Comedian Adam Carolla rebuked the media and Democrats on “The Adam Carolla Show” Sunday for misleading and exaggerating information about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
The BBC has faced backlash for a “Panorama” documentary that edited President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, speech to suggest he promoted violence, prompting the network to apologize to the president on Thursday. Carolla said on his show that the edit highlighted the BBC’s bias and reinforced his distrust of the narrative surrounding the riot.
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“I love the fact that they cook videos to only be negative against Trump all the time, but they’re not biased … It’s just that’s the way it always turns out,” Carolla said. “You’re an umpire who calls balls and strikes until your son is pitching and then ones in the dirt are called strikes. But you’re not biased. You’re a good umpire. You just got a few bad calls in there. But you never call a strike a ball when your son is pitching. It’s only one direction all the time.”
BBC Director General Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness resigned on Nov. 9 after accusations of misleading viewers intensified. While Turness acknowledged that “mistakes have been made” in her statement, she denied there was bias within BBC News.
Moreover, Carolla criticized comparisons of the Capitol riot to Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
“Let’s just call it the description around January 6 as our democracy was hanging in the balance in the midst of a full-blown insurrection insurrection … let’s just say I took a founding father and I reanimated him and I said to George Washington, I go, ‘Look, we’re gonna have a situation in the future where there’s an insurrection.’” he said. “And he’s like, ‘An insurrection?’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah. An armed insurrection.’”
“It’s like, ‘Uh-huh. An armed insurrection where they attacked the capital and our democracy was hanging by a thread and we came this close to losing our democracy. And it was worse since our entire naval fleet was almost taken out in Pearl Harbor,’” he added. “That’s something that’s going to happen in the future, but just take my word for it. Or the Twin Towers were taken down when commercial airliners or as you call them metal birds were flown into them. And it’s all that … That’s how bad it was.’”
Carolla argued that Pearl Harbor and Sept. 11, 2021, were starkly different from the Capitol riot because of the number of Americans killed and the levels of destruction. He suggested if the riot was actually comparable, it would not be necessary to “cook it and pat it all the time.”
“You don’t need to do it. It is what it is. The buildings are gone. The towers are gone. The 3,000 Americans are gone … Pictures of people jumping from burning buildings and hitting the ground. That’s what it is,” he said. “Films of commercial airliners hitting the building. You don’t need to pat it. You don’t need to doctor it. You don’t need to cook or edit video … You don’t need to delete whatever files you guys created from your January 6 committee.”
The former House Select Committee on Jan. 6 reportedly deleted 117 files consisting of “critical information” in 2023 before Republicans took the majority in the House of Representatives, Fox News reported.
“You don’t take people who worked at the Capitol [and] 6 months later committed suicide because their girlfriend left them and count that as a death from that event,” Carolla said. “You have plenty of bodies … January 6th they have no bodies. Well, they have Ashli Babbitt who was shot in the face by one of the police officers, but they don’t like that story so they avoid that story very clearly.”
While Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died on Jan. 7 after engaging rioters, the chief medical examiner of Washington, D.C., found that he suffered two strokes and died of natural causes. Capitol Police officers Jeffrey Smith and Howard Liebengood committed suicide several days after the riot.
Carolla questioned whether it was an addition to the death toll for Sept. 11, 2001, and Pearl Harbor, based on suicides that took place as a result.
“Are we counting that as a Pearl Harbor death? And if not, why not? According to your fucking logic. But you guys are lying and cooking,” he said. “And that’s how I know it’s bullshit. Because when it really happened, you don’t need to lie. You don’t need to edit. And you don’t need to cook. And that’s all you guys do.”
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