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You’re probably familiar with the concept of doublespeak made famous by George Orwell’s 1984; “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” Well, fiction became reality on Monday as the broadcast network told viewers not to trust their lying ears when it came to radical leftist calls to “defund the police.” Even though they acknowledged efforts to abolish the police department in Minneapolis, they insisted it meant "reform."
During ABC’s World News Tonight, correspondent Alex Perez said there were “growing calls to defund or outright abolish police departments.” And tried to suggest that “defund” meant “diverting some funds from police, to other social programs.”
Yet he said the “controversial issue” reached a boiling point in Minneapolis where the mayor was shouted down by people who wanted to abolish the police department. “The Minneapolis City Council announcing it intends to dismantle the police department, calling it ‘beyond reform,’” Perez added.
The doublespeak on NBC Nightly News was arguably the most insidious. Early in the show, correspondent Gabe Gutierrez noted that the mayor was “booed” and that the Democratic city council had “a veto-proof majority” that “pledged to disband the department.” But the network ran a segment shortly thereafter trying to apply a new definition to “defund the police.”
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