PBS News Weekend blamed Fox News and “far right” websites for the Capitol Hill riot (or as both PBS and their also tax-funded NPR guests insisted, an “insurrection”) on the eve of the fourth anniversary of that terrible day in the nation’s capital, on January 6.
Host William Brangham: ….A mob of then-President Trump supporters smashed their way into the Capitol, falsely believing that the 2020 election had been stolen. A bipartisan Senate report later found that at least seven people lost their lives in connection with the attack.
“In connection with” is doing some misleading work there: No police officers died at the scene, the only violent death being that of protester Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, shot by a Capitol Police officer as she was coming through a window.
Brangham: ….Joining us to discuss the January 6th attack are two…
