The despicable Chuck Schumer is trying to bully Fox News into stopping Tucker Carlson from airing more Jan 6th footage.
He’s specifically targeting Rupert Murdoch, claiming he’s got an obligation to stop Tucker Carlson.
Why? Because, as Schumer puts it, our democracy depends on it…or something.
Schumer: "Rupert Murdoch has a special obligation to stop Tucker Carlson from going on tonight [and] from letting him go on again and again and again [because] our democracy depends on it." pic.twitter.com/uld6eaCl3C
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 7, 2023
Schumer and his Democrat colleagues really don’t want us to see the actual footage from January 6th.
His claim that ‘our democracy depends on it’ is absolute garbage too.
Tucker said last night that he went to the Capitol Police with the footage to ensure he wasn’t broadcasting sensitive areas to the world. There was a little blurring of the footage but, according to Carlson it wans’t much. And, he added, their requests to censor portions were reasonable.
So our democracy is absolutely NOT at stake in airing this footage.
McConnell was asked about it as well and, while he didn’t call for Fox News to silence Tucker, he did say he didn’t like how it was depicted:
NEW – McConnell says "it was a mistake" for Fox News to depict Jan. 6 "in a way that's completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks."pic.twitter.com/qRfYkqZ4O7
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 7, 2023
The media tried to get McConnell to criticize Kevin McCarthy for giving the footage to Tucker, but McConnell wouldn’t do it.