'insurrection' by Colbert's crew? gimme a break

[butters]

Carlson was referring to the arrest of seven production crew members for Colbert’s CBS show Thursday night, which was filming a segment in the Capitol with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, a crass puppet voiced by comedian Robert Smigel. Capitol police said Friday that the arrests happened after the building had been closed to visitors and the crew had already been told to leave the building.

Colbert’s team had finished up prearranged interviews with lawmakers and were filming “final comedy elements” in the building’s hallways when the arrests took place, CBS news said in a statement. All seven crew members were slapped with unlawful entry charges.

“It’s exactly like what happened on Jan 6., so we’ll take a close look at what the punishments are,” Carlson told his viewers Friday night.

He’s wrong. In the case of Jan. 6, five people died and more than 140 officers were injured after hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory. In the case of Colbert’s crew, they were arrested filming a comedy segment featuring a puppet best known for hurting people’s feelings.

The difference, of course, is that comedian Smigel was armed with a microphone, and one of the men Loudermilk gave a tour to was later seen marching on the Capitol, filming an accomplice who was armed with a spear while making targeted threats against lawmakers

they had no business being where they were, when they were, and without a Congresscritter to escort them. Hardly the same thing as jan 6th, though. how does carlson get away with talking shit the way he does is because he knows no bloody shame and the gullible lap it up.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...sedgntp&cvid=a0e107ae9b354727b643be03d88df5ff

in another report i saw it mentioned that they were in a lot of the places loudermilk's jan.5th tour were... so i wonder if, behind the story of finishing filming, they were actually seeking confirmation/discredit of loudermilk's claims about what his 'tourists' were photographing.

 

[phrodeau]

Tucker has made it clear that events of 1/6/21 were not an insurrection, so this can’t be either.

 

[butters]

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/18/doj...nlawful-entry-arrests-capitol-police-say.html

no prosecution

 

[coati]

no prosecution

Wow, what a double standard-- a puppet show gets treated differently than white supremacists beating Capitol cops with flagpoles.