MEDIA LOSER: Podcaster Lance Wallnau Podcaster Lance Wallnau shared some, uh, interesting thoughts on the Proud Boys and January 6 during a recent livestream, when he said they were at the Capitol essentially to provide community services. Wallnau, an author and host of The Lance Wallnau Show, posted an update to his podcast’s Facebook page that got picked up on Twitter and took off. “The Proud Boys. I don’t know — I’ll have to check this group out, cause I’m assuming they’re a bad group, but how do you? They never talk about Antifa. They talk about — any time, they’re always attacking somebody, I think we ought to take a second or third look at who they are cause they might not be bad,” he said. “They had an FBI agent embedded in the Proud Boys who delivered a 60-page report that is available to the January 6th committee, exonerating the Proud Boys from any involvement with January 6th,” Wallnau claimed. “In fact, they actually deescalated part of the conflict with police and their orders were to clean up the garbage and get out of the Capitol.” “In other words, clean up the mess, any debris that’s there, glass, paper, you know, garbage cans turned over," he continued. "They had a meeting ahead of time, they said we won’t under no circumstances, have any weapons nor violence in the protest. They were there to protect Trump supporters from Antifa." “That’s why I’m giving them a thumbs up and a cautious survey right now because the FBI has the record, but the FBI has not submitted this record,” he concluded, “This is the kind of crap that is going on in American government.” A thumbs up to the instigators and a thumbs down to the investigators. That's a take alright. There's a notion online that if you can't find fame seek infamy. But in this case, the podcaster going viral seems more aptly described by the axiom, "there's a fool born every minute." ... And a coup to take him. |