I am so pleased today to see The Roanoke Times print my letter about Tucker Carlson’s efforts to misinform the American public about the January 6th, 2021 attack on our nation’s capital. You can find it right here in today’s paper.
The Roanoke Times is Virginia’s third-largest newspaper, serving 19 counties throughout the southwest portion of the state. Its weekday readership is estimated at 163,000 people.
I’m honored today to see that Newsday published my letter to the editor about Tucker Carlson’s recent misinformation about the January 6th, 2021 attack on the Capitol. It’s the very last letter in today’s Letters page; you can find it right here.
Newsday is America’s ninth-largest newspaper, and the third-largest in New York State. Its Sunday circulation is just under a half million people.
If you shot 41,000 hours of video of Germany invading Poland in 1939, you could select out clips of German soldiers walking along without firing their weapons.
You could claim they entered the country as peaceful tourists — and that the nefarious forces of the oppressive Polish government had orchestrated a lie.
There’s a catch, though. The only people who would believe you would be those who already sympathized with the Nazis.
“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.”
Two years ago today, a sitting American President incited a massive domestic terror attack to prevent his democratically elected successor from replacing him.
Thanks to all those who bravely fought to protect our democracy from a homicidal would-be king. And thanks to those who are still carrying on that fight.
I’m very happy to see that The Roanoke Star has featured my latest letter to the editor — about people who draw a comparison between the January 6th attack on the Capitol and protests by Black Lives Matter. You can find it right here.
Thanks, as always, to Publisher Stuart Revercomb for allowing me to share with my neighbors in Roanoke via The Roanoke Star.
… this one about the January 6th coup attempt.
Bear in mind, please, that this was written the evening of January 6th — long before the more frightening details of the coup emerged.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 