Well, I wanted to open with a halloween pun, but it’s not funny. Tucker questions the inconsistencies in the reports about the recent attack on Paul Pelosi, and why the mainstream media is attempting to hide what they’ve already said. Highlights include:
“At the first press conference on Friday, San Francisco police suggested there was a third person in the home when police arrived, and Politico dutifully reported that. ‘Officers arrived at the house, knocked on the front door, and were led inside by an unknown person.’…Now, Politico never formally corrected this claim. Instead, just two days later, Politico, the same publication, attacked anyone who reported its own reporting as a crazed conspiracy monger.”
“As long as this is a news story with public policy implications, and unfortunately, that’s what it’s become, it is fair to ask the obvious questions, as you would about any other violent crime that occurs in America, and especially this one, since so many basic facts seem to be in dispute.”
“You can’t blame people watching all of this at home for thinking that maybe there’s something weird going on here. Parts of the official account don’t make any sense, so the solution, obviously, is to release the police bodycam footage from last Friday. That’s often done immediately in cases like this, cases that attract heavy public scrutiny. Transparency restores the public’s faith in the system, it is the only thing that does.”
“Transparency is the antidote to ‘misinformation.’ On the other hand, if you want people to fall head first into crazed conspiracy theories, then you keep lying and hiding things. And yet, for some reason, the San Francisco Police Department is refusing to release Friday’s bodycam video.”
“But, the main question tonight, the one that’s going to affect your life going forward, ‘cuz this story will affect your life, the question is Who exactly is David DePape? Many in the media seem studiously uninterested, they don’t really want to know. At a police press conference last week, a reporter was caught on a hot mic being instructed by someone not to discuss DePape in any great detail. So, it was left in the end, to a journalist who doesn’t work for a big media outlet, independent reporter Michael Shellenberger, to fill in some of the blanks.”
“… the perpetrator in this violent crime against Paul Pelosi is a mentally ill, drug addicted, illegal alien nudist who takes hallucinogens and lives in a hippie school bus in Berkley with a BLM banner and a pride flag out front. So, take those uncontested facts and let them rattle around your brain for a moment until a recognizable pattern emerges. If you guessed this is obviously a textbook case of homegrown rightwing extremism, well then obviously you’ve been watching a lot of cable news today.”
“But the bottom line is, ladies and gentlemen, the mentally ill, homeless illegal alien drug addict who lives in a painted school bus in Berkley with a BLM flag is, actually, despite all appearances, another member of Donald Trump’s q-anon army.”
“What they’re really arguing is, in the wake of this attack, which is awful, against someone who did not deserve it… Unfortunately, you can no longer have free speech. They’re telling you this is an example of ‘stochastic terrorism’, a completely meaningless phrase that emerged like a virus…to infect our public discourse.”
“What they’re telling you is that dissenting in any way from the editorial positions of , say, The Washington Post or The Daily Beast or The Atlantic magazine, disagreeing with those publications and the consensus they represent isn’t simply immoral, no, it’s worse than that, it’s violence. It gets people killed, that’s the ‘stochastic terrorism’.”
“Democrats are very worried about the coming election, but they’re absolutely terrified that Elon Musk may allow people to criticize them on Twitter, and they know what Republicans don’t seem to know, which is, without censorship, the Democratic party cannot continue to hold power. Democrats understand that. They have nothing to offer. They have to stop you from asking questions, so they have to crush Elon Musk, not because he’s a right-winger, but because he will allow their opponents to speak, and of course they are using the attack on poor Paul Pelosi to do just that.”
“But something else is going on here, something beneath even all of that. Obviously, by immediately politicizing the attacks, democrats get a lot, potentially, but the main thing they do is effectively obscure the deepest truth of all, which is that what happened to Paul Pelosi isn’t so unusual anymore. Crime in this country is out of control by every measure.”
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