( CNN ) Fox News firebrand Bill O'Reilly agrees . So does Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer . Even conservative kingpin Rush Limbaugh has something in common with the thousands of protesters flooding American streets with anger over the grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case . They all think the grand jury got it wrong . It was enough for the satirists at NBC 's `` Saturday Night Live '' to poke a little fun at civil rights icon Al Sharpton , who has found his world suddenly turned topsy-turvy will all the new allies in the Garner case . `` What the hell is going on ? '' an actor portraying Sharpton said on Saturday 's program . `` Last night I was sitting in front of my TV , and I found myself saying , 'You damn right , Bill O'Reilly . ' I 'm all messed up ! '' And it 's not just O'Reilly . In contrast with another high-profile case involving brutality complaints against police -- the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson , Missouri -- a solid majority of Americans disagree with the New York grand jury that declined to charge Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Garner 's death , according to a Bloomberg Politics poll released Sunday . 'Week of Outrage ' gets underway . According to the poll , 60 % of Americans feel the grand jury made the wrong decision . Twenty-five percent of respondents said they agreed with the decision . The backlash -- both from conservative commentators and the public -- is different from the reaction to the recent grand jury decision to forgo charges against the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown , a much more widely reported incident . In that case , a majority of Americans agreed with the grand jury , although opinions were split firmly along racial , and often political lines . According to the Bloomberg poll , 52 % of Americans -- including 64 % of whites -- sided with the grand jury 's findings . Thirty-six percent disagreed , including 78 % of African-American respondents to the poll , which was conducted December 3 to December 5 and has a margin of error of three percentage points . A CNN/ORC poll found similar divisions in the Ferguson case . In that poll -- conducted before the grand jury decision was announced -- 54 % of non-whites said Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson should be charged with murder . Among whites , 23 % shared the same feeling . Washington Post writer Aaron Blake said the poll results in the Garner case show it is `` the turning point Ferguson never was . '' `` In the Garner case , there is a video , leading to less debate about the particulars of precisely what happened , '' Blake wrote in a piece published Monday . `` As this poll shows , that is much more conducive to building consensus . And when it comes to taking action in response -- action of any kind -- that kind of bipartisan and biracial consensus makes it significantly more likely , '' he wrote . Not so fast , said Jason Johnson , a political science professor at Hiram College in Hiram , Ohio . `` Acknowledging something is wrong is not the same as doing something about it , '' he said . He said conservative pundits who have `` cherry picked '' the Garner case are n't likely to stand arm-in-arm with protesters demanding reforms . But what of the poll results showing more Americans take issue with the Garner decision ? That 's where Johnson sees change coming , but not with Garner 's death as the catalyst . Political and demographic changes have been driving those changes for years , Johnson said , ever since the Rodney King case roiled Los Angeles and the nation after police officers were taped beating King as he rolled in agony on a Los Angeles street following a high-speed chase . Trust in police has fallen in recent years , he said , citing poll results that particularly show a decline in trust among African-Americans . Meanwhile , the country has become more diverse . Those changes will eventually force a change in how police do their work , Johnson said . What the Garner case could do , he said , is move the national conversation past what some consider to be the overly simplistic suggestion that police body cameras will solve everything . `` The changes we 're going to see now , if there are any , are going to have to be much more substantive and much more on the ground , '' he said .
Polling , pundit reactions , suggest outrage over Eric Garner case is widespread . Conservative icons join protesters in criticizing grand jury decision . Comment: