The Republican Majority Is ‘Basically Bringing Tucker Carlson His Coffee’

Kevin McCarthy's role called out in Tucker Carlson's Jan 6 propaganda

While most attention is on far-right Fox News host Tucker Carlson for the whitewashed propaganda he presented this week about the January 6, 2021, insurrection, Carlson's fictitious portrayal of that day would not have been possible without the cooperation of Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

So pointed out conservative commentator and “Never Trumper,” Charlie Sykes.

Carlson cherry-picked through more than 40,000 hours of surveillance footage provided to him exclusively last month in order to this week air a program depicting the violent attack on the US Capitol Building as nothing more than peaceful and “meek” sightseers.

In truth, the mob which attacked the Capitol did so at the behest of Donald Trump, so as to to try to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to Joe Biden as the next president of the United States.

Carlson's depiction was roundly criticized as dishonest, even by other Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen Thom Tillis of North Carolina.

But Carlson's work would not have been possible but for McCarthy releasing that huge trove of footage to Carlson. McCarthy reportedly did so to satisfy one of the many promises that he made House Republicans in order to secure his election as speaker in January after an astounding 15 ballots.

“But I also think it’s important to know that yes, Tucker Carlson is a hypocrite, he’s a faker, he’s a B.S.-er, he's a terrible dancer, but also that this whole story we are talking about right now, where Tucker Carlson is pushing not just the big lie about the election but now the big lie about January 6, is also the role that Kevin McCarthy is playing here, because Kevin McCarthy has decided that he is going to be joined at the hip with a man that we know is one of the most dishonest broadcasters in America, who only barely pretends to be a journalist,” said Sykes, an American political commentator who is currently editor-in-chief of the website The Bulwark. “But none of this would be happening if Kevin McCarthy had not, when he was in the process of self-gilding, surrendering to the Freedom Caucus, one of the deals he made was that he had to give Tucker Carlson all of these hours.

“So here you have the House GOP, joined absolutely to what Fox is doing and what Tucker is doing, and whatever Republicans were hoping that Republican majority would do, what they are doing is basically doing Tucker Carlson’s -- you know, they are bringing Tucker Carlson his coffee. They are acting as his gophers, and that is the political reality of the moment,” Sykes added.

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