As Colby Hall
wrote at Mediaite, Carlson’s report was initially met with silence from the other hosts and programs on Fox News—perhaps because they are treading cautiously due to the ongoing lawsuit against the channel by Dominion Voting Systems, or perhaps because Carlson’s conclusions are indefensible even by the network’s own low standards. When
Special Report With Bret Baier finally addressed the Jan. 6 story head-on the next day,
it did so skeptically, with correspondent Chad Pergram emphasizing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s outright rejection of Carlson’s narrative, and noting that Jan. 6 defendants “assaulted 140 police officers, some so badly they’ll never return to work.”