Claim: January 6 was an insurrection
The spin is already in full flight on the US news 'media' as they try to helicopter themselves out of a swamp full of lies
Footage of the January 6th protests shows people peacefully milling around, lining up for tours, and the so-called “Qanon Shaman” Jacob Chansley, who was later sentenced to 41 months in prison for his presence in the building, being shown around the Capitol building by the Capitol police, who were opening doors for him and clearly not trying to stop him - which is what Jacob Chansley has said in interviews puzzled him. He understood Capitol police were his allies, and he gave thanks for them in a prayer while he was in the building.
It also shows police officer Brian Sicknick walking around completely fine after being supposedly mortally injured and then collapsing according to various news reports that have not been corrected.
This story has been added to my main article on the subject of disinformation around January 6:
News media response
What you can tell from the mainstream media response is that the thing they are most worried about is losing Brian Sicknick as a symbol for the ‘insurrection’, because they spend the most time trying unsuccessfully to debunk Tucker Carlson’s footage of Brian Sicknick walking around, perfectly well, after he has supposedly been beaten half to death.
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News media should already know this: Brian Sicknick’s death was ruled natural in the autopsy.
NBC is the most honest and put a paragraph at the end of the earlier story pointing out the facts.
Forbes at least reports that the autopsy showed no evidence of blunt force trauma:
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But while NBC are reporting on this story, they are not really engaging with Tucker Carlson’s points in any way, shape or form, instead spinning the whole thing:
NPR still has the incorrect story available with no updates or corrections that comes up on Brave on the first page (note links go to archive.is to catch the story as of today 8 March 2023)
CNN has not corrected their earlier report either, and it came up on the first page of the Brave search I did:
Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick died Thursday night “due to injuries sustained while on-duty,” Capitol Police said in a statement. He was one of five people who died in the violence.
Sicknick was injured while physically engaging with the rioters and collapsed after returning to his division office, the statement said.
“He was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries,” the Capitol Police statement said.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/08/us/brian-sicknick-death/index.html
It is worth looking at the CNN coverage of Tucker Carlson to see the spin happening already.
For instance CNN admits that Sicknick died of natural causes, but tries to place the blame on him being sprayed with pepper spray by protesters:
On January 6, Sicknick was attacked with pepper spray and physically fought with members of the mob. An officer testified that she saw Sicknick in significant distress after he was sprayed. He died one day later after suffering a series of strokes. The DC medical examiner ruled that Sicknick died of natural causes but said, “all that transpired (on January 6) played a role in his condition.”
They neglect to mention that the autopsy found no evidence of blunt force trauma.
Indeed, to CNN it’s all a narrative; in this paragraph they are acknowledging here that they believe the postmodernist lie that there is no truth, but that everything is simply spin:
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy once spoke about the violence at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, in starkly different terms than the narrative Fox News host Tucker Carlson is presenting with footage McCarthy provided to him, which has been selectively used to downplay the violence.
It is quite sickening – clearly Kevin McCarthy no longer believes this ‘narrative’ completely, because it is he who opened up the footage for Tucker Carlson to go through it.
If it was really an 'insurrection' it would have looked like this: https://apnews.com/article/taliban-takeover-afghanistan-what-to-know-1a74c9cd866866f196c478aba21b60b6