WorldNetDaily’s attempts to whitewash the actions of Capitol rioters continued with a Nov. 20 article by Bob Unruh:
Stewart Parks, who had sought the GOP nomination for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district seat just a year ago, now is facing eight months in jail for being in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
But he charges the judge was in collusion with prosecutors in his case, and railroaded him.
“He is marked by the Left as an ‘insurrectionist’ on a conviction of five federal charges,” all misdemeanors, explains a report in the Tennessee Star.
He just one of hundreds and hundreds of Americans facing similar charges even though many of them were invited into the Capitol by security officers, as documented in videos from security cameras now being released.
Those videos, in fact, have undermined the bogus narrative promoted by Democrats for years that it was an “insurrection” that day.
Actually, they have not — given how that footage is cherry-picked and doesn’t negate all the footage of the rioters being violent — and all the reprinting of articles from the entirely unreliable Gateway Pundit, which Unruh linked to here, does not change that. After quibbling again about the defintion of “insurrection.” Unruh got back to Parks:
The Star report explained Parks said “the evidence of his trial ‘proved’ he was not guilty. He claims [Judge Amit P.] Mehta, an Obama appointee, ‘colluded’ with the prosecutors and identified the defendant by the wrong name when sentencing him late Wednesday afternoon in the D.C. Court.”
He has been sentenced to eight months behind bars for his misdemeanor offenses.
Unruh failed to mention that one of the charges against Parks was theft of government property, in whiich he stole a metal detecting wand.
WND lazily reprinted a dishonest Gateway Pundit piece in a Dec. 4 article by Jim Hoft (boldface in original):
Infowars reporter and “War Room” host Owen Shroyer was sentenced to 60 DAYS IN PRISON back in September in a D.C. kangaroo court for his actions on Jan. 6, 2020 and before.
Owen stood outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 and warned Trump supporters not to go inside the building.
Owen also frequently spoke out against the stolen 2020 election.
DOJ prosecutors sought prison time against Owen for his speech crimes and of course the DC Judge agreed.!
Judge Tim Kelly sentenced Owen to 60 DAYS IN PRISON in September!
Owen Shroyer pleaded guilty in June to a single Class A Misdemeanor of Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds on January 6, 2021.
[…]On Monday news broke that Owen will be released early from prison.
Owen may be home for Christmas after serving time for wrongthink.
As we pointed out the last time WND published a Gateway Pundit article defending Shroyer — but, again, Hoft failed to do — the reason Shroyer spent time in jail was because his presence at the Capitol violated a 2019 agreement with authorities, made after he interrupted a congressional hearing, that deferred prosecution because he agreed not to utter in “loud, threatening, or abusive language, or to engage in any disorderly or disruptive conduct, at any place upon the United States Capitol Grounds.” Shroyer’s purported “wrongthink” was not a factor at all, and Hoft offered no evidence to back up that assertion. Hoft also failed to mention that Infowars refused to pay Shroyer while he was in jail, which you’d think Hoft might be a little upset about. Still, Hoft added:
The next time some crazy, uninformed Democrat tells you about how Joe Biden is saving Democracy
tell them to shove it where the son don’t shinetell them about Owen Shroyer’s unjust imprisonment.
Who’s really the crazy, uninformed one? That would be WND, for continuing to publish factally deficient Gateway Pundit articles — and further destroying what little credibility it has in the process.