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I think this story is even more important than Ryan stressing out that his clothes smell like cigarette smoke. Great reporting TPM!
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He get its. All this celebs just came for a photo opcoughkekepalmercough but he was here for real.
I gotta go with Talib Kweli on this one. Heās critiquing CNN with a legitimate complaint. Hereās what I find nauseating about Lemonā¦Lemon says:
"āI disagree with that especially with our coverage. I think that weāve done really great coverage here,ā Lemon said. āAnd people in the community are actually coming up commending us on our coverage, saying that itās balanced.ā
Reporting in the media isnāt about ābalanceā to get the facts outā¦itās about the facts. The public can decide whether its balanced all on their own if thatās what they choose, and thatās what Talib Kweli is trying to address.
I could care less whether these two high profile personalities said hello to one another in a polite or dismissive way. Thatās kinda besides the point. Talib obviously took it as a slight, but based on Lemonās interrupting him during the interviewā¦he looks the fool for being so defensive from almost the start of the conversation. Heās trying to defend CNN, which is his employer, but heās stepping all over his message while doing so.
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Breaking: girl-fight erupts at Eaton Elementary. A series of ādid notā ādid soāsā spiraled into āI know you are but what am I?ā Hair pulling and scratching ensued.
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Hitler did a lot of bad things but he did turn the German economy around. He encouraged medical experiments that answered important questions like, for example, that you can drive an eleven year old boy insane by strapping him to a chair and having a mechanical hammer come down on his head every few seconds or you canāt sew two twins together to create conjoined twins.
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I didnāt have the interest to watch the video. Edited due to poor taste in my choice of sarcastic wise-ass remark.
Yeah ghost, there is thatā¦
Lemonās so big on giving himself Kudos, he canāt bother to hear what the fuck others see him doing wrong. Heās trying to deflect the criticism without having to consider whether CNN got it right or not. Its just another way to dismiss critique of the coverage. Some have done an admirable jobā¦others, not so much.
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I admire your even-handed, non-partisan and sober method of explication, GoET.
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Poor Don Lemon: #TheStruggleJustGotReal
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The problem with MSM is that itās designed for middle-aged white folks. When we see the worlds of real americans collide with cable news like in Ferguson, well, itās awkward to say the least.
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Boo. Hiss.
Lemon is a sourpuss, go figure ; )
The fact that CNN just sucks in general is likely a big part of the problem Iām guessing.
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Still no news for the Kardashiansā¦manā¦
Lemon isnāt exactly one of the favorites in their community since he is one of the patronizing āpull up your pants and thatāll solve most of your problemsā types - heās not as bad as one of the token blacks that appear on Fox News to bash other blacks for the amusement/gratification of whites, but he gets uncomfortably close.
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I think itās important to consider all of the facts.
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Itās been reported in the last two hours that Kim had a wardrobe malfunction while wearing a cut-out jumpsuit.
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I think the argument between the two comes down to anecdotal accounts vs. an eyewitness account by Talib Kweli, who claims to have seen the situation on the ground differently. Eyewitness accounts can often be wrong but Iād still take an eyewitness account over hearsay.
Similarly, Lawrence OāDonnell on his show last night read a piece from a NYT article that got much of the eyewitness account totally wrong, and left the reader (OāDonnell) wanting. His point was that the police, or someone on their behalf, fed the NYTimes an article, which dismissed eyewitness accounts of the killing of Michael Brown, instead substituting police information that said the eyewitness accounts differed vastly from one another, where in fact, they had not. The NYTimes took that police assessment of those eyewitnesses on faith, and like the good stenographers that some reporters are, wrote a piece that used only the police version as the official account of the killing, even though they were not even on scene to witness. Thus, these reporters left the impression in their writing that the police version, which tends to discredit the eyewitnesses, was the only legitimate version of the story worth knowing about or even covering.
According to OāDonnell, the NYT article was intentionally shading the facts in favor of Officer Wilson, while leaving their objectivity at bay. It was a piece intended to sow doubt, discredit the eyewitnesses without addressing the eyewitnesses themselves, using their own journalistic āintegrityā. The seemingly consistent eyewitness versions to date, in OāDonnellās opinion, should have been equally scrutinized and looked at seriously, perhaps by interviewing them as a basic starter. He said that the police in this particular case are not an entirely objective party in this matter, and their bias should therefore be questioned at the very least when offering to feed the NYT their version of events, especially when the reporters havenāt even bothered to corroborate the information provided to them.
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OMGā¦was she hurt?
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Poor lilā Donnieā! Evidently, Talib Kweli didnāt rank high enough on Lemonās ācelebrity listā to warrant a greeting!
Andā¦Donnieā should know how that feels. Remember when he was soooooooā upset that Jonah Hill didnāt ārecognizeā him, faun over him, and took great offense at being brushed off??? lmao
āSaid hi toĀ @jonahhillĀ in hotel,ā Lemon tweeted this evening. āThink he thought i was bellman. Didnāt know his name til bellman told me. A lesson to always be kind.ā In response to a fan who called Lemon adorable and asked about the kindness comment, the CNN NewsroomĀ host added, "@ArtemisLoudĀ He was a tool.
"Then Hill jumped in, tweeting: ā@DonLemonCNNĀ I said hi what do you want me to do move in with you? I was in a hurry. Didnāt realize you were a 12 year old girl. i walked out of the restroom and found you waiting for me,ā Hill wrote. āShook hands, said hi and was on my way. Sorry if you found that rude.ā
Lemonās obviously a ālegend in his own mind.ā
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