The incident, video of which was taken offline shortly after being posted, has prompted an aisle-crossing outcry fueled in part by Carlsons own significant embellishments of what occurred while he wasnt home. I was there for the entirety of the 10-minute demonstration, and can report in detail what actually happened.
A group numbering 13 or 14 protesters trailed by four protest observers, some in the bright green hats often worn by trained First Amendment legal observers when monitoring police-protester interactions, walked up Carlsons street just after dark on Wednesday.
One of the protesters knocked firmly on Carlsons front door three times then trotted back down the steps to join the rest of the group in the street. This person did not throw their body against the door, as Carlson has claimed to newspapers. A police report on the incident makes no mention of damage to the Carlsons front door from the three stiff knocks, contradicting Carlsons claim that the demonstrators had cracked the door.
Another protester read a brief statement through an amplifying device, then led the group in a series of chants against Carlsons habitual promotion of white supremacist ideology and xenophobia on his Fox News program. Some of the chants included the refrain we know where you sleep at night. At multiple points, a chant broke down despite the rhythm-track efforts of a protester with a tambourine.
Video posted on LiveLeak shows portions of the event, which lasted less than 10 minutes. It also illustrates Carlsons other embellishment that one person was caught on a security video saying they wanted to return to his home with a pipe bomb. In fact, the person filming is heard saying Pipe bombs! Synagogue victims! as the speaker with the amplifying device wraps up their initial statement and begins to lead chants. Carlsons show and broader media empire have long amplified the same flavors of xenophobic paranoia and white supremacist ideology believed to have motivated alleged so-called MAGAbomber Cesar Sayoc and Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers. There is no mention of the phrase pipe bombs in the police report later filed.
So, basically, he's claiming that nobody tried to break down the door but instead someone knocked on it really hard? Other then that I don't see any real difference in what he said and what is reported elsewhere.
did you even read the section I quoted?
Tucker Carlson's story is as exaggerated as ProudClad's tirade against me ---