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 MUST BE A BAD GUY. THANKS DON LEMMON" t-shirts?
Coming from Don Lemon I’ll take that as a compliment.
You’re a fag Don and your network has lower ratings than Nick-At-Night!
I’m sick of degenerate leftists lecturing us.
Lemon is such an embarrassment!
I cannot fathom why the CNN suits keep him on................
Incorrect, Don. I am at liberty to criticize anyone whom I choose. Trying to limit my freedom to do such is tyranny. You do not get to frame the narrative.
I’m not just A bad guy, I’m THE bad guy. I kinda like that moniker.
Race and ideology.
Hugo Boss should be getting a very large order sometime soon.
I feel like deep down, it's simply because the NRA, the NRA-ILA and its members generally tend to support GOP candidates. I think that's what it boils down to with liberal activists and the media, but they'll never just directly say that.
So basically these kids are being used as human shields for Democratic Party terrorism.
Perhaps child abuse charges are appropriate here. Too bad nobody on the GOP side has any guts to turn the screws on the Left.
> So what great evil did the NRA commit exactly?
They pretty much told us right away, when they went after the political donations as their opening salvo.
The “great evil” is that the NRA generally supports Republicans.
I resisted the urge to send $40 to the NRA to sign up the loudest most intolerant leftist I know.
That’s why I’m lookin’ for t-shirts. ;-)
Yes, don’t DARE expose these politicized Youthful Idiots. I mean, how could anyone possibly criticize reasonable, mild mannered, polite and MATURE youngsters like Publicity Hogg, Bonzo Gonzo. Krazie Kasky et al
I’m not going to lose any sleep over the fact that sour Lemon thinks that I am a “bad guy”.
“Too bad nobody on the GOP side has any guts to turn the screws on the Left.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B25BXhcxGoU
That’s what Milo is saying in this video. Conservatives had better start fighting back and fighting back harder than they ever have, or it’s all over.
Don Lemon has the IQ of a Goldfish. Maybe
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