Losing trust in the mainstream media
“They forced us to lie about everything,” said Tucker Carlson in his speech at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night. The primary reason he supports Donald Trump, Carlson continued, is because Trump “liberated” the American people, liberated us “from the obligation to tell lies.”
I can relate to that. I owe my career as an author -- 15 nonfiction books and several documentaries -- to the legacy media’s unwillingness to tell the truth. To my good fortune, they leave the big stories on the table. Citizen journalists take up the slack -- in my case, TWA Flight 800, the death of Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, the authorship of Dreams from My Father, and the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt among others.
No event in recent memory has spawned as many lies and as much mendacious reporting as the Capitol brouhaha on January 6, 2021. Indeed, citizen journalists and the alternative media are responsible for all honest reporting on this epic subject. Yes, all.
No journalist has experienced January 6 quite as intimately as Steve Baker. He spent nearly two hours live streaming inside the Capitol on that fateful day and is now affiliated with Glenn Beck’s “The Blaze.” In the three years following January 6, Baker has reported fearlessly on the injustice being dished out in the D.C. courts. The DoJ noticed. On March 1, 2024, the FBI disregarded Baker’s status as a journalist and arrested him on four misdemeanor charges.
While ignoring Baker’s arrest, if not applauding it, the legacy media have made a hero out of a man who personifies the era’s mendacity, former Capitol police officer Harry Dunn. If there is any one individual who has ascended into the media stratosphere solely on the basis of a lie it is the shameless Officer Dunn. Unfortunately for Dunn, Baker’s just released two-part documentary, “A Day in the Life of Harry Dunn,” brings him crashing back to earth.
Dunn’s lies matter. They have made him the most celebrated hero of the Left’s most celebrated event. To sell their version of the event, the Left has pitted Dunn against the day’s most reviled villains, the Oath Keepers. To prove that the largely peaceful protest on January 6 was an insurrection or something like it, the Department of Justice needed to convict people who looked like they could actually overthrow the government. Enter the Alpha males of the Oath Keepers and their eyepatch-wearing leader, Stewart Rhodes, stage right.
This loosely affiliated group of 35,000 patriots, two-thirds of whom were veterans of the military or law enforcement, had an unblemished record until they walked into the DoJ’s trap on January 6. In November 2022, the DoJ convicted four members on charges ranging from obstruction of an official proceeding to seditious conspiracy. Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Kelly Meggs 12 years, Jessica Watkins, 8 1/2 years, and Kenneth Harrelson 4 years.
Most conspicuous of those protecting the Capitol from the Oath Keepers on January 6 was Dunn. The 6’ 7” 300-pound African American showboat never could quite keep his story straight, and he talked a lot -- to the FBI, to the House J6 Committee, to his ghostwriter, to every talk show host that would host him, to the jury that convicted the four Oath Keepers, and lately to Harris-Walz supporters on the campaign trail.
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I have always thought it was an overrated event designed to denigrate Trump supporters. I never believed that the demonstrators were a threat to democracy, much less an attempt to overthrow the government. They were primarily using their First Amendment right to say the 2020 election was rigged. The left never wanted to investigate what some saw as election interference. Because the left did not want to do that the questions about the fairness of the 2020 election linger.
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