Discussion: CNN's Don Lemon Asks Muslim Lawyer: 'Do You Support ISIS?' (VIDEO)

system1 · January 8, 2015, 5:11pm

Discussion for article #231784

pshipkey · January 8, 2015, 5:16pm

Don Lemon = CNN’s ‘Random Thought Generator’…

counter_coulter · January 8, 2015, 5:16pm

So Mr. “why didn’t you use your teeth to prevent rape?” just keeps the hits coming. How does this guy still have a job?

pshipkey · January 8, 2015, 5:17pm

His mind is a Black Hole. No coherent light of thought escapes.

mantan · January 8, 2015, 5:18pm

The taste of a lemon but the mind of a prune.

callmeeric · January 8, 2015, 5:24pm

Why Don Lemon? To make Wolf Blitzer seem smart.

pokeyoakey · January 8, 2015, 5:25pm

Still, the attorney didn’t answer the question. He didn’t say “NO”.

conrad_poohs · January 8, 2015, 5:26pm

And the Lemon Party at CNN just keeps on and on and on…

jsfox · January 8, 2015, 5:28pm

Lemon is starting to give the Fox Noise folks a run for their money on the stupid scale.

dswx · January 8, 2015, 5:29pm

The lawyer, after he replied, should have added, “Do you support the racist Tea Party?”.

538liberal · January 8, 2015, 5:36pm

Lacuna-Synecdoche · January 8, 2015, 5:36pm

TPM:

CNN host Don Lemon threw a prominent Muslim human rights lawyer for a loop on Wednesday night by breaking from discussion of the Paris shooting to ask him: “Do you support ISIS?”

Don, your efforts to get hired by Fox News are beginning to look a little desperate.

ctvoter · January 8, 2015, 5:37pm

Don Lemon: WORST.JOURNALIST.EVER.

rawr · January 8, 2015, 5:39pm

Yes he did. Lemon completely ignored his previous comments and asked him to say it again while hopping on one foot.

pine · January 8, 2015, 5:42pm

Hey Don,Bite it.

srfromgr · January 8, 2015, 5:47pm

What is the ideology of ISIS or ISIL and doesn’t it include violence in some form to achieve their goals? I mean, its not like his question is completely out of left field.

Though I understand the lawyer is merely describing the views of a percentage of Muslims in France (not sure where he gets his figures from however to make that claim) and not necessarily himself, Lemon shouldn’t have personalized the question towards his guest, who shouldn’t be an object or target for collective grievances. Lemon should have asked on a more philosophical level how one can be supportive of an ideology that uses violence to achieve its goals, and still dismiss the actions they use to accomplish that goal.

Maybe this is a bad example, I don’t know, but if someone were to say they support the KKK but not all that cross-burning, lynching and historically racist intimidation, I’d ask how its possible one can support such a evil group of malcontents by ignoring those facts. Most of us can’t ignore those facts.

As much as I think Lemon is a nitwit, I don’t think this is the same thing as his black hole theories of missing airplanes and idiotic comments about rape.

richardinjax · January 8, 2015, 5:48pm

He should have asked Lemon if he likes fried chicken or if he supports looting. Does that idiot CNN’er have any idea how insulting and uncalled for that remark was?

the_lone_apple · January 8, 2015, 5:52pm

I wish I was Lemon’s boss. His ears would have exploded after I got done laying into him for being a moron.

srfromgr · January 8, 2015, 5:57pm

My bad…I read the article wrong. It was Lemon that introduced the poll to make his boneheaded remark. That changes the context completely. It was intentionally antagonistic from the get-go.

mazs · January 8, 2015, 5:58pm

Is there anything Lemon can say or do to get fired? Anything? My 88 year old Mother has a better filter.