Who is really lying about January 6th, and why?

On Monday, Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney read aloud the transcript of private text messages between iconic Fox News Anchors, and Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on January 6th. Here’s what they revealed.

By: Mo Gerstley

In the 8,9,and 10 PM EST time-slots on Fox News, late Teusday, the primetime hosts of some of cable’s top rated and critically acclaimed television series took time from their shows to fire back on claims made by the contentious Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney who, gained national attention in the last year for her outward rejection of Trumps claims of election irregularities along with her brazen averment that the 45th President was directly responsible for the siege of the Capital on January 6th, on Monday read aloud excerpts of online conversations between Fox News Anchors and Former White House Cheif of Staff, Mark Meadows on the day of Januray 6th, 2021, obtained by the select-house committee investigating the events of Januray 6th. In the since comprehensively analyzed text messages, primetime Fox News hosts, such as Saun Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and co-host of the networks mornings show, “Fox and Friends,” Brian Kilmeade, appeared to have passionately plead then-White House Cheif of Staff, Mark Meadows to get then-President Doanld Trump to release a statement condemning the ongoing events in the Capitol Building, in an attempt to stop further violence from continuing at the Nation’s Capital. While Liz Cheney seemed to have thought the quotes were compromising to members of the GOP, and specifically those at Fox News, the texts seem to have done just the opposite. In fact, Laura Ingraham says that the messages reveal the “same language I used publically” and just revive the since abandoned public comments made by Ingraham during the riots. Ingraham did in fact tweet a condemnation of the events occurring on January 6th at the time, and her claims on her Monday night show, was that those were the same claims she made on her hit-show throughout the year.

Above, several tweets from Fox News Anchor, Laura Ingraham condemned the violence at the Capitol on January 6th.Saun Hannity made similar claims, saying that he's always condemned any form of violence, regardless of their motive or the political affiliation of the perpetrators, saying that violence on “both sides” ought to be accursed. He also briefly played audio from his radio show which had been broudcasting live when the Capitol was breached, in which Hannity could be heard saying that the rioters were wrong in their persuits, and that the President should condem it. It seems as though both Ingraham and Hannity, the hosts of the 9 PM and 10 PM EST segments on Fox, each of which accumulates millions of views each night, coordinated their responses to send a clear message: In contrast to the left-wing media, we will condem violence on both sides of the aisle, for our alliegence is to the country not the party. Some on social media have rejected the claims, saying that suggestions made by Ingraham and others that members of the crowd were Antifa, deligitamizes their response. However, Ingraham retains her defense, tweeting at 10:58 PM, that “theres this inconvenient” truth about her statements regarding January 6th, that people like Liz Cheny refuse to accept.

But what is most enthralling, is the defense made by 8PM EST, host of “Tcker Carlson Tonight,” Tucker Carlson. Carlson rapidly changed defenses within the span of a few moments. The 52 year-old Anchor whould be saying that hed defend law and order regardless of the situation, and that he wholeheartedly acknowledged the severighty of January 6th at the time, to hastily shifting his claims to proposing that the event “barely” occurred. The odd change in defenses is something, certainly to note, but it still does not resolve the question posed. “Who is really lying about January 6th, and why?” Analyzing the claims made on all three of Fox’s primetime hosts along with their social media posts, it can certainly be said that the three haven't shied away from condemning President Trumps role in January 6th, both publically and privately, and to suggest otherwise like Liz Cheney did, whould be inaccurate. But why? What is prompting such manipulation of the facts, and alteration from Cheney and the left? Perhaps it is because this event, which undeniably was one of true horror, and geopolitical tragedy, could easily be pinned on the right-wing to those unwilling, or unable to do further research. To those who perceive a large-base of American voters as uninformed, this would be a good campaign tool to win the elections, and allow for a new era to be ushered in, and for the left to regain power. The apparent degradation of facts, for the benefit of the left, is a move that may become beneficial in the long run, but regardless of the immiedite political outcome, these lies will not be forgotten.