Frequent Fox guest Adam Carolla downplays January 6: “I feel like no one was in danger then”
Anchor Dana Perino confused why Colbert staffers are being treated differently than January 6 rioters
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Citation From the July 20, 2022, edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom
DANA PERINO (CO-ANCHOR): Let's bring in the author of a new book, Everything Reminds Me of Something: Advice, Answers ... But No Apologies. He is the host of The Adam Carolla Show. Adam Carolla is here. You probably know, perhaps, a couple of those Colbert staffers. What do you think of the charges getting dropped?
ADAM CAROLLA (PODCASTER): You know, it's a reaction obviously to January 6. I feel like no one was in danger then. Few or — you know, January 6 has been blown up a bit. This has been blown up a bit. I feel like this is a reaction to that. They're hypocrites, no doubt about it, but I'm not like clutching my pearls going like oh my God this is the —
PERINO: I think the Capitol Hill police had, well, one, January 6 there were injuries and people were — it was obviously different, but they're saying now there's a precedent there, and the members of Congress are like, wait well but why are we having a different standard?
BILL HEMMER (CO-ANCHOR): I just figured you gotta do something. You're there after hours. You're allowed in illegally. You lied to the police when they questioned you. And then you went on with your skits.
CAROLLA: No. I think what it is, what's going on on the left is they make some proclamation, they make a big deal of out of thing, they build things up, and they blow things up, and then some version of that happens on their side and they try to go oh, it's much ado about nothing. And then the people on the right go, well, it's a version of what you were saying was the biggest thing in the world. So if this is the biggest thing in the world, January 6, how can this be nothing?
I think that's what it is. But it's kind of their fault because they get caught all the time. They go, you know, don't wear your mask, wear your mask, you have to wear a mask and then Lori Lightfoot's like I had to get my hair cut. It's like they make these big things and then they get busted doing a version of that big thing and it's why they shouldn't make a huge thing out of whatever it is in the first place.