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Gaslighting America — J6 Video Editing Does Not Change Facts
The release of 44,000 hours of video to Fox News’ Sean Hannity resulted in some deceptive splicing to produce an entire hour of peaceful scenes.
On Thursday night, Sean Hannity devoted a segment of his show to what he called a “recreation” of the events of January 6th, using video footage to splice together a version of events that downplayed the violence and painted the insurrectionists in a more sympathetic light.
This dangerous distortion of reality is not only an insult to the American people, it’s downright dangerous.
Hannity’s “Recreation” Is A Distortion Of Reality
In his Thursday night segment, Sean Hannity used video footage to splice together a version of events that downplayed the violence and painted the insurrectionists in a more sympathetic light.
This dangerous distortion of reality is not only an insult to the American people, it’s downright dangerous.
Not only did Hannity omit key pieces of information, like the fact that Trump supporters were chanting “hang Mike Pence” as they stormed the Capitol, he also included footage that had been edited to make it look like the…
