Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

They stupid, there is Kevin McCarthy stupid, and then there is, Kevin McCarthy McCarthy gives Tucker Carlson complete access to all of the video footage from the January 6 insurrection stupid.

This is basically an instruction manual for the next insurrection, and you are giving it to a vile, unethical, inbred, self aggrandizing homunculus for the radical right.

This will not end well:

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has provided exclusive access to a trove of U.S. Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has played down the deadly violence that occurred that day and claimed it was a “false flag” operation.

McCarthy has declined to comment on the unprecedented move, but Carlson said Monday night on his program that his producers have been granted “unfettered” access to security video recorded when hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral college win. Five people died as a result of the attack, and 140 members of law enforcement were injured as the mob used flagpoles, bear spray, baseball bats and other weapons against police.

“So there’s about 44,000 hours, and we have — you may have read today — been granted access to that. … We believe we have secured the right to see whatever we want to see. We’ve been there about a week. Our producers, some of our smartest producers, have been looking at this stuff and trying to figure out what it means and how it contradicts or not the story we’ve been told for more than two years. We think already in some ways that it does contradict that story.”

Carlson said his producers would spend the rest of the week assessing the video and air what they found next week. (U.S. Capitol Police had previously said they shared 14,000 hours of footage with the House select committee investigating the riot.)

The decision by McCarthy, who has not spoken publicly or responded to questions about the release, was first reported by Axios on Monday.

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The decision by McCarthy to provide the video to Carlson raised serious questions about whether the release of the footage would force U.S. Capitol Police to change the location of security cameras and why the speaker would give the material to a Fox News host who has peddled conspiracy theories about the attack and not share it with other news organizations.

The why is easy.  Kevin McCarthy is a stupid little man who sees his only path to continuing in power is to suck up to people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson. 

I was not expecting this, but I am not shocked.  Speaker Sad-Sack is a profoundly small person, even among the moral pygmies that constitute the House Republican Caucus.