A CNN panel discussion went off the rails Tuesday evening when panelists Kasie Hunt and Ana Navarro teamed up to shout down Jonah Goldberg when he attempted to break down the statistical data surrounding school shootings.
The panel, moderated by host Laura Coates, responded to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-matthew-mcconaughey-gives-away-the-political-lefts-game-on-gun-control/">comments</a> made by actor Matthew McConaughey during a special Tuesday press briefing about the recent school shooting in his home town of Uvalde, Texas. McConaughey <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/conservatives-slam-gun-control-activist-matthew-mcconaughey-thats-gonna-be-a-no-from-me-dawg/">argued for a number of restrictions</a> — including more stringent background checks and raising the minimum age to own a rifle — but focused much of his time on encouraging people on both sides to work together, saying that the American people were not really as divided as politicians and media wanted them to believe they were.
Goldberg responded first, noting that he had agreed with much of what McConaughey had said but he was wary of the insistence that everyone&#8217;s kids were in danger.
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&quot;You talk about how you are scared for your kids and I have a daughter, I get being scared. If we’re going to tell people they should be scared this is going to happen to them, put this in perspective,&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonahDispatch</a> says. <a href="https://t.co/PpFSv594aB">pic.twitter.com/PpFSv594aB</a>
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&#8220;I share the moral outrage entirely with everybody on this panel about how horrific and just morally repugnant these slaughters are,&#8221; he began, but then he argued that some perspective was necessary. &#8220;If we’re going to start telling people that they should be scared that this is going to happen to them, we should at least put this in perspective.&#8221;
Pointing out the data, he said that there were over 54 million school-aged children in the United States — and in the last 29 years, 170 had been killed in school shootings.
Hunt and Navarro began to push back, but Goldberg continued, &#8220;The moral outrage is entirely valid and justified… You are absolutely right to be outraged about the crime. But if we’re going to tell people they should be terrified about their kids being dropped off at school, we should remind them their kids are more in danger on the drive to school, statistically, than they are at the school.&#8221;
&#8220;A child’s life cannot be a statistic,&#8221; Navarro objected.
&#8220;That’s moral bullying. I’m making a basic point to say that you shouldn’t tell people that they should be terrified,&#8221; Goldberg insisted.
&#8220;If it were your child, it would not be a statistic. It would be a tragedy that you would never ever recover from,&#8221; Navarro continued.
Goldberg said again, &#8220;That’s moral bullying!&#8221;
&#8220;Why is it moral bullying?&#8221; Navarro asked.
&#8220;You’re making it sound as if I don’t have compassion for these people, of course I do! I&#8217;m saying you shouldn’t tell the audience that this is the thing that they should be so terrified with, paralyzed with fear, about their own kids when their kids are more likely to die from a lot of other things,&#8221; Goldberg explained.
The argument continued as Navarro pointed to the fact that many car accidents had led to car seat, speed, and seat belt laws, but Goldberg argued that his point remained the same.
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&quot;I’m morally outraged by that. It’s grotesque. One shot child is too many. Tell people they should be paralyzed with fear it’s going to happen to them and their kids you are doing them a disservice,&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonahDispatch</a> hits back at &quot;moral bullying&quot; during CNN panel discussion. <a href="https://t.co/GblGUaMGWP">pic.twitter.com/GblGUaMGWP</a>
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&#8220;I said I’m morally outraged by that. I think it’s grotesque. One shot child is too many as far as I am concerned. But if you are going to take that moral outrage and then tell people they should be paralyzed with fear that this is going to happen to them and their kids, you are doing them a disservice,&#8221; Goldberg continued.
Navarro pushed back, arguing that it was past time for action because no one had done anything after the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012.
&#8220;It’s a national shame. Paralyzed with fear and paralyzed with acceptance and resignation is what we have been for the last ten years. And it’s enough of that. No more paralysis. Get your a**es in gear and call your senator,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;That’s fine. I’m doing analysis. I am not doing activism,&#8221; Goldberg replied.

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Two longtime never-Trumpers say they quit their gigs as contributors to Fox News because of Tucker Carlson&#8217;s recent content about the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
On Sunday, the Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg <a href="https://thedispatch.com/p/why-we-are-leaving-fox-news">announced</a> their resignations from Fox, where they have worked since 2009. They said in a joint statement that Carlson&#8217;s recent &#8220;Patriot Purge&#8221; special, which aired earlier this month on the network&#8217;s streaming service, portrayed the January 6 riot as a deep state &#8220;false flag&#8221; operation that sought to justify the subsequent persecution of conservatives.
&#8220;Fox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis. But the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;A case in point: Patriot Purge, a three-part series hosted by Tucker Carlson.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s their full statement:
<blockquote>We joined Fox News as contributors in early 2009. Combined, that’s more than 20 years of experience, relationships, and friendships. For most of that time, we were proud to be associated with the network, if not necessarily with every program, opinion, or scandal that aroused controversy. We believed, sincerely, that the country needed Fox News. Whether you call it liberal media bias or simply a form of groupthink around certain narratives, having a news network that brought different assumptions and asked different questions—while still providing real reporting and insightful conservative analysis and opinion—was good for the country and journalism.
Fox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis. But the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible.
A case in point: Patriot Purge, a three-part series hosted by Tucker Carlson.
The special—which ran on Fox’s subscription streaming service earlier this month and was promoted on Fox News—is presented in the style of an exposé, a hard-hitting piece of investigative journalism. In reality, it is a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions. And its message is clear: The U.S. government is targeting patriotic Americans in the same manner —and with the same tools—that it used to target al Qaeda.
“The domestic war on terror is here. It’s coming after half of the country,” says one protagonist. “The left is hunting the right, sticking them in Guantanamo Bay for American citizens—leaving them there to rot,” says another, over video of an individual in an orange jumpsuit being waterboarded.
This is not happening. And we think it’s dangerous to pretend it is. If a person with such a platform shares such misinformation loud enough and long enough, there are Americans who will believe—and act upon—it.
This isn’t theoretical. This is what actually happened on January 6, 2021.
Over the past five years, some of Fox’s top opinion hosts amplified the false claims and bizarre narratives of Donald Trump or offered up their own in his service. In this sense, the release of Patriot Purge wasn’t an isolated incident, it was merely the most egregious example of a longstanding trend. Patriot Purge creates an alternative history of January 6, contradicted not just by common sense, not just by the testimony and on-the-record statements of many participants, but by the reporting of the news division of Fox News itself.
Indeed, the news side of Fox routinely does what it is supposed to do: It reports the truth. COVID-19 is deadly, vaccines work, Joe Biden won Arizona, the election was not stolen, January 6 was not a Deep State-orchestrated “false flag” operation but was an assault on the Capitol as part of a broader attempt to steal an election: The people who put the “news” in Fox News have reported all of these things.
This is not the place to expound at any length on the many problems and challenges facing the country. But we sincerely believe that all people of good will and good judgment—regardless of their ideological or partisan commitments—can agree that a cavalier and even contemptuous attitude toward facts, truth-seeking, and truth-telling, lies at the heart of so much that plagues our country.
We started The Dispatch two years ago “to do right as we see it, by providing engaged citizens fact-based reporting and commentary on politics, policy and culture—informed by conservative principles.” We made a <a href="https://thedispatch.com/p/what-are-we-doing" rel="">promise</a> to our readers and members that we’d challenge our own assumptions as we challenged theirs, and that we wouldn’t pull punches. The tension between doing that work well and remaining loyal to Fox has tested us many times over the past few years. But with the release of Patriot Purge, we felt we could no longer “do right as we see it” and remain at Fox News. So we resigned.
We remain grateful for the opportunities we’ve had at Fox and we continue to admire many of the hard-working journalists who work there. This is our last recourse. We do not regret our decision, even if we find it regrettably necessary.</blockquote>

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I&#8217;ve been a fan of Jonah Goldberg&#8217;s writing for many years. The man is an outstanding writer, arguably <a href="https://rightwingnews.com/column-2/the-40-best-conservative-columnists-of-2018-10th-annual/">the best conservative columnist in the business</a> and he&#8217;s produced some great books, most notably <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics-ebook/dp/B000W917ZG/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=liberal+fascism&amp;qid=1559526235&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-2">Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning</a>. The name most people associate with National Review has always been William F. Buckley, but he was a bit before my time and so when I think National Review, first and foremost, I think Jonah Goldberg. So for Jonah Goldberg to be <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/last-g-file-national-review/">leaving National Review</a> is a little like Babe Ruth leaving the Yankees. Sure, they&#8217;ve still got some other great writers, but the best cleanup hitter in the game is going elsewhere.
In honor of his notable tenure at National Review, I wanted to highlight some of his best quotes; given that he&#8217;s one of the most quotable conservative writers out there, I probably could have made this list twice as long. Enjoy!
30) &#8220;If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying, &#8216;I&#8217;m from the government and I&#8217;m here to help.&#8217;&#8221;
29) &#8220;There is no &#8216;right side of history.&#8217; Nothing is foreordained.&#8221;
28) &#8220;The startling truth is that nearly all of human progress has taken place in the last three hundred years (and for many of the billions of non-Westerners lifted out of crushing poverty thanks to capitalism, it&#8217;s happened in the last thirty years).&#8221;
27) &#8220;A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.&#8221;
26) &#8220;For example, one will virtually never hear that the Palmer Raids, Prohibition, or American eugenics were thoroughly progressive phenomena. These are sins America itself must atone for. Meanwhile, real or alleged &#8216;conservative&#8217; misdeeds &#8212; say McCarthyism &#8212; are always the exclusive fault of conservatives and a sign of the policies they would repeat if given power. The only culpable mistake that liberals make is failing to fight &#8216;hard enough&#8217; for their principles. Liberals are never responsible for historic misdeeds because they feel no compulsion to defend the inherent goodness of America. Conservatives, meanwhile, not only take the blame for events not of their own making that they often worked the most assiduously against, but find themselves defending liberal misdeeds in order to defend America herself.&#8221;
25) &#8220;Fascism is a religion of the state. It assumes the organic unity of the body politic and longs for a national leader attuned to the will of the people. It is totalitarian in that it views everything as political and holds that any action by the state is justified to achieve the common goal. It takes responsibility for all aspects of life, including our health and well-being, and seeks to impose uniformity of thought and action, whether by force or through regulation and social pressure. Everything, including economy and religion, must be aligned with its objectives. Any rival identity is part of the &#8216;problem&#8217; and therefore defined as the enemy. I will argue that contemporary American liberalism embodies all of these aspects of fascism.&#8221;
24) &#8220;Disagreements become insults when politics becomes a statement about who you are.&#8221;
23) &#8220;But if you try to see things like a state for a second, it&#8217;s simply unsustainable to have a libertarian immigration policy and a liberal welfare state. Ultimately, if you don&#8217;t want cops asking for your papers, you need to get rid of one or the other.&#8221;
22) &#8220;Liberals are uncomfortable with the topic of patriotism because their core philosophical impulses are to make America a different country than it is.&#8221;
21) &#8220;&#8230;I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims that there is no conflict between his love of country and his desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: &#8216;You&#8217;re mistaken.&#8217; And, therefore, I&#8217;m thinking of adding this corollary to my General Rule of patriotism: The more intellectually consistent and pro-U.N. you are, the less patriotic you are likely to be. I haven&#8217;t thought that all the way through, but it seems right to me.&#8221;
20) &#8220;Complexity is a subsidy. The more complex government makes society, the more it rewards those with the resources to deal with that complexity, and the more it punishes those who do not.&#8221;
19) &#8220;America&#8217;s political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now, more and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.&#8221;
18) &#8220;The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.&#8221;
17) &#8220;As psychiatrist and science blogger Scott Alexander writes: As the feminist movement gradually took hold, women conquered one of these fields after another. 51% of law students are now female. So are 49.8% of medical students, 45% of math majors, 60% of linguistics majors, 60% of journalism majors, 75% of psychology majors, and 60% of biology postdocs. Yet for some reason, engineering remains only about 20% female. And everyone says &#8216;Aha! I bet it&#8217;s because of negative stereotypes!'&#8221;
16) &#8220;The desire to be entertained has rewired much of our civilization, because it has rewired our minds. When everything needs to be entertaining, we judge everything by its entertainment value.&#8221;
15) &#8220;We talk about murder and rape as unnatural as a way to heap deserving opprobrium on the practice even though, as we&#8217;ve seen, neither is actually unnatural. Adultery is wholly natural, but we condemn it as a violation of important norms to keep the habit to a minimum. &#8216;Very often those things we have condemned as &#8216;unnatural&#8217; are things that we know will flourish if we leave them alone,&#8217; writes Robin Fox in The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind.&#8221;
14) &#8220;If we say that anyone who &#8216;moralizes&#8217; must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.&#8221;
13) &#8220;Tribalism isn&#8217;t just about us-vs.-them, it&#8217;s also about deferring to fame and status, investing in personalities rather than principles. As institutions lose their hold on us, we put our faith in celebrities.&#8221;
12) &#8220;Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.&#8221;
11) &#8220;Everyone moralizes. The suggestion that liberals aren&#8217;t moralizers is so preposterous it makes it hard for me to take any of them seriously when they wax indignant about &#8216;moralizers.&#8217; Almost every day, they tell us what is moral or immoral to think and to say about race, taxes, abortion &#8216; you name it. They explain it would be immoral for me to spend more of my own money on my own children when that money could be spent by government on other peoples&#8217; children. In short, they think moralizing is fine. They just want to have a monopoly on the franchise.&#8221;
10) &#8220;What was once considered the only noble motivation for a hero, a conception of good outside himself, has been replaced by what Irish philosopher David Thunder calls &#8216;purely formal accounts of integrity.&#8217; According to Thunder, &#8216;purely formal accounts essentially demand internal consistency within the form or structure of an agent&#8217;s desires, actions, beliefs, and evaluations.&#8217; He adds that, under purely formal integrity, a person &#8216;may be committed to evil causes or principles, and they may adopt principles of expediency or even exempt themselves from moral rules when the rules stand in the way of their desires.&#8217; In other words, if you stick to your code, no matter what you do, you can be seen as a hero. It&#8217;s this sort of thinking that has led Hannibal Lecter, a character who barbarously murders and eats(!) innocent people, to be seen as something of a folk hero.&#8221;
9) &#8220;To fret about political, social, or economic inequality in a free society is to fret about the problem of freedom itself, for in the presence of freedom there will always be inequality of some kind.&#8221;
8) &#8220;Again, one need not be categorically opposed to ethnic groups or other minorities flexing their muscles in a diverse society. That&#8217;s a story as old as the country and is unavoidable in any society. The key distinction, once more, is that some within these groups are not merely fighting for their piece of the pie or for recognition of their legitimate interests. They are seeking to overthrow the ideals that made this country so successful in the first place. They are not merely arguing that the system needs to live up to its own ideals, which was the argument of the suffragettes and the civil rights movement. They are arguing that the ideals themselves are illegitimate.&#8221;
7) &#8220;People ask, &#8216;Why is there poverty in the world?&#8217; It&#8217;s a silly question. Poverty is the default human condition. It is the factory preset of this mortal coil.
6) &#8220;Capitalism is the most cooperative system ever created for the peaceful improvement of peoples&#8217; lives. It has only a single fatal flaw: It doesn&#8217;t feel like it. The market system is so good at getting people&#8212;from all over the world&#8212;to work together that we barely notice how much we&#8217;re cooperating.&#8221;
5) &#8220;I understand that identity-politics arguments are supposed to trump everything else these days, but the idea that all Americans of Asian, black, and Hispanic heritage have homogeneous political interests and identities is both ridiculous and grotesque.&#8221;
4) &#8220;Indeed, as libertarians are fond of pointing out, pretty much all laws come with the implicit threat of violence. Don&#8217;t believe me? Refuse to obey even the most picayune law and eventually a man in uniform with a gun on his hip is going to come talk to you about it.&#8221;
3) &#8220;We live in the most non-patriarchal moment in all of American history, if not all of Western history, if not all of human history. And yet so profound is the need to fight this terrible foe that, across the landscape, Donna Quixotes are constantly tilting their lances at mirages of their own imaginations.&#8221;
2) &#8220;Just to clarify: If you go into every situation saying there&#8217;s absolutely nothing worth fighting over, you will inevitably end up on a cot sleeping next to a guy named Tiny, bringing him breakfast in his cell every morning, and spending your afternoons ironing his boxers. Or, in the case of the French, you might spend your afternoons rounding up Jews to send to Germany, but you get the point.&#8221;
1) &#8220;But tolerance is a two-way street. In a decent society, the majority owes respect to the minority. And the minority owes the majority respect as well. That bargain has fallen apart, most acutely in Europe, but America is not far behind, as the champions of identity have grown in power. The story has been embellished to the point where the majority are not cast as tolerant and decent citizens trying to figure out how we should live with one another; the majority are now simply villains.&#8221;
John Hawkins runs <a href="https://brasspills.com/the-best-stats-quotes-from-alienated-america-why-some-places-thrive-while-others-collapse/">Brass Pills</a>, is the founder of <a href="http://www.rightwingnews.com/">Right Wing News</a>and you can also listen to his <a href="http://johnhawkins.libsyn.com/">Planet Hawkins Podcast</a>or follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/johnhawkinsrwn/status/1051872058379038720">Twitter</a>.

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