After the prime-time personality aired security footage taken from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) who sought to further sanitize the violence, critics imagined how Carlson would rewrite certain moments in history and movies.
“The Daily Show” lied to Carlson about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963:
The Comedy Central program also shows how “with the right editing, you can tell the story you want to tell.”
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” parodied Carlson’s coverage of a shark attack in the 1975 Stephen Spielberg-produced thriller “Jaws.”
Lee Aronsohn, co-creator of “Two And A Half Men,” shared this video in which he joked “Prove that in 1941 the Nazis were just tourists in Paris” to “share the video where bad things don’t happen, there’s no way shape or form to prove that bad things don’t happen.
Another Twitter user made a similar joke: