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.
How about THIS, Don..?
Some liberal in South Daytona Fla. shot into a GOP office four times:
Only because Scalise had security with him that shot back, but the Mayor if Pittsburgh and Jewish leaders all say that wouldn’t have mattered in this case. Again ask Scalise.
well, we still haven’t answered the question of whether a girl was killed in Char. because it was intentional, or was because a car was being attacked by bat-welders on a street intentionally blocked by the left. That is, an accidental death.
Chicago
When ever an illegal kills or rapes an American we FIND OUT THE POLITICS OF THE KILLER AND USE THAT TO PLAY THE VICTIM CARD AGAINST LIBERALS.
It's OUR turn to be rude offensive and insulting. The Victim CARD is OURS FOR THE TAKING!
Let's DO IT. Time to wallow in self pity like the other professional victims...
But hey, they feel good about themselves because they sort of care.
Chicago?
BINGO but lets not talk about that huh.
Number of deaths.
Those are EXCLUSIVELY dhimorats!
Their job is to repeat and reinforce the lies as if they were fact.
Keep the blinders on, Lemon. You won’t see anything at all, much less the real situation created by rabid incitement to insanity and violence by leaders of the extreme leftist Democrat Party. Call this idiot out, he needs to be woke.
Don, that’s only due to the fact your eyes are closed tight so you WON’T be able to see a thing. You ass.
The whole premise that the shooter in Pittsburgh is a “right-winger” is a farce!!
He was a Trump HATER - ala, Leftist idiot!
Hmmm, I see to remember multiple assaults by LEFTist / AntiFa that have been legally classified as Battery. Physical interaction defined as Battery goes from an unwanted touch up to and including actual wounding and predicate to murder. One that I am thinking of is the thug who used a heavy bicycle lock to persuade others of the rightness of his cause.
What say you about this Don?
Don Lemon’s arrogance is getting pretty far up there lately. It’s a long fall off a high horse. He is so full of himself.
Don Lemon is such a bigoted, ill-informed imbecile masquerading as a reporter that it puzzles me as to why people post his ranting and raving anywhere. The fact that a major news outlet keeps him employed (probably only because firing a black ain’t PC according to their own libtard lights) while he routinely spews forth such bigoted and downright inaccurate crap only serves to show why no one should waste their time watching his network and why no one should pay the slightest attention to his shrill shill. You wouldn’t pay much, if any, attention to some raving lunatic you observed on the sidewalk, why does he merit any? Because he’s on TV? So was Bozo the Clown, a locally produced show of my childhood. Bozo was undoubtedly a lot smarter than Don Lemon, too.
Don Lemon is the fake news.
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