Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel couldn’t resist the chance to make a reference Jan. 6 against Fox News’ Tucker Carlson after the film editing award was handed out during Sunday night’s ceremony.
“Anyone who has received a text from their father knows how important editing is,” he began. ‘Publishers do amazing things. Editors can turn 44,000 hours of violent insurrection footage into a respectful panoramic tour of the Capitol. His work is underrated,” Kimmel said.
It was an obvious reference to Carlson, even though Kimmel didn’t even mention him by name.
The comment generated a great laugh in the public of the Dolby Theater.
He was referring to how last week Carlson received footage so he could launch a new effort to explain the deadly attack on the Capitol.
Carlson increasingly linked the Republican Party to pro-Trump conspiracy theories about the 2021 riots, describing the riots as “peaceful”.
Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel referenced the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection when presenting the award for film editing.
Trump supporters are seen walking peacefully through the Capitol on January 6, 2021 from handpicked images. Carlson described them as ‘tourists’
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy released more than 40,000 hours of surveillance footage of the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol to tame ‘tourists.
Since the images were put together, there has been an angry backlash from both Democrats and Republicans, as well as the Capitol Police.
“An opinion show aired comments full of offensive and misleading conclusions about the January 6 attack,” the force’s chief, Tom Manger, wrote in an internal memo shortly after the show aired.
“The show handpicked some of the quieter moments from our 41,000 hours of video. The comment provides no context for the chaos and violence that occurred before or during these less tense times,” he added.
Last week, Carlson selected footage of the siege to create a narrative that the Trump supporters who stormed Congress were “tidy and tame” tourists.
Tucker Carlson posted footage Monday night from inside the Capitol on January 6, including clips showing ‘QAnon Shaman,’ Jacob Chansley (above), apparently being ‘escorted’ through the building.
In footage projected on Carlson’s show last Monday night, so-called QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley was apparently seen being escorted into the Senate by Capitol Hill police officers.
Carlson challenged the prevailing narrative that Chansley, jailed for four years for the incident, aggressively stormed the chamber.
Footage was also broadcast of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died shortly after the riot.
It was originally suggested that Sicknick’s death occurred as a result of being attacked with a fire extinguisher and pepper spray by rioters.
But a medical examiner later ruled that he had died of natural causes. And Carlson shared footage of Sicknick walking through the Capitol after the attack.
He appeared to be in good health, which the Fox News host said threw cold water on the liberal media’s insistence that protesters on Capitol Hill had Sicknick’s blood on their hands.
Chansley is seen being followed through the Capitol by a police officer.
Chansley, with his megaphone, is seen on January 6, 2021 inside the Capitol
He also referenced Ray Epps, who was seen among the rioters urging them to storm the Capitol but was never charged, raising suspicions that Epps was, in fact, an informant. Epps has denied working for the government.
On Monday, Carlson suggested that Epps was lying.
“They were neat and meek,” Carlson said of those who stormed the Capitol. ‘These were not insurgents; they were tourists.
Carlson said they “obviously revere the Capitol,” noting that they took selfies and “made orderly lines.”
‘Deadly insurrection. Everything about that sentence is a lie,’ she said.
‘Very little about January 6 was organized or violent. Surveillance video from inside the Capitol shows mostly peaceful chaos.
Carlson pointed to images showing the ‘QAnon Shaman,’ a bare-chested Jacob Chansley wearing a Viking helmet, inside the Capitol.
Chansley, a 33-year-old Navy veteran from Arizona, was one of the highest-profile figures to enter the Capitol on January 6.
He has been jailed for almost four years for ‘obstructing an official proceeding’.
In the footage, Chansley appears to be guided by an official as he tours the Capitol.
He passes a line of riot police, who make no move to stop him.
He is then escorted to several chamber entrances that appear to be locked, eventually finding an open door through which he disappears.
“Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was recorded,” Carlson said.
The tapes show that the Capitol Police never arrested Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as their tour guides.
Carlson also showed the moments after Officer Brian Sicknick was confronted by the rioters.
Sicknick, 42, died on January 7, the day after the riot.
Brian Sicknick is seen shortly after the Capitol is breached. Carlson said he appeared ‘healthy and vigorous’
Capitol Hill rioter Julian Khater (pictured left) was sentenced to 80 months in prison for his role in the pepper spray assault of police officer Brian Sicknick (pictured right), who died the day after of the riots of January 6, 2021.
In April 2021, the DC Medical Examiner ruled that Sicknick, who was injured while confronting rioters, suffered a stroke and died of natural causes.
“To this day, media reports describe Sicknick as someone who was, in quotes, ‘killed’ on January 6,” Carlson said.
“The video we reviewed proves it to be a lie.”
Carlson said the officer was “healthy and vigorous” and noted that he was wearing a helmet.
“So it’s hard to imagine that he was killed from a head injury,” he said.
“Obviously, what happened to Brian Sicknick was not the result of the violence he suffered outside the Capitol.
“This tape overturns the most powerful and politically useful lie Democrats have ever told us about January 6.”
There have been multiple deaths related to the riots, including four Trump supporters, one of whom, Ashli Babbitt, was shot and killed by Capitol Hill police.
Carlson further suggested that the alleged Capitol Rioter Ray Epps, pictured wearing a red Trump cap, was actually an FBI agent sent to stoke the violence. Epps denies his claims
Four officers died by suicide in the days and weeks after the riot.
There have also been approximately 1,000 arrests.
The footage comes as Fox News continues to contest a $1.6 billion lawsuit brought against the broadcasting giant by Dominion, which made the voting machines for the 2020 election.
Fox is being sued over claims the network endorsed theories that the company’s voting machines were rigged to achieve a Biden victory.
The station’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, recently spoke out about the lawsuit, saying he “wish it (Fox) had come out more forcefully” against the stolen election claims.
Fox News denies the claims made against it by Dominion.
