It's 'hands up, don't shoot' all over again.
Nothing unites a CNN panel better than an opportunity to rush to the aid of criminals. In this case, however, the criminal in question was not attempting to harm but instead had recently slaughtered a young woman on a Charlotte subway train.
That didn't stop CNN's leftist goon squad from dog-piling fellow panelist, Caroline Downey, after she suggested a man with the killer's criminal record and schizophrenia should have been institutionalized.
Team Democrat almost immediately recognized the bad-faith play Phillips and panelist Keith Boykin teed up, and they all joined in on the lie, in typical CNN fashion.
It was clear, to any honest person, that Downey was tying the killer's mental health issues to his known violent record and, in a sane society, we wouldn't allow someone like that on our streets … or subways.
Unfortunately for Downey, she wasn't surrounded by honest people, and the left-wing panelists quickly fell into their standard 4-on-1 attack pattern.
Boykin feigned astonishment, Kat Abughazaleh (a Dem congressional candidate) declared it 'completely unhinged', and Ana Navarro stepped in with the obligatory lazy 'are we going to lock up everyone with schizophrenia' argument. Abby Phillips mostly just sat back and watched the lie she crafted develop.
The policy positions that stem from the CNN Dems and those like them are why we can't get violent criminals off our streets.
A woman was murdered in broad daylight, on video, and their kneejerk reaction is to form a shield wall around the perpetrator.
His mile-long rap sheet is fine though because 'he did actually serve time' for his violent crimes. What are you going to do? Lock him up for life?
Yes.
The only value in watching CNN at this point is to realize how far detached the Democrats and their media enablers are from common sense.
What could go wrong?
Fair point.
If she were dealing with honest actors, they would have said 'Look, obviously you're saying schizophrenics with a violent criminal history need to be institutionalized, but … '
So why didn't they do that? Because they're not honest, and more importantly, because they were throwing up a smokescreen to avoid airing their position, which is 'we can't just lock up mentally ill violent criminals'. They know even some of their viewers would realize that's actually the 'completely unhinged' viewpoint.
Yo … Sup?
Now that's a CNN panel we would watch.
This … is CNN.
Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.
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