DON LEMON\’S CENSORSHIP SHAME

Ken Berwitz


Don Lemon is a show host on CNN:  one of their better ones….or so I have always thought, at least until now.

Kurt Schlichter is a conservative writer/commentator who very much dislikes Hillary Clinton – something Mr. Lemon is fully aware of and, presumably why he had him on today\’s show.

The problems started when the talk turned to Donald Trump\’s (admittedly moronic) comment that Hillary Clinton using the bathroom during a break in Saturday\’s debate “disgusting.”

These excerpts from Elizabeth Preza\’s article at mediaite.com will tell you what happened then:

Discussing Trump\’s assertion that it\’s “too disgusting“ to talk about where Clinton disappeared to during Saturday\’s Democratic debate,Schlichter insisted he couldn\’t care less about the outrage surrounding Trump\’scomment.

“Don, it\’s gonnatake a lot more for me to get upset at a woman who enabled a guy who turned theOval Office into a frat house and his intern into a humidor,” Schlichter saidreferring to President Clinton\’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. “You know, I just don\’t care. I so don\’t care. I would need Stephen Hawking to find the theoretical limit of how littleI care about Donald Trump\’s silly jokes….Look, he\’s running against Hillary Clinton, he\’srunning against a sexual harasser and abuser\’s enabler, I don\’t know why we\’renot talking about that.”

“Because it has nothingto do with what happened,” Lemon replied.

 Lemonattempted to silence Schlichter calling his tirade “the lowest of thelow” and “a cheap shot.”

“Canwe cut it off? Can we cut if off please?” Lemon asked his producers,pulling the interview. “Thank you, we\’re done.”

Did Kurt Schlichter over-obsess on Hillary Clinton\’s enabling of Bill Clinton?  Enough so that it was reasonable for Don Lemon to cut him off?

Well, let\’s think about this:

-During the debate, Hillary Clinton lied about there being ISIS videos which used Trump for recruitment purposes;  

-It was during a tirade against Hillary Clinton\’s lie that Trump made his comments;

-ISIS recruitment videos do exist.  And, although none (so far) features Trump, at least one does feature Bill Clinton, whom it refers to as “the fornicator”;

-Hillary Clinton spent decades either looking the other way or defending Bill Clinton while woman after woman accused him of molestation and rape – thus a fully credible argument can be made that she bears part of the responsibility for the way ISIS is using Bill Clinton in its recruitment video.

Y\’know what?  That makes for a pretty good argument that Kurt Schlichter\’s transference of Trump\’s comments to an attack on her being Hubby Bubba\’s enabler was germane to the subject matter.  In fact, an excellent argument.

Bottom line:  Don Lemon – who certainly knew, and could not have been surprised by, Schlichter\’s dislike of Hillary Clinton – was way out of bounds to cut him off.

In my opinion, Mr. Lemon owes Mr. Schlichter an apology.

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