"Party at the Palace" v. January 6 Hearings
“Moral lectures,” as Tucker Carlson dubbed the January 6 hearings held Thursday night, just didn’t cut it for me.
“The whole thing is insulting. In fact it is deranged,” said Carlson.
Fox News, he noted, would not carry the hearings but will try to tell the truth.
“Not a person carried a firearm. Some insurrection,” said Carlson. The only person who was killed was Ashley Babbitt, a 35-year old Air Force veteran from San Diego. “Those are the facts.”
The other casualty was, of course, the truth.
Why did the Capitol police usher people into the Capitol, asked Carlson. And, what happened to the pipe bomber? And, what of Kamala Harris’ whereabouts that day? She was not a the Capitol, as claimed. She was at the DNC.
So many unanswered questions.
“And, they lie about what Jan. 6 was about in the first place,” said Carlson. “Joe Biden got 10 million more votes than Barack Obama got” and many of the votes arrived late and counting stopped cold in the middle of the night in the key battleground states. So, countless Americans do not believe that, after all the shenanigans, abracadabra, Biden won. The protesters, said Carlson, “were upset because they believed their democracy had been stolen from them.” And, irrespective of whether they were right, their concerns were dismissed out of hand. They are not allowed to doubt Biden’s electoral mojo. Shut up and sit down, is the reaction of the Democrats.
And, so, like, no doubt, millions of other Americans, I turned the channel. And, I watched “Party at the Palace,” celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, which I did not have a chance to see when it aired last Saturday night from London.
What a triumphant occasion!
Perhaps one of the most touching moments was, Diana Ross singing a beautiful medley of her songs to honor Queen Elizabeth II.
As I think about it, maybe the American experiment could use a dollop of wisdom from Queen Elizabeth and the duty and service and “LOVE, LOVE, LOVE,” as Ross’ opening song punctuates, that underlies her 70-year reign. And, the need to have a nobility of spirit to rise above our differences and focus on what really counts: Restoring America the Beautiful, and the truth and goodness that goes along with it… Ain’t no mountain high enough!
One final note. Very coincidentally, the senior executive producer of Good Morning America, James Goldston, who stage managed the hearings, took what is one of the very best photos of yours truly on the Red Carpet at the Oscars on March 2, 2014.
Image is one thing and I’m grateful for this lovely photo.
But, the Jan. 6 hearings should be about something much more important:
The truth.
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Mary Claire Kendall is author of Oasis: Conversion Stories of Hollywood Legends, published in Madrid under the title También Dios pasa por Hollywood. She recently finished Oasis II as well as a biography featuring the covert pre-satellite surveillance of the Soviets out of Midway Island.