On Crime, You Must Ask The Right Questions To Get Good Answers

American Thinker.com ^ | January 21, 2022 | Ted Noel

[Kaslin]

Herman Cain was fond of saying that you need to ask “the Right Questions.” His point was simple. If you saw a car slammed into a tree, you didn’t worry about what color it was. You needed to be sure that the occupant(s) of the car had been extricated. Then you would go on to check for leaking gasoline and other ongoing hazards. After that, you could figure out why the crash happened. In short, you had to consider what was most important at the moment, and then proceed to other questions only as the more important ones were answered.

A classic example of failure to do this was Vice President Harris’s assertion that we had migrants crossing our southern border illegally because of climate change at home. If we assume that climate change is real and has bad effects, she might be right about it having some minor effect, but there won’t be any migrants who agree with her. They all risked their lives to find a better life in a freer country than they had at home. The Chief Cackler flunked the first rule by never asking any questions, much less the right ones.

A January 18 New York Times morning newsletter commits that same error. German Lopez’s article “explores why murders surged in the U.S.” He opens by reciting a statistic to set his premise: Murders in the U.S. in 2020 were up 27% over 2019. (Data for 2021 is incomplete as of this writing.) This is the largest percentage increase in at least six decades. That’s Yuuuge! …in the wrong direction...and it’s getting worse. What’s a mother to do?

[coloradan]

The gaslight media has a negative interest in having people form true and accurate opinions about the world, and therefore avoids asking, let alone answering, important and relevant questions about goings-on.

[cymbeline]

My boss used to say that no question is bad if it is answered properly.

[Parley Baer]

The gaslight media is a perfect description.