We're still the laughing stock when it comes to crime.
Although I'm crying about it, I'm not laughing because it's really sad to watch
people beaten to their lives in the subway system.
>> Even our colleagues. >> That's very scary, I mean so
here are some inconvenient truths.
Orlando has a very high crime rate too.
Its 50% higher in violent crime than New York right now.
Miami, very comparable with the Republican mayors.
So these things are not that simple but I get the strategy.
The strategy is support police.
Come here, come to Florida, we'll support you and that's a slam dunk politically.
But once you get into the facts, there are problems on both sides.
>> So one thing I would say is dig down deeper into the types of crime.
Yeah, because car jackings and those things are always a slippery slope and
they are dealing with that.
>> But violent crime, right?
>> Well because it's a slippery slope,
it's a one on one type of crime potentially.
But what we're talking about is people being beaten as they're walking in
the subway system.
These are not crimes for any crime sake, they're not taking anything.
They're not in the process of taking a car.
You have to take a look at what those crimes look like and what that means for
the citizenry.
>> And you really have to do that because otherwise,
I look like a fool for what I just said.
Man Harris Faulkner has never seen a rake that she hasn't rushed to step on.
But I want to give credit there to apparently Princeton University lecturer
Lauren Right for not only providing inconvenient facts, but
being willing to acknowledge and say that they're inconvenient facts.
Because if there is anything that is not appreciated by the Fox News audience,
it is an even mildly inconvenient fact.
That is not what Fox is about.
Fox is about making you feel nice and warm like somebody picked you up and
wrapped in a blanket and is just rocking you back and forth.
That is the entire point of it.
They're not interested in your inconvenient facts even if they appear
to be 100% accurate.
It's fine to talk about the crime of New York.
You might also want to point out that the crime is going down,
that certainly seems important.
Also kind of seems important to point out that it's not just areas with Democratic
mayors that are experiencing crime.
As she points out, some of the biggest cities in Florida or
experiencing absolutely massive waves of crime.
Sorry, that's inconvenient.
Jayar, what do you think?
>> Yeah, it's easy to say stuff like this when you don't actually analyze why crime
happens because then of course crime happens in cities like Orlando and
Miami and Omaha.
We'll even go to some of those red states, of course crime happens but
if you if you want to ignore the reasons why which they do.
The reasons why they do is because then you can address those problems that many
times come from societal factors, education, housing, jobs.
All those things that they want to continue to keep at the lowest level
possible in order to keep benefiting the richest folks in the country because
that's always the basis for this is to protect the richest because they're
the ones who pay these folks to say these lies like this.
But still, you can't go to the basis for these crimes are the reasons why these
things happen because then you have to think about it more and
thinking is just something they don't want anyone to do over at Fox News.
But still the inconvenient truths came.
And I like the other line that she did say because it's a slam dunk politically.
But in reality, so political slam dunks aren't based in reality.
>> Yeah. >> Think about it.
>> According to what they said. >> Political slam dunks are not based in
reality, they say it because sure you win on a political dunk.
But if we think about reality, that doesn't make any sense.
So many people's opinions about this stuff is based in political reality just for
a slam dunk which goes back to the original thing.
>> Just look at the dunk on those damn lips.
That's the entire point about this.
But again and I think this is Harris Faulkner's reset.
But we're talking about the type of crimes that happen in subways and
things like that so we can demonize the people have always demonized.
Maybe the in house, maybe minorities, maybe other folks who have to take
things like public transit, those of those dirty filthy people.
It happens in New York, in Chicago, in LA.
>> 100%.
No I love that, I want to return to that.
But really fast, let's do the politics then let's do the substance.
So the politics is this apparently began, this feud between New York and
Florida because Mayor Eric Adams quote retweeted a thing about DeSantis going
to New York and he says welcome to New York City.
Meatball run, a place where we don't ban books,
discriminate against our LGBTQ neighbors, use asylum seekers as props or
let the government stand between a woman and health care.
It's a great point.
Then Christina Pushaw who convinced 100 million Americans to call literally
everyone they don't like groomers responded attacking him and
that's why they were discussing it on Fox.
That's politics.
The reality is that Florida ranks generally 21st compared to every other
state when it comes to crime.
Their violent crime rate is 385 incidents per 100,000.
That's almost exactly what it is nationally.
But then once you zoom in in places like Florida City, violent crime rate is over
3000 incidents per 100,000, eight times the national violent crime rate.
But that's just overall crime and Harris Faulkner has a little bit of a retreat
strategy but like specifically what?
There's gotta be something that makes my political attacks makes sense.
Well, the 10 most common crimes charged in Florida are drug offenses, theft, assault,
driving under the influence, aggravated assault, liquor law violations, burglary,
fraud, robbery and vandalism.
I mean that sounds like how they describe literally
every square foot of New York on a daily basis.
It sounds like exactly the sort of thing, but
maybe I'm not being creative enough Jayar.
Maybe it's like what you said, it's like okay, so
those crimes but like on a subway or outside of Gray's papaya or
in Central Park or under the tree in Rockefeller Square.
Those are the ones I'm truly concerned about.
>> Yeah, the ones that you have already molded society to believe happens
to those people that you just dislike more.
Yeah, so you won't talk about those types of crimes because the first thought that
comes of course like we know those damn immigrants, all those damn minorities.
It always goes back to that because they've already molded you to think that.
So when you do see someone that they don't associate with that being convicted of
those things which a lot of times we know the judicial system likes to be a little
bit lighter on those folks sometimes, then you ignore it.
Well, that's just a one off.
That's not really the case unless they're unhoused.
Then it matches up.
So in other words, it's going after the least powerful people in the country and
again and again, and again.
>> Yeah.
>> Same formula.
>> So Harris Faulkner again is supposed to be like their straight news person.
She's not Laura Ingram.
She's not one of these biased people.
And yeah. >> I don't know this but
Harris Faulkner used to think a little bit more.
I think she's been, this is complete speculation.
I think she's been at least counseled on if you want to drive up ratings and be
the top person at Fox, you gotta lie and go crazy sometimes and overexaggerating.
>> Yeah. >> And you notice that shift has happened.
She was not like this several years ago.
>> No, definitely not.
>> She wants to be more popular.
I mean they had people like remember Shep Smith,
he'd be standing there just basically kind of saying what was happening with
people using eight foot iPads behind him.
It's super weird.
And they used to have people like that.
They had kind of straight news people.
They're still like straight news.
It's still biased by what you choose to focus on, what you don't,
who you choose to profile, who you don't, all of that.
But no, even Harris Faulkner is just like straight up playing Tucker Carlson
clips on her show and stuff like that.
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