"I was an American standing face to face with other Americans asking myself, ‘How, many times, many, many times, how we had gotten here?’" After more than 200 years in which the peaceful transfer of power was taken for granted in America, it suddenly and very violently wasn't.Īnd yet, in this meme-soaked era when loud events fade from the consciousness and are replaced by other loud events within days, it apparently takes what is essentially a Very Special Episode of Congress, packaged up like a documentary brimming with video clips and text-message screengrabs, to get the public's attention.Ĭapitol riot hearing: Capitol officer recounts 'blood, sweat and tears' shed during insurrection elections, but its invasion of Ukraine.Īll of this, of course, belies the fact that the Capitol riot undermined the sanctity and security of the democratic process. People are talking about guns and gas prices and Russia - not its interference in U.S. Joe Biden was inaugurated as scheduled 14 days after the insurrection. "When’s the prime-time hearing," he asked in six tweets, followed by "on $5 per gallon gas," "on baby formula shortages," "on record crime in Democrat-run cities," "on the left’s 2020 riots," "on record high grocery prices," "on Democrats attacking parental rights at school board meetings" and "on threats against Supreme Court Justices and their families."īy many appearances, the country is operating as it was before the insurrection.
January 6 video montage series#
Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, seized on some of those in a series of tweets attacking the committee. 6, 2021, much of America has moved on to fresh worries. 6 hearings - actual governance is taking place - the buildup and presentation makes it easy to conclude otherwise.Ĭould it be that this is the only way to grab the public's attention? After all, since Jan. Boorstin famously coined the term "pseudo-event" - an event conducted expressly for the purpose of being noticed.
6 Capitol riot, said.ĭuring the media-savvy (for its era) Kennedy administration, the historian Daniel J. Bennie Thompson, chairman of the select House committee investigating the Jan. I’m reminded of that dark history as I hear voices today try and justify of the actions of the insurrectionists on Jan. "I’m from a part of the country where people justify the actions of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, and lynching.
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