Chuck Darwin<p>Tucker Carlson lost. The Jan. 6 committee won.</p><p>On Monday, Tucker Carlson used his popular primetime program in an effort to undermine the work of last year’s House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack by presenting footage that, he claimed, would cast its conclusions into serious doubt. </p><p>It was a flop. </p><p>House Speaker Kevin <a href="https://c.im/tags/McCarthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>McCarthy</span></a> gave <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carlson</span></a> more than 40,000 hours of footage from that day, and the Fox News host used it to make the case that the vast majority of rioters were, in fact, peaceful “<a href="https://c.im/tags/sightseers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sightseers</span></a>” smeared through guilt by association with a few <a href="https://c.im/tags/bad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bad</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/apples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apples</span></a>. </p><p>But to all but the most committed (or deluded) MAGA devotees, Carlson’s effort failed. </p><p>A growing number of Republican lawmakers — including Senate Minority Leader Mitch <a href="https://c.im/tags/McConnell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>McConnell</span></a>, Sens. Mitt <a href="https://c.im/tags/Romney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Romney</span></a>, Thom <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tillis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tillis</span></a>, Mike <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rounds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rounds</span></a>, Kevin <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cramer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cramer</span></a>, Lindsey <a href="https://c.im/tags/Graham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Graham</span></a>, Chuck <a href="https://c.im/tags/Grassley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grassley</span></a>, and Joni <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ernst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ernst</span></a> — have <a href="https://c.im/tags/condemned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>condemned</span></a> the push to rewrite history. </p><p>The episode quickly became a subject of widespread <a href="https://c.im/tags/mockery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mockery</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/scorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scorn</span></a>, apparently failing to gain even an iota of traction among the Trump-skeptical conservatives it was designed to entice.</p><p><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/tucker-carlson-lost-jan-6-committee-won.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/news-and-politics/20</span><span class="invisible">23/03/tucker-carlson-lost-jan-6-committee-won.html</span></a></p>