Posted on 03/27/2018 11:47:10 AM PDT by rktman
On Monday night, near the end of his CNN Tonight show, host Don Lemon got into a heated debate with right-leaning CNN political commentator Tara Setmayer after she began criticizing the media for giving the anti-gun Parkland student activists a forum to make incendiary attacks on the NRA and other opponents of gun control.
After she complained that, if you criticize the behavior of some of the students, "all of a sudden you're the bad guy," Lemon shot back: "You are the bad guy. Yes, you are, you are. These kids suffered an unimaginable tragedy. You let them vent, and then you move on."
The back and forth started at 11:53 p.m. Eastern, when Setmayer recalled that "Some of the rhetoric coming from some of the Parkland kids was a bit much," and then complained about the student activists "saying that the NRA has the blood of children on their hands."
Lemon brought up Benghazi as he countered: "During the election, I heard women whose son -- there was this one woman whose son had been killed in Benghazi, and she came out and she said really horrible things about, you know, Democrats and about Hillary Clinton, and no one criticized her because she was grieving."
After Setmayer continued, "You can't criticize the rhetoric because they are victims," the CNN host dismissively responded: "So what? They're kids -- so what?"
The right-leaning commentator then pointed out the problem of allowing inexperienced teenagers to decide what public policy should be: "We're elevating them to a point now where they're not making policy."
She added: "If you criticize some of what they're saying, then all of a sudden you're the bad guy."
Lemon asserted: "You are the bad guy.
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I’m wondering who these morons think they are trying to tell me what and how to think.
Screw them.
Says CNN’s affirmative action house monkey.
Hey, CNN where’s the diversity in your almost all-white liberal staff?
When are you going to practice what you preach?
Very bad men go into the cornfield.
Why would anyone criticize the woman who pointed out Hillary’s role in the Benghazi disaster?
Just visit one of the many NRA AR-15 discount stores and you’ll see.................... Oh?!
CNN needs a Lemon Law, because he needs to be recalled...
Lemon is a very nasty gay black queen. With every breath that he takes, he seethes with racist gay mafia hatred. CNN doesn’t care if his ratings are in the toilet, it’s Lemon’s hatefulness that they want.
Don, you pushed these kids into the public arena of politics. It is bloody and when you start demanding people give up their Rights you are going to get push back, if that makes me bad, tough. You and your skulls full of mush kids don’t get to dictate my Rights sassy pants, they don’t know what you are really using them for, yet.
Hey Don!
We are NOT on this earth to live up to your “standards”!!!
Have you considered living up to God’s standards?
Leftists like to insist that you aren’t allowed to criticize their propagandists. Ridicule is an appropriate response.
I agree. I’ve only seen him on youtube, and there he sounds like, well, something I like to call “arrogant ignorance”. He think’s he’s so smart but he pontificates in a way that exposes is utter ignorance on the subject at hand.
The Good, the Bad, and the Lemon.
On national television? At a "town hall" sponsored by CNN?
How about letting them vent to their school counsellors?
When do they get to "move on" if CNN keeps bringing them back on the air day after day?
-PJ
At least Rachel Maddow makes somewhat cogent arguments, but this guy is a total idiot!...............
Rashell who did what? You gotta be kidding.
Didn’t I hear that David Hogg was not even at the school when the shooting happened?
Regardless, Students are welcome to vent. They are NOT welcome to try to change laws, when they have no idea whats already on the books, are ignorant of what Broward County did and did not do, and then dictate to those who do know. In very unflattering language, I might add.
Snowflakes melt in the light of exposure to the facts.
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