June 10, 2022

"Aware of the power of the potential public attention, the [January 6th] committee brought former ABC News president James Goldston on board to assist in the presentation."

"Did it help? It took nearly an hour into the cluttered hearing to show a clip of Trump son-in-law and close aide Jared Kushner’s testimony. A video of favorite offspring Ivanka Trump saying that she 'accepted what he (Barr) was saying' about the lack of validity of the former President’s election fraud claims was a ripple in the fact and data packed hearing when it could have been a tsunami.... What should have been John Dean moments revealing a cancer on the Presidency and the ravages of Trump’s desires right at the top of today’s presentation was instead too little, too late and, perhaps worse, likely inconsequential.... [T]he battle for hearts and minds was pretty much lost tonight before it began.... At least so far, the mixture of video segments and witness testimony unveiled no smoking gun. Leaning into history and not the immediacy, what the hearing did mainly show in its first vital hour was a stream of talking points and underwhelming clips.... [T]he audio rarely matched the video for impact, and TV is a mainly a visual medium, as any rookie reporter can tell you.... Over on Fox News... a lower third on the screen tonight read: 'Today’s Hearing Is Political Theater.' The Fox hosts were right in their assessment. What they failed to state is that the hearing wasn’t produced that well and may actually only harden the MAGA/GOP opposition in this year of midterm elections...."

Writes Dominic Patten, in "January 6 Primetime Hearing Proves An Anemic Made-For-TV Special, 2022 Style – Commentary" (Deadline).

The hearing wasn’t produced that well... It was on prime time, and they brought in former ABC News president James Goldston, so it was a show. And it wasn't a good enough show, Patten says. Fox News called it "political theater." Patten doesn't seem to have a problem with that. His problem is that it wasn't good theater. They barged into prime time, preempting scheduled broadcast TV, which said to the world: It's showtime! But then it wasn't an exciting, gripping show.

Do Americans still sit down in the evening and watch what's airing in real time on the networks? I don't think there's an automatic audience like that anymore. It seems like a picture of America in the 1960s or 70s.

65 comments:

gilbar said...

the hearing wasn’t produced that well and may actually only harden the MAGA/GOP opposition in this year of midterm elections...."

those Crazy democrats! Isn't there ANYTHING, that they Can't F*ck Up?

RideSpaceMountain said...

"It seems like a picture of America in the 1960s or 70s."

The geriatric, shallow-bench democrats living in world that doesn't exist anymore!?! Give me a break. I shan't believe it. I simple shan not.

Lloyd W. Robertson said...

Coulter has highlighted one moment of Biden talking to Kimmel. "People turn on their TV," and he makes a motion with a few fingers like turning a dial. Click on, then further clockwise to get volume. What century? What decade? Also he doesn't blame reporters for sensationalism--after all, they need clicks for the evening news.

Jan. 6 was not nothing, but it was close to nothing in a country of 2020 street protests, some of them more violent than others, attacks on the police, mass killings, and indeed the occupation of "sacred precincts of democracy," including of course in Madison a few years ago, and the grounds of the White House in September 2020. The Jan. 6 protesters were generally gun owners who did not bring their guns. They were not organized into any kind of insurrection army, and they had no leadership that even pointed in that direction. It was very legitimate to work out who committed a crime, and how to proceed from there. Ten people? Fifty? Have they even identified the one person who threw one fire hydrant at a police officer? What they've done instead is not only a farce, but the violation of many people's rights, and therefore arguably much more of a threat to the Constitution than the protest itself. Trump lied, but he didn't establish a Ministry of Truth, which is obviously a direct attack on the First Amendment.

Amadeus 48 said...

Moral: You can't buff a turd.

BillieBob Thorton said...

"It's hard to make chicken salad when all you have is chicken shit" according to one of my high school coaches and the DC crowd doesn't have shit.
We rarely watch network programing, much better programming on BritBox.

tim maguire said...

It's no small detail that the fact that it might help the Republicans is given as evidence of its failure. This is a news show produced by a news network and it's taken for granted by everyone that it's purpose is to help the Democrats this fall. Nobody denies it, nobody even seems to feel bad about it. They can't even be bothered to pretend for appearance's sake.

Leland said...

In the 80's and 90's a family may have recorded it. In the 00's and 10's they may have DVR'd it. A few people will have now so they can pick it apart as they do other poorly produced shows.

Our house fired up a Netflix account and watched Ricky Gervais "Super Natural". Honestly, I found it more like a Ted Talk lecture on Free Speech than a comedy. It was good and had humor, but if I was looking for a hardy laugh, and I was, it didn't fit the bill.

MartyH said...

"...the hearing wasn’t produced that well"

Again, the implication that the Democrats' only problem is messaging. Biden tried to blame poor messaging on Jimmy Kimmel a couple of nights ago but, ironically, tailed off incoherently as he tried to make the point.

rwnutjob said...

Liz Cheney reads a Trump tweet from 1/6, but neglects to finish reading the tweet which reads "Go home with love & in peace."

Fraud. Go home Lizard

Buckwheathikes said...

"Do Americans still sit down in the evening and watch what's airing in real time on the networks?"

After Rather-Gate (which likely birthed this and every other blog in the country) how can you even ask this question?

No, nobody watches them any longer because they are evil liars. According to the Nielsen figures for last week, only 1.5% of the American public watched NBCNews With Lester Holt.

1.5%

Nobody is watching this because it's all bull crap.

And this J6 buffoonery is the tip of the heap.

Duke Dan said...

This whole charade is an insurrection against the American people.

AMDG said...

It probably would have had more resonance if gas were $2.00 a gallon and inflation was 2%.

MayBee said...

Americans will still sit down and watch the Super Bowl.

Last night I got a news update from The Chicago Tribune with the headline "Dozens Gather in Local Bar to Watch the Jan 6 Hearings". Dozens! LOL. Obviously the organizer of the gathering had implored the Tribune to cover it, and so they did. Dozens! At a Chicago bar on a summer Thursday night. Hahahhahaha

BillieBob Thorton said...

Inflation at 8.6%, illegals flooding the boarder, energy prices through the roof so the demos really need to talk about the evil Trump MAGA MAGA King MAGA crowd crap.

FleetUSA said...

A nothingburger just like most of Schiff's grand reveals.

Enigma said...

With the Democratic Party under the control of business executives and marketers (Hollywood, Wall St., Silicon Valley, and money-obsessed universities), propaganda, self-delusion, and stage management is all they know.

Self-promoters LOVED the central control of the 3 TV network era, where everyone watched and shows were considered failures with less than 25% or 30% of the population seeing the content. This era faded in the 1980s, and was ridiculed quite effectively by Sarah Palin's mocking of Obama's "fake columns" speech. The Total Wars of Nazi Germany and the USSR could not happen without convincing millions of people to fight and die for a cause. Mao's Cultural Revolution could not have happened without tight message control.

Let them try to fight the last war using old media methods. Watch them fail in trying to prevent the new media era taking over. We are in a war between the establishment/oligarchs and the masses. Worldwide. Ignore the shell games and ideological distractions.

Jersey Fled said...

Are there any sane people who really think January 6 was an insurrection insurection?

Ron Winkleheimer said...

We have a friend visiting from out of state who is very liberal and I don't think she was even aware that this "hearing" was going to happen and if did she was way more interested in going out for saltimbocca than watching it.

Owen said...

On January 6, 2021, the price of regular gasoline was $2.19 a gallon.

Today it’s over $5 and no end in sight.

That is all.

Michael said...

I cannot find the overnight ratings for the show trial. How many people tuned in. If the entire nation was glued to the screen I believe it would be on the front page of the NYT. It isn’t.

wendybar said...

It's a joke. Nobody cares. A fake show trial for a fake Congress who doesn't do what they were elected for.

Temujin said...

"It seems like a picture of America in the 1960s or 70s."

Yes, you nailed it exactly. They (the Democrats and media) made numerous references to this being a 'Watergate-level moment' in the days going into this show. They were thinking as if the American audience has no source of information other than NBCCBSABC, or NY Times and WaPo. This is truly a 60s and 70s concept. As is turning on a network for a prime time show. Though it still happens, the networks have been bleeding viewers for at least a decade now and with each year, their audience gets smaller while our population grows larger.

There is nothing these people- the Democratic Party, and particularly their leaders- can do anymore that is productive, well thought out, and improves our country or the lives of the people living in the country. Think about the work they've put into the last 10 or so years. The things they've worked the hardest at.

Keeping our borders wide open to both massive, uncontrolled immigration, and a flow of fentanyl and heroin that is killing our nation.
Russia Collusion.
Shutting down the country during covid. Not for two weeks, but for months and months.
Applauding, funding, and bailing out the rioters over the summer of 2020.
Threatening to expand the courts, or kill the filibuster.
Mandating vaccines, masks.
Closing our schools.
Mandating (in governmental institutions) the use of made up pronouns and the stark racist policy of hiring based on color or gender.
Shutting down our ports.
Cutting off our energy production, in order to further their demand that we use solar and wind for our lives.

This list could go on. What they needed was to show undeniable, incontrovertible evidence of sedition. They've never had that. They have only name calling and demagoguery. I suspect that was what was on display last night and frankly, the masses of people in America are damned tired of this bullshit.

gilbar said...

i think resident Biden's plan, is for his admin to be called; "That '70's Show"

farmgirl said...

"...the hearing wasn’t produced that well"…

Not well enough to Sway even a few open minds??

Wince said...

Althouse said...
It seems like a picture of America in the 1960s or 70s.

They should have brought in Quinn Martin instead.

On second thought, maybe they already had?

"The FBI: A Quinn Martin Production"

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I couldn't watch. But it sounds like they still have the same problem they had with the first two shows. In the first pilot, Alex Vindman was not a convincingly compelling rat. Because he pretended to be able to discern Trump's mind, when the contents of the call and the testimony of the US ambassador to Ukraine didn't quite reveal a quid-pro quo deal between Zelenski and Trump. At least in the first pilot they had Trump audio so we could makeup our own minds. Knowing how Trump talks, people decided the claims against him were a stretch not rising to the level of removal.

In the second pilot, because Trump wasn't even president anymore, the chief justice decided to pass on his role as presiding judge. It was doomed from the start. The most they had against Trump was Trump urging his people to fight. The problem of using that against him was that in a rhetorical leadership context, those kinds of phrases are used by coaches, civil right advocates, social media influencers and self-help gurus for as long as memory allows.

How many bites at the apple can these people have and still expect people to tune in?

Netflix would have cancelled the charade after the first show.

The continual beating of a dead horse could lead one to believe somebody or some people believe the horse is not dead and the horse may rise and ride into the White House once again. That's their nightmare scenario, keeping them up at night.

mikee said...

You need an avuncular Southern senator with a strong accent to run things, when you want a political TV show that people will watch. Senator Sam Ervin of NC ran the successful Watergate hearings, which had a live TV run for month after month.

The Thomas hearings, led by then-Senator Joe Biden and featuring Teddy Kennedy and Pat Leahy, acerbic northerners all, were a catastrophe for Democrats. No avuncular southern voices at all, as I recall, and the public hearings lasted only a weekend before the end of the attempted high tech lynching.

Iran-Contra hearings were again a catastrophe for Democrats. No avuncular Southern Senator.

It isn't that hard to do political TV well. You just have to cast it right and let it roll.

TreeJoe said...

Do political committees create good TV theater?

Historically I'd say, no, that is not a recipe for good theater. A single politician MAY create excellent theatrical moments, true, but a committee - and I think we all know the committee includes folks like Pelosi, white house staff, and others - is a terrible way to create anything.

But more deeply, it's been almost 1.5 years since the event. It's been clear in the days after that:

1. There was not an attempt at insurrection; there was a riot and an attempt to stop proceedings. There was not an attempt to overthrow such proceedings.

2. The actions on that day by politicians indicated they may have tacitly supported the pausing of the certification, but they didn't actively support it nor did they actively support overthrowing it. They were trying to be opportunistic, not masterful coup strategists.

3. For all practical purposes, not a single January 6th rioter was armed with a firearm.

4. The only death came from a Capitol police officer shooting an unarmed woman breaching a barricaded doorway.

.....

Yada yada.

Oh Yea said...

I was busy watching old Bond films where there were real villains because I'm sure the questions I have weren't covered. What warning the did the law enforcements agencies, including Nancy Pelosi's Capital Police Praetorian Guard, have in advance and why weren't they prepared with adequate security? Or to phrase it classic terms, what did she know and when did she know it? It's almost like they wanted a crisis. If I was conspiratorial, I would say she wanted her own Reichstag Fire.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Crap I put my comment for this topic under the Liz quotes.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

This fits better here:

“About that *poorly produced* angle of reporting, what did these idiots expect when the producer they hired is best known for poor judgment and spiking a story that audiences are hugely interested in? Have they considered reversing both those decisions together and starting hearings on Epstein and Maxwells clients instead. At least I would DVR that for later!”

Sebastian said...

"unveiled no smoking gun"

A gun used to do what? Considering that no insurrection happened, no one was killed by any insurrectionists, and no electoral procedures were changed in the slightest, the production was bound to lack real drama.

But the medium is the message: the theater itself, and its MSM enabling, demonstrate prog rule. Shaky, perhaps, but real nonetheless.

rcocean said...

So, everyone's OK with ex-President of ABC news coming out as a partisan DNC operative? Did they imagine he was an "Objective newsman" before this?

As for it being a show, I saw it had no dancing girls, just a comedy act. So I skipped.

rcocean said...

Perhaps if they'd played the murder of Ashli Babbitt tapes and the capital police tasing and beating up Jan 6th protesters they would've gotten a bigger audience.

But I hear Mitt Romney and Ben Sasse were glued to their TV sets.

ga6 said...

Bought some large, industrial grade teleprompters. Also some very small earpiece receivers to enable the staffers to prompt the more stupid or senile of the members.

Amadeus 48 said...

For the Democrats, tt is always 1963, and America is always Alabama, and George Wallace (segregationist version) is always governor.

Bruce Hayden said...

“I was busy watching old Bond films where there were real villains because I'm sure the questions I have weren't covered. What warning the did the law enforcements agencies, including Nancy Pelosi's Capital Police Praetorian Guard, have in advance and why weren't they prepared with adequate security? Or to phrase it classic terms, what did she know and when did she know it? It's almost like they wanted a crisis. If I was conspiratorial, I would say she wanted her own Reichstag Fire.”

Her Capital Police waived in many of the protesters, then killed some of them. But just as worrisome, to me, is that she is blocking House consideration of a Senate bill that would give the Supreme Court more security, despite, or maybe even because of, the recent assassination attempt on Justice Kavenaugh. Is she actually evil? Or does she just look that way?

Amadeus 48 said...

This is obviously a last-ditch effort to save Netflix.

Joe Smith said...

'They barged into prime time, preempting scheduled broadcast TV...'

Have you ever watched the shit that's on prime time TV?

I don't because it's garbage.

Every show is woke, multi-cultural, state propaganda nonsense.

How many shows about the police or the FBI being the good guys can be made?

Who, after all we know about the deep corruption in DC, can ever root for the feds?

Probably just brain-dead democrats...

Lurker21 said...

What should have been John Dean moments revealing a cancer on the Presidency and the ravages of Trump’s desires right at the top of today’s presentation was instead too little, too late and, perhaps worse, likely inconsequential.

Maybe that's all they had. Maybe they couldn't juice it up anymore. But the quote is a good indication that the media was expecting sensationalism, even contrived sensationalism, than anything corresponding to the truth.

You need an avuncular Southern senator with a strong accent to run things, when you want a political TV show that people will watch.

You sort of had that this time -- the chairman was a Black Southern congressman -- and it didn't work. No senatorial privilege this time? Or no White privilege? An awful lot of people watched the Thomas hearings. It just wasn't as complicated a case and didn't take as long. Joe Biden chaired the hearings, and as he liked to remind people back then, Delaware was also a slave state.

Joe Smith said...

Not only are they editing Trump quotes, they're doctoring video:

https://twitter.com/alexbruesewitz/status/1535074323672596480?cxt=HHwWgICg5dr91s0qAAAA

Joe Smith said...

'For the Democrats, tt is always 1963, and America is always Alabama, and George Wallace (segregationist version) is always governor.'

Which is odd, as all of the slavery, lynching, and Jim Crow laws were the product of Southern democrats.

Michael K said...

The question of how many watched it will never be answered and we know why.

McCarthy has said that the GOP majority will have hearings once they take Congress on what really happened. By that time interest will be zero. Too bad as there was some real criminal behavior there, not by those political prisoners though.

Drago said...

rcocean: "But I hear Mitt Romney and Ben Sasse were glued to their TV sets."

No doubt.

I find it hilarious that a few "republican" sellout billionaires and a few other usual suspects have spent the last month attempting to create a Sasse "boomlet" as a trial balloon for 2024.

Too funny. Sasse would end up in Jeb Bush range if he actually tried to run.

Brian said...

Dozens Gather in Local Bar to Watch the Jan 6 Hearings

Well according to Smollett, it is MAGA country. Can you imagine if someone had shown up to that bar in a MAGA had to watch? Would have been epic.

In deep red Missouri at a bar last night they had it on. No sound. Until about 30 min in, when someone had them turn it to the hockey game, that nobody watched.

Ron Winkleheimer said...

By the way, Nixon resigned in 1974, 48 years ago. Talking about something being as historic as Watergate dates people too. According to this source (https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-age/?currentTimeframe=0&selectedDistributions=children-0-18--adults-19-25--adults-26-34--adults-35-54&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D) 70% of the US population is 54 years old or younger.

The democrats real problem is convincing the middle of the road people that Trump and the GOP in general is eeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvvvvviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllllllllll!!!!!!!! At this point if you support him, your not going to change your mind and if you think he is Satan incarnate, you ain't gonna change your mind about that. But there are a lot of people that didn't pay much attention before the election that remember gas was way cheaper and inflation wasn't killing your paycheck and savings not to mention the debacle of the Afghanistan withdrawal and etc, etc, etc. And then there is the CRT thing and their kids not being able to go to school for months and small businesses and landlords getting screwed over while big businesses made out like bandits. Oh, and the supply chain thing and baby formula shortage. I would not be surprised if the PTB in the government try to find a pretense to cancel the midterms. But it doesn't really matter. We are at an historical turning point. The old order is dying and we don't know what's going to take its place. I support Trump, but the fact that we elected a self-promoting real estate mogul and reality TV star to the presidency because he promised to implement common sense policies that one of the political parties should have been advocating for decades (and that both parties used to advocate until Clinton's presidency) and then the PTB did their best to thwart him is proof that the current system is broken and running on fumes.

Ray - SoCal said...

Seems like the Democrats are trying the Watergate Playbook on Trump.

It's 1972 again, with televised hearings.

So many similarities in playbook between how Nixon was railroaded in Watergate by a corrupt Deepstate, and how they are trying to do the same to Trump.

MikeR said...

"A video of favorite offspring Ivanka Trump saying that she 'accepted what he (Barr) was saying' about the lack of validity of the former President’s election fraud claims was a ripple in the fact and data packed hearing when it could have been a tsunami..." If that's the measure of the tsunamis here, they got nothing.

MikeR said...

"A video of favorite offspring Ivanka Trump saying that she 'accepted what he (Barr) was saying' about the lack of validity of the former President’s election fraud claims was a ripple in the fact and data packed hearing when it could have been a tsunami..." If that's the measure of the tsunamis here, they got nothing.

robother said...

If you're gonna "blow the roof off the Capitol," an ABC producer is the way to go: access to Disney pyrotechnic pros for the 1/6 Reenactment. You certainly don't want to have some Bernie Bro ANTIFA or old FALN great uncle of AOC handling special effects. A prime-time audience wants to see "No Congresscritters were harmed in this production" as the final credits roll.

And while I don't recollect any actual explosions during the real Insurrection, every viewer knows artistic license is necessary to render a docu-drama prime-timeworthy.

john burger said...

Based on what I have seen, if a group of middle aged unarmed people trundling through the Halls of Congress is the biggest threat to US democracy since . . . well . . . forever, then that means one of two things: (1) our democracy is frighteningly fragile or (2) our democracy is strong beyond belief.

I saw Corey Bush well up in tears. I saw that Capitol guard fret over hand-to-had combat in the Killing Fields of Washington, DC. Rep.Cheney said some stuff and issued a stern warning to someone. But, what evidence has been adduced?

I mean, what really happened on Insurrection Day, a day that will eclipse 9/11, Pearl Harbor, The Shot Heard Around the World, July 4th? Did Congress not certify the election? I think they did, otherwise, how is Pres. Biden . . . erm . . . Pres. Biden? Was the Capitol Building under siege for days and weeks and months and years on end? Were members of Congress removed from their offices and laid waste in the streets? Did the Executive Branch and the administrative state get bounced out of power? Was there a fundamental change in the form, function, and nature of the federal government? Were assets and records seized? Did the alleged insurrectionists bring the entire workings of the government to a halt?

Or, more likely, were people inconvenienced for a few hours and later carried on with their official duties?

This is nothing more than political theater to try to blunt a Democrat shellacking in November 2022 and 2024. The New York Times said as much: “With their control of Congress hanging in the balance, Democrats plan to use made-for-television moments and a carefully choreographed rollout of revelations over the course of six hearings…to persuade voters that the coming midterm elections are a chance to hold Republicans accountable for it.”

As an aside, if this theater is intended to rout Trump's bid for a 2024 presidential run, why can't these people let the voters decide if they want another four years of Donald Trump and his policies? Is the power structure that threatened by Trump and his supporters that they need to smash him and them before a new campaign gets off the ground? What scares the hell out of them?

jvb

Gahrie said...

When they make the movie, Goldston will be played by Dustin Hoffman.

Readering said...

I didn't watch. Committee hearings are committee hearings. But I got the message, and Trump supporters have no counter message beyond, it's dull. Well, not starring Depp and Heard. The trial gained momentum, perhaps this will too.

n.n said...

War of the Worlds, a handmade tale.

Drago said...

readering: "But I got the message, and Trump supporters have no counter message beyond, it's dull."

Incredible.

Just when one thinks your sad lies can't get more transparently false and pathetic, you reach new lows.

That's when I recall you still believe the Hillary hoax dossier is verified and Putin installed Trump in 2016.

Then it all makes sense.

Jamie said...

I got the message, and Trump supporters have no counter message beyond, it's dull.

With respect, readering, clearly you had "the message" long before these hearings.

You seem to be missing the (also clear) counter message being presented in these comments - a counter message that includes:

* It's manufactured and stage managed to produce a particular outcome, not actually a hearing at all
* It's being carried out by an unabashedly partisan committee, with the assistance of an unabashedly partisan TV news producer
* It elides the questions of "what constitutes evidence?" and "what constitutes proof?"
* It ignores the context of, and contrast with, the bloody, fiery, rubble-filled riots that took place in cities around the country that year
* It ignores the fact that despite a year and a half of "investigation," no one has been charged with insurrection or anything like it - so it certainly seems more like a fishing expedition and an exercise in distracting the electorate from the pitiful doings of the party in power than the culmination of a criminal investigation

Quote a lot more than just "it's dull." But this post is about the production values, so observing that it's dull (and simultaneously cluttered and confusing) is certainly on point!

MadTownGuy said...

Gahrie said...

"When they make the movie, Goldston will be played by Dustin Hoffman."

...dressed as Tootsie.

Clyde said...

And for heaven's sake, do NOT play the drinking game where you have to take a drink every time they say the phrase "Our Democracy." I don't want any of you dying of alcohol poisoning!

And by "Attack On Our Democracy," they actually mean "Our Democrat party hegemony." It will be gone in January when the next Congress takes over.

Leland said...

Trump supporters have no counter message

Sure they do.

Why did the Mayor and Nancy Pelosi refuse the call-up of the National Guard before the event? They knew something was planned, because the Capitol Police and DOJ new something was planned. You can say Trump was dump to hold the rally anyway, but even Rachel Maddow acknowledges that Trump was still speaking at the rally miles away when the protest at the Capitol began.

Why was a GOP candidate for Michigan governor just arrested by the FBI, when a known FBI informant holding the Capitol building door open and telling protestors to step inside not arrested and tried?

The only thing gaining momentum is inflation and the price of oil. What is the Democrat message to that momentum other than to retry Trump again after he was already impeached and no one cares.

BG said...

I didn't watch. It sounds like it was right up there with Geraldo Rivera and Capone's vault.

Skeptical Voter said...

My wife watches TV. I mostly don't--maybe 20 minutes of Tucker Carlson once or twice a week--Chargers football when it's on the tube. The Triple Crown horse races--and that's pretty much it. So I don't particularly whether the Pelosi Schiff Raskin lollapalooza hearings pre-empted prime time or not. OTOH my wife was more than a bit ticked that NBC show she waa looking forward to at 8 p.m. PDT was pre-empted for this load of bunkum and political theater.

Amadeus 48 said...

If they keep this up, I'll want Trump back. Oh...wait...Biden...ugh!...I want Trump back.

I, too, accepted what Barr said as a preliminary view from the top down. I was interested about what a more forensic view of the election might show, because there really were and are a lot of questions about what went on in November. That was not forthcoming by January 6. It still has not been forthcoming. We saw a lot of lawsuits tossed because they couldn't sort things out after the election, and time marches on.

What happened on Jan. 6? The news reporting has been appallingly bad and uninformative. I saw Capitol cops letting people into the building. I saw a Capitol cop shoot an unarmed woman to death. A cop in Grand Rapids was just charges with second degree murder for shooting an unarmed motorist that he had down on the f=ground. This Capitol cop walked free with a commendation. WTF? Couldn't anyone put a flying tackle on some of these people? I saw a bunch of unarmed people exchanging blows with Capitol cops. How many people were at the Capitol? How many FBI and other government agents were in the crowd? Who did what to whom? That is the one thing we are not finding out, and we won't.

There should be bipartisan hearings as to what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6. This is not it. This won't be it. Why? Because Trump wasn't at the Capitol, and he told people to go there peacefully. I heard him say it.

Bah!

Amadeus 48 said...
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Amadeus 48 said...

That sentence should read:

"A cop in Grand Rapids was just charged with second degree murder for shooting an unarmed motorist that he had down on the ground."

Bunkypotatohead said...

Twenty-some years ago ABC put on a show called Dot Comedy. They tried to take humor from the internet's early days and show it on TV.
It was cancelled after one episode.
They should do the same with this turd.