Posted on 11/28/2022 1:02:45 PM PST by SoConPubbie
CNN Host Don Lemon, fresh off his demotion from primetime, pressed a Jewish former State Department official for ten minutes to condemn Donald Trump over his meeting with Kanye West and renowned anti-Semite Nick Fuentes in Mar-a-Lago.
Lemon’s exchange got increasingly desperate and painful to watch.
“As a grandchild of Holocaust survivors. I’m concerned with the mainstreaming of antisemitism wherever it comes from,” Len Khodorkovsky said. “And I condemn Kanye’s antisemitism and I condemn…”
“Do you condemn the former president for meeting with anti-Semites?” Lemon asked.
“Sir, sir, alright, you know…”
“You said you condemn anti-Semitism and the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism. Do you condemn the former president for meeting with anti-Semites, for entertaining anti-Semites, and anti-Semitism?
“Let, let me just explain it to you this way, sir,” Khodorkovsky said. “I know the president is not an antisemite. He does not need to apologize.”
“Not asking you if he’s an anti-Semite,” Lemon went on. “I’m asking you entertain, do you condemn him for entertaining and meeting with anti-Semites? It’s a very simple question.”
“Well, I’m trying to give you an answer that it’s…”
“A yes or no. You have met with all, it’s a yes or no,” Lemon continued.
“I didn’t realize I was on the witness stand here, Don,” Khodorkovsky replied. “I’m trying to have a substantive conversation about a real issue like anti-Semitism and you’re trying to make it all about Trump. It’s not about Trump.”
“Well, it is about Trump. It’s about, we’re talking sir,” Lemon said. “We’re talking about the former president meeting with an anti-Semite. How is this not about Trump?
“Because it’s about the anti-Semitism,” he said. “It’s not about Trump. It’s about making sure that the issue of anti-Semitism is confronted in a way, in a substantive way in which, you know, obviously, I’m sure you’re aware there’s rising anti-Semitism in the United States and the world. It certainly is important for us to take it on. It is important for us to call it out. I am calling it out.”
“I am saying he should not have met with Kanye West… what I’m also trying to point out, Don, is that it behooves you and, you know, CNN and every other press outlet to call it out when you see it, especially when it comes in the halls of Congress, especially when every Democratic presidential hopeful goes and kisses the ring of Al Sharpton…”
“CNN doesn’t,” Lemon objected.
As senior reporter from Jewish publication The Forward noted, this exchange “went on for 10 minutes.”
👀👀 this exchange between @donlemon and @MessageFromLen
“Do you condemn the former president for meeting with antisemites, for entertaining antisemites and antisemitism? .. It's a very simple question,” Lemon asked repeatedly.
(Exchange went on for 10 minutes) pic.twitter.com/pwdfjmrOXv
— Jacob Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) November 28, 2022
But as former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell pointed out, Don Lemon has a “dirty little secret” of his own.
He once publicly endorsed the National of Islam, headed by notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.
. @donlemon supports racists. He said so himself. @cnn leadership needs to put a stop to his activism. This isn’t journalism. https://t.co/ZklCopzWK7
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) November 28, 2022
“A strange thing happened on CNN on Saturday May 3 prior to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” MRC reported on the 2014 clip. “CNN host Don Lemon, appearing alongside Professor Marc Lamont Hill professed his admiration for the Nation of Islam, a well-known hate group. Lemon proclaimed that Hill thinks he “look[s] like a member of the Nation if Islam. That’s okay. I like them. I live on 123rd Street. They’re always at 125th Street subway stop and I buy my Final Call.”
You can watch the clip below:
Furthermore, here is former President Barack Obama with known anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, who has even praised Nazi leader Adolph Hitler.
"If Barack Obama did this every single one of us would be hounded for comment."
Anyway here's Obama with Louis Farrakhan. https://t.co/53Ywl7C8Ti pic.twitter.com/lT94vS53Jb
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) November 27, 2022
While CNN and MSNBC try to make Donald Trump’s meeting with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes into a major scandal, even though Trump said he didn’t even know Fuentes and didn’t personally invite him, these outlets have never asked Democrats to disavow the anti-Semitism of Al Sharpton or Louis Farrakhan.
Don Lemon was getting frustrated. This guest simply would not take the bait.
So good of the guest to bring up Al Sharpton.
Let’s flip the script for a moment.
Do YOU, Don Lemon, condemn Al Sharpton’s constant Race Baiting? Yes or No, please!
It’s a very simple question,” Lemon asked repeatedly.
= = =
From a very simple mind.
“These are the people that DeSantis Supporters that are criticizing President Trump about his Dinner with Ye/Fuentes have aligned themselves with!”
Which DeSantis supporters? Marc Lamont Hill, Don Lemon, Farrakhan?
Has anyone ever asked Lemon how his lawsuit is going? The one by the bartender in the Hamptons.
I would think it would be a very quick way to shit him up.
Do any of these people condemn the prevailing anti-white narrative that is currently spewed in many places?
Don Lemon is the poster child for loser he can’t do anything right it’s why he whines so much he nothing going for him self.
When Don Lemon has children married to Jews, converted to the Jewish faith and has had the honor of a new train station in Jerusalem named after him maybe I’ll listen.
Trump’s daughter became a Jew, does he get credit for that?
Frankly, if someone wants to be an anti-Semite he has the Right to be one? Freedom of speech is more important than anyone’s feelings or political outrage.
How else do you get a peace treaty done?
Don Lemon obviously doesn’t remember his network proclaiming itself a “Reverend Wright free zone” in 2008. I do.
How about Tump donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to Israelis expelled by their own government from their own homes and businesses in the 1980s and again in the mid-2000s? Does that count?
Don Lemon is two faced, who would have thought it
I defend the rights of antisemites to speak, so long as I can call them out and respond to their lies.
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