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Right-wing gadfly tells Fox News that the attack on the Capitol wasn't a coup or insurrection
February 24, 2021
In a bizarre moment on Fox News Tuesday, right-wing personality Dinesh D'Souza has turned to a new conspiracy around the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Despite the hours of camera footage, the live streaming, photos, over 250 arrests and outright admissions of guilt, D'Souza told Fox News' Laura Ingraham that the attackers didn't exist, Media Matters captured.
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"They didn't exist at that point because I think the Democrats felt at that point that they needed a kind of paramilitary wing to agitate against Trump and they had to do it at every level and they had to kind of say that Trump was presiding over all the social unrest so they could then try to blame on him, on his administration," Mr. D'Souza said. "Now, I think what's remarkable about this hearing today is the Democrats completely changed their narrative."
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He explained that there was a narrative after Jan. 6 that has since collapsed.
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<span></span>"There was no insurrection, there was no coup," he claimed. "As you mention, the only shot fired in the Capitol on Jan. 6 was the shot fired by a policeman into Ashli Babbitt's neck. They tried very hard —<em>The New York Times</em> was the chief culprit in making up the story about Brian Sicknick, now they knew that the story was a lie from the beginning, and the reason is that there is plenty of video of what was happening all over the Capitol. And yet you will notice there never was any video of Brian Sicknick being hit on the head with a fire extinguisher. <em>The New York Times </em>made that up, attributed to unnamed sources and never published a correction, they just later said, 'Well the story has been updated because there's been new facts that have come in.' The truth of it is they tried to construct a false narrative and now that that false narrative has imploded they're moving to the, let's call it the white supremacy narrative, which is equally bogus."
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Ana Navarro says Ron Johnson must 'make up cockamamie, ridiculous, asinine stories' to justify 'stupid votes'
February 23, 2021
Republican consultant Ana Navarro said on Tuesday that she was embarrassed by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and that she was embarrassed for the people of Wisconsin.
Speaking to CNN's Don Lemon about the senator's claim that the Capitol attackers were "fake Trump supporters," she reasoned that Republicans have to make up conspiracy theories to justify dumb things.
<p>"Ron Johnson, the day of the impeachment trial and vote came up to Mitt Romney on the floor of the senate and got into an argument with Mitt Romney -- had words with him -- over Mitt Romney's conscientious vote," Navarro recalled. "Now, listen, if Ron Johnson decides to run next year for re-election, he has to get through a Republican primary first. And he knows if he takes the conscientious, honorable, honest, sane approach of a Mitt Romney or Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, he will face the wrath of Donald Trump, who will, no doubt, will not vacillate, and find somebody to primary him and he might very well lose the primary. That's why people who lack a spine, who lack courage, who put career over honor, and over duty, and over country, are people like Ron Johnson. And that's why they have to make up these cockamamie, ridiculous, asinine stories! Because they have to sell it to somebody. They have to justify the stupidity and illogical votes that they have taken and stories that they have stuck to. It is their only route."</p><p>See Navarro's comments below: </p><p><br/></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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Maddow cracks up over sudden decision by Ted Cruz and Richard Burr that health secretary must be a doctor
February 23, 2021
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Richard Burr (R-NC) invented a reason that they can't possibly support President Joe Biden's appointee to the Department of Health and Human Services. According to both men, the fact that Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D-CA) isn't a doctor is a sticking point with them.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow took issue with the complaint from the Republicans because when they were asked to support former President Donald Trump's former HHS secretaries, they did so without complaint. None of those men were doctors either.
<p>"Sen Cruz voted for him even though you'll be shocked to learn, Alex Azar is also not a doctor," Maddow said. "'See, it's unacceptable to nominate a non-doctor to be health secretary unless that nominee is from a Republican president in which case ..... I have to go.'"</p><p>But Cruz isn't the only one. Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina also had concerns over Becerra not being a doctor. </p><p>"Sen. Burr's objection is that Xavier Becerra served on coming for a long time on committee that's had important Oversight roles in health care issues, involved in a lot of health care policy that way," Maddow explained. "But Sen. Burr said that's not appropriate experience for someone joining the Cabinet to work on health issues. That's his stance against Xavier Becerra being health secretary. Yes, he worked on health stuff a ton in Congress but that's not the experience you need for being health secretary in the Cabinet."</p><p>The problem with that, however, is that Sen. Burr supported President Donald Trump's nominee to the Director of National Intelligence based on his work in Congress over national security issues. </p><p>"Despite that stance now, under President Trump, Sen. Richard Burr expressed great enthusiasm for a Trump Cabinet nominee named Dan Coats," Maddow explained. "He was nominated to be the director of national intelligence. Why did Sen. Burr like Dan Coats for that job so much? Even though Dan Coats had never held any national security or intelligence job ever before getting that nomination? Well, Sen. Burr explained it at the time, he said 'Dan Coats would be an excellent choice for director of national intelligence.' He said, 'Dan's experience as a valued member of the Senate Intelligence Committee will help to guide him as the next director of national intelligence.' He said 'I think his time on the committee has served him to understand what that role entails.' So to be clear, just serving in Congress, being on committees that work something, that's not enough to make you qualified to serve in the Cabinet only issue unless you're nominated by a Republican president, and then it's okay. If you're nominated by a Democratic president on the same basis, then you are deeply unqualified and you must be withdrawn."</p><p>Maddow then cracked up laughing at the hypocrisy:</p><p><br/></p>
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