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Despite their best efforts to control the narrative, a CNN panel was faced with facts during a discussion geared toward gun control Tuesday and so, naturally, the only recourse was in reverting to hysterical, emotional, “moral bullying.”
Meant to offer a perspective from the right, CNN contributor Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, appeared on “CNN Tonight” and responded to actor Matthew McConaughey’s remarks on gun reform during the White House press briefing.
As host Laura Coates attempted to moderate the discussion that featured Ana Navarro from “The View” and CNN political correspondent Kasie Hunt, Goldberg began by actually agreeing with McConaughey’s proposals on gun legislation.
However, he apparently short-circuited his fellow panelists by suggesting the media frenzy and panic porn should simmer down and consider what is actually happening. As Media Research Center’s Newsbusters website noted, the “facts inadvertently slipped through” in the process.
“If we’re going to start telling people that they should be scared about what is going to happen to them,” Goldberg began, “we should at least put this in perspective.”
“There are about 54 million kids in America – who go to K through 12 in America. In the last 29 years, 170 kids have been killed in school shootings,” he stated plainly, clarifying that he was not belittling anyone’s loss adding “one…is too many.”
“But if we’re gonna tell people they should be terrified about their kids being dropped off at school, we should remind them that their kids are in more danger on the drive to school, statistically, than they are at the school,” Goldberg added.
“No, no, no, no,” Navarro repeated with her hands raised shaking in frustration. “Jonah, we can’t do this…a child’s life cannot be a statistic.”
The former Fox News contributor summarily disabused her of that argument, calling it out for what it really was, “moral bullying.”
In near-perfect stereo, the panel asked, “Why is it moral bullying?” to which he explained pointing out facts was not equivalent to being devoid of compassion. “I’m saying you shouldn’t tell the audience that this is the thing that they should be so terrified with, paralyzed with fear about their own kids, when their kids are more likely to die from a lot of other things.”
Navarro went on to demonstrate her selective hearing as she proceeded to lecture on how regulations had been put in place to combat the prevalence of child deaths in car accidents and drownings when Goldberg had acquiesced to the demands for gun legislation at the outset by agreeing with McConaughey.
The editor restated his moral outrage and noted “one shot child is too many as far as I’m concerned. But if you’re going to take that moral outrage and then tell people they should be paralyzed with fear that this is going to happen to them and their kids you’re doing them a disservice.”
After Navarro ranted further about the inaction of Congress and pushed for voters to get their “a**es in gear and call your senators,” Goldberg, whether wittingly or not, demonstrated that they were not participating in the same conversation when he pointed out, “I’m doing analysis, I’m not doing activism. And if you want to tell everyone call their senator, that’s fine. That’s not my job.”
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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15 thoughts on “CNN panel ignites when facts ‘inadvertently slip through’ on school shooting risks”
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One is acting with facts and common sense. The other is reacting with emotion only.
So how does Ana feel about all the children gunned down nearly every day in Chicago? In DC? I certainly don’t hear her mentioning any of their names.
That one broad has a sorry case of:
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Barry Age 77
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Goldberg is a neocon rino never trumper pos. He is a phony conservative who was smoked out by President Trump. I’m glad those skanks on the panel went at him….even better he got it from the side the traitor defected to… from his new “friends”. FJG.
If these old gals have such an issue with kids being shot perhaps they should just think of it as ‘post birth abortion.’ They support that.
This latest school shooting was carried out by a person with mental health issues and NO ONE did anything about it when he was in school. His Ex-Girl Friend stated that she was often afraid of him. His friends said that he was weird. He posted pictures of himself holding a plastic bag with dead bloody cats and bragged about shooting them. Why was nothing done??? Why was he living with his Grandparents and not with his mother and father??? His father came forward and asked that people not hate his son, where the hell was he before all of these children were killed??? One of the guns he bought cost anywhere from $600.00 to $900.00, and he had two guns, where did a high school drop-out get that kind of money??? This is NOT a gun issue this is a Mental Health Issue. I have guns that are in my closet, they are loaded and ready to use if the need arises, but as of the writing of this comment NONE of them has killed anyone.
Fact: There has been 13 mass shootings at schools since 1966. Remember there are thousans of school districts.Most didn’t need happen with proper protection and even if they did happen fewer needed to die with proper protection.
It is far more dangerous dropping your kids off at the mal or allowing them to roam the streets of a blue city day or night.
Blue cities see a larger number of the young shot or knifed every weekend than the total shot in the history of school shootings. Thousans every year.
There is far more reason for wackos to shoot up a court house than a school. Why don’t they? They are protected by armed secururity.
Quit policizing school shootings and protect or children. Quit trying to disarm honest citizens. We do not want to become another Australia.
Oh by the way an AR15 is mereliy a semi automatic rifle with handles, not a weapon of war used by the military. Those handles sure make it easier to handle for someone with athiritis in hands and wrist like me.
Brought to you from the side of the moral compass who believe killing millions of children through abortion is ok…
You should be terrified to drop your kids off and leave them in the hands of radical brainwashing, pedo, groomer teachers.
What welcome news it would be, were all CNN studios to be ignited, at the same time.
These same “people” that supposedly care about dead kids in school shootings would be celebrating if they had been aborted instead. Perhaps if abortions were performed by using an “assault weapon” these hypocrites would be pro life.
Whenever someone from “The View” is involved in any discussion, it is no longer a discussion but an exercise in lunacy, depravity, and ignorance. Ana Navarro, thank you for proving my point.
Anna Navarro is a fat, stupid spic.
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Barry Age 77
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Wow, a VERMIN fight, ignorance exemplified!!!