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CNN's Lemon defends Antifa after Trump comments: 'No organization is perfect'
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/404116-cnns-lemon-defends-antifa-no-organization-is-perfect ^ | 08/29/18 | Joe Concha

Posted on 08/29/2018 6:09:39 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

CNN's Don Lemon on Tuesday appeared to defend Antifa Tuesday night, praising the group as "fighting racist fascists" while adding "no organization is perfect" in acknowledging the group's violent past on his primetime program.

"It says it right in the name: Antifa. Anti-fascism, which is what they were there fighting," Lemon said in reference to clashes between neo-Nazis and Antifa members in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017.

"Listen, no organization is perfect. There was some violence. No one condones violence, but there were different reasons for Antifa and for these neo-Nazis to be there," Lemon continued. "One, racists, fascists, the other group, fighting racist fascists. There is a distinction there."

Antifa has been involved in several protests that have seen violence occur since Charlottesville, including most recently at a second "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville that included an altercation with NBC News reporter Cal Perry.

Lemon's commentary came after reports President Trump told evangelical leaders at the White House on Monday that Republican losses in this year's midterms could lead to liberals "violently" overturning his administration's accomplishments for the Christian community.

The president warned that if Democrats take back the House "they will overturn everything that we've done and they will do it quickly and violently."

"There's violence. When you look at Antifa and you look at some of these groups — these are violent people," Trump said.

CNN chief legal analyst Jeffery Toobin said Trump's criticism of Antifa is an "appeal to racism" while stating the group "is widely perceived as an African-American organization."

"Let's be clear also about what's going on here, the theme here is ‘I'm Donald Trump and I'll protect you from the scary black people,’ " Toobin, a staunch Trump critic, said in a panel discussion on Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room."

"Antifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization and this is just part of the same story of LeBron James and Don Lemon and Maxine Waters and the NFL players and the UCLA basketball players," Toobin added.


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To: yesthatjallen

Charlottesville was an elaborately staged play to further the narrative.


41 posted on 08/29/2018 7:40:39 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lazamataz

Obviously, an ugly group with an ugly ideology.


42 posted on 08/29/2018 7:47:28 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: yesthatjallen

Commies backing violence, color me shocked!


43 posted on 08/29/2018 7:50:20 AM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: Lazamataz

Only two black guys and a bunch of pasty white folks, all of whom are so ugly they couldn’t get laid in a whore house with stacks hundreds tied around their necks. I would wager half of them still live at their mom’s.


44 posted on 08/29/2018 7:52:28 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Socialism is for losers.)
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To: Lazamataz

Antifa arrest mug shots——

Wasn’t this the Vogue cover for Today’s Young Hollywood already? They do one every year.
Maybe it wasn’t. They always have long evening gowns for that photo shoot.


45 posted on 08/29/2018 7:54:11 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End noncitizen & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Blue Collar Christian
Only two black guys

Just on chance alone, it should be much higher. Normal distribution insists on 4-5 black individuals. But there is only two.

46 posted on 08/29/2018 7:54:42 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: Lazamataz

caption for Antifa mug shots:

My mother always said to me your sister’s the smart one and you’re the pretty one. I never grew out of that.


47 posted on 08/29/2018 7:56:35 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End noncitizen & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Blue Collar Christian
Only two black guys

Just on chance alone, it should be much higher. Normal distribution insists on 4-5 black individuals. But there is only two.

O! And I forgot to mention THIS!

The left insists that police concentrate their arrests on people of color.

So it would INCREASE, not DECREASE, the number of black people. Let us estimate that because of this arrest bias, there should be TEN black people.

That means the representation by black people in Antifa is five times as small as the population distribution.

Thus, I conclude that the population of Antifa has as a subset, only 2.6% black.

Lemon is looking more stupid, the longer I look at his utterance.

48 posted on 08/29/2018 8:01:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: Magnatron

you could almost swear the dude center bottom row is the jax madden games shooter.


49 posted on 08/29/2018 8:05:31 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: yesthatjallen

Yeah Lemon, anarchy and lawlessness are so dependable, huh Idiot!?


50 posted on 08/29/2018 8:06:11 AM PDT by cranked
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To: yesthatjallen

The KKK was formed by democrats to be their enforcement wing. Antifa is just the democrats’ new enforcement wing.


51 posted on 08/29/2018 8:11:35 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: yesthatjallen
PS. Does anyone perceive Antifa as an African-American organization?

The few I've seen who were identifiable (hoods down, masks off) were (or appeared to be) white.

52 posted on 08/29/2018 9:34:41 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Antifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization...

By whom, Stevie Wonder? Antifa is as lily-white as the Klan and resembles it in a lot of other respects as well.

53 posted on 08/29/2018 9:41:25 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: yesthatjallen

Antifa is a violent terrorist organization - non-government individuals or organizations attempting to accomplish political goals through violent means is the definition of terrorism.


54 posted on 08/29/2018 3:37:32 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Lazamataz

“Lemon is looking more stupid, the longer I look at his utterance.”

I know. And as if that was possible, Laz.


55 posted on 08/29/2018 8:52:44 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Socialism is for losers.)
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