Posted on 04/22/2020 4:05:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
God bless the media. Without it, I wouldn’t have known that CNN’s Don Lemon indignantly demands to know, “Who the hell do you think you are?!”
Yours truly has only a vague sense of who Don Lemon is and has never in my memory seen his program on TV or him in the supermarket or anywhere else. But I can answer his question.
Mr. Lemon reportedly directed his question to armed protesters who, despite the nation’s lockdown and stay-at-home orders, had gone public to demand their constitutional rights to assemble, to lodge their grievances with their government and to arm themselves. That would be the First and Second Amendments, respectively.
As the iconic, though fictional, counterpart to Lemon said a generation or two ago, those protesters “are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.”
One might have thought that Lemon would have a passing acquaintance with the Constitution, which not so incidentally also protects his own livelihood. As a television news person, Lemon might even be expected to also be familiar with the fictional, but iconic, newscaster Howard Beale from the 1976 movie Network.
Beale was played by Peter Finch, who, in the movie, broke down on national TV and announced he was so fed up that he would commit suicide live on TV. But why?
“It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore,” the fictional Beale shouted instead of dutifully droning the latest bad news to his viewers. Although not a perfect fit, Beale’s words seem prophetic today.
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Hey Don, we’re the people who are convinced you do not have the brains you were born with
“Who the hell do you think you are?!”
Americans, that’s who.
I’m going to repost a comment I made in another thread, as I think it applies here with Lemon.
It’s worth pointing out that national media elites are heavily concentrated in NY City. NYC and nearby has nearly 1/3rd of the cases in the country. Their reality is simply not the reality that the vast majority of the country is experiencing. We don’t have anything like the same case load. Nor do we have the same population density, nor the same dependence on mass transit and shared spaces. This matters. It’s a lot easier to maintain social distance out here in the rest of the country. This is an important reality our national media elites don’t fully perceive due to their geography, their local environs.
The result is that the coverage is skewed for their reality in NYC. Add in that the journalist class isn’t very number-oriented in general. “Innumerate” is a term I tend to apply to them, largely accurately I believe. How often have you seen news articles and reports that were 1/2 as good as Doughty One’s daily reports? How many make you aware that 1/3rd of US cases are in the NYC area?
We’re not getting good information in part because of the skewed numbers in NYC combined with the innumeracy of the reporters.
I can’t stand that jerk Don Lemon.
You got that right.
BTTT
We are at that point Lemon. Poke the hornet’s nest again, brother.
Don. Go suck on a Lemon.
From now on we need to blast these dopes daily with the term. COORDINATED MEDIA TALKING POINTS.
Blast this out there everyday. It’s’ their main playbook and it’s run straight out of the DNC.
It’s a war and until the enemy is fully exposed...their keep using it.
COORIDANATED MEDIA TALKING POINTS
From now on we need to blast these dopes daily with the term. COORDINATED MEDIA TALKING POINTS.
Blast this out there everyday. It’s’ their main playbook and it’s run straight out of the DNC.
It’s a war and until the enemy is fully exposed...their keep using it.
COORDINATED MEDIA TALKING POINTS
When life gives you lemons, CNN gives you Lemonade.
American, Yup!
TeleVirus!
In the movie, Beale didn’t have answers, and admitted it. But he knew enough to understand that he and others had to stop being docile sheep, whether it is compliantly staring at a TV screen to be lectured by pompous know-it-all “news” readers, or submissively bowing to the diktats of representatives of the people who have assumed more authority than justified or constitutionally provided.
“All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad,” Beale shouted in the movie’s ultimate scene, “You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, goddammit! My life has value!’
“‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’”
That, Mr. Lemon, is who those protesters are. They are the people who have seen the government over-react and assume authority and power both unnecessary and highly questionable. They are the people who as a result are mad as hell and refuse to take it anymore.
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Yup.
We are the people on the grassy knoll, performing overwatch and on guard for the Republic. Slow to anger, but not your fool, as you think.
You may prosper for a season, but nobody escapes their past.
Not even perfume'd parasites.
,,,,,grassy Knoll
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Interesting.
That is one lemon that cannot be converted to anything pleasant by adding sugar.
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