Althouse: “Jan. 6 footage shows Capitol cops escorting QAnon Shaman to Senate floor.”

March 6, 2023

“Jan. 6 footage shows Capitol cops escorting QAnon Shaman to Senate floor.”

The NY Post reports.

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WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: While leftist Antifa thugs get to burn down whatever they want and see no jail time --

this poor guy - who wanted to save the muffins and openly stated he didn't want any destruction or theft of property - his life was destroyed.

Well - It is crook Nancy's house. right?; 3/6/23, 7:53 PM
Mason G said...: This my shocked face- not.; 3/6/23, 7:54 PM
Iman said...: Watching Tucker this evening… be proud, all of you supporters of the Jan-6 lies!

Sunlight is the Great Disinfectant. That Jan 6 committee wouldn’t recognize the truth if they tripped over it and it it them on their sorry asses. Contemptible!; 3/6/23, 8:00 PM
Sprezzatura said...: So now we know that Jan 6 was just the guy with a horned hat being led by police to the chamber so he could do some jabbering.

The truth is final known.

Truth!; 3/6/23, 8:01 PM
Creola Soul said...: Well, well, well. Take some Dramamine quick. The CNN and MSNBC spin on this will be absolutely dizzying.
Actually, since the tape doesn’t fit the narrative, the MSM guys may have to CGI their way out of this.; 3/6/23, 8:01 PM
MadisonMan said...: I'll be curious to see how much this is reported in, say, the NYTimes or the WaPost.; 3/6/23, 8:02 PM
Achilles said...: So they are all aiding, abetting and entrapping.

Nancy and her staff planned this event.

J6 is going to fall apart just like the Sicknick blood libel and Russian collusion.

Every Republican that attacked the J6 protesters should resign, abjectly apologize and literally kiss their feet on the steps of congress, or be forced out of the party.; 3/6/23, 8:03 PM
Lyle said...: Haha... wasn't he prosecuted?; 3/6/23, 8:06 PM
Fredrick said...: The coverage worked to get the left the mid-term control of the Senate. Mission accomplished.; 3/6/23, 8:06 PM
chickelit said...: Good to see this story finally getting aired. I've know about it for over a year. Now maybe the truth can come out about Ashli Babbitt's murder and the cover-up of the identity of the coward who murdered her. No trial for him nor even a reprimand. Just a pat on the back and "well done." Was she escorted to her place of murder along with the others?; 3/6/23, 8:11 PM
chickelit said...: Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
While leftist Antifa thugs get to burn down whatever they want and see no jail time

Weren't some of them bailed out with financial help from our beloved Kamala? Correct me if I'm wrong. She was a cheerleader for them at a minimum.; 3/6/23, 8:15 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Tune in all week for a detailed look at who THEY are. Inga, Mark, Cook and Gadfly are excused for medical reasons.; 3/6/23, 8:15 PM
Maynard said...: I guess all those right wing conspiracy theorists that liberals worry about are ...

...winning.

Waiting to hear from Inga and the rest of the lefty dullards.; 3/6/23, 8:19 PM
BIII Zhang said...: Now we wait. They'll say the videos are "edited." That Tucker Carlson is painting a "narrative."

Then more videos will emerge, showing Ray Epps suiting up. Undressing from his FBI uniform, and getting into his "patriot" gear.

By the time we get down to the murder of Ashley Babbitt, even Democrats will be turning on the FBI, demanding Church inquiries.; 3/6/23, 8:24 PM
Chuck said...: He pled guilty.

His lawyer argued to the court that Chansley had a long history of severe mental and psychological problems. That lawyer is the guy who suggested that many of the J6 defendants were "the short bus people."

After he was sentenced, Chansley expressed a desire to appeal, and requested a new lawyer. Then, he gave that up.

Last I heard he was awaiting assignment in the Federal Bureau of Prisons.; 3/6/23, 8:29 PM
cfs said...: The January 6th committee lied. About everything!

There are judge, prosecutors, and politicians who need to be disbarred, and even jailed themselves for what they have done. The committee not only withheld the truth from the American people, but they deliberately lied about all the evidence. We are not supposed to have a justice system such as this in America. And, to make it worse, most BLM rioters were released with no punishments for their actions over the summer of 2020. Political prosecutions are NOT supposed to happen here!

The prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence from the defense in the Jan 6th cases. And, they knew they were doing it. Defense attorneys should be filing motions to set aside the indictments, any convictions, and any guilty pleas based on deliberate malfeasance by the prosecution. No wonder they panicked at the thought of Tucker Carlson obtaining the video footage of that day.; 3/6/23, 8:38 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Please watch the video at the link. No wonder liar Adam Schitt - shit his pants over the release of the footage.

That footage also reveals MSS(D) press is a sham. Top to bottom.; 3/6/23, 8:43 PM
PB said...: What happense when the defense is denied exculpatory evidence in the prosecution's possession?; 3/6/23, 8:49 PM
gspencer said...: Democrats hate the truth.; 3/6/23, 8:50 PM
Ampersand said...: Should any sentient person be surprised?; 3/6/23, 8:50 PM
Big Mike said...: The Capitol Police were even opening doors for the Shaman. So if he was committing felonies then they were accessories.

The videotapes also show that Officer Brian Sicknick was walking around inside the Capitol after the time when he was supposedly dead from being hit by a fire extinguisher. BTW, he was wearing a helmet.; 3/6/23, 8:52 PM
Drago said...: We are seeing just why it is the radical lefties and dems, like LLR-Democratical Chuck, were panic posting today and peddling more of their non-stop lies about "insurrection-y insurrection insurrectionists of the Highest Order!!!".

Looks like gadfly and LLR-Democratical Chuck and readering and Dumb Lefty Mark amongst others are going to have to explain how it is that Officer Sicknick was seen in quite good health on video long after he was said to have been bludgeoned to death by the horrific Qanon Shaman-types.

But they won't. They'll just revert to all their other previous debunked lies and smears that LLR-Democratical Chuck proudly told us he would spread to attack conservatives.; 3/6/23, 8:52 PM
Steven said...: Every Republican who has refused to denounce the the injustices perpetrated against the January 6 protesters need to be ousted. They all had to have known the truth and they allowed Pelosi & Co. to pretend there was an insurrection. They--the Democrats and way too many Republican--wanted to use the January 6 demonstration to destroy Trump. They engaged in a coup agains the legitimate president. If they were willing to sacrifice this many innocent and patriotic people to destroy Trump, why should we not believe that they would commit election fraud?

Res publica deleta est.; 3/6/23, 8:55 PM
tim in vermont said...: "BREAKING: TUCKER JUST CONFIRMED RAY EPPS LIED ABOUT HIS WHEREABOUTS ON JAN 6 IN SWORN TESTIMONY"

LOL

"BREAKING: Tucker Carlson has obtained footage of Brian Sicknick walking around the Capitol healthy after the media claimed he had been killed by Trump supporters"

Yeesh!

"BREAKING: Never before seen video of January 6 shows Jacob Chansley, the QAnon Shaman, being led through the Capitol by police the entire time that he was in the building."

No wonder fits were had by the Democrats and their media operatives when they learned that Tucker was going to get hold of the video. "It's going to damage the legtemacy of the prosecutions" was one gem I heard. Well, yeah! They should be damaged.; 3/6/23, 8:56 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Dang - I wonder how many of those police were fired or killed or suicided? by the corrupt Schitt-FBI?; 3/6/23, 8:56 PM
tommyesq said...: The video shows two capital police escorting the so-called shaman through several areas of the Capital, opening doors for him, talking calmly with him, seeming to be very comfortable with him being there and going where he went. A significant amount was just him and the two policemen - he was not leading a mob looking to overthrow the government.

Was this video available to him at his trial, and if not, shouldn't that be grounds for a successful appeal?; 3/6/23, 9:01 PM
tim in vermont said...: "Truth, Justice, and the American Way."

That was the tag line for the old Superman show, which I never missed as a boy. Not it's not a tag line, it's a gag line (both senses of the word.); 3/6/23, 9:22 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: I'm not a lawyer, obviously. But I'm willing to stipulate (on the penalty of being called out wrong) this piece of evidence could have aided his defense. The government had exculpatory evidence and sat on it?

There should either be a new trial, in which this evidence is included, or Shaman should walk a free man. He is a political prisoner in my book.; 3/6/23, 9:35 PM
tim in vermont said...: "Carlson’s team says the J6 committee added audio to silent CCTV footage, inserting screams and other crowd mayhem sounds, to make it seem more ominous." - NY Post; 3/6/23, 9:41 PM
wildswan said...: Things the red states knew years ago; things the blue states are just now being allowed to know:
Russia, Russia was a deep state conspiracy against Trump.
J6 was not a violent riot
Covid came from a lab in Wuhan
Lockdowns and masks do not make us safer
Hunter Biden's laptop shows corruption in the Biden family.
John Fetterman was too unwell undertake a campaign and this was obvious when he ran.

Funny how the stupid rubes in flyover knew what was happening while Harvard got it wrong.

Things the red states know now but the blue states aren't allowed to know yet:
Defund the police/bail reform is harming the black community far, far more than any other but the suburbs are not allowed to know this and support the Dem programs and politicians thinking they are being allies to the back community.
Open borders are allowing 100,000 people a year to be killed by fentanyl, a very large number of them middle-aged whites in pain and unable to get pain-killers.
Minors are being harmed by permanent gender-changing surgery and by puberty blockers urged on them by irresponsible adults.; 3/6/23, 9:43 PM
Crazy World said...: Can’t wait for tomorrow’s show! What a disgrace!; 3/6/23, 9:48 PM
Richard said...: "In a statement the Capitol police suggest that one of the officers with Chansley was trying to “de-escalate” the situation because he was outnumbered."

The officer thought Chansley was the Norse Thundergod Thor.; 3/6/23, 9:50 PM
tim in vermont said...: "J6 surveillance Footage shows Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick walking healthily through the Capitol AFTER Democrats claimed he had already been killed.

Sicknick died days later from unrelated causes. Democrats used this officers dead body as a political prop"

"But, but, but, what does the Bulwark have to say?"; 3/6/23, 9:57 PM
tim in vermont said...: "Why are some of the people that were inciting violence on Jan 6th “insurrection” not arrested? Tucker Carlson believes there were federal agents among them. His team was not allowed access to facial recognition software, so the question persists."

Modified limited hangout.; 3/6/23, 9:59 PM
tim in vermont said...: It is unacceptable the Biden Justice Department did not provide Jacob Chansley (Buffalo hat guy) with this critical exculpatory evidence.

It is even more unacceptable Judge Royce Lamberth did not order it.

Then sentenced him to 41 months in prison.

But don't worry, they wouldn't lie to you about anything else. Lindsay Graham thinks that this man should rot in prison for being escorted around the building by Capitol Policeman, but he also thinks that Ukraine and Taiwan *both* will "fight to the last man" for his neocon friends.; 3/6/23, 10:12 PM
Dude1394 said...: Our current government is a corrupt government of fascists. And that is not hyperbole.; 3/6/23, 10:18 PM
iowan2 said...: I thought prosecutors were required to turn over all exculpatory evidence?; 3/6/23, 10:21 PM
MountainMan said...: The really funny video was the one that was shown in the committee hearing of Josh Hawley leaving the Capitol, trying to sell the story that he ran away as quickly as he could, all alone. Everyone in the audience in the hearing room laughed at him. The full video shows Capitol police guiding and escorting a group out of the Capitol and Hawley lagging behind, being the very last one to leave. Selective editing to make him look like a fool. That's pretty low.; 3/6/23, 10:24 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Nancy Pelosi obstructed an official proceeding of the Congress. When will she be prosecuted for that? Asking for a friend.; 3/6/23, 10:26 PM
readering said...: The guy had counsel. The video was not exculpatory; 3/6/23, 10:31 PM
Yancey Ward said...: It was a case of aggravated escortance, a more vile act I have never seen.; 3/6/23, 10:46 PM
Yancey Ward said...: And the zombie corpse of Officer Sicknick was astonishing.; 3/6/23, 10:47 PM
Wince said...: The most disturbing thing revealed by these video disclosures is not seen in the footage, but in the willingness -- indeed, the zealotry -- of entire federal machinery, including the judiciary, to railroad Chansley and others.; 3/6/23, 10:54 PM
gadfly said...: The chopped-up Tucker video really only shows that a couple of Capitol cops (out of hundreds) may well be MAGAts participating in the coup from outside the law. Or perhaps these unnamed folks were the QAnon Shaman's buddies wearing police uniforms.; 3/6/23, 10:56 PM
cf said...: some great and terrible shedding -- shredding? -- is due now, the Obamabots have had their way with us, including full and powerful controls of messaging. Very fine people are very sure of what they know, and what they know is precisely not so.

G*dspeed, America
#StayFree; 3/6/23, 10:57 PM
tim in vermont said...: Apparently, if Buffalo Shaman had had enough money to pay lawyers to look through the 16,000 hours of tape, he could have found that footage himself, since he did have a right to discovery, but the prosecutors didn't offer this evidence to him as potentially exculpatory, and he didn't have the money to pay to have the footage combed through.; 3/6/23, 11:24 PM
NKP said...: What a great country we had. Those who think revolution is inevitable need to understand; the revolution has come and gone. We lost!; 3/7/23, 12:26 AM
Paul said...: It was all a sham.... there was no 'insurrection'. Just Democrats trying to destroy Trump by any method... be it truth or lies.; 3/7/23, 12:28 AM
Oso Negro said...: "Police escort of insurgents to centers of power is a well-known feature of insurgencies" Wikipedia, tomorrow.; 3/7/23, 12:29 AM
Mutaman said...: Didn't Angelli plead guilty?; 3/7/23, 1:04 AM
Mutaman said...: Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...

"this poor guy - who wanted to save the muffins and openly stated he didn't want any destruction or theft of property - his life was destroyed."

His life consisted of wandering around at Trump rallies and spreading Qanon bs.
His life is better off in jail.; 3/7/23, 1:23 AM
rehajm said...: I haven’t watched this but if the best defense the loons here can offer is he took a plea bargain and not exculpatory it must be quite revealing…; 3/7/23, 4:14 AM
Ann Althouse said...: No true liberal would just write "he pled guilty."

What is wrong with you people?!; 3/7/23, 4:31 AM
Original Mike said...: Blogger readering said..."The guy had counsel. The video was not exculpatory"

Can you point to a source assuring us he had access to this video?; 3/7/23, 4:38 AM
tim maguire said...: Ann Althouse said...
No true liberal would just write "he pled guilty."

What is wrong with you people?!

The sad reality of western politics today is that, in order to publicly call yourself a liberal, you first must reject all liberal values. I doubt your average “liberal” could even name a liberal value.; 3/7/23, 4:41 AM
tim in vermont said...: "The chopped-up Tucker video really only shows that a couple of Capitol cops (out of hundreds) may well be MAGAts participating in the coup from outside the law."

Of course the video presented by the Democrats with no adversarial process allowed to exist, even though an adversarial system of justice has been the hallmark of the United States for 200 years up until then, is not "chopped up."; 3/7/23, 5:10 AM
tim in vermont said...: "The guy had counsel. The video was not exculpatory"

That's all prosecutors had to say to force him to find the funds to comb through 16,000 hours of video. Justice is dead in America. The video is not exculpatory in the eyes of people who long before his trial decided that he was guilty, that is true enough. There is far too much Democrat prestige invested in his guilt to allow such a thing as evidence that he was a non violent protester get in the way of railroading him.

The Reichstag Fire was used to strip all protections of the accused, and led to the creation of the Gestapo. Lots of "good Germans" went along with it, too.; 3/7/23, 5:16 AM
BIII Zhang said...: "It worked, didn't it?" - Harry Reid

Yes, Democrats and the FBI cooked up a fake insurrection, all to discredit Trump supporters. It worked. That's the country you live in. That's the government you have.

The problem with the American people is that they WON'T insurrect. And Democrats know it. They're not even trying very hard to hide it.; 3/7/23, 5:20 AM
tim in vermont said...: My favorite justification by the Democrats so far is that the proof that the protesters killed Officer Sidnick, is that a doctor opined that the stress of his job that day could conceivably have led to a stroke a week later. Not "beyond reasonable doubt" but "possibly." But "beyond reasonable doubt" is another standard that has been flushed by Democrats, along with attorney client privilege ("Oh, that doesn't apply to anything Trump related!") and demands that the press use the word "alleged" for unproven crimes.; 3/7/23, 5:21 AM
tim in vermont said...: We should all vote for Chuck's preferred candidate because we are the "short bus people" and should, in the future, leave political questions to our betters, like McConnell and Schumer, and yes, that sterling example of rectitude and steady hand at the tiller of state, Joseph Robinette Biden.; 3/7/23, 5:27 AM
Douglas B. Levene said...: Let’s be honest here. They weren’t “escorting” him, at least in the photos I saw. They were following him, apparently reluctant to arrest him because they were surrounded by a few thousand maniacs who had already assaulted a bunch of cops in breaking through the police lines. Should they have arrested him anyway? I don’t know, it’s hard to judge that in hindsight.; 3/7/23, 5:35 AM
Meade said...: Wince said...
“The most disturbing thing revealed by these video disclosures is not seen in the footage, but in the willingness -- indeed, the zealotry -- of entire federal machinery, including the judiciary, to railroad Chansley and others.“

+1; 3/7/23, 5:38 AM
PB said...: Those who justify Amhelli's fate because "he plead guilty" don't know how plea bargains and over-chargong works in our legal system.; 3/7/23, 5:40 AM
Kevin said...: No true liberal would just write "he pled guilty."

Chuck doesn’t claim to be a liberal.

But he does claim to be a lawyer.

Which is even more disgraceful in this instance.; 3/7/23, 5:40 AM
Kevin said...: Chuck’s legal argument: No backsies!; 3/7/23, 5:44 AM
Mary Beth said...: The chopped-up Tucker video really only shows that a couple of Capitol cops (out of hundreds) may well be MAGAts participating in the coup from outside the law. Or perhaps these unnamed folks were the QAnon Shaman's buddies wearing police uniforms. 10:56 PM

The videos of people who were violent were ones of just a small group out of thousands and thousands.

His life consisted of wandering around at Trump rallies and spreading Qanon bs.
His life is better off in jail. 1:23 AM

That's an interesting standard - I don't like how he spends his time or the company he keeps, he should be jailed. Did I say "interesting"? I meant abhorrent.; 3/7/23, 5:45 AM
Kevin said...: Keep in mind the left is emptying the jails of rapists, child molesters, and drug dealers to fill the cells with people who don’t vote for them.

That’s not some kind of “theory” but an actual fact.; 3/7/23, 5:48 AM
CStanley said...: Blogger Ann Althouse said...
No true liberal would just write "he pled guilty."

What is wrong with you people?!

I’m so very thankful for this comment.; 3/7/23, 5:55 AM
Leland said...: The guy had counsel.

Yeah, but reading chucks description of counsel, it seems that counsel thought poorly of his client and gave poor representation and bad advice.; 3/7/23, 5:56 AM
gilbar said...: gadfly said...
video really only shows that a couple of Capitol cops (out of hundreds) may well be MAGAts

Who are We going to believe? gadfly? Or our own lying eyes?
Mutaman said...
His life is better off in jail.

Mutaman expresses JOY that this all happened; 3/7/23, 6:00 AM
tim in vermont said...: I am pretty sure that "Chuck" is simply here as part of an influence operation, either on his own, or as part of a "troll farm." He has no interest in engaging arguments, he simply pushes DNC talking points, same as Mutaman, gadfly is probably sincere, which is even sadder. But as for Chuck, shame won't work, he's bulletproof on the shame front.; 3/7/23, 6:02 AM
Original Mike said...: When I was young, I assumed that prosecutors handed over exculpatory evidence to the accused. Not because it was the law, though I imagined it was, but because it was the right thing to do.

Boy, was I naive.; 3/7/23, 6:07 AM
rhhardin said...: You don't need the video. The dem reaction was obvious crap from the start.; 3/7/23, 6:11 AM
Humperdink said...: Mutaman said: "His life is better off in jail. 1:23 AM"

This the lefty standard now. Presumably typed this with a straight face.; 3/7/23, 6:12 AM
wendybar said...: There is no such thing as JUSTICE in America anymore. Only ideological justice....where you can go to prison with no trial for years if Nancy doesn't like you and wants to set you up. No justice, no peace. This isn't over.; 3/7/23, 6:17 AM
boatbuilder said...: Tucker confirms that our "leaders" are corrupt and shameless frauds.

This is not new, by the way. I recall seeing cell phone video of Chansley wandering through largely empty halls and speaking, oddly but politely, with security officers. It was apparent long ago that he was a friendly but mentally ill oddball.

They used him and crushed him. He got 4 years by pleading--they were going to put him away for 20 years.; 3/7/23, 6:17 AM
Jersey Fled said...: By the time we get down to the murder of Ashley Babbitt, even Democrats will be turning on the FBI, demanding Church inquiries.

Nope. Won't happen.

They still believe Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation.; 3/7/23, 6:18 AM
wendybar said...: Tucker will be talking to a Capitol Police officer who was there tonight. Watch as Cheney and Kinzinger start crying when they are called out for the liars they really are. They are Nancy Pelosi in drag.; 3/7/23, 6:22 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Wow! I'm trying hard to decide whether readering or Gadfly just posted the the most ridiculous post I've ever seen here.

I'm expecting better from Inga.; 3/7/23, 6:29 AM
wendybar said...: It's funny how the cameras caught Officer Brian Sicknick, walking around the Capitol "after" he was killed with an imaginary fire extinguisher, like Lizzy the Liar told us all about. https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/03/jan-6-footage-shows-officer-brian-sicknick-walking-in-capitol-around-the-time-rioters-killed-him-outside/; 3/7/23, 6:36 AM
wendybar said...: Doesn't it make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, how the Progressives with Nancy in charge can lie about whatever they want, and hide the truth from us for years??? Every single one of them belong in Gitmo. Lock them up!!; 3/7/23, 6:37 AM
Left Bank of the Charles said...: This is the paragraph from Jake Shanley’s plea agreement covering what is shown in this video:

“The defendant then left the Gallery and proceeded down a staircase in an attempt to gain entry to the Senate floor. There, the defendant once again encountered Officer K.R., who again asked him to leave the building. The defendant insisted that others were already on the Senate floor and he was going to join them. Officer K.R. then followed the defendant on to the Senate floor.”

This video does show that after the rioters gained entry, the Capitol Police effectively surrendered the building to them. Tucker Carlson isn’t showing footage of how Jake Chansley got into the building, which Tucker only describes as “disputed to this day.” As I understand it, he is alleged to have climbed scaffolding and pushed past a line of police to gain access.; 3/7/23, 6:41 AM
Big Mike said...: Dang - I wonder how many of those police were fired or killed or suicided?

@Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker, none were fired, however I believe that a total of four members of the Capitol Police unexpectedly committed suicide in the days immediately following the January 6th event. Whether they were “helped” by other government agents cannot be known at this time.; 3/7/23, 6:44 AM
wendybar said...: “Congratulations to Tucker Carlson on one of the biggest “scoops” as a reporter in U.S. history. The New Surveillance Footage of the January 6th Events sheds an entirely different light on what actually happened. The Unselect Committee was a giant SCAM, and has now unequivocally been stamped as CRIMINAL FABRICATORS OF THIS MOST IMPORTANT DAY. Pelosi & McConnell failed on security. The Police story is sad and difficult to watch. “Trump” and most others are totally innocent, LET THEM GO FREE, NOW!” Trump said.; 3/7/23, 6:49 AM
wendybar said...: “Great courage shown by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy in releasing the surveillance footage to Tucker Carlson so that our Country, and indeed the World, can see what really went on during the January 6th events. A whole new, and completely opposite, picture has now been indelibly painted. The Unselect Committee LIED, and should be prosecuted for their actions. Nancy & Mitch were a disaster on Security. Thank you Kevin and Tucker. FREE AT LAST!!!” Trump said.; 3/7/23, 6:49 AM
tim in vermont said...: The same people who are trying to convince us that we need to "spread our republic" to all of the peoples of the world have utterly destroyed our republic here at home. It was a republic, but we couldn't keep it.; 3/7/23, 6:53 AM
tim in vermont said...: By the way, there is no legitimate reason for fake reporters to give anonymity to sources claiming J6 defendants had access to that footage, even though they are in fact fake journalists.

Defendants we visited in that shit hole of a jail did not have sufficient access to discovery or consul when they were already being pressured to take deals.

They bullied, shotgun charged them, and ran out the clock.

https://twitter.com/Peoples_Pundit/status/1633088299525984259

Exactly.; 3/7/23, 7:00 AM
Chuck said...: "Pled" versus "pleaded."

Neither one is incorrect, per The Grammarly Blog. Fascinating to me that the New Yorker has used both "pleaded" and "pled" in print.

I like "pled" the way that University of Michigan English Professor and linguist Ann Curzan does. Although -- this had special interest to me, being a fan of Justice Scalia's books -- noted Scalia co-author on legal writing Bryan Garner prefers "pleaded." But again, "pled" is not wrong.

What's the no-nonsense view from the internet age lovers of the law and language and usage over at Above the Law? There's actually been a pro-"pled" majority! It's been a subject of dispute, to be sure, but one without a clear correct answer.

Apology accepted, Althouse.; 3/7/23, 7:01 AM
Saint Croix said...: I look forward to our leftist friends urging the police to arrest all the protestors in Madison and lock them up for four years.

Suppress the videos!

Coerce confessions!

Lock 'em up! Lock 'em up! Lock 'em up!

I wonder if you idiots have double standards depending on what party the protestors belong to.

My legal advice to any protestor -- make sure you first register with the Democrat party before you challenge the authorities. Easy way to shave four years off your sentence.; 3/7/23, 7:19 AM
Chuck said...: But hey folks; let's all remember that there is one undeniably incorrect usage with "pled" and "pleaded."

And that, of course, is Donald J. Trump. When you are talking about a criminal plea in the past tense, you need to pick between "pled" and "pleaded." When you write "plead," that is present tense, only. (Pronounced, "pleed." Not "pled.")

Who gets that wrong? Trump, of course!

Behold. Here is our hero Trump, tapping out (referring to his company accountant Wesselberg's NY plea deal), "He plead guilty when given the choice of 90 days or life." Trump clearly wanted to type "pled" but somehow couldn't bring himself to type it that way even though the voice in his said was sounding it out the way that he wanted to.; 3/7/23, 7:21 AM
Mr. Majestyk said...: There's so much spinning going on here I feel like I'm at a laundromat. Gadfly wildly speculates: "The chopped-up Tucker video really only shows that a couple of Capitol cops (out of hundreds) may well be MAGAts participating in the coup from outside the law. Or perhaps these unnamed folks were the QAnon Shaman's buddies wearing police uniforms."

Getting desperate, eh gadfly? Tell us, were the other SEVEN cops outside the Senate chamber who let him walk by ALSO disguised protesters?; 3/7/23, 7:26 AM
Kai Akker said...: ---Apology accepted, Althouse. [C]

You completely missed her point, dumpkopf.; 3/7/23, 7:29 AM
Chuck said...: Big Mike said...
The Capitol Police were even opening doors for the Shaman. So if he was committing felonies then they were accessories.

The videotapes also show that Officer Brian Sicknick was walking around inside the Capitol after the time when he was supposedly dead from being hit by a fire extinguisher. BTW, he was wearing a helmet.

You poor dumb shit-stupid insurrectionist. Neither Sicknick's family, nor the Capitol Police, nor the DoJ are claiming that Sicknick was struck down and killed on the spot by a fire extinguisher. The acknowledged story all the way around is described by former DoJ prosecutor Renato Mariotti: "Actually, the U.S. Capitol Police concluded that Officer Sicknick was 'injured' by January 6th rioters, 'collapsed' at his division office, and 'succumbed to his injuries' at the hospital.
The Capitol Police stated that he 'passed away due to injuries sustained while on-duty.'"

Just how fucking stupid are you guys?; 3/7/23, 7:29 AM
wendybar said...: "Facts are no longer indisputable and shared by everyone. The Democrats have developed echo chambers where their followers are fed with relentless hoaxes causing them to despise and fear their opponents.

A nation simply cannot survive for long with so many deep divisions."
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/tucker_carlson_debunks_the_democrat_hoax_of_a_deadly_insurrection.html; 3/7/23, 7:31 AM
fairmarketvalue said...: Chuck, to get into a kerfuffle over pleaded vs. pled demonstrates you either have consumed that left over bottle of vodka this morning, or you are again off your meds. Or you're just a flaming asshole who plays expert election lawyer.; 3/7/23, 7:33 AM
Gusty Winds said...: The water buffalo shaman was my favorite J6 character.; 3/7/23, 7:47 AM
Tom T. said...: No idea what's actually true, but the story I've heard is that neither the prosecutors not the defense had access to this footage because Congress (i.e., Pelosi) would not release it. DOJ cannot subpoena Congress because of separation of powers.; 3/7/23, 7:48 AM
dbp said...: An innocent man had to plead "guilty", a perfect example of the process being used as a punishment.; 3/7/23, 7:48 AM
Iman said...: You just need to give Chuck enough space to beclown - and then hang - himself.

And then the inevitable shitting of his Undaroos…; 3/7/23, 7:49 AM
Iman said...: You just need to give Chuck enough space to beclown - and then hang - himself.

And then the inevitable shitting of his Undaroos…; 3/7/23, 7:49 AM
iowan2 said...: Humperdink said...

Mutaman said: "His life is better off in jail. 1:23 AM"

This the lefty standard now. Presumably typed this with a straight face.

That's kind of like killing a baby so it wont grow up poor.; 3/7/23, 7:51 AM
rwnutjob said...: NBC: Tucker Carlson, with newly released video provided to him by Speaker McCarthy, falsely portrays the Jan. 6 riot as a peaceful gathering.
https://nbcnews.to/3IVk9CT; 3/7/23, 7:52 AM
iowan2 said...: to get into a kerfuffle over pleaded vs. pled demonstrates...

I've tracked the trolls overtime. They resort to pedantry when their stated ideology is once again proven to be wrong on multiple levels, in conflict with the Constitution,and culture of a free people, and cant engage in the topic at hand, without exposing their own ignorance.
In short, they have run out of talking points being provided to them by others.; 3/7/23, 7:59 AM
Rusty said...: Maynard said...
"I guess all those right wing conspiracy theorists that liberals worry about are ...

...winning.

Waiting to hear from Inga and the rest of the lefty dullards."

And like the trained chimps they are, they show up and confirm the lefts talking points. Biden voters one and all with the IQ to match.
"He pled guilty."
I could crawl under a fence at an air force base with a shotgun and a dog and get less jail time.; 3/7/23, 7:59 AM
Rusty said...: Chuck the Liar. Quit stalking Althouse. You loser.; 3/7/23, 8:01 AM
Achilles said...: Ann Althouse said...
No true liberal would just write "he pled guilty."

What is wrong with you people?!

Chuck said...
"Pled" versus "pleaded."
...
Apology accepted, Althouse.

It is always nice to have supporters of the Globalist Regime remind us how amoral, corrupt, and completely despicable they are.

You supported this your whole life Ann.

Maybe now you will support the institutions that protect you from pieces of shit like Chuck?

He and his allies will throw you in jail if they have to. He has made it clear the only thing you need to do to belong in jail is disagree with the Regime.

And if you haven't noticed these shitheads derive happiness from throwing people in jail.

Maybe you will support the people that protect your freedom?; 3/7/23, 8:04 AM
Meade said...: Pre-banning warning to Chuck @ 7:29 AM: She’s finding you boring. And tedious.; 3/7/23, 8:05 AM
Achilles said...: Washington State AG pushing bill to fight domestic terrorism

Guess who the domestic terrorists are.

We are not voting our way out of this people.

We are up against an evil, corrupt regimes supported by completely amoral shitheads like Chuck.

Washington State has been one party rule since mail in voting was instituted and a one party system will always morph into a totalitarian state.

In Washington DC we now have a one party system. Trump's most despicable enemies there are Republicans. They support all of the Gestapo tactics.

They support the BLM terrorism going on right now.

These people will never relinquish power peacefully or through an election.; 3/7/23, 8:12 AM
Wince said...: Chuck said...
He pled guilty...

railroad: (v) to force something to happen or force someone to do something, especially quickly or unfairly. "We were railroaded into signing the agreement."

The only railroad the Biden administration can run with ruthless efficiency?; 3/7/23, 8:13 AM
wendybar said...: Meade said...
Pre-banning warning to Chuck @ 7:29 AM: She’s finding you boring. And tedious.

3/7/23, 8:05 AM

WE all do.; 3/7/23, 8:14 AM
mezzrow said...: I'm late to the party, but...

Our gracious host places this morsel upon the tee, and awaits the parade of beans and nuts that will thrash the thing into the right field seats. Is it a softball? A hardball?

Only time will tell. Have at you!; 3/7/23, 8:18 AM
Gusty Winds said...: Let's keep pretending that the 2020 election was fair and square. Just move on.

It's fun living under a corrupt, installed government who doesn't have to answer to anyone because the outcome of elections no longer depend on the vote of the American people.

Kick ass. We can all be woke, proxy war mongering, intersectionalized Democrats forever.; 3/7/23, 8:21 AM
Temujin said...: Adam Schiff should be in jail, not the QAnon Shaman. Adam Schiff perpetrated the Russia Collusion hoax on the American people and a President- handcuffing that President and eventually creating an impeachment path on him. And as most of us knew then, and everybody knows now the entire Russia Collusion case against Trump was bullshit.

And no one, not a single person, was even reprimanded. This was Adam Schiff's first circus. He then followed it up with J6- the 'worse than 9/11' circus. Again- one side of the story with the defense not allowed to present.

Both cases, though created and now fixed in many minds as real and larger than life, were not arrange by Trump. In fact, it's more likely both of these were 'arranged' by the FBI and Democratic players.

Today Adam Schiff has his eyes on the Senate, and being from California, he'll be a Senator soon enough (because nothing says 'no standards at all' like being a representative from California.) But Adam Schiff should be in jail at this point. What he has done is far more....FAR MORE serious and damaging to the nation than the QAnon Shaman getting an escort through the Capitol.; 3/7/23, 8:22 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: some of the capitol police committed suicide.

Gee - by who? The deep sate? corrupt STrozk-ish FBI?; 3/7/23, 8:23 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Chuck - go hump your Bill Kristol blow up doll.
lying hack asshole.; 3/7/23, 8:27 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Meanwhile in Georgia- Leftist Antifa Nazi- Neo Fascist white-boi thugs are fire-bombing the cops.; 3/7/23, 8:28 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: If the US capitol building is so sacred - why wasn't it secured?

Isn't it public property?; 3/7/23, 8:30 AM
Achilles said...: Elon just tweeted the J6 committee was deeply wrong legally and morally.

Typical tribal leftist bullshit in the replies.

The Regime supporters are deeply evil people.

They will use known lies to gain power. They are lying right here with video staring them right in the face proving they are lying. There is no truth nor any principles with these people.

They are completely incompatible with a free society.; 3/7/23, 8:34 AM
Brian said...: Trump clearly wanted to type "pled" but somehow couldn't bring himself to type it that way even though the voice in his said was sounding it out the way that he wanted to.

Chuck, you may not know this as you may not have access to a modern phone, but AutoCorrect routinely changes "pled" to "plead". My iPhone just did the same thing to me in a text mesage to my wife. You may want to lay off the medicine you're taking that causes you to imagine voices in other people's heads.; 3/7/23, 8:38 AM
Kai Akker said...: Tim Maguire is right as rain at 4:41 a.m. +1

Ann's comment

---No true liberal would just write "he pled guilty." What is wrong with you people?!

... is an anachronism, IMO. The "you people" who are expressing sentiments along those lines are all Democratic Party types; Pelosi fanboys.

I think if Althouse counts carefully she would find that the vast majority of "true liberals" are now on the right wing of the American political divide.; 3/7/23, 8:39 AM
Misinforminimalism said...: He was kept in solitary confinement until he pled guilty. Let that sink in.; 3/7/23, 8:44 AM
Brian said...: Can you point to a source assuring us he had access to this video?

And this brings up a legal issue that I would hope our host, with her background and expertise as a law professor, would want to explore. I've read that even the DOJ didn't have access to this video. This video was the property of Congress. Due to separation of powers the DOJ could not force Congress to turn over some videos.

If exculpatory evidence is essentially withheld by Congress in this manner is it a Brady violation? Does the defense have an obligation to detail in the record the amount of effort the DOJ took in obtaining potentially exculpatory video? Does it pass the smell test that they didn't seek video for Chansley's actions at the moments documented in the Tucker videos? If the did seek those videos and they were withheld from Congress, that in itself, should be an exculpatory fact. If DOJ didn't seek the Tucker vidoes, it should be exculpatory as to sentencing at a minimum.

My take is that certainly Congress is beholden to the 14th Amendment as much as the Executive branch. Therefore, this is a Brady violation. While the video may not be exculpatory to the underlying crime, especially since he pled guilty, it would certainly be exculpatory for sentencing. Remember that Brady violations don't have to have an impact on guilt or innocence of the charge, but can also apply to the sentencing. The Brady in Brady v. Maryland didn't get a new trial, but he did get a new sentence. Chansley should at a minimum get a new hearing on his sentence. The argument would be that after the initial crime (entering the Capitol), the escalating factor (being on the floor of the Senate) was not resisted and potentially encouraged by law enforcement.; 3/7/23, 9:03 AM
Christopher B said...: And I will raise the tin-foil hat theory that I've been tossing around in my head since the end of January 2021.

The Democrats planned to create a Constitutional Crisis if Trump, by some stroke of luck or outbreak of honesty, evaded their election frau, er, 'fortification' and won. Remember, even though Biden got 81 million (ya sure) votes, the GOP increased the number of seats they held in the House and, even though they were defending twice as many seats, still managed to eek out a tie in the Senate despite several election setbacks.

The disruption of the Electoral Certification was planned before November 2020, and it wasn't going to just delay the proceedings for a few hours. It was going to shut down the Capitol for days as the Democrats pulled out all the stops to overturn the Electoral College ratification of Trump's victory, especially if he drew an inside straight again and got only a plurality of the popular vote.

The machinery and personnel were in place, even if they stood down after 3 November 2020. They were ready when Trump announced he was going to hold a rally on 6 January 2021. The Democrats and Deep Staters realized they could repurpose the event they had planned by reskinning a few of their shock troops, and making sure the pro-Trump groups they 'invited' were still going to participate.

What about this theory doesn't align with what we now know was actually happening?; 3/7/23, 9:14 AM
rcocean said...: Just in case anyone forgot "Buffalo Horns guy" aka Jacob Chansley was sentenced to 3.5 years in Prison for this. That was November 2021, so he's now been in prison for at LEAST 1.5 years.

He was escorted to House chamber by the police. No one tried to stop him or arrest him. At one point he passes a group of 5-7 policeman who just stare at him. When he went to the podium and stole the gavel, the Cops were there.

Liz Cheney and Democrats lied their ass off about J6. Now, they claim we - and defendents - couldn't see the footage because of "Security reaons". They are liars.; 3/7/23, 9:14 AM
wendybar said...: All of the imprisoned need to sue the pants off the people in the committee. THEY deserve to pay out settlements to the people that THEY set up for this hoax. Nancy has enough money...money that she got from insider trading that SHE should be in prison for already. This is treason.; 3/7/23, 9:15 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: No one was armed -

Ashley babbit was shot and killed by the real thug.; 3/7/23, 9:15 AM
Drago said...: Temujin: "Adam Schiff perpetrated the Russia Collusion hoax on the American people and a President- handcuffing that President and eventually creating an impeachment path on him. And as most of us knew then, and everybody knows now the entire Russia Collusion case against Trump was bullshit."

Adam Schiff-ty could not pull that off alone. Had there been the slightest pushback from republican leadership the democraticals could not have pulled any of that off.

Instead, McConnell, Ryan, McCain, Burr et al were ALL in on it from the very beginning.

Only 1 republican leader stood up against them: Devin Nunes.

And what did Paul Ryan and his House democratical allies do? Allowed fake ethics complaints to be used to sideline Nunes.

Did Paul Ryan approve ANY subpeonas of dems/deep staters involved in the many hoaxes and deep state impeachment fakes?

Absolutely not....because he was at the center of it.

Althousians will recall how much time and effort LLR-Democratical Chuck spent lying about and smearing Nunes only to have the actual evidence emerge later documenting how right Nunes had been all along.; 3/7/23, 9:15 AM
Aggie said...: Now let us step back from this construct for a moment. With 40,000 hours of footage, did the Democrat Progressive Liberals really think they could keep it locked up in secret, forever?

Of course they didn't. They are the ultimate, cynical pragmatists. They knew it would eventually coming into the sunlight, and the trick was to manage the glide path to 'eventually'.

You'll notice that there is protest, but not scorched earth protest. This is token resistance. The ploy has served its purpose.

You see what you can accomplish when the captured Press is not only your ally, but also your pet? The other thing to notice: It is possible to make enough noise to disrupt that controlled-crash glide path. Imagine what would have happened if this video had been released a year ago.; 3/7/23, 9:17 AM
Wa St Blogger said...: I will say it again. It is not enough to note the excess of the lawless left. It is necessary to oppose them with such vigor that they are politically neutered so that people will not be tempted to use such methods to gain power.

Once you realize the lengths that the left have been proven to go to destroy the voice of half the country, it is not hard to start wondering whether other surmised, yet unproven methods are actually true just not yet proven due to the inertia of the institutions involved as well as the active resistance by media and politicians.

If they would perpetuate the Russia hoax, lie about Wuhan, destroy innocent lives via J6, then there is no reason they would not manufacture votes to make sure Trump did not win. It's no longer a stretch. The pattern is clear. Undermine the American system to insure power for the left.

It is telling how our leftist commenters have tried to obfuscate the issue. The left does not care about America, just their causes.

Take the red pill already.; 3/7/23, 9:21 AM
rcocean said...: DOJ had access. The FBI/Capital hill police had access. The House didn't refuse access to the prosecutors. If the footage wasn't used at SOME of the trials, its because it wasn't wanted by the prosecutors. The footage was also used to identify who to arrest.

"The argument would be that after the initial crime (entering the Capitol), the escalating factor (being on the floor of the Senate) was not resisted and potentially encouraged by law enforcement."

Exactly - Channsley should be freed immediately. Others should also be freed.

BTW, a leftist who threw a molotov cocktail at a police van full of cops was sentenced to 15 MONTHS. The Shaman got 41 MONTHS. We need strict guidelines for sentencing. Quit these clown Federal judges so much leeway. They don't deserve it.; 3/7/23, 9:22 AM
wendybar said...: There WAS no insurrection on January 6th. What actually happened was the intentional disruption of the public examination of MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD that occurred in November that Nancy Pelosi was trying to hide.; 3/7/23, 9:24 AM
wendybar said...: Brandon Straka @BrandonStraka · For J6 Patriots Who Committed Suicide The Democrats, the left wing media, the DOJ, and the FBI have the blood of every suicide on their hands.; 3/7/23, 9:25 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Chuck wrote:

"He pled guilty."

This is why you are a disgusting pile of dogshit, Chuck. He pled guilty because they threatened to send him to prison for 20 years instead of just 3 1/2. You see on the video of what he was actually guilty, don't you? He pled guilty because he his lawyers no doubt told him that with a D.C. jury packed with Democrats would find him guilty of murder if the prosecutors were willing to just make the unsupported charge.; 3/7/23, 9:37 AM
Gospace said...: wildswan said...
Things the red states knew years ago; things the blue states are just now being allowed to know:

It's not states by states. It's people paying attention vs. people relying on the mainstream media.

All this was reported and talked about on various blogs. It's been known for a while to those paying attention the police were escorting the "rioters" who remarkably, weren't rioting. The videos are simply confirming the truth.; 3/7/23, 9:38 AM
Yancey Ward said...: "No true liberal would just write "he pled guilty."

What is wrong with you people?!"

Perhaps Althouse is understanding who "they" are. I have scanned about 1/3 of the thread- "they" is Chuck, Gadfly, Sprezzatura, Mutaman so far.; 3/7/23, 9:43 AM
Chuck said...: There is so much misinformation in these comments, I almost don't know where to begin.

But without any foul language or personal attacks, and ignoring all of the personal attacks on me for the sake of the comments page, here is one of the very best and most detailed reports anywhere on Jacob "QAnon Shaman" Chansley's plea-deal appearance before Senior Judge Royce Lamberth (one of the most highly-experienced judges on the DC District bench):

"'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley is sentenced to 41 months in prison." Politico; by Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney, two of the reporters most devoted to legal affairs arising out of January 6.

The detail in the story is fascinating. Chansley's own admission of his guilt; his frustration that he did not get a pardon from Trump; his lawyer's frustration at how J6 rioters had been misled by Trump; Chansley's own views that the 2020 election was not stolen. His gratitude for being transferred from DC to Virginia for the sake of his vegetarian diet, for which Judge Lamberth apparently got a lot of criticism.

Now, if this comment is so boring that it violates any of your commenting guidelines, Althouse, please let us all know what it is so that we can all correct ourselves going forward.; 3/7/23, 9:45 AM
Achilles said...: The United States is the world's terrorists.

"Americans are the most propagandized people in the world"

It is time everyone in DC faced accountability for their actions.

It is time for the Regime supporters to be destroyed.; 3/7/23, 9:46 AM
Achilles said...: wendybar said...
Meade said...
Pre-banning warning to Chuck @ 7:29 AM: She’s finding you boring. And tedious.

3/7/23, 8:05 AM

WE all do.

No.

Chuck is instructive.

He shows everyone how despicable and shitty this regime and it's supporters are.

You all need to stop running away and hiding from this. You need to face these shitheads.

If you need someone to be banned because you can't even scroll past some words you need to fix that. Absent spamming and clogging up space with carriage returns and scam links a few words on a screen should not hurt you.

You are just trying to make a safe space like college campuses and leftist echo chambers.; 3/7/23, 9:53 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Chuck, you assclown- not a single person on this thread made fun of your use of "pled". How fucking dumb are you?; 3/7/23, 9:55 AM
Bob Boyd said...: How much you want to bet Chansley was an FBI CI and he was told to be there that day and to wear his outfit and bring his spear.; 3/7/23, 9:56 AM
Old and slow said...: People keep making reference to "the left" or "the right". This is missing the point entirely. It is Washington insiders versus all the rest of us. I remember when I was much younger during the Cold War. Everything seemed so clear. We were the free world for God's sake! I pitied those poor bastards locked behind the iron curtain. They didn't even have a free and unfettered press like we did. They had to carefully decipher the propaganda to figure out what the truth was...; 3/7/23, 10:05 AM
Achilles said...: "The only doctors I will trust are the ones that were banned from twitter during COVID."

- Cattturd; 3/7/23, 10:11 AM
Marchesa Vincenzo Giustiniani said...: Can you imagine the drunk Michigan shitpile as an officer of the court?

Dollar Store Roland Freisler needs doxing, investigating, auditing, and disbarring.; 3/7/23, 10:23 AM
Mr Wibble said...: And I will raise the tin-foil hat theory that I've been tossing around in my head since the end of January 2021.

The Democrats planned to create a Constitutional Crisis if Trump, by some stroke of luck or outbreak of honesty, evaded their election frau, er, 'fortification' and won. Remember, even though Biden got 81 million (ya sure) votes, the GOP increased the number of seats they held in the House and, even though they were defending twice as many seats, still managed to eek out a tie in the Senate despite several election setbacks.

My theory is that they didn't care if Trump won reelection, because they expected to take the Senate outright, and to expand their control of the House. Trump would have spent four years battling investigations with nothing getting done, while Dems fundraised heavily off of it. Hence why they picked Biden as the nominee: he was the least likely to do damage downballot, and his loss wouldn't kill a viable political career like it would someone younger.

Instead, on election night, they watched as Trump had coattails, and were faced with the very real possibility that he'd pull the GOP into a slim majority in the House, while keeping the Senate. That would have been a disaster, and so the decision was made to flood ballots into a few states. It wouldn't surprise me if doing so also shifted a couple Senate races.; 3/7/23, 10:26 AM
Narayanan said...: So Nancy Pelosi rides off into CA sunset with gory head of Shaman in her witchcly clawy clutches.; 3/7/23, 10:31 AM
Narayanan said...: I think if Althouse counts carefully she would find that the vast majority of "true liberals" are now on the right wing of the American political divide.
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Q: are 'true liberals' can also be cruelly neutral?; 3/7/23, 10:39 AM
JAORE said...: "His life consisted of wandering around at Trump rallies and spreading Qanon bs.
His life is better off in jail. "

Wow, just wow. Both scary stupid and scary scary.

One hopes the author has no real authority within the criminal justice system.

But it's not a sure thing.; 3/7/23, 10:41 AM
wendybar said...: 🧵Exposing the January 6th Narrative:

Nancy Pelosi's son-in-law Michiel Vos took a picture with Jacob Chansley on the Capitol steps. This was right before Chansley was escorted by Capitol Police through the building.

https://twitter.com/DschlopesIsBack/status/1632924688006479873?; 3/7/23, 10:44 AM
Narayanan said...: tim in vermont said...
"Carlson’s team says the J6 committee added audio to silent CCTV footage, inserting screams and other crowd mayhem sounds, to make it seem more ominous." - NY Post
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it has/can also be claimed that FJB set off air-raid-sirens during Kyiv visit; 3/7/23, 10:45 AM
Narayanan said...: DOJ cannot subpoena Congress because of separation of powers.
=======
are we sure about that?

had DOJ [who at this time were under Garland and FJB] start coloring outside the lines how would Judicial robes-wearers act?; 3/7/23, 10:49 AM
Narayanan said...: DOJ cannot subpoena Congress because of separation of powers.
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curiously and wondrously erroneous interpretation of the principle.

DOJ is not legislating when they subpoena; 3/7/23, 10:51 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: I automatically record Tucker Carlson, then keep the last 5 recordings. Until fairly recently, I hadn’t been watching him more than an episode every month ago. Now, I am glad that I do. I watched the whole show last night. Carlson is rapidly turning into the most watched, and most powerful journalist, on the air. It’s not just this, of course, but he has also been at the forefront of vaccine injuries too. Last week, I was reading that a lot of influential people were trying to reach out to Murdoch to get Carlson fired. I think that highly unlikely. Carlson is a ratings goldmine for Fox. Take him off the air, and they face a huge financial penalty, plus a ratings crash. He can pocket the massive penalty, and pull a Joe Rogan, opening up shop elsewhere, while many in Fox’s core audience defect in disgust.

McCarthy was heavily criticized for giving Carlson a preliminary exclusive here. But, in retrospect, I think that it was a shrewd move. I expect that ultimately, the entire cache of videos will be released, and crowd sourced. And at that point, those screaming cherry picking on the part of Carlson should, if they had any morals, eat crow, because it will just look worse. But by doing this this way, McCarthy has guaranteed the biggest possible audience for the video destruction of the 1/6 narrative.; 3/7/23, 10:52 AM
wendybar said...: Greg Price
@greg_price11
The J6 Committee:

- Lied about how Brian Sicknick died
- Lied about Barry Loudermilk taking rioters on a reconnaissance mission
- Lied about Josh Hawley running away
- Lied about Ray Epps being a credible witness

@Liz_Cheney
,
@AdamKinzinger
, and
@RepAdamSchiff
are liars.
9:25 PM · Mar 6, 2023; 3/7/23, 10:52 AM
Narayanan said...: tim in vermont said...
Apparently, if Buffalo Shaman had had enough money to pay lawyers to look through the 16,000 hours of tape,
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is it really necessary to hire lawyers look through tape? can not defendant do it himself?

curious about gloriosous USA justice system??!!!; 3/7/23, 10:58 AM
Michael K said...: And as most of us knew then, and everybody knows now the entire Russia Collusion case against Trump was bullshit.

Except Inga and a few other crazies.; 3/7/23, 11:08 AM
Lurker21 said...: Social media users attributed Brian Sicknick's death to being hit with a fire extinguisher. So did the New York Times, citing two law enforcement officers. The Capitol Police did say that Officer Sicknick “passed away due to injuries sustained while on duty,” but they didn't specify what injuries he had sustained.

Doctors said Sicknick did not die from blunt force trauma, and while Sicknick had been sprayed with something like pepper spray or bear repellent, it wasn't likely to have caused his death. At this point there is no "acknowledged" or accepted version of why he died.

We do know that Brian Sicknick had a stroke after the Jan. 6th events. The fire extinguisher story was much circulated but untrue. Nor is there much reason to believe the version of the Capitol Police, given how much they've gotten wrong or concealed.; 3/7/23, 11:09 AM
Drago said...: LLR-Democratical Chuck: "There is so much misinformation in these comments, I almost don't know where to begin."

Why dont you start with your multi-year smear campaign against Devin Nunes where you pushed Schiff-ty's lies daily at Althouse blog?

Or pick any number of your other democratical smear campaigns against republicans over the last 8 years.; 3/7/23, 11:15 AM
Drago said...: LLR-Democratical Chuck: "Chansley's own admission of his guilt;"

Soviet tribunals had a 100% conviction rate with 100% of the accused "admitting guilt".; 3/7/23, 11:18 AM
Jupiter said...: Of course the cops escorted him. It was a sting operation.; 3/7/23, 11:18 AM
n.n said...: An invitation, an opened door, a rug... pulled. A Capitol fire and Dezi progression. A probable Whitmer-event.; 3/7/23, 11:42 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: How about shaming the republican who was last one in the crowded speedy exodus film clip? That was some real Houdini editing, no?
Lots of well dressed folks walking through the doors, Antifa climbing through broken windows with Maga hats and hoodies.; 3/7/23, 11:57 AM
rcocean said...: Someone said this isn't Left v. Right. Its DC vs. Us. I agree. But we need to understand that it was the Republicans who agreed to release the footage. And if there's been ANY disagreement with the fascist J6 committee, its come from Republicans.

If the Democrats and their allies like Liz cheney, Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, etc. had their way, we would NEVER have seen the footage. And they'd still be LYING.; 3/7/23, 11:59 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: I hope Carlson has good security. The corrupt vile left are probably plotting to kill him.; 3/7/23, 12:10 PM
Yinzer said...: Hey Big Mike: go fuck yourself.

I am so sick of the My Pillow guy that I automatically mute him or change the channel. I feel slightly bad about this since he put himself out there for Trump, which I appreciate, but his commercials are SO ANNOYING. If Fox were ever so stupid as to fire Tucker Carlson, I would almost be relieved at having my last reason for stomaching pillow commercials being gone!; 3/7/23, 12:17 PM
Readering said...: This will have shorter half life than the Twitter Files. Carlson will move on quickly to his next stunt. Zero convictions overturned over this video. Historians will marvel over Age of Trump. This guy was once POTUS? For real?; 3/7/23, 12:22 PM
Readering said...: I don't watch cable news, but am reading that Carlson scoop has not been picked up elsewhere on his network.; 3/7/23, 12:52 PM
tommyesq said...: "DOJ cannot subpoena Congress because of separation of powers."

So why can Congress subpoena the President?; 3/7/23, 1:03 PM
tommyesq said...: "DOJ cannot subpoena Congress because of separation of powers."

So why can Congress subpoena the President?; 3/7/23, 1:04 PM
Kai Akker said...: --- Q: are 'true liberals' can also be cruelly neutral?

Our society is a little too polarized for anyone to be cruelly neutral. Maybe sometimes on a single issue about which their passions are not engaged?

A true liberal in my book is a classical liberal who believes in free people, free markets, and the most limited republican government feasible.

We may yet get back there, Narayanan.; 3/7/23, 1:12 PM
Drago said...: Readering: "I don't watch cable news, but am reading that Carlson scoop has not been picked up elsewhere on his network."

Look who's just catching up on the Murdoch's and Paul Ryan!

About 4 years late but that's still pretty good for readering.; 3/7/23, 1:14 PM
Maynard said...: Thanks lefties. I really appreciate the democrat establishment sanctioned spin here.

As pitiful as it is.; 3/7/23, 1:16 PM
Kai Akker said...: ---Hey Big Mike: go fuck yourself.[Yinzer]

Can't you at least quote his outrageous impossible awful comment? Hard to remember them all.; 3/7/23, 1:19 PM
Rit said...: Good lord. Six days was all it took in Stockholm. Incarcerated and mistreated, Chansley prostrates himself before his tormentors and tells them what they want to hear and some believe that confers sainthood on his persecutors.; 3/7/23, 1:24 PM
Inga said...: Oh boy, another thing rightists are getting excited over…videos of Jan 6th rioters we’ve all seen before. These are not new or “never seen before”, just old stuff presented with a narrative Trumpists are desperate to hear. It’s pathetic that Trump and his minions are still leading people even further down the rabbit hole and that “they” just keep following.

What is wrong with you people?; 3/7/23, 1:50 PM
Vance said...: Note that every one of the leftists are perfectly fine with Democrats railroading and persecuting innocent people in the name of "Get Trump!"; 3/7/23, 1:50 PM
Rabel said...: It was a mistake by Kevin McCarthy, if not an intentional act to subvert the effect of the videos, to give this to Tucker Carlson.

I am not anti-Carlson but he is an openly partisan personality and the information released will automatically be discounted by large swaths of the public and the media regardless of the reality or the quality of the presentation.

Kevin McCarthy knew this.

Why is this not being handled by a select committee in the house with the resources and attention that would bring to the issues?

Because Kevin McCarthy, that's why. Wrong man at the wrong time.; 3/7/23, 2:01 PM
Achilles said...: Readering said...
This will have shorter half life than the Twitter Files. Carlson will move on quickly to his next stunt. Zero convictions overturned over this video. Historians will marvel over Age of Trump. This guy was once POTUS? For real?

In your bubble world you are right.

But your bubble world shrinks every day.

The video evidence is right in front of you but you continue to be a Regime lackey.

When the time comes for mercy, everyone needs to remember that people like Readering, your average Regime voter, wanted to throw everyone who disagreed with them in prison merely for the crime of resisting their tyranny.

Remember that Readering supported the Reichstag Fire and even after being forced to acknowledge video evidence that this is an evil lying obviously corrupt Regime she still supports throwing people in jail for opposing it.; 3/7/23, 2:06 PM
Mutaman said...: "The "'general tenor' of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary.' "

She wrote: "Fox persuasively argues, that given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer 'arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism' about the statement he makes."

U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil
Trump appointee

Judge Vyskocil never met Althouse.; 3/7/23, 2:08 PM
Birches said...: Reading just now what the idiots at the National Review are saying about Tucker's scoop...if it's not clear they're part of the problem, it's certain now.

4 years in prison for going past a barrier and then being escorted around. Ridiculous.; 3/7/23, 2:18 PM
Original Mike said...: "Perhaps Althouse is understanding who "they" are. I have scanned about 1/3 of the thread- "they" is Chuck, Gadfly, Sprezzatura, Mutaman so far."

You missed readering, 10:31pm.; 3/7/23, 2:27 PM
Dude1394 said...: 40,000 hours of tape divided by 8 is 5000. So yea, he could have spent 5000 days watching the tape. Even Carlson said they had to have capital police help with locations to make sense of it.

People that feel it is ok to keep someone who is obviously NOT a threat to society locked away for 2 years without bail are fascists and monsters. Full stop.; 3/7/23, 2:29 PM
Jim at said...: J6 is going to fall apart just like the Sicknick blood libel and Russian collusion.

No. It won't.

The left refuses to believe anything outside of their own narrative. This changes nothing.

To hell with them.; 3/7/23, 2:32 PM
Jim at said...: The chopped-up Tucker video really only shows that a couple of Capitol cops (out of hundreds) may well be MAGAts participating in the coup from outside the law. Or perhaps these unnamed folks were the QAnon Shaman's buddies wearing police uniforms.

See what I mean?

I said it yesterday. THEY are my enemy. To the core.; 3/7/23, 2:39 PM
Drago said...: "Good" news GOPe-ers!

Mitch McConnell comes out against Carlson showing the Jan 6 videos and drawing the inescapably true conclusions.

Now remember, if you just get rid of Trump all will be well in the Republican Garden with the current GOP "leadership".; 3/7/23, 2:42 PM
Achilles said...: Mitch McConnell helped Nancy Pelosi plan J6.; 3/7/23, 3:04 PM
Steve said...: No true liberal would just write "he pled guilty."

Are there any true liberals? Whatever liberals there may have been in the Democrat Party have been supplanted by progressives and there is no end to what they will do to increase their power and drive their progressive policies.; 3/7/23, 3:20 PM
Jim at said...: These are not new or “never seen before”

See what I mean?

GFY.; 3/7/23, 4:04 PM
Drago said...: Russia Collusion Truther and Hillary/FBI Hoax Dossier Dead Ender Inga: "Oh boy, another thing rightists are getting excited over…videos of Jan 6th rioters we’ve all seen before."

LOL

Inga claims this while all the democraticals are screaming on tv that these never before seen videos should not be shown!

Well, its our resident dolt Inga after all.

Inga, what percent of the 44,000 hours of video would you say you've watched?

1 hour? Maybe 2? Of just snippets put on a loop and dubbed with sound by a hollywood producer during the sham committee hearings?

Inga is so very very dumb (congrats gadfly, you are momentarily out of the biggest dummy doghouse) that she expects us to believe she has already seen all these never before publicly seen videos!

Oh, wait. I forgot. Inga claims to be able to read minds. Well, then maybe she has seen these videos thru the eyes and minds of others that she is somehow tapping into.

Is that what you meant Inga?; 3/7/23, 4:21 PM
Known Unknown said...: "I am not anti-Carlson but he is an openly partisan personality and the information released will automatically be discounted by large swaths of the public and the media regardless of the reality or the quality of the presentation."

Name one non-partisan news personality.; 3/7/23, 4:39 PM
Sheridan said...: My son is Orthodox Christian. He and his parish are preparing to celebrate Easter. It is the most important festival in the Christian calendar. Knowing that, I'm reminded of Jesus scourging the Temple just prior to his crucifix, death and resurrection. As I see it, Jesus isn't in the picture just yet. But the Temple (as a metaphor) is in our picture. The original Temple was meant to be a place of sanctity and worship. Over time, the Pharisees and money-changers co-opted the Temple and debased its meaning and purpose. There is no like-to-like comparison to the Temple and us. But our institutions, all of which contribute to our culture and society have in my opinion been corrupted through simple human nature. That corruption impacted the people of two thousand years ago. A similar corruption is now impacting our societal and cultural agencies (government, business, journalism, academia, law, religion, medicine, etc.). History does not repeat itself. It does inform us, however. The people of Judaea had no say in their governance by Rome. And Rome was not a benevolent ruler. Fast forward to today and we see similar conditions of governance by a detached, directive and dictatorial elite. Two millennia ago the people could only pray for a heavenly savior to free them from tyranny. Today, we have not yet sunk to that point of misery. I wish I knew but I can only suppose that God expects us to fight for our families, our culture and ourselves. We have not yet earned the right for a heavenly savior to descend and resolve our issues as flawed human beings. We own this mess, either through acts of commission or omission. So I say deploy "en masse" the J6 tapes. Confront the Pharisees directly (I'm looking at you Chuck, et al). Challenge the imperial governors. Expose the Praetorians and those who command them. Maybe we can purge our Temple and delay Jesus' return. Because I'm pretty certain that should He return, no-one will like the result.; 3/7/23, 4:46 PM
Readering said...: Achilles is a loon. She lives in a nightmare world of her own making.; 3/7/23, 4:53 PM
Big Mike said...: @Yinzer, think you'd have enough guts to say that to my face?; 3/7/23, 5:35 PM
Big Mike said...: @Chuck, The Capitol Police released a number of statements regarding the death of Officer Sicknick. You appear to be quoting from early ones. The final one is here, and I cannot find any other statements from www.uscp.gov. The statement begins:

The USCP accepts the findings from the District of Columbia's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner that Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes.

You asked "Just how fucking stupid are you guys?"

Smarter than you, Chuckie baby. Smarter than you.; 3/7/23, 5:41 PM
Butkus51 said...: Inga lives to lie. End of story.; 3/7/23, 5:46 PM
Rabel said...: "Name one non-partisan news personality."

The point is that it shouldn't have been a "news personality" heading this up.; 3/7/23, 5:48 PM
n.n said...: No true liberal would just write "he pled guilty."

Liberalism is a philosophy of divergence (e.g. generational, sectarian).

That said, here's to the principles of classical liberalism.; 3/7/23, 6:00 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Wrong Inga - the footage of the police escorting shaman is brand new to everyone.

Stop lying. Russian collusion trroofer.; 3/7/23, 6:10 PM
Mutaman said...: Blogger Ann Althouse said...

"No true liberal would just write "he pled guilty."

What is wrong with you people?! "

Isn't ""he pled guilty." a fact?
I like facts.; 3/7/23, 6:19 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: RAbel - like who? Who would receive that footage and do the right thing with it?

NBC?
CBS?
ABC?
NPR?; 3/7/23, 6:29 PM
walter said...: Worst insurrection ever.
More shots fired into Hunter's rancid penis...and Inga's grandkids.

Must be integrated into 1/6 lore:
Mess with the bull, get the horns.; 3/7/23, 6:49 PM