Quote (thundercock @ 12 Jun 2022 14:32)
The Republicans, as a whole, do not want this investigated AT ALL. Can you blame them? Some of their caucus were involved! I agree that it would have been better to have a less partisan committee. No one disputes that. I really wish McConnell rallied the troops to allow for the bipartisan committee with GOP support. I really wish McCarthy didn't try to appoint people who asked Trump for pardons due to their involvement. Unfortunately, it was either this committee or nothing at all due to the GOP not wanting this investigated.
Also, were viewership figures that bad? I read that they were extraordinarily high for something like this (twice the number of people who watched the impeachment hearings). I'm not going to claim that this is going to move the dial but many people are definitely interested in this. As far as reaching converts, I just don't see that happening because nothing has fundamentally changed from what we saw that day. Just because people are in their own camps doesn't change the fact that the facts need to be out in the open. Let's allow for people to make judgment calls and if they want to ignore it, that's fine. Sometimes doing the right thing costs you politically but that's the nature of politics.
Again, you'll have to post some sources on why Pelosi is responsible for the Capitol Police. I'm not sure how that makes sense since she's the leader of only one chamber and there are two chambers that reside in the Capitol. From what I've read, the Chief reports to the Capitol Police Board which consists of equal representation from both chambers. Security officials from both chambers didn't think the National Guard was necessary on Jan 4 which seems to be a big miss in hindsight.
As for the FBI, I think it's acceptable for there to be undercover agents in the crowd. It's completely unacceptable for undercover agents to encourage violence and any who did that should be treated as if they were rioters. If those agent's superiors turn a blind eye or covered up crimes, they should obviously be fired and maybe more depending on the severity of their actions.
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https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/06/11/young-sheldon-rerun-crushes-j6-hearing-in-tv-ratings-n1604781Democrats were promising that the prime-time TV extravaganza presented by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2020 riot at the Capitol last Thursday would be “must-see TV.”
Apparently, most Americans decided it was “must miss.” The Nielsen ratings for that night are out, and it appears that the audience for the event was smaller than for a Young Sheldon rerun episode that CBS ran in the same time period the previous week.
The audience for the “Capitol Assault Hearings” was about the same size as nightly news broadcasts last week, according to the ratings. Nearly every major news network and the Big Three of CBS, NBC, and ABC covered the hearings.