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When I see Don Lemon, I change the channel.
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Haha. I dunno man…when he pops up, it’s a good bet something hilarious is coming. Altho, I will admit it’s sometimes infuriating to watch that level of abject stupid.
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It’s a guarantee that something stupid will be said and it’s well worth the watch.
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Don Lemon appears to be unable to form a coherent and rational thought on a multitude of issues.
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TL;DR - CNN had its pet black dude, during an interview with Jesse Jackson himself no less, attempt to push the conservative/GOP/Teatroll/Faux News anti-Jesse-Jackson meme about him being a rabble-rouser who incites and approves of these communities turning to violent protest.
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For god’s sake, please don’t ever make me side with that idiot Lemon!!!
But there’s actually good reason that MLK & Obama (and even the Brown family) are against violence.
It hurts the cause.
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Well it is true that 100% of blacks commit 93% of the crimes. Ask Guliani. Data don’t lie.
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LOL…gotta love their abuse of math and statistics because they just fundamentally can’t understand it. Did he really say that though?
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Uh, Don? You ask interviewees questions so the audience can hear what a presumed expert has to say. You typically don’t ask because you, yourself, have no clue about basic history and background that any reasonably aware person of any ethnicity would know. Yeesh. For all the money they’re paying, can’t they find someone who’s good at the job?
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Not true.
If that’s the type of entertainment you enjoy, may I suggest Fox News? #laughaminute
Perhaps this is a good time to point out that this exchange very starkly highlights precisely why conservatives/GOPers/Teatrolls want history books to be written to exclude teaching children about “the negative things” like riots in Watts, Detroit and Chicago in response to police brutality and overreach during the civil rights era (this is in reference to their recent freakout over the AP history exam changes and things like the TX Board of Education attempting to use its influence over publishers to rewrite history textbooks for the nation).
I mean, if a black dude can so thoroughly misunderstand what’s going on in Ferguson right now because he lacks knowledge about those historical events, such that he was flirting with regurgitating Faux News talking points while trying to make it sound like Jesse Jackson’s commentary was condoning rioting and violence, then what better example could you possibly ask for to show the result of removing that knowledge from the national discussion?
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I watch Faux occasionally. Know thy enemy. It’s admittedly far less entertaining without Glenn Beck’s circus of paranoid delusions and chalkboards though.
Some crazy figure on black on black crime and that black on black crime requires white police officers to patrol black neighborhoods. It was just a weird moment on Meet the Press. Missouri house speaker backs him up.
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Not just in the 1960s, either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot
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They sent Don Lemon to Ferguson? My first thought was “Oh good. Maybe he’ll stay there.”
But no, no my friends, not even Lemon deserves that. Nobody deserves Ferguson.
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“It went in front of our legal and judicial process and the outcome was the outcome and we must abide by it….”
Says a corporate media that instantly rejected the OJ verdict after a fundamentally more-public legal process.
Total. Double. Standard.
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CNN host Don Lemon was perplexed
That should have been the end of the story.
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This reminds me a line from the movie “Ruthless People”: This could possibly be the stupidest man on the face of the Earth.
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