Carlson Reacts to ‘White Extremist’ Stephen Colbert’s ‘Meticulously Deliberate Coup’

CARLSON: Comfortable Monday, if you happen to might name it that. However you may’t. Like most People, you’re in all probability nonetheless attempting to digest what has occurred over these previous 4 days. Profound nationwide trauma is like that. When you face one thing unimaginably horrible, nothing is ever the identical. Nothing will ever be the identical. Like jail, it adjustments a person.

This isn’t a simple time for any of us. We get it. We’re actually – actually – nonetheless shaking as we take into consideration how shut this nation got here to dropping our democracy final Thursday. Final Thursday was June 16, a day without end branded in our reminiscence, a day that has joined the pantheon of tragic turning factors in human historical past. The place have been you on 6/16? You’ll always remember and neither will we. On the time, we have been making ready a present on Tony Fauci and his push for a brand new Corona shot for teenagers. It appeared necessary then. It appears so trivial now.

As we have been talking on the air at that very second, a staff of seven saboteurs had entered the Capitol grounds after which proceeded, as saboteurs do, to breach the Capitol itself. Inside these hallowed grounds, inside the very womb of democracy, these wreckers started their hunt for sitting members of Congress. That occurred, girls and gents, and if it sounds stunning to you, it will get extra harrowing from there.

This was not some spontaneous outbreak of riot. No, this was a meticulously deliberate coup from afar. The group within the Capitol was underneath the direct management of an extremist referred to as Stephen Colbert, who as a white man, is, by definition a white extremist.

This white extremist, Stephen Colbert, had a fifth column inside the Capitol to assist him pull off his diabolical plan. He had members of Congress in his make use of. Members of Congress who, imagine it or not, helped the insurrectionists enter the Capitol, simply open the doorways and allow them to stroll in. Sure, that may occur and that fifth column included Adam Schiff of California, Stephanie Murphy of Florida, and a brand new member referred to as Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts, besmirching his household title. These three members of Congress allowed the wreckers contained in the Longworth Home Workplace Constructing.

Whereas inside, the insurrectionists tried to achieve entry to a restricted space, however they have been thwarted by courageous regulation enforcement who arrived, risking their very lives to take away the insurrectionists from the premises. Nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient as a result of hours later, an aide to Congressman Auchincloss secretly permitted the insurrectionists to reenter the Capitol advanced. After which round 8:30 p.m., they trigger some form of disturbance. The small print are murky as of tonight, however in line with one report, they have been banging on home windows contained in the Capitol, trashing the place, committing violence in opposition to our democracy. And for that, apparently, we’re listening to tonight, they have been put in jail, however inside hours they have been out once more.

Now, the person who managed this tried to coup, Stephen Colbert, knew precisely what he was doing. He knew the stakes. He knew the crimes he was committing and we all know that as a result of simply final yr, this White extremist, Stephen Colbert, defined that grown males who unlawfully enter the Capitol to harass sitting members of Congress will not be pranksters. They’re not protesters. They’re home terrorists.

STEPHEN COLBERT: Lord have mercy. There are some darkish topics that we speak about on the present sometimes, however I’ve not often been as upset as I’m tonight. That is probably the most stunning, most tragic, least shocking factor I’ve ever seen and his followers did what he informed them to do. Behave in a method, that’s …what’s the phrase? Deplorable. Certainly one of these home terrorists even broke into Speaker Pelosi’s workplace and put his ft up on her desk. They now stay in an alternate universe that’s now collapsing in on itself. It’s like a black gap of Whiteness, and this was by no means some form of peaceable protest. This was Charlottesville come house to roost.

CARLSON: Oh, it’s stunning. These are home terrorists. Stephen Colbert, in what the literary group refers to as foreshadowing, described his personal coup, and but Stephen Colbert one way or the other nonetheless has entry to the airwaves and to digital media, spreading his hate unfettered, convincing future generations of insurrectionists to do what his staff of saboteurs did final week. That should cease. Individuals who plan coups have to be silenced.

There’s latest precedent for that, and anybody who disagrees needs to be disconnected from Amazon Internet Companies instantly. No spreading hate, however stopping White extremist Stephen Colbert from passing on his message of riot to the nation gained’t clear up what the remainder of us reside with and that’s trauma and like all trauma, journalists are affected most profoundly.

We’re scarred by what we noticed. We’re all Kasie Hunt tonight. It’ll be a very long time earlier than we will revisit the Capitol constructing, earlier than we will overlook the place we have been when democracy shook on its very foundations. It’s going to take remedy. It’s going to take loads of help from our fellow survivors earlier than we will recapture the carefree innocence that Stephen Colbert stole from us, earlier than we will really feel protected once more. We’re not alone in our despair tonight.

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN: Lies that may convey hundreds of offended individuals to the capital for considered one of America’s darkest days.

MSNBC REPORTER: Grew to become one of many darkest days in American political historical past.

DON LEMON: The very subsequent day was one of many darkest days on this nation’s historical past.

CNN REPORTER: To one of the vital dramatic and darkish days in American historical past.

CBS REPORTER: One of many darkest days in U.S. historical past.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR, MSNBC: This was one of many darkest days in American historical past.

COLBERT: What measurement bottle of bourbon do you drink at evening to overlook your central function within the darkest day in our Capitol’s historical past?

CARLSON: Yeah, journalists really feel these things deeply. Individuals say, “Oh, you’re just robots, just automatons inert, hardened, callous to the news. You don’t feel.” However we do. We do really feel. You see one thing like that. You see an riot happen earlier than your very eyes and it hurts you. It adjustments you. You’re not the identical individual. How lengthy will it take to heal? It’s unattainable to know. CNN simply interviewed a Rolling Stone journalist who, after a yr and a half after the final riot, nonetheless hasn’t healed. Watch.

BRIAN STELTER, CNN: You wrote for Poynter, then in January of final yr, you stated, “Sometimes I’m fine. Sometimes I want to sob for hours. Sometimes I just want to sleep.” In order that sounds to me like trauma. That feels like PTSD. Do you’re feeling such as you nonetheless expertise that?

GRACE SEGERS, STAFF WRITER, THE NEW REPUBLIC: I do assume so to a sure extent.

HUNTER WALKER, CONTRIBUTOR, ROLLING STONE: This morning after I bought on the practice to return down right here and see you, Brian, I used to be trying on the Capitol Dome.

STELTER: Proper.

WALKER: And, you realize, my mother and father lately got here down to go to me and we have been close to it and I bear in mind considering to myself, “Man, I can’t wait until I can look at this and not feel sad.”

CARLSON: Now you take a look at one thing like that and also you’re tempted to dismiss it out of hand, “Oh, you’re having trouble sleeping? You sob for no reason? Well, that’s because you have a barren, personal life. You’re celibate. You’re only meaningful human contact comes from the Uber Eats guy. You live out your emotional life on Netflix. That’s your core problem. It couldn’t really be an insurrection that made you cry.”

Sorry, excuse me. Sorry, cease “or disrupted your sleep,” however it could actually. For a journalist, these things hurts, however if you happen to assume it’s unhealthy for us within the information media, what do you assume it was like for the lawmakers who have been trapped inside Thursday evening? Within the final riot, regardless that she was nowhere close to the Capitol – she was in all probability getting her nails completed, however it didn’t matter – Sandy Cortez practically died.

CNN REPORTER: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has given a harrowing account of her expertise on January 6.

NBC REPORTER: A harrowing and emotional account of what occurred to her through the Capitol riot.

KASIE HUNT, MSNBC: It’s one of the vital harrowing accounts to this point.

JOY REID, MSNBC: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez inform that harrowing story…

KEILAR: The harrowing story of how she hid from attackers through the Capitol riot.

OCASIO-CORTEZ: Growth, Growth, Growth.

CNN REPORTER: Disclosing new, harrowing particulars.

CARLSON: “Boom, boom, boom!” That’s what an riot appears like, however there’s no charade-like miming they’ll’t ever absolutely specific the ache inside. We’re going to take care of that in our quiet alone time, presumably carrying an upscale turtleneck. We’ll let you realize. However the query is, as soon as we’ve had an act of battle like this, how does the nation reply? How can we all reply? “Boom, boom, boom!” as Sandy would say.

Nicely, clearly, we’d like a fee, after all, and a prison investigation. There’s in all probability one underway, by the best way after which a day of remembrance, as a result of you may’t let the reminiscence die. So, who’s going to steer this? Nicely, the apparent candidates, Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff and talking of crying, Adam Kinzinger.

They’re the naturals. We referred to as them in the present day to see what they’re planning. How are we going to commemorate this newest riot? They haven’t gotten again to us but, in all probability sleeping or weeping. However we will assume from previous expertise that Adam Kinzinger feels this actually deeply, actually deeply. Watch.

REP. ADAM KINZINGER: Speak in regards to the impression of that day, however you guys gained. You guys held. You already know, democracies will not be outlined by our unhealthy days.

CARLSON: Yeah, Adam Kinzinger is true and we ‘ve made fun of him in the past like a grown dude crying on TV. We mocked that. We apologized. Adam Kinzinger, we can recover. But there’s just one path towards restoration and if you happen to speak to any restoration skilled, they’ll inform you the best way to get well is to viciously punish the individuals who damage your emotions—the first step. It’s at all times the first step.

So, we’re going to need to mete out some fairly severe punishment. Stephen Colbert’s staff of insurrectionists have been jailed for one evening. That’s not so much. The penalty for riot is loss of life. We’re not calling for that right here. It is a reasonable present. These are our fellow People. We owe them a second probability. Fortunately, there’s latest precedent to assist information an acceptable punishment.