Colin Jost kicked off Weekend Update with a couple of Oscar yuks, including one that reference John Travolta and how he botched Idina Menzel’s name at the 2014 Academy Awards.
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After learning that House speaker Kevin McCarthy turned over 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from Jan. 6 exclusively to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, “The View” host Sunny Hostin speculated Wednesday that he did so at the behest of one of his congressional coworkers.During Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” the hosts unanimously agreed that turning the footage over to Carlson was “dangerous,” because it both exposes where exactly cameras are within the Capitol, and because “it allows Tucker Carlson to invent his own narrative about what happened.”Host Joy Behar argued that, in all likelihood, Carlson and his team are “going to be cherry-picking it in order to, you know, corroborate however they can their absurd conspiracy theories.” That’s when Hostin wondered aloud if McCarthy is allowing this because it was a promise that got him the job in the first place.“I think — well, I don’t want to guess but, you know, he had to make a lot of concessions to become speaker,” Hostin said.
“And so maybe one of the concessions that he had to give Marjorie Taylor Greene, or one of his supporters, was give Tucker Carlson this. We know how powerful Tucker Carlson has become within the Republican Party.”As the discussion continued, Hostin eventually suggested the same thing again, and wondered why one house committee in particular isn’t getting involved.“Again, that may be something that he had to give those people that want to carry weapons within the sacred halls of Congress,” Hostin said.
Colin Jost kicked off Weekend Update with a couple of Oscar yuks, including one that reference John Travolta and how he botched Idina Menzel’s name at the 2014 Academy Awards.
Former Vice President Mike Pence was one of the featured speakers at the white tie Gridiron Club dinner in Washington on Saturday, an event that typically is a showcase of sometimes biting humor.
unearthed text messages sent by the late night host prior to the Jan. 6 attack. “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights.
@TuckerCarlson tells me I am the first person to ask him for access to the Jan 6 tapes. pic.twitter.com/w4bvKlcQfvCarlson and “Tucker Carlson Tonight” disclosed that they had requested to see the footage from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who acknowledged the transfer.Beck still could not believe that no one reached out and asked for some kind of preview.“So nobody from the news department, any news department …,” Beck said.
After new texts from Tucker Carlson were revealed this week, in which he admitted he hates twice-impeached former president Donald Trump “passionately,” Jimmy Fallon is actually defending the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host. According to Fallon, most friend groups bash at least one member in private.On Tuesday, new court filings from Dominion Voting Systems were made public as part of their ongoing $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News.
Stephen Colbert continued to roast Tucker Carlson on Wednesday’s “The Late Show,” this time deploying a rather creative use of the latest fad technology to do it.Specifically, Colbert used AI to recreate Carlson’s own voice, and made said voice read tweets Carlson sent bashing former president Donald Trump. It’s pretty funny but more important, it’s eerily spot-on.Now, we’re sure by now you know what inspired this, but just in case, Fox News is being sued for billions by Dominion Voting Systems over the network content that falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen by Donald Trump and that somehow, Dominion was involved.
a statement. “We also agree with what Fox News’s own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law: that Tucker Carlson is not credible,” Bates added, referring to testimony stemming from the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox that David Clark, a senior vice president at Fox News, does not consider Carlson a credible source of news.
The White House went on the attack against Tucker Carlson over his segments that downplayed the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
In new filings from Dominion Voting Systems, even more messages from Fox hosts were revealed, including ones where Tucker Carlson admitted he hates Donald Trump. And on Wednesday morning’s episode of “The View,” host Sunny Hostin couldn’t help but laugh at the latest developments.The court filings from Dominion Voting Systems were made public on Tuesday as part of their ongoing $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News.
wrote on Twitter that he would only join him after Carlson “admits to his viewers live on air that he has been lying to them about the 2020 elections and about what happened on January 6.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper slammed Fox News on Tuesday after the conservative network aired select clips from about 40,000 hours of Capitol security footage during the events of Jan. 6, 2021. “Fox used the footage given to them exclusively by House speaker Kevin McCarthy to frame a description of the events of Jan.
Like other late night hosts, Wayans wasn’t exactly surprised by Carlson’s take on things, arguing that it was bound to happen with cherry-picked video footage.“All Tucker Carlson proved is that you can make anything look better by not showing the bad part,” Wayans said, before taking a guess at how Carlson might spin another violent event in history, asking, “How come they never show 9/11 planes taking off?”You can watch the full segment from “The Daily Show” in the video above.
continue lying to his viewers. So, on Tuesday night, the “Late Night” host showed how easy it is to cherry-pick video footage to create a narrative — using John Wick as an example.On Monday’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Carlson repeated the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from twice-impeached former president Donald Trump, and made multiple false claims related to the Jan.
that here.“Thanks to the former president, there’s a whole industry of people who make a good living trying to make you think you’re insane,” Colbert said as he kicked off his monologue. “Well, I make a very good living reminding you that you’re not.”Then he got to his explanation for Fox News’ actions.
The chief of Capitol Police blasted Tucker Carlson’s characterization of the January 6th attack on the Capitol, calling the Fox News host’s conclusions “offensive and misleading.”
Tucker Carlson aired the first clips of January 6th Capitol surveillance footag on Monday, and the Fox News host spent much of the time using clips to downplay the attack on the Capitol and cast doubt on the 2020 presidential election.
deposition he gave last month that he knew Fox News Channel was spreading false claims about the 2020 presidential election. Claims that Dominion voting machines were compromised are the basis of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems. Darcy said Murdoch’s deposition will be detrimental to the channel, especially the case goes to trial.“It will be devastating for Fox, I mean this is a taste of what’s to come. Imagine Rupert Murdoch on the stand, Lachlan Murdoch on the stand, Sean Hannity on the stand, Tucker Carlson on the stand,” said Darcy. “This will be weeks and weeks of damning headlines, which could really damage Fox’s brand.
reported on Wednesday. And according to McCarthy, any backlash over the decision from Democrats or the media is simply a matter of jealousy that they didn’t land the opportunity instead of Carlson.“People like exclusives, and Tucker is some[one] that’s been asking for it. So I let him come in and see it, but everyone’s gonna get it,” McCarthy said.
has also castigated McCarthy, for allowing Carlson and Fox News to “concoct an alternative narrative.”Watch video of the full exchange below.Fearing a coverup, Mike Lindell will sue Kevin McCarthy so LindellTV can have access to the January 6th Capitol footage just like Tucker Carlson.Lindell: “We’re going to run this all the way to the Supreme Court.” pic.twitter.com/riFLFdUj1S
News broke Monday that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Fox News host Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 of surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol, and Stephen Colbert is very concerned about what message that footage will be used to send.To start with, the “Late Show” host made sure to point out that Carlson himself has cast doubt on the events of Jan.