“The program conveniently cherry-picked from the calmer moments of our 41,000 hours of video. The commentary fails to provide context about the chaos and the violence that happened before or during these less tense moments.”

— internal message to officers from the U.S. Capitol Police about Tucker Carlson’s attempt to whitewash the January 6th insurrection

But this hardly matters.  The people who are likely to believe Tucker Carlson will simply believe whatever they want anyway.  They just want their self-vindicating fantasy articulated by a speaker they “trust.”

Recall, please, that this is the same crowd that regularly excoriates the rest of us for being taken in by “fake news.”