Is CNN’s Don Lemon the dumbest show host on cable news?
I don’t know the answer for sure. But, based on a variety of comments he has made over the years (for examples, click here and here), Lemon is definitely in the running.
Here is his latest entry, courtesy of Douglas Ernst’s article for the Washington Times:
CNN’S Don Lemon told a New York audience Friday that he has an “obligation” to call President Trump “racist” or “racist-adjacent” during broadcasts because the evidence points to no other alternative.
The co-anchor of “CNN Tonight” told attendees at Variety’s Entertainment & Technology NYC Summit that calling the president a racist is what journalists should do as a matter of integrity. His reasoning: an objective analysis of the situation “leads you to nothing else but this president being racist.”
“He’s certainly racist-adjacent,” Mr. Lemon, the keynote speaker, said. “If you have the evidence that shows you, that leads you to nothing else but this president being racist, then I feel it’s my obligation as a journalist to say it. On [Jan. 11 when] I said it, and I don’t regret saying it. I believe that to be true.”
The CNN personality added that he loves going to work each day because CNN has refused to “pick sides” regarding the Trump administration.
Racist adjacent? Trump being a racist is not opinion, but objective fact? CNN – we hate Trump and want him out of here headquarters – has refused to pick sides regarding the Trump administration?
Yeesh.
What if I told you I think Don Lemon is non compos mentis adjacent….but I’m not picking sides, of course.
