‘Defund the Police’ is a media fantasy
Tribune Content Agency,
by
Jonah Goldberg
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
8/10/2020 4:22:19 AM
A new, exhaustive study by Gallup and the Knight Foundation found that Americans across the board are losing trust in the media. Some people might be shocked by this finding, but I suspect more people will be shocked to learn that the media had any trust left to lose.
Either way, I think a separate poll conducted by Gallup might illuminate the problem.
If you’ve paid any attention to the news, particularly cable news, over the last couple of months since George Floyd’s killing by police in Minneapolis, you might think “defunding” or “abolishing” the police is a widely held and even somewhat mainstream desire.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mifla 8/10/2020 6:30:41 AM (No. 504918)
Defund the Thought Police.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 8/10/2020 7:11:43 AM (No. 504943)
"Americans across the board are losing trust in the media" and this will matter to the media/dems/Left NOT AT ALL. They are well practiced at hiding/ignoring such warning signs of the trouble they are in. That, of course, simply causes their respect for (stupid) Americans to fall even further and causes their insanity to deepen.
The STRONG majority of people, 81% of Blacks, 83% of Hispanics, want equal or MORE policing in their community. HOW is it that the PEOPLE KNOW the problems they face yet the media and their SELECTED political leadership, dems, act as if these number were exactly the opposite of what they are. The numbers above represent 29% of the US population and 78% of minorities, which is supposedly what this issue is all about. They are not rioting and the media drenched in biased coverage because cops killed a person but because they are RACIST and killed a MINORITY. Yet the vast portion of minorities say they are GOOD with the police.
"Defund the police" boils down to a media/political activist/dem driven "cause" that will actually damage the people they are supposed to be concerned about and would act against their wishes.
"evidence that black people are disproportionately and unfairly singled out for traffic stops" Jonah slips on this. In urban areas, densely populated by Blacks and with enormously HIGH rates of Black crime and with Black "attitude" about "not acting White" will yield much higher levels of stops than the percentage of population might normally occur.
"It reflects a tendency for American media outlets to speak to audiences" NO, they are speaking "to" an audience, they are speaking FOR that audience as if they were the elected representatives of that group. Further, they are LYING. Maybe the reasons are "complex" but the reality that the media makes these distortions predictably indicates it is PROPAGANDA. Jonah can mull over the "complexities". WE should realize the media is a Fifth Column in America and is dangerous to our Republic. Given "Freedom of the press" they have become arrogant and drunk on that power and no longer deserve our respect or attention.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Pearson365 8/10/2020 7:44:57 AM (No. 504968)
“...since George Floyd’s killing by police....”. The career criminal Floyd killed himself, consuming 3 times the fatal amount of fentayal. The Minneapolis officers followed procedures in arresting and restraining this very large man whose drugged state made him delusional. One would have thought that Jonah Goldberg would have done basic research before describing the 4 policemen as killers.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LesUNo 8/10/2020 8:00:43 AM (No. 504983)
Well that article was certainly was a whole lot of nothing. Do we need police? Of course. Do we need law and order to prevail. iIndeed we do. Can the system be imperfect? Of course. Then racially diverse segments of the population are polled. If course they were. Polling is now news. I miss a Jonah’s wit and intelligent prose.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/10/2020 8:15:09 AM (No. 504993)
Goldberg is right so right about one thing: People have lost faith in the media. But it isn't new. For me, it started with Cronkite. Another media truth is ''If it Bleeds, It Leads.'' Makes the Enquirer very rich. Some people get all their facts from TV and magazines (nobody takes a print newspaper any more), but I give them as much credence as I would any elementary school child. Do you also know someone with advanced academic degrees who can only talk about Hollywood people and their movies? Of course, politics is not the be all-end all, either. Go figure!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
singermom9 8/10/2020 9:06:45 AM (No. 505042)
I think we should make a list of all those in favor of defunding the police. When they call for service just say no. Cities will be cutting back on the number of police and they should be there for those of us that support them. Those that want to defund the police just don't go for their calls.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lakerman1 8/10/2020 9:15:00 AM (No. 505056)
sorry, Jonah. You are no longer on my reading list.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mizzmac 8/10/2020 9:34:04 AM (No. 505082)
You know what we ought to defund? CONGRESS. They haven't done their job in years, and have no plans to do so in the future.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/10/2020 9:59:27 AM (No. 505107)
The police did not kill George Floyd. George Floyd killed George Floyd.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
StrikingViking 8/10/2020 10:23:24 AM (No. 505144)
I remember Jonah when he was a principled conservative who supported a democratic republican form of government for our country. Alas, Trump Derangement Syndrome claimed Jonah and now he is actively working to put the policies of Sanders, AOC, Pelosi, Schumer, and Soros into law, resulting in the destruction of this country as we've known it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 8/10/2020 10:33:59 AM (No. 505162)
Sorry, but this IS what many progressive democrats desire, and demand.
Don't let them off the hook by trying to minimize what they demand.
It's a major campaign issue.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 8/10/2020 10:39:11 AM (No. 505169)
It isn't just the media that is pushing this meme, it is the agitprop crowd, which is being funded by Gates and Soros and a number of other people. Supporting cast would be the democrat party, who is enabling this destruction by not outright condemning it. They are very likely going to pay for their inaction in November, if we out here can all stand strong against the tide of wickedness that is trying to swamp us.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 8/10/2020 11:41:27 AM (No. 505269)
I used to think that Jonah was intelligent. And he still says "George Floyd’s killing by police in Minneapolis".
How ignorant, misinformed, disinformed and dumb can a "conservative" commentator be and still get people to pay attention to his blathering?
Sorry, Jonah jumped the shark long ago, never worth bothering with.
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