“Certain dates echo throughout history,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in a speech on Jan. 6, 2022. “Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory. Dec. 7, 1941. Sept. 11, 2001. And Jan. 6, 2021.”
Harris’ speech reflects the liberal trend to equate the events of Jan. 6 — when conservative protesters, some violent and some peaceful, forced their way into the U.S. Capitol, leading to one being shot and killed — with acts of war and terrorism.
But after almost four years of extensive coverage from media and Democrats, most people don’t realize that Alexandria Occasio-Cortez died “over seven times” that day, or that thousands of Trump supporters covered the Capitol walls like terrifying, rightwing Spider-men while a colossus Buffalo Guy cackled in the sky above them.
These are just some of the fictional details The Babylon Bee exposes in its new mockumentary “January 6: The Most Deadliest Day.”
The satirical movie — the Bee’s first feature-length film — is the best way to treat the outlandish claims about mass riots and attacks on democracy. The mockumentary acknowledges the seriousness of what happened — the film is dedicated to Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter who was the only person who died at the Capitol — but refuses to pretend Jan. 6 is as problematic as 9/11 or Pearl Harbor.
The movie stars Bee Editor-in-Chief Kyle Mann as fictional journalist Garth Strudelfudd. Strudelfudd attempts to confirm the premise that Jan. 6 was as bad as the terrorist attacks of 9/11 or the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
During his journey, Strudelfudd meets with conservative figures Michael Knowles and Dennis Prager and comes face-to-face with violent insurrectionists like Buffalo Guy and Podium Guy.
The Babylon Bee’s satirical brilliance undercuts the media narrative surrounding Jan. 6 with nonstop humor that frames serious arguments.
One Jan. 6 protestor was held in prison for two years without trial and convicted of six felonies; the protester who moved the lectern spent 300 days in solitary confinement and 41 months in prison; and a grandmother who was present at the Capitol was fined $103,000.
Meanwhile, media and Democrats celebrated Black Lives Matter protesters who rioted, looted, and took 13 lives during the summer of 2020.
“Prominent Democrat politicians encouraged [the Black Lives Matter protests],” Knowles says. “The current vice president of the United States actually raised money to bail these people out of jail.”
Amongst the satire, the film highlights true stories from people at the Capitol. Siaka Massaquoi, a conservative actor, filmed himself entering the Capitol building — the video shows him standing in the entrance for 71 seconds and leaving at the police’s request.
Months after Jan. 6, the FBI raided Massaquoi’s home. In November 2023, police arrested him and charged him with “disorderly and disruptive conduct” and “parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.”
As Strudelfudd finds mounting evidence that the media’s narrative has misrepresented what actually happened at the Capitol, he refuses to change his mind, preferring to zap his interviewees into the Phantom Zone — an extra-dimensional prison from DC Comics. His character represents Democrats’ commitment to persecuting their political enemies.
But the movie includes normal Americans in the conversation. Contrary to liberal belief, most people interviewed did not remember exactly where they were on Jan. 6. Interviews with Republican women reveal people who care about their country, not violent extremists.
It’s also the Bee’s next move in its fight for free speech.
As Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon explained in a September speech at Hillsdale College, the Bee’s refusal to remove content mocking transgenderism helped convince Elon Musk to buy Twitter (now X). The Bee also announced a lawsuit against California’s recent anti-deepfake law.
The movie is available to premium subscribers on The Babylon Bee’s website. Even if it’s just to watch the movie, consider supporting the Bee’s campaign for free speech.
Or just to find out if Dennis Prager really controls a Jewish space laser.