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CNN’s Don Lemon had another on-air fit Tuesday morning after Fox News aired new footage of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot that undermined the media’s narrative of a “deadly insurrection.” Lemon, whose public image is still recovering after he declared last month that women over 40 are past their “prime,” complained that Fox News was given a scoop instead of CNN.
On Monday’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Fox News aired new surveillance footage of the Capitol released to the network by Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The tapes exposed the remarkable deception of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Select Committee on Jan. 6, which featured manipulated audio and video footage to dramatize the riot for Democrats’ show-trial hearings. Carlson’s reporting showed the select committee misrepresented GOP Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley’s evacuation from the Capitol and concealed evidence that Ray Epps, the mysterious protester who encouraged demonstrators to storm congressional chambers, lied about his whereabouts.
Carlson’s journalism, Lemon fumed on Tuesday, revealed the “danger of not fairness, unfairness.” McCarthy should have given the footage “to every news organization at the same time so that they’re able to, as you say, analyze it each in real time,” Lemon said, at the prompting of his co-anchors because he had apparently been “talking about this all morning.”
“Not just all morning,” Lemon told Poppy Harlow.
Lemon’s freakout over Carlson’s access to more than 40,000 hours of Capitol
