Editorial | Senators’ calls for censorship threaten democracy WashTimesOpEd
For reasons that remain unclear, those few minutes of video sent some of the political class in Washington into a spiral of vituperation, anger and craziness. The most unhinged, hysterical and asymmetrical response was, of course, fromMajority Leader Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, who demanded — from the floor of the United States Senate no less — that Mr. Carlson be prevented from showing any more of the video from Jan. 6.
We understand. It must be frustrating to have constructed a narrative and nursed it carefully for more than two years and then have someone like Mr. Carlson threaten to upend all of that work by allowing people to see the video evidence unfiltered and unaltered. Consequently, it is unlikely that many are concerned about getting to the bottom of what happened on Jan. 6. Even Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, who nominally chaired the Jan. 6 committee, acknowledged that neither he nor the other members of Congress who populated the committee could be bothered to view any of the video of Jan. 6 for themselves. They delegated that chore to staff.
The much more troubling part of this story is the reaction of our “leaders.” The idea that U.S. senators — including theminority leader and at least three other Republican senators — would encourage censorship is repulsive and profoundly anti-American. If you are interested in thinking about threats to democracy, you might wonder about how these men square their own calls for censorship, however veiled, with their oath of office.
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