Tucker Carlson Can't Find QAnon - I Guess It Doesn't Exist?

Click here for an article by Digby at Hullabaloo entitled "Get ready for some epic gaslighting." Tucker Carlson and his staff apparently spent a whole day looking for the elusive QAnon, and just couldn't find it:

“We spent all day trying to locate the famous QAnon, which, in the end, we learned is not even a website. If it’s out there, we could not find it,” Carlson said, insisting that “cable news” and “politicians talking on TV” are “the ones spreading disinformation to Americans” by talking about the existence of QAnon.

Or, as Digby opens her article:

The malignant Tucker Carlson went on TV last night and said that the QAnon conspiracy theory doesn’t exist. To be clear, he didn’t say that the conspiracy itself is nonsense and doesn’t exist. He said there is no QAnon conspiracy theory at all. In other words, it’s a liberal hoax to make right wingers look bad. The term gaslighting is thrown around too much, but there has never been a better example than that. 

There's a lot in the article. She quotes liberal blogger Amanda Marcotte concerning Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson's disgraceful performance at a Senate hearing:

During a Tuesday hearing about the security failures that led to the Capitol riot, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin unleashed a bunch of conspiracy theories denying that all those people waving Trump flags while chanting “no Trump, no peace” were, in fact, there for Trump.

Marcotte also quotes well-known felon and liar Dinesh D'Souza:

“There was no insurrection, there was no coup,” said Dinesh D’Souza, a fake historian, convicted criminal, and conservative pundit still in good standing enough to appear on Laura Ingraham’s show Fox News Tuesday night. Instead, he insisted the heavily videoed and photographed insurrection is “a false narrative” invented by liberals who want to say “Trump was presiding over all the social unrest so they could then try to blame on him.”

In case you're not familiar with the term "gaslighting":

The word “gaslighting” gets thrown around a lot, but this is very much the definition of the word. It comes from the psychology of abuse, and refers to the way an abuser might, for instance, beat his wife and then pretend the next day it didn’t happen, calling her hysterical if she insists it did. Gaslighting isn’t just lying. It’s denying an obvious truth, and insisting that anyone who disagrees is crazy or is making stuff up. It was a favorite tactic of Trump’s, who kicked off his presidency by gaslighting the nation about the size of his inauguration crowd. And now it’s being used by his allies, to argue that the evidence of our own eyes and ears isn’t real.

The MAGA crowd don't deny it was Trumpers who stormed the Capitol:

QAnon conspiracy theorist DeAnna Lorraine was on the ground when MAGA activists stormed the Capitol. She blasts conservatives for trying to blame it on antifa, declaring she's immensely proud of what happened: "We need more of it, not less."