Greg Gutfeld: America teeters on edge of mayhem, with CNN ready to push us over

It’s official: Unlike Joe Biden at 8 p.m., crime is up.

How do I know this? CNN reported it. (I’ll give you time to regain consciousness.)

Yes, the official network of Zoom call masturbators actually got something right. CNN, where the N stands for “Never mind.”

Now, the story was on their website, but it came out on a Saturday, when people are watching sports, playing with their kids or replacing their bong water. (Shoutout to Steve Doocy.) According to their website, a crime wave occurred in 2020 and stretched into 2021 in Democrat-run cities. In NYC, homicide spiked 14%. In Chicago, it spiked 33% — including a record 18 killings in one day. Los Angeles, 36%. Memphis saw an increase of 100-plus killings.  Cities where defunding the police was pushed got hit the hardest. The good news is that most of the savings went to gunshot-related health care.

All this made the CNN website on a Saturday. Meanwhile, when the actual crime was taking place, what was CNN saying in primetime? You must remember this:

DON LEMON, JULY 7, 2020: [imitating Trump sarcastically] Democratic cities are in chaos right now, is this what you want from Joe Biden and they’re going to take your country away and they’re taking down the statues and —

CHRIS CUOMO: [joining in]: Crime is rising.

LEMON: [continuing] Oh, my gosh, it’s so bad. And they get defunding police.  [Normal voice] It’s like — [long, exasperated exhale].

DON LEMON, SEPT. 17, 2020: If you watch a certain state TV and you listen to conservative media, you would think that, you know, entire cities are just embroiled in fights and fires and whatever. We went out, had a great dinner in New York City tonight. People actually walked up to us and said, ‘Thank you for — I watch you every night. I can’t believe they didn’t do a double take at us actually hanging out and not seeing us on the TV screen. But New York City was not a hellscape, was it? 

Oh, Don, they did a double take because they couldn’t believe you would wear mom jeans to an Applebee’s. But judging by his ratings, it’s always shocking when he’s recognized. Just so you know, as he said all that, people were still being killed across the country. So why mock the truth? Because it exposed their own support of violence.

CHRIS CUOMO, JUNE 2, 2020: And please show me where it says the protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful, because I can show you that outraged citizens are the ones who have made America what she is and led to any major milestone.

Actually, it’s in the Constitution, jackass. But expecting Chris to read is like expecting his brother to keep his hands off the help.

Smart people knew that getting rid of police and justifying looting and property destruction would lead to chaos, but the media refused to say so because it ruined their narrative and made them complicit in death. But hey, maybe the death was mostly peaceful.

So instead of focusing on the crime wave…