warning. USCP Chief Waldow lied saying he gave warnings but never did."
It records officers demanding, "more f****** munitions," and telling each other to "F******* shoot them!"
"Shoot! Shoot!" an officer is telling another.
The anonymous WND writer did not explain why that is not a reasonable response to a violent mob by law enforcement, or why such a mob deserves a warning before action is taken to disperse them.
A Nov. 29 article by Unruh tried to rehash an old conspiracy theory revived by a right-wing writer:
There's growing evidence that violence by police officers themselves triggered the crowd of protesters, some of whom later turned into rioters, during that infamous confrontation at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Those are the events Democrats continue to claim were an actual insurrection, a plot to take over the government, its operations, its military, and install new leaders, as an insurrection is defined.
hey make those claims in their lawfare campaigns to try to prevent Donald Trump from running for president in 2024, a race that so far he leads by significant numbers.
To cover up the officers' violence, according to key Jan. 6 investigative reporter Julie Kelly, police created the story line that officer Brian Sicknick died as a result of the riot.
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Kelly concluded that police were desperate to cover up their own "brutality" that day, and so they launched the Sicknick death claim, "a fabricated story" and "intentionally" planted to cover up the deaths of four Trump supporters that day.
Unruh did not note if Kelly had any actual evidence that early reports regarding Sicknick's death were intentionally fabricated. He continued:
One of those was Ashli Babbitt, who was shot point-blank by a police officer and died. Three other Trump supporters also died, and Kelly explained at least two of those deaths were due to "police excessive force."
Then authorities cremated the victims' bodies, without family permission, so that no evidence would remain.
In fact, Babbitt's body was not hastily cremated; her body was held onto by authorities until investigations could be completed, then was cremated according to her wishes. No family member is on record as complaining about her cremation.
UPDATE: WND also republished a Nov. 19 article by the discredited Gateway Pundit hyping the cherry-picked videos, baselessly insisting that they mean "the bogus narrative propagated by the government and mainstream media surrounding the 'insurrection' is crumbling."
