Fox Buries the News as Russian Asset Tucker Carlson Slanders Zelenskyy
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presents Ukraine battle flag to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
On Monday of Christmas week, the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection met for the last time to refer to the Justice Department for possible prosecution four charges of crimes committed by Donald Trump.
Also released was a 154-page summary of the leviathan full report that would drop later in the week. It told us that a Trump-team lawyer coached Cassidy Hutchinson to say she couldn't recall to questions she clearly did but that Trump would rather not be answered.
We learned that Trump aide Hope Hicks and White House lawyer Eric Herschmann had called for Trump to urge peacefulness, but that Trump “refused.”
And we learned that a stunning 30 witnesses had pleaded the 5th. The amendment, let's remember, says that a witness believes that a true answer would imply involvement in a criminal act. There is still that much to hide.
On Tuesday, the House Ways and Means committee voted to release six years of Trump's personal and business tax returns to the public after a years-long battle. They showed as little as $0 paid in one year and $750 in two others.
On Wednesday came the realization that Trump had repeatedly lied about his tax returns being under audit, that the fix was in at the IRS where stunningly in violation of regulation his returns had never been audited unlike those of all presidents since Nixon.
If you tune in to Fox for your news at night after work, as do most of the channel's viewers, you would not have learned of any of this. We tracked through all three nights of Tucker Carlson's and Sean Hannity's shows and there was not a single mention of what was happening, except for one passing comment by Pete Hegseth, substituting for Hannity, who dismissed all of the House January 6 hearings as "pointless" and immediately moved on first to ridicule Joe Biden's fabulist personal reminiscences, and then to promote his special "Life of Jesus".
One or the other or both shows constantly feature the Biden administration doing nothing about the border crisis and the liberal media's burying the Hunter Biden's laptop story, and they again did so these three days. The first is a huge story, the second raises serious questions about the press, but the hours are then filled with an often odd choice of avoidist topics such as a former wrestler fighting off an intruder, an arrest at a spa for indecent exposure, Stanford University's index of forbidden words, UFOs, etc. Yet here we watched a cable channel that has 'news' in its corporate name conduct a total blackout of events – criminal referrals of a former president of the United States — that have never happened before.
Over on MSNBC, the difference was striking. Standard programming was shelved and a panel of five, including lawyers, picked their way through the referrals and the 154 pages in realtime for a couple of hours so as to bring this material to light for viewers.
And on Wednesday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to Washington to thank America for its support and to make the case for more in a stirring and historical speech before a joint session of Congress. "I was thinking personally how hard this guy works, travelling to the front one day and travelling to Washington the next", commented Yale Professor of History Timothy Snyder, "and here he comes to us and speaks to us in our own language", the third language for the Ukraine president.
PUTIN'S MAN AT FOX
We apparently have a fifth column in this country led by Tucker Carlson, Fox News's biggest draw. That's defined as " any group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation." Carlson is so on the side of Russia that videos of his comments on Fox are replayed regularly on the newscasts of Russia's largest television and radio company, V.G.T.R.K. On Wednesday night, with Zelenskyy's speech to Congress on split screen, Carlson showed that what mattered most to him was not the desperate struggle of the Ukrainian people, freezing without heat or light but Zelenskyy's attire:
"As far as we know, no one's ever addressed the United States Congress in a sweatshirt before, but they love him much more than they love you."
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