Posted on 10/30/2018 7:48:18 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
CNN anchor Don Lemon said Monday night that you can't compare a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) who attempted to kill Republican lawmakers last year to a "right-winger" suspected in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and the "right-winger" who allegedly sent bombs to the network and Democrats.
Lemon added during a panel discussion on his primetime program that he doesn't "see Democrats killing people."
The debate began after CNN political commentator Mark Shields argued that assigning blame to anyone but the shooter in the Saturday massacre in Pittsburgh is "outrageous" and "disgusting."
Lemon disagreed, stating the Sanders supporter who wounded four Republicans including House Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) during a congressional baseball practice can't be compared to the suspected synagogue shooter or the Florida man who allegedly who sent pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN because "Bernie Sanders is not the president of the United States."
“This is not equal," Lemon said after some back-and-forth with Shields. "The right-wing group killed a woman in Charlottesville. This guy is a right-winger who killed the people in the synagogue. The right-winger sent bombs to CNN and to Democrats."
"I don’t see Democrats killing people because of political, yeah ---- maybe Democratic operatives who are out there.”
"But they tried to," Shields corrected.
“Okay, they tried to, and that’s not right,” Lemon replied. “But for the most part, what do you see here, Mike? You see these extreme right-wingers and then instead of denouncing them and saying it’s just wrong, you make people think that it’s okay, that you’re making an excuse for, because then you go, ‘But what about the Democrats?’ when is no comparison. There is no equivalence there!”
Shields insisted he was not excusing anything and was only attempting to make a point around rhetoric from both sides contributing to the rising political temperature in the country.
The debate came before outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley took to Twitter to call out those pointing the finger at President Trump's rhetoric for the synagogue shooting, noting that former President Obama was not blamed after a mass shooting at an African-American church in Charleston, S.C., during his time in office.
“I have struggled w/ what happened in Pitts bc it’s so similar to what happened in Chas. The country was very racially divided @ the time," Haley, a former South Carolina governor, tweeted late Monday. "We didn’t once blame Pres. Obama. We focused solely on the lives lost & their families. Have some respect for these families & stop the blame,” added Haley, who will step down at the end of the year.
You just did Don.
Only because they’re lousy shots. Ask Steve Scalise.
Liars lie. Not real complicated.
beat me to it.
SMH
How’s that going...none so blind..
He’s even more stupidly partisan than even Trump claims.
How’s that GO...none so blind..
Don lemonaids is despicable.
Chicago every day.
Someone should ask Don why Blacks are at an all-time high for voting Republican.
CNN is trying to replace the Comedy Channel.
Everything to the Right of McGovern is an extreme Right winger these days.
I don’t see Democrats killing people….
Three Stooges
Curly: I can’t see, I can’t see.
Moe: Why not?
Curly: I’ve got my eyes closed.
Conservatives banned from Twitter.
Conservatives shadow-banned from Facebook.
NYC Central Park features Shakespeare play in which a Trump lookalike is murdered
A violent anti-Trump hater steals a young kid’s MAGA hat, throws a soda in his face
GOP lawmakers screamed at in elevators
Republicans hounded out of restaurants
Christians harassed and sued by cake people
Home addresses of GOP’ers doxxed by Capitol Hill staffers
San Jose Convention goers herded into a large ambush, chased down, surrounded & egged, cars dented as police look on complacently
Pentagram-wearing hair-dresser delivers roundhouse kick to face of peaceable protestor
Minn. GOP candidate Shane Mekeland sucker punched in face in a restaurant, suffers concussion
An Antifa sympathizer strikes and fractures the skull of a pro-Trump supporter with a heavy bike lock
Calif GOP Congress Candidate Ralph Peters attacked by knife-weilding Iranian Trump hater screaming F*ck Trump
A Bernie Sanders supporter shoots GOP lawmakers at a DC-area baseball game.
A dump truck is used to derail a train carrying GOP leadership to a weekend retreat
Ricin-laced letters
GOP headquarters of Albany County torched
Exportation of thousands of military-style firearms to Mexican narco traffickers in order to encourage grisly mass-shooting headlines
Hillary admonishing the impossibility of being civil & that peaceful discourse only possible after a Dem win
Maxine Waters exhorting supporters to form violently noisy crowds around GOP lawmakers where they are encountered
Eric Holder encouraging liberals to kick Conservatives in the head, tweeting that followers should “use their rage”
Hawaii Senator Hirono refused to condemn the harassment of Republicans, telling CNN, “This is the kind of activism that occurs and people make their own decisions.”
He’s taken it up the shoot one to many times..and gave him brain damage?
How many abortions since the 60’s??
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The 66-year-old Illinois man who opened fire early Wednesday on members of Congress practicing for a charity baseball game had raged against President Trump and once singled out House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was wounded in the attack.
“Here’s a Republican that should lose his job, but they gave him a raise,’’ James T. Hodgkinson allegedly wrote in a 2015 post to his Facebook account, referring to the Louisiana congressman. The message was accompanied by a cartoon depiction of Scalise.
How do we “co-exist”?
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