CNN's campaign rally for the Democrats

John Kass:

CNN's town hall political takedown of the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment — in response to the tragic murders at a Florida school — has been wrongly described by some conservatives as an Orwellian Two Minutes Hate.

So, those who called it CNN’s Two Minutes Hate should publicly admit how wrong they were.

Because it went on for much longer than two minutes, didn’t it?

It went on and on and on, and from the earliest moments it became clear that this wasn’t a reasonable discussion about complicated policy and the Bill of Rights.

This was all about confrontation, drama, and exhorting a crowd that wants politicians to “do something” about guns. And so, the CNN many minutes of Second Amendment hate was nothing more than a campaign rally for the Democratic Party.

Others might say otherwise, but it wouldn’t be the first time others would be wrong. This was about stoking politics, anger, frustration and fear, and weaponizing it to help Democrats “do something” to the Constitution.

A student likened Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican, to mass murder suspect Nikolas Cruz for accepting campaign donations from the National Rifle Association. The crowd jeered at Rubio. He looked like a trapped forest creature. And they loved it.

And another star of the show was Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, in full uniform.

Israel is a politician, a Democrat who runs for election, and he received a roar from the crowd when he lashed out at NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch.

What bothered him was the NRA bringing up the aggravating fact that there had been repeated and well-documented failures of law enforcement — from the FBI to the locals — that could have stopped Cruz.

“You just told this group of people that you’re standing up for them,” he said. “You are not standing up for them until you say, ‘I want less weapons.’”

The crowd cheered.

“You will get this done,” Sheriff Israel told them. “Vote in people who feel the same way you do.”

They cheered some more.
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There is more.

At the time of the campaign rally, we had not learned that Israel's deputies at the school were crouching behind their cars or hiding when the killing was taking place.  It was not until police from another jurisdiction showed up that people actually went in to help the victims.

There was no time for the failures of law enforcement before the shooting started from the FBI to the Sheriff himself.  There was no discussion of Obama policies which led to schools and law enforcement failing to file charges against juveniles so that all three would have less messy records.  If charges had been filed against Cruz then he would never have passed a background check.

Instead, the major response to the shooting was an attempt to disarm the innocent.  There were calls for vicarious liability and group punishment.  It was in all a disgusting performance by CNN and the mob they had assembled to intimidate those who disagreed with them.