Posted on 09/26/2018 5:26:49 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
CNN host Don Lemon said late Tuesday that while he didn't like the fact that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and his wife were harassed and driven out of a Washington, D.C. restaurant by protesters, it's what Cruz "signed up for" as a public official.
“I don’t like it, but it is one reason I’m not a public official, that I’m not running for office," Lemon said to Chris Cuomo as the latter was handing off his show.
"In a way, I think it goes with the territory. I don’t like that they were blocking his wife, but that’s what he signed up for. And as a strict constitutionalist, which Ted Cruz is, he knows it is protected under the First Amendment," he continued.
"I don’t like it. I don’t like it happening to his wife. That’s what he signed up for. That’s part of the deal,” Lemon concluded.
The perspective comes after protesters opposed to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accosted Cruz and his wife Monday evening, chanting "We believe survivors" while demanding to know why he would vote for Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Cruz and his wife left the restaurant as protesters peppered him with questions regarding Kavanaugh, who has been accused by two women for sexual misconduct at a party in high school and college, respectively, in the 1980s.
Smash Racism, an Twitter account affiliated with Antifa, warned in a tweet after the protest was over that that Cruz, President Trump, Kavanaugh and other "right-wing scum" are "not safe."
"You are not safe,” the group wrote. “We will find you. We will expose you. We will take from you the peace you have taken from so many others.”
According to Twitter rules, users may not exercise "behavior that crosses the line into abuse, including behavior that harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence another user’s voice.”
“You may not engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so,” the social media company's rules state. “We consider abusive behavior an attempt to harass, intimidate, or silence someone else’s voice.”
Kavanaugh and Ford are both scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
The committee announced Tuesday evening that it plans to go ahead with a vote on Kavanaugh Friday morning.
Heh, we all know the reaction of these low-T spineless bottom of the pond dwellers if it happed to them.
TV, when you’re too dumb even to be a democrat politician.
No, it’s not you idiot.
Oh, but Don, You ARE a public personality. Get ready to reap as ye sow...
Easy-peasy, Lemon squeezy.
Next time he goes out for dinner, I hope a group of folks hassle Don and his husband.
“TV, when you’re too dumb even to be a democrat politician.’
That’s GREAT! I want a bumper sticker
Leftwing faggie bitch lecturing America again.
What did lemon head sign up for?
I think it’s time the msm started getting the same treatment. Camp outside their houses, follow them wherever they go, harass them.
Too bad we’re such nice guys and gals.
Don Sucka Lemon by being an infotainer at CNN you are a public figure. You just happen to work in the private sector but you are a celebritard.
Right, asshole. And THIS is what YOU signed up for:
LIEberal Don Lemon is another of those noxious, venomous assholes that populate the Democrat Party, along with his noxious, venomous harridan partners in crime.
For those of you who are offended by my characterization of LIEberal Democrat men and women as “noxious, venomous assholes and harridans,” here are Merriam Webster’s definitions:
noxious = “physically harmful or destructive to living beings;”
venomous = “expressing very strong hatred or anger” and
asshole = “a bad, stupid, or annoying person.”
harridan = “an angry and unpleasant woman: shrew
I submit that these terms more than accurately describe the denizens of the LIEberal Democrat swamp which seems to be dedicated to destroying America.
I rest my case!
“a celebritard.”
Only in the gay community, and watchers of the view, is this tard a celeb.
They won’t harras him or any of these people. It why were going to lose.
Somebody should squeeze that lemon and his sponsors.
that won’t happen! the hasslers will be in trouble for hassling 2 homos.
Bring it people. If the esteeemed Demoratic colleagues of the legislature have decided that politicians private lives are fair game than its time to protest in their homes, their gyms, where they shop and where they eat.
Personally I prefer to live in a civilized society but if they’re going to threaten me and my representatives in this way then they must be held to the same standards.
although I have to admit I don't even know what he looks like...
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