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During the 95th Academy Awards last night, host Jimmy Kimmel took a clear shot at Fox News' Tucker Carlson’s airing of security footage from the Jan. 6 riot, footage the Fox News host used to bizarrely claim the attack was mostly peaceful.

In the latter half of the event, Oscars host Kimmel briefly took the stage after Paul Rogers accepted a win for Best Film Editing for his work on Best Picture Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Kimel said: Continuing:
The J6'20 attack was, of course, not peaceful. A horde of Trump supporters, armed with guns, pipes and other weapons and inspired by the former president Trump's false claim the election was stolen, stormed the Capitol in an attack that left five people dead. Four Capitol Police officers who responded to the attack died by suicide in the months that followed. More than 100 police officers were wounded during the attack.

Carlson, who has long downplayed the attack on his Fox News show, was recently given exclusive access to 41,000 hours of the footage by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Carlson took the footage and made several self-produced highly edited 6-minute videos downplaying the Capitol attack and airing them on his Fox News show essentially insinuating that the J6 attack was a peaceful tourist excursion.

Carlson insisted to his viewers, that he had watched all of the videos or at least sifted through everything and reviewed them.

To watch approximately 41,000 hours of video, it would take a little over 1,666 days, watching 24 hours each day. So, it would have been impossible for Carlson to have actually watched all of the video. Even if he fast-forwarded through the video at double speed, it still would have taken 833 days.

Carlson's implication that he watched all 41,000 hours of video is impossible and completely laughable. It's hilarious that Carlson and Fox News thinks so little of their viewers as to present such outrageous bald-faced lies to them with a straight face, and expecting their viewers will believe them simply on face-value.

Fox News: "We deceive. You believe."

Hilarious, but absolutely true.

Rwingers now count weekends (Saturday and Sunday) as "vacation" days.

JFC these people are vile and loathsome human beings.



Ol' Joe can't even have a weekend without Rwingers bitching and complaining about it. Yet these same people never bitched when that incompetent criminal orange clown golfed at his bed-bug ridden "resorts" every weekend and while charging the Secret Service for golf cart rental fees and meals at the "resort" restaurants, violating the Emoluments Clause.

Trump speech at CPAC:



The Chinese billionaire who owns the boat Bannon was arrested from, also is a heavy financial contributor to CPAC. Apparently he has been charged with a massive money-laundering scheme. There was a fire in his penthouse apartment in Manhattan today. Somebody was burning documents, for some reason, and it got out of hand. Sounds like destruction of evidence, but it is probably too late since he has already been charged. I think RICO charges are looking more and more likely.

Front page of New Voice Of Ukraine:

Interesting development: Doctors were treating a patient who had infections of both SARS-COV2 and polio virus, with Remdesivir. It knocked out both viruses! So it looks like they have an effective treatment for polio infection. Doctors usually discover a polio infection after paralysis begins, when it's too late to reverse the damage. Only about 1 in 200 of those unvaccinated and infected by polio get paralyzed. Most of those people don't even know their mild illness is polio.

But Remdesivir might be useful to limit the damage if given immediately as soon as symptoms appear. Polio is rampant in countries that do not vaccinate, like Pakistan. But since people who receive the oral polio vaccine shed infective virus for a couple of weeks, it could be useful for American anti-vaxxers who get exposed to the OPV vaccine-induced virus that is floating around.

If I remember correctly, a few years ago a bunch of WHO workers giving polio vaccines were killed by Pakistani religious extremists.
That's why Paki doesn't vaccinate. Pakis have been taught that vaccinations contain something that turns the recipient against Allah.

Anti-vaxxers come in many flavors, many of which have little to do with vaccinations. In a way, it's a self-limiting problem: If they die because of their anti-vaxx beliefs, then the world is improved because there are fewer anti-vaxx idiots.

86 unvaccinated kids in Ohio recently had a measles outbreak. 36 of them ended up in the hospital. It doesn't help that anti-vaxxers tend to gather in groups, in terms of contagion spread. These are often church or school groups with a religious objection to vaccinations. These folks might want to think about the Shakers: They are becoming extinct because they have a religious requirement of celibacy.

My apologies to all ranters. Because of problems stemming from recovery from the serious leg and blood infection that almost required amputation of my left leg before the knee, I could not take care of a situation on RR and it was suspended until I could fix it, which was done a few minutes ago.

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Doug

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