WATCH: Anderson Cooper Lays Into Tucker Carlson About January 6 Tapes, Here's What He Said...

By Ryan Canady | Saturday, 11 March 2023 10:00 PM
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WATCH: Anderson Cooper Lays Into Tucker Carlson About January 6 Tapes, Here's What He Said...

CNN’s Anderson Cooper has taken issue with the fact that Tucker Carlson received and aired some tapes from January 6.

The Independent reports that Cooper stated that Carlson would have been “wetting his pants” if he had been at the Capitol on the day of the protest.

Anderson Cooper spoke with former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fannone, who was assaulted on January 6 as he attempted to protect the Capitol. The two discussed the characterization by Carlson that those who attacked the Capitol on January 6 were nothing more than “sightseers.”

Cooper said: “The idea of Tucker Carlson being in that mob that day and not wetting his pants is hard to imagine,” and “I find it hard to understand somebody who’s never put himself in harm’s way in any capacity for anyone else or on reporting a story and yet has the audacity to try to rewrite history.”

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Anderson Cooper has been on the ground in many dangerous situations while reporting on different stories worldwide. He has even reported from active war zones at times. He has some ground to stand on regarding being brave while reporting in a certain area.

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy recently provided Tucker Carlson with exclusive tapes from inside and around the Capitol on January 6. Carlson’s program then selected certain clips they wanted to show from that day to paint a certain picture related to what happened. Cooper stated that Carlson is attempting to “rewrite history on what is one of the most consequential, certainly one of the biggest events in American democracy — biggest threats to American Democracy.”

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Cooper continued by saying: “Tucker Carlson is, by his own admission, an entertainer, not a journalist. And on top of that, he’s proven himself just to be Donald Trump’s chief propagandist,”

U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil has also weighed in on this via a ruling, writing: “Fox persuasively argues that given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statement he makes,”

Overall, there is a lot of criticism flying Carlson’s way for how he handled these tapes.

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