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:
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“Anyone who has ever received a text message from their father knows how important editing is,”
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“Editors do amazing things. Editors can turn 44,000 hours of violent insurrection footage into a respectful sightseeing tour of the Capitol. Their work is under-appreciated.”

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."