WTF utility is there in a few weeks of selective data?! You can’t analyze crime statistics using windows of a few weeks. Shame on whoever this “journalist” is. Yes, if you blanket a city with soldiers, crime will temporarily go down. THE EFFECT ISN’T REAL OR SUSTAINABLE.
MSM has to stop trying to justify the actions of this president. They know I w the laws don't necessarily prohibit these actions, but twist these questions like the actions are helpful and there not. Disgraceful
A short term impact on crime statistics when troops are initially deployed to a city does not indicate any real improvement. Even if the troops stay, crime will go back up to pre-troop levels. And the troops won't stay. It just is not a serious solution to reduce crime.
He doesn't care about laws when no one holds him accountable. He should be in prison, not the WH, for chrissakes.🤬
He should be lynched is more like it.
It’s illegal- simple. Posse Comitatus. It’s fucking illegal.
Dare I say and repeat an aforementioned, he is a f---ing moron.
There is a severe crime and garbage problem at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. They could send the troops there and fix 2 problems at once!
But we don't want an army telling Illinois & Chicago police what to do. That's illegal commandeering. Collaborations are welcome. Invasion is not. youtu.be/HXd7z5bOstE
Well said.
Trump is a mafia boss- he doesn’t give a shit about the norms or laws- and he’s a Russian asset -Russia wants our back broken- so there is no need or desire for him to read shit about the US. He’s not here to lead- he’s here to destroy
WHAT…THE…FUCK are those ridiculous statistics??? Are you fucking kidding me??? What fucking authoritarian, Geobbels, wet dream world is that CBS asshole living in?? Holy shit go fuck yourself.
I'm very disappointed that Pritzker doesn't want to redistrict. Are all the blue states just going to leave this up to CA? We can't do this alone. We will never take the House back with the same old hand wringing and "oh, but the Constitution". Same old shit! Guess they don't want to save Democracy.
The media acting like this shit should be normalized is insane! Do they go this hard for gun control with databases questions?? Take your time I’ll wait. @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy fuck off!
Boycott CBS
White House has sensing elements monitoring content. They have dictated the right to pick which reporters feed goes live. Did you notice that alot of the favorite reporters don't get the big scenes.. Junior reporters cave so they get air time.
HE DOESN'T CARE.
He’s read one book 📕 Mein Kampf
Success?!!! Raking leaves is a success?!
Great interview by Ed O’Keefe. I do not normally watch CBS but I do watch Face the Nation. Ed did an excellent job filling in. Gov. Pritzker understands Felon47. I hope he continues to speak up against this administration and all the craziness!
Trump is a traitor.
Turd seems to be determined to start a civil war. I remember January 20, as we all do, and it took him forever to call off his dregs. He wants us fighting each other so he stays in the WH. WE MUST get him and his trash out of there!
Sure. It turns out if you create a military police state, crime goes down. Wtf is this guy even asking? He needs to be shot out of cannon into the stratosphere.
Has anyone absolutely anyone asked him why he didn't put troops on the ground in DC on Jan 6 ?
Correction: "He doesn't understand" (not "He doesn't seem to understand")
GET HIM, J.B.!!!
Remember the last time a reporter went after Trump like that? Neither do I
He should start adding some 2nd Amendment rhetoric into the public conversation. Start taking that away from the MAGA/NRA and giving it back it's original meaning.
Tip up your cup Throw your hands up Lemme hear the party say
Indeed, Your president have other plans with you America!! He’s a dictator. He’s a very sick idiot.
I could reduce the crime in any city to zero. All you have to do is handcuff every person from the age of 10 and up to an armed federal soldier. This would take a lot of troops, but the result would be, no crime. Do you think people would mind?
Keep fighting JB. I’m proud of my Governor! And proud to live in Illinois.
That idiot struggles to read a McDonald's menu. 😒
Trump doesn't know the constitution better than anyone
Trump is a stooge. Cretin. Moron. Inbred.
Trump is an illiterate fool.
Mainstream media, as always, rushing to defend the fascist and normalize fascist behavior. “But now at least the trains are running on time!”
They have to suck up to his majesty to be in his good graces.
🎯🎯🎯👍
#NOMilitaryTroupsPattrolingAmericanStreets!
Well said, Pritzker
I believe he read one. Mein Kampf
💯💯💯
He also doesn't read the executive orders he signs. His sidekick has to explain them to him.
He has Mein Kamph on his night table, nothing else.
Did Pritzker use the word ‘stupid’ and if not WHY THE FUCK NOT.
Trump is merely following the program set up by the billionaires behind the Heritage Foundation. It’s not just that he doesn’t understand— he doesn’t care.
´seem ‘ is euphemistic in this sentence
By now, don’t we all understand #FascistFatLoaf doesn’t give a fuck about the Constitution, the Rule of Law, nor anything that impedes his lust for total power & control?
Are you fucking kidding CBS News--you like the idea of troops on the streets in American cities being turned on US citizens? Fuck you CBS.
It drives views. Of course they love it. Fascism is good for their business. Until it’s not. They just haven’t thought that through.
Disagree, he may not throughly understand them… but, he knows about the Constitution in the way a slavering jackal eyes wounded/vulnerable prey, waiting for other predators to finish the kill while he slides in for the prize.
Why do your videos always stop halfway through? Please fix that
In North Korea there is not crime on the streets like in many military dictatorship in the history. The problem is that you lost freedom and all your rights living in authoritarian, dystopian, militarized country in exchange of not having street crime.
Pritzker for Potus Or VP to Newsom
of course Dump doesn't understand laws - he never has to abide by them, either through all the fluffing from SCOTUS, Congress or his lawyers/family/enablers or the public who purposedly pretend he doesn't LIE with every word out of his mouth!!? #jailTrump #karma
Isn't this why we have the 2nd Amendment? 🤔
Trump wants Americans to hate our military.
He has read one book... Mein Kampf
He’s also describing a whole lot ignorant racist Americans who don’t read books that voted for Trump
Problem is that with the Republicans in charge of Congress right now, the constitutional checks and balances aren’t working.
Who are these f loser journalists?
Taco is the law. He uses the constitution as his personal toilet paper while sitting on his golden throne in the golden laced Oval Office.
We used to expect more of our presidents. Ike was the supreme allied commander. Clinton was a Rhodes scholar. Obama was the editor of the Harvard law review. Trump knows almost nothing about anything. "Read a book"? ha
“And frankly the president should know better”? Of course he does. Call him out for the constitution. His raping young girls. “and frankly he should know better?” Sad brother. “And frankly he will crush you. You have no clue.”
Ed O'Keefe is such an insufferable little prick.
Your precious constitution, has slavery, written into it. You must all be so very proud. Oh, say, can....
Why can't right wingers see that if Trump is allowed to invade blue states with their own private goon squads then a future Democratic POTUS can invade red states? If they assume that there will never be a Dem POTUS ever again then they are admitting they are done with democracy and want a king.
I agree with Pritzker.
Crime stats are known to have high variance esp murder and hot spot crime management used to be the flavor of the month in criminology, but it is just like a balloon… squeeze in one place air moves to another. This is just a short term misdirection and the press needs better domain expertise
This infuriates me. That so called "reporter" is pushing MAGA propaganda on a major network. In no way, these crime stats are accurate, based on one month while DC is occupied by trump's military. Are they supposed to stay there forever?
Regardless of extra presence (which is unnecessary) the strategy is a failed one by criminology standards. It’s similar to broken windows/stop&frisk ideas of the early 90s. Fits MAGA MO of old disproven and subsequently racist ideas. Even a casual viewing of the wire season 4 would be encouraged
I know, it's so obvious!
Remember, it's CBS & they paid big money to lick his boots.
If you lock down a small area, impose curfews, and flood the zone with military, you can decrease, say, carjacking. Sure. Covid lock downs reduced certain types of crimes, too! But it is also obviously not a healthy, scalable, sustainable, practical, or permanent solution. Like, duh!
Sounds like sundown towns… MAGA wet dream
Right?! That so called reporter is truly twisting the truth. Unprofessional
Domestic violence increased during COVID19 lockdown. Rural areas have a higher percentage of violence against women and children. theconversation.com/rural-women-...
Complicit CBS's proposition doesn't even deserve a response from Pritzker. Occupying American cities with the U.S. Military is un-American, is a tactic only authoritarian regimes use, & is ILLEGAL. That should still mean something; whether it actually does or not should not figure into the framing.
When you have Govt militia on the streets then people don't want to go out, you have people in fear staying home, restaurants bookings down 60-70%, the opportunity for crime diminishes as the streets and centres are empty. No-one wants to live under that regime.
“he doesn’t seem to understand the constitution” Duh. Are folks are finally figuring out that trump doesn’t understand or care about the Constitution? he is incapable of understanding the language and nuances of freedom, and his deranged ego has set us on a downward spiral into authoritarianism.
They will be on the streets terrorizing people Crime is down perhaps because people aren’t going out. Business has been way down as well. He does not want an election He does not want an election.
He will use these "emergencies" to keep us from having them. Every time there is a local or national election, he will deploy NG troops and claim it's necessary and there can't be a vote.
He only cares about the “rule of Don”!
Trump’s buddy Epstein said that Trump was “functionally illiterate” During first term the Pentagon had to make picture books for him. He can’t read. This is just one of zillions of reasons why he shouldn’t be president.
It's not just that he doesn't KNOW - the bigger issue is that HE DOES NOT CARE!
Even if he understood them, he doesn’t care. And that’s even worse.
Both sides-ing fascism on CBS. Tell the little twit to fuck off JB
who is the fucking dipstick interviewer?
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Did they stop to think that there are just less people on the streets because the city has militarized and that's why there's been a drop in crime?
Facts are unimportant when the interview is clearly pushing a partisan narrative. In addition there is no mention of the impact on businesses like bars and restaurants because the military presence makes people think there really is something to fear.
Exactly
He is a cruel, low wattage liar and thief, surrounded by the same. Crush them all
Sure... Martial Law brings crime down. 🤦♀️ I cannot believe this tool of a journalist is trying to suggest Martial Law is a good thing. 🤦♀️
Neither does the GOP or SCOTUS..
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When you terrify everyone from going outside of their homes, there is no crime - idiot!!! And, guess what else happens = ZERO business!! Why don't you ask THAT question?!! I hate corporate news!!!
Who is that "reporter" pushing MAGA propaganda? Of course, crime is down in Washington down in DC when you have guys patrolling the streets 24/7 with assault rifles. But is it what you want in our streets forever? We look like a banana republic @facethenation.bsky.social
We don’t want military in our streets.
He’s never even read the Declaration of Independence and it’s hanging on the Oval Office wall! The Constitution is way too long and complicated for him to read and comprehend.
My governor!
Why TF is @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy carrying water for Trump? Crime is down in DC because the streets are empty, you moron.
He understands...he just doesn't care.
All he understands is self gratification!!!
History lesson for anyone who thinks what trump is doing is unamerican. Educate yourselves.
bsky.app/profile/abdo... is why 22,000 children and 17,000 women were killed, and 158,000 had their legs or hands cut off.
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Pritzker is very impressive on offense, the host tried for a gotcha :)
I thought so too. Raddatz did the same with Gov Moore.
Bottom line, legal US citizens have no rights in your city … they are expected to put up with your failed policies and pay for these illegal invaders … Where is the US Constitution???
And SCOTUS gave him free rein.
Donnie Cankles is dumb as dirt, and the governor of Illinois is not afraid to say it out loud. .
People are afraid to leave their homes and that’s better?!?
Let's see the stats on how businesses are doing now that people aren't going out. Let's see stats on how things are for the places the National Guard members had to leave. Let's compare costs for this and costs for alternatives. If you don't care about democracy, how about economics?
That’s the elephant in the room nobody can see.
Crime is down during a military invasion in DC because the criminals are sheltering in place, not because they have disappeared. Having 20 agents in every corner year round is not sustainable nor scalable. What about people being racially profiled and detained?
Rome: Deploying troops south of Rubicon was insurrection US: Posse Comitatus Rome: Julius Caesar led a legion across the Rubicon, starting a civil war, leading to the downfall of the republic, & his becoming emperor. US: Trump trying to deploy troops domestically.
It's not success, Ed, it's destroying the DC economy. Your false equivalency doesn't include the small businesses that are experiencing huge drops also due to no one wanting to leave their homes!
We don’t want a police state. There are better ways to handle crime. Programs that build better communities and improve the lives of residents not a police state. This is expensive, disruptive and unsustainable.
let me help Gov. Pritzker: Trump doesn't know better and he doesn't care what the Constitution says. see the difference? stop being fucking deferential for fucks fucking sakes
He knows better. He understands.
It's not just tRump...it's the entire GOP and their lobbyists, to include their donors. Greedy as hell they are...
Fat ass is pro murder
Wow early statistics show being a military dictatorship really reduces the crime rate! Sounds great!
Yep. I don’t know about you, but I like my presidents smart and literate.
We need the Police numbers to be increased in higher crime areas. Not Military. Trained Police. Fully well trained in Crime Prevention; & crime resolutions; & all the necessary training “To Serve & Protect”. That is what good Police Intervention can improve. Red states currently have greater needs!
Deterring crime is not the intention, c’mon.
The guard is only there because Little Big Balls got beat up driving around DC at 3 am.
This president has never believed any laws or moral codes of conduct apply to him.
Putting this in perspective: national guard soldiers have been at Port Authority in NY through red and blue administrations since 911.
I think the people telling the president what 2 do know the constitution, don't like it and don't care. He is simply the conduit. A deal between the felon and project 2025. He gets rich, stays out of jail and they enact their policies through the highest office with the govt funding the litigation.
People need to do this more. People don’t talk enough on tv about HOW UNBELIEVABLY DUMB Donald Trump is. He’s barely literate. Doesn’t understand basic math. Doesn’t understand anything. Doesn’t prepare, doesn’t research. He’s lazy and very, very stupid.
He understands wind though, it’s his major language.
Ignorance of the LAW, is no excuse, Especially for THE PRESIDENT!
He cut prices 1500%!!!
I love that Lawrence O'Donnell talks about him being stupid on "The Last Word" during almost every program, and explains what trump has said/done that day that was stupid.
The felon doesn’t have to understand the Constitution or the laws because he thinks he’s a king & can do whatever he dam well wants to knowing not a single person will challenge him. He’s got total presidential immunity to keep him safe thanks to the criminals in SCOTUS.
The whole point was about America being stronger and enough to NOT have military on their own streets, which is why they were in AND on other countries' streets-- but THIS is an indictment on THAT fact, those who believed it AND every thing that means much to it, toward more than JUST their streets
What happens when Trump has troops EVERYWHERE? Then we just live in peace under a gun? Or does he have a plan for how things go next? Use your fucking imagination.
Neither Trump nor the republicans give a shit about the Constitution. They've been using it for toilet paper.
And the checks and balances of our Senate, Congress and Supreme Court are actively allowing his fascism to destroy America. He cannot do this on his own! He did not take down America on his own! The GOP planned and executed the destruction and trump is the face of it.
And for the most part the Dems help them do it by providing only token resistance.
Exactly. John Thune is escaping blame so far, but he's just as guilty.
#DemocratsLie
Fuck the Main Stream Media ❗️❗️❗️ Fuck the Producers in this guys ear❗️
He read Mien Kampf.
He read Mein Kampf.
He saw the movie
But, chump has served as president before. One would imagine that he would have learned about the Constitution then. Or, one could note that his goal was always to destroy the country..and had a setback when Biden won. I’d argue he learned how to meet his goal This time around.
So close. It's not that he doesn't understand the law and the Constitution, he doesn't care about them because he believes they can't apply to him.
Seem? Don't be so kind. Trump is stupid, ignorant, demented, mentally ill, and mean to boot. He can't leave this planet too soon.
Who is this cuck reporter? Does he not know the difference between law enforcement and the military?
Pritzker cooks every time.
Troops with weapons of war on any street in America is going to change behavior……do we want to live in a Russian Military Country, where anyone who says anything against Putin is picked up thrown in jail or do we want to live America where you can walk the streets speak your mind without fear
Yes!!
But why assume ignorance - and not plain evil?
So we’re all just going to credulously accept the whole “crime” premise. Got it. Utter amateurs.
youtu.be/YoIw3XSA-lU?... MUST HEAR THIS! Explains and is very helpful!
The press is complicit. Paid propaganda mouthpieces. Press is compromised for big paychecks and job security. Full. Stop.
That's too nice. He understands perfectly well what he is doing.
The media in the US is a disaster. Never asking the right questions. Always simping for a wannabe dictator. They’re a disgrace.
No, no we don't. Otherwise we would have moved to Iraq during dubyas admin🙄
Trump does know better...its martial law.
We could put Infinity police in your city, and crime would then decrease even further.
The mainstream media is utterly complicit in Donald Trump’s takeover of the United States of America. It must be held accountable for its capitulation to Trump’s authoritarianism and fascism. Screw the mainstream media.
He’s got the juice
They were picking up trash and spreading some mulch
Pritzger is being generous toward trump.
He’s also being generous toward that “journalist”.
When the British under King George did this to us, we revolted.
Nope, that was so rich people could still keep human beings as slaves. There was no noble reason.
No, it was so that rich Americans would pay for the costs of a war they started The British abolitionist movement didn't become notable until after the American Revolution was already over. If the Americans had stayed in the empire they could have kept slavery until 1838.
Seeing how AmeriKKKa still has slavery, and never abolished it...
King George was trying to stop slavery? Interesting take.
And AmeriKKKa never abolished slavery. AmeriKKKa loves it that much.
But you didn't answer the question.
Wrong war.
Nope. And you literally have slavery written into your precious constitution.
And we won.
Yes, for now, they are American soldiers. The deployment of Russian troops is just a matter of time
Have states control their own gun laws. You have states govern abortion and Gerrymandering. If you bring the WRONG GUN TO WRONG STATE DEATH PENALTY JUST LIKE PPL HELPING ABORTION. Blue states-gun control, where you can go to football games,concerts, parades and churches
Not only does he not understand, he doesn't care. As long as he's enabled by his crony cabinet and the weak-kneed shitbirds in congress, he'll continue as is. Unless of course he's dying...
and business are going UNDER in DC, cause nobody wants to go outside at all, much less out to eat!
During the 2024 election Democrats misunderstood that people cared less about statistics indicating how well the economy was doing, and more about how well they felt they were benefiting from the economy. The same is true about crime. People care less about statistics indicating that crime is…
…at an all time low, and more about how safe they feel. Listening and focusing on what people have to say, what they feel, and what they need, is more important than what statistics might be indicating. Government is not the enemy of the people, as Republicans want us to believe, but is here for…
…the benefit of the people.
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Lawless Immigration and Customs Enforcement (L.I.C.E.) L.I.C.E., L.I.C.E., L.I.C.E.!
Giving percentages is extremely misleading. Going from 4 to 2 is a 50% drop. What were the total violent crimes per 100,000 before and after? And then divide that number by $5 million dollars per week before you say it was worth it. And did you arrest them or did they just go into hiding for a bit?
Trump is, and has Always been an imbecile, and this is true. The Real target of our anger should be his enablers. The People who Know better, but rush to carry out this fascist plot. And the Billionaires hiding behind "Dark Money". They must be recognized as a domestic threat against America.
Our president’s worldview is simple: he doesn’t care about the rule of law or defending our Constitution.
He doesn’t read. Any “understanding” of US constitutional democracy he has comes from users with their own nefarious desires. Further, he doesn’t care.
I think the people behind him Know exactly what they are doing. If they were around 80 years ago the US would have made different choices regarding WW2
Trump knows that laws are only for "little people", he knows this because if they applied evenly, he'd be in jail now. 34 felonies.
He just does what he’s told by the Christian nationalists and Putin.
But do want this 4EVER WHEN people are running around with military equipment sure everyone is in shock and awe but rest assured when it becomes common place the crime finds its way, not that we wish this to happen but once this is common it will find a way.
Trump knows exactly what he's doing.
Screw what Trump 'thinks'. Where are the Generals who swore to uphold & defend the Constitution? What are they saying to the Governor?🤔
Will it get to the point where Blue States have to activate THEIR National Guard to repel attacks of Red State National Guards? Is the CIVIL WAR ON?
He doesn't think beyond his next meal. As Stephen Miller & Company dismantle the US government in pursuit of a dictatorship, they're giving Donald busy work like remodeling the WH. It's all nonsense. Congress won't stop the guy the Supreme Court anointed as an untouchable king. 😡
The news is a joke. Where is the discussion of Federalism, States are Sovereigns And Posse Comitatus
If we need them, we’ll let you know, meanwhile, stay the hell out of dodge.
Why even ask the stupid question? We don’t want a police state in the name of fighting crime.
He is an evil Russian asset, who doesn’t give a shit about anybody but himself. He’s ready to watch America burn down before he dies.
O’Keefe mentions “federal agents” then shifts to “troops”. Agents are policing personnel. Troops are part of an army, untrained in policing, because they are part of a fighting unit.
Give the actual numbers and not percentages. Plus crime was down over 30 years.
This FTN 'host' just let Kristi Noem spew lies without any live fact checking. Without facts, the show is simply passing propaganda.
Worse than that..he doesn't care
Why are reporters on the Sunday morning shows trying to pitch the National Guard invading as a good thing?
Why is the media defending military occupation of Americans?! WTF is happening?!
A 24-hour curfew would severely reduce crime. Give everyone Covid, another 15% reduction. 400% tax on gasoline. All transactions are cash-only and exact change. Safest prison camp in America.
Right?! Makes the point exactly
Pray tell, what "media is defending military occupation of Americans" bedsides the usual, daily ignored right-wing suspects like Newsman and FOX?
This one (the video clip I commented on) and Martha Raddatz for starters. Both reporters this morning said that crime is down thanks to military taking over in DC and strongly suggested that American cities everywhere should want that.
They merely cited statistics and the respective governors had an open microphone and ample time to respond. That is what happens in a democracy. Journalists probe without fear or favour. Take that way or sanitize it, and you have exactly what Trump wants and Putin already has.
I think this quote sums up what makes me concerned and maybe you can see this clip too. It feels to me the journalists are not just citing facts but also adding opinion that it is a good thing to have military occupation of cities bsky.app/profile/esqu...
I have no doubt some are, especially at FOX etc. But overwhelmingly not so.
I guess we just view things differently
I think so, but at least we can be civil about it.
“favour”
"clone obsessed"
You're trolling, right?
No, you are though.
💯 Some folks show up just to provoke—not to seek truth or have an honest conversation.
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Don't blame me, you asked.
Ya, I asked and then I had to google them. I get it, they are out there.
That's like, rock bottom, they host Bannon and Charlie Kirk FFS.
Because news outlets are owned by Republican billionaires
They like trump and want him to rule us like a king
Because our media is complicit. They have done this on virtually every morning show this week. It's fucking staggering.
Not on MSNBC or CNN, ABC, CBC or NBC. What are you watching?
I’ve had MSNBC all day and they have had segments on this every show
This CBS Video
What CBS video?
The one you're in the comments running your mouth about.
Back that up with some facts instead of mad talk.
It's right there. I linked you the facts.
The interviewer cited statistics. That is called reporting. To be crystal clear, I am opposed to Trump sending National Guard into anywhere. I support Prisker, Newsom and Moore! But, if you are afraid of a journalist asking questions, then I can't help you.
I’m sure crime was really low during the holocaust too! Why do people act as if siting statistics is somehow a rhetorical technique free from opinion? Pritzker should’ve called him out. But I feel like he was so stunned by the utter absurdity of the claim
Might I suggest he's asking the WRONG questions? Because we must have a conversation about the cost of this occupation. What is the cost of national guard deployment? Who pays for it? What is the cost to the community? To local businesses? To the people who are harmed? What is the cost of this?
So how many brought up that occupying American cities with military is illegal and against the Constitution?
Crime was already down. Big percentage drops mean nothing without context (did 3 carjackings go to 1?). CBS already paid their ransom to Dear Leader trump in exchange for his control
The journalist is cherry picking bullshit statistics. Why doesn’t he point out the high crime rates in red states all over the country? Of course crime is down in DC! People are afraid to leave their homes. I hear crime is really low in North Korea and Moscow too!
1. Are the statistics true? If they're from the Trump administration they probably aren't. 2. Are the statistics essentially taking credit for trends that were already underway? 3. In a complete police state w/ a curfew, crime statistics would be lower. Does that prove a police state is better?
Bro- what the fuck are you talking about? This is some straight up blue maga level ignorance.
Watch the goddamned video.
You are afraid of a journalist citing statistics and asking probing questions? You shouldn't be. Because that is democracy in action. Prisker handled himself just fine.
Only if you promise to take off your glass onions when you do.
Angry at life too?
wow you’re dumb
wow that comment took a non-genius.
Yes all of them too.
Not so. And either you are totally gullible, or just misinformed. The Russians want you to mistrust and be angry at all media. And so does Trump. You are either one of them of playing into their hand. Duh!
Your assumptions are stuck in the early 2010s. We’ve learned a lot, and a lot has happened, since. The ease of access journalism and corporate media consolidation, accelerated under Trump, has turned the press writ large into a fascist organ. Try reading 2 equivalent stories in US vs foreign media.
The press I read is certainly not a "fascist organ" by any stretch of the most vivid imagination. In fact it is overwhelmingly vehemently opposed. btw. I read foreign media too.
You’re compounding the mistake that us liberals made after watergate, which was to lionize the press as incorruptible and interested solely in the public good. We over-interpreted one event and blindly defended the media class for decades as being on the side of liberal democratic values. Not so.
Not only was it not true in the 1970’s, it’s deeply, comically untrue now. These are profitseeking institutions whose owners are deeply invested in the fascist cause, essentially without exception. The virtue of a few individual journalists is utterly immaterial. The apparatus is utterly corrupt.
You claim "These are profit seeking institutions whose owners are deeply invested in the fascist cause". Some may or may not be fascist. Many just like the tax breaks. Aa long as I get access to great human, environmental and anti-fascist reporting, then I can live with that. That is what matters.
The framing of events is so funhouse-mirror crazy in US media that the downstream merits or failures of individual articles or journalists is beside the point. The gun is facing backwards.
you aren’t even american
Have you ever heard of dual citizenship? Or in your world, would that just be another clone?
That whole “the Russians want to turn us into a low-trust society like them” thing is true…. But it happened. It worked. And the reason trust evaporated isn’t because the Russians tricked us, it’s because trust really was broken (with their help) by all of civil society from the press on down.
“Oh Trump wants us not to trust each other so we should continue to put faith in people and outlets who have exposed themselves as corrupt charlatans intentionally shaping public opinion for obviously fascist aims” is bullshit. You’re just mourning for an era where trust was possible. I understand.
You know we can all see the video this is in reply to right? Please gaslight less obviously.
The only video that I posted was "Big Crime" by Neil Young, probably a different thread anyway, and yes anyone can see that. Are you actually trying to ask someone else your question?
Or, he could go watch Martha over on ABC. She's doing it too.
You mean her Wes Moore interview in Baltimore. Moore: ‘I have no interest in fighting with the president, but I have an interest in fighting for my communities’ “Asking me to deploy my National Guard" is "not a serious approach,” Moore said. That ABC Martha?
Yes. That ABC Martha normalizing troops and wondering why, if crime is down, why he just doesn't go along with it.
It's all propaganda. They've all been modifying how they speak so as not to piss off T****. Even MSNBC! There are a few ... very few ... who get to really speak their minds ~ Rachel, Lawrence, The Weekend mostly. I prefer Thom Hartman on Free Speech TV. Privately funded. No censorship.
Yes, Thom Hartman is great. And all your MSNBC name checks are great, but there are many more too.
Listen closely. It's disconcerting ... at least among the daytime talking heads. I became very concerned when they cleaned house of Muslim anchors (imho axing Mehdi Hassan was an enormous mistake) and Joy Reid. And why do they keep Alex Witt? She terrible at interviewing.
I don't know the details of either firing. And MSNBC isn't about to make their reasons public. I did like Joy! Fun! Mehdi I could take or leave. Alex isn't great, but I think her heart is in the right place. I also like CNN, CBC, BBC and France TV24 (Public). I should watch PBS more.
Yes ... before it goes dark in January. 💔
Yes, on ABC: see Martha Raddatz.
I didn't see the interview the same way. Wes Moore is a smart man, he can handle a journalist's questions. If he couldn't, then we start to worry.
🤦🏻♀️ This isn’t a question of the Governor’s intelligence or ability to handle a reporter’s stupid question. It’s a matter of the reporter accepting Trump at face value. Again, 🤦🏻♀️.
Did you see Martha Raddatz on ABC? She pressed Wes Moore pretty hard on why he doesn’t just want a police state in Maryland because it’s working so well in DC.
It is the job of journalists to show no fear or favour, and to ask probing questions. Only autocrats and dictators fear being asked such questions. By answering a journalists questions Moore, Pritzker, Newsom etc. reach more people and only gain credibility.
“Why don’t you welcome a police state since crime stats are down in DC” isn’t really a probing question as far as I’m concerned. It’s certainly not a neutral line of questioning.
Here's a clue. It is the answer that matters! Now, that wasn't difficult, was it.
No. The questions the media deem fit to ask also matter. Framing matters.
It is also the job of the media to push back on lies. The number of times I see a reporter ask a question, get a lie for an answer, and just move on like the answer was real is stunning. Being a journalist isn't just asking a question and accepting whatever answer is given. Our media is broken.
There are countless examples where I agree with you. I too wish sometimes for more pushback and fact checking. Take a Trump scrum as a prime example. But the stench of the lie hangs in the air and wouldn't if the question was not asked.
I saw that. She is despicable! Why isnt she railing against Trump for the continued suffering of innocent people in Ukraine and Gaza like she would if Biden was President?!
Instead she is pushing military occupied cities and she questioned Wes Moores military service!
abc did it as well bsky.app/profile/atru...
I'll say it again. It is the duty and the job of a journalist to ask questions without fear or favour. Wes Moore's a big boy, might be running for President? Great! He did just fine. You have nothing to lose by lightning up, except your fear of nothing.
the media perpetuating the idea that troops are effective law enforcement is dangerous and short-sighted. in the same way moore doesnt need our help you dont need to defend abc holding water for a fascist takeover of dc
This IS CBS
That is CBS? or This is CBS? And that? And the other thing? And I didn't even have to use capital letters for is.
Face the Nation is a CBS show & has been for decades.
This was Face the Nation today.
PROFITS
The connection between capitalism and propaganda is real.
Our billionaire owned media wants an authoritarian regime.
Because the media likes Trump and wants him to rule us all like a king. Because it’s much easier to be a courtier and a stenographer than a journalist.
Because the RW has bought up news stations/ publications for this moment. Horrifying!
This was my big take away. Who the fuck is this interviewer??!
That’s Ed O’Keefe … and @edokeefecbs.bsky.social you may want to double down on true Journalism based on this sampling of feedback on your interview of @govpritzker.illinois.gov ((Time is short, democracy is on the line so why not tag em …))
It's what the media does during a fascist regime.
He could ask something like "what will happen after the national guard leaves DC?" No vision, no long term solution. WTF.
Media is owned by MAGA billionaires.
Wait til you find out how rich their owners are and what they do politically with their money
You know what kind of content and clicks they can get of troops patrolling and maybe shooting people?
The oligarchs have taken over the media, and they work exclusively for them now.
CBS doesn’t want to offend the dictator
Yes. 16 million settlement to drop a case they would have won was not enough. I do not watch CBS anymore. Though catch the clips here
The safest place I have ever being in was Beijing and Shanghai-Do I want to live in China??? Hell no!!
Except he does read books. Like Mein Kampf.
Ugh. CBS Face the Nation continues to be unwatchable.
Ed O’Keefe is unwatchable! He’s got nothing to say. He let Noem ramble and lie, lie, lie! How did he do that?
I call it Face the Republicans.
He doesn’t understand the Constitution or laws, but those behind him do, you can be sure. They are using him and his threatening tactics to get to where they want to go. I’m sure they are winning quite a few battles, but you have to make sure they don’t win the war.
And he’s on his deathbed, doesn’t have the capacity to read or comprehend anything he reads. Come to think of it, never had that capability in the first place! Out of total stupidity!
Those crime numbers are unbelievable! In the space of three weeks? How would that happen and how could one actually measure it that quickly?
He doesn't understand them because he never read them, and doesn't care to. The rules simply don't apply to him.
He thinks they don’t apply to him and he always gets away with this.
Dictators don’t read books and don’t care about the constitution or any rule of law. They only care about their own interests by any means necessary.
Pritzker misses the point on this one. People are scared of armed military on their streets and are not living their lives as usual. Talk about the stats in terms of numbers, not percents, and the impact of military on business, tourism, and on resident's freedoms.
That was what I had hoped he would say
Not about understanding. It is about power and control and the fascists have it
Republican voters did this.
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They ask the dumbest questions
I do hope Pritzker runs for President. He speaks with clarity and a passion, with love for his country, that is so desperately needed at this terrible moment in our history.
He thought when he was President he could make his own laws.
Yeah, last time a President mobilized to send the militia to a state that didn't request it it didn't turn out well ... for that state, but it turned out really well for the enslaved people in that state.