{"id":81785,"date":"2022-06-02T12:01:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T17:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81785"},"modified":"2022-06-02T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T17:01:30","slug":"81785","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81785","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/mark-finkelstein\/2022\/06\/01\/inconvenient-truth-cnn-admits-majority-doesnt-want-more-gun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inconvenient Truth: CNN Admits Majority Doesn&#8217;t Want More Gun Control!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t tune into <em>Morning Joe<\/em>\u00a0nowadays without hearing it\u00a0trumpeted that somewhere between 85-90% of Americans want more gun-control laws.<\/p>\n<p>But over on CNN, Wednesday morning&#8217;s\u00a0<em>New Day\u00a0<\/em>was telling an inconvenient truth. Check out how co-host John Berman framed matters. You might normally expect him to present things from a strongly pro-gun control perspective, but this is how he teed up Enten:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;One thing you hear is that around 90% of Americans support background checks, but does that tell the whole story<\/strong>\u00a0about how much agreement there really is? . . .\u00a0<strong>Maybe not exactly what you think.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They\u00a0pointed to a Gallup poll showing that a majority of Americans are either satisfied with the current level of gun control\u2014or actually want\u00a0<em>less\u00a0<\/em>gun control!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/570793\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Enten displayed numbers showing that only 36%, barely one-third,of Americans, want more gun control, whereas 54% are satisfied with current laws or want\u00a0<em>less\u00a0<\/em>gun control!<\/p>\n<p>Enten also cited two recent state referendums on background checks. He noted that in Maine, the proposal to expand background checks was actually defeated, and in Nevada, passed with the slimmest of margins, at\u00a0barely over 50%.<\/p>\n<p>Summing up, Enten said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;So you look at those\u00a0<strong>polls that say background check: 80%, 90%! When you look at people actually voting on the measure, it&#8217;s not anywhere\u00a0<em>close\u00a0<\/em>to that!<\/strong>\u00a0It&#8217;s much more of a 50\/50 proposition.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, back at\u00a0<em>Morning Joe<\/em>, it&#8217;s more gun control, all the time.<\/p>\n<p>This NewsBuster is a regular\u00a0<em>New Day\u00a0<\/em>viewer, and for some time now has noted inklings of a move away from the hard-left line it had taken for years. The Chris Licht [CNN&#8217;s new head honcho] effect? But MSNBC seems committed to toeing the liberal line &#8212; to the bitter end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inconvenient Truth: CNN Admits Majority Doesn&#8217;t Want More Gun Control! You can&#8217;t tune into Morning Joe\u00a0nowadays without hearing it\u00a0trumpeted that somewhere between 85-90% of Americans want more gun-control laws. But over on CNN, Wednesday morning&#8217;s\u00a0New Day\u00a0was telling an inconvenient truth. Check out how co-host John Berman framed matters. 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