Honestly, if you’d told me a couple of weeks ago literally anything about failed CNN personality Don Lemon, it would have taken me a minute to remember who he was. If I really think about it, there’s a good chance I would have had to think about it for a second or two even back when he had a show on CNN, but now that he’s gone the only thing I think of is how he had a job with Twitter for one show, an interview with Elon Musk, and was so stupid that he got fired immediately after it. Until he helped raid that church in Minneapolis, that was going to be how I remembered him…If I remembered him at all. Now it’s like the j*****s who facilitated left-wing nutjobs screaming at families trying to worship God, then claimed they were white supremacists anyway.
It's not much of an argument, but then Don was never known for his ability to argue…interview…think…
Now that Lemon has been arrested and charged with violating the civil rights of worshipers, I am loving the freak-out it has caused by his fellow media activists, including his former employer.
CNN released a statement in support of Donny – they love him the way you love someone you fired because they failed miserably at their job, but is now like Hansel in Zoolander, “He’s so hot right now” – because he was arrested committing activism against the Trump administration. Sure, he was in on the planning and execution of the raid on the church, but he did it in the commission of “journalism.”
Maybe that’s true…if you redefine the word. But being an active planner and participant in an event as you film it is not covering it; it is documenting it. There’s a big difference, if you’re being honest.
That last bit is where the left lives, as they are not now, nor are they ever “honest” about anything. If they were, they’d recognize the difference in “confronting” the pastor, as Lemon did in his video, and questioning him.
Of course, if the leftist media were honest, they would recognize reality wherever they find it.
Here’s a fun game to play with your liberal friends crying about the imagined violation of Lemon’s First Amendment rights. Offer them, in as polite a tone as you can must, if Don Lemon is such a journalist, could they name one story he has ever broken during that career or one new fact his “journalism” brought to light related to a story someone else broke?
Whatever money you offer for this feat will be safe, as “speculating wildly that the missing Malaysia Flight 370 was sucked into a black hole” is not really breaking news; it’s confirming you ate lead paint chips as a snack as a kid.
To further drive home the point that these are horrible people, as the media forms a human shield of “He’s a journalist!” around Donny, it is important to note that these same people refer to
Nick Shirley as a “YouTuber,” “Influencer,” or “Right-Wing activist.” The guy who, with his phone and some basic Internet searching exposed the greatest welfare fraud ever discovered in the United States (so far – looking at you, California) and brought down the Governor of Minnesota is NOT a journalist, according to them, but the guy who argued with a pastor while his parishioners were screamed at and called racists is Pulitzer worthy.
Yeah, I don’t really care what happens to Don Lemon. It sure looks like he broke the FACE Act and the Klan Act, but a jury will ultimately decide. I have been repeatedly lectured by unhinged Democrats for the last decade that “No one is above the law,” so watching them try to hoist the portly pundit on their shoulders like a hero is kind of funny to me.
Whatever happens to him, this will be the model for hacks going forward. Becoming the news, throwing fits, breaking the law or joining an administration for a while, failing miserably at all of it and throwing yourself a parade as you return are the new things attention whores will try to pass off as accomplishments.
Accomplishments are an awful lot like work, whereas claiming victimhood or declaring your failures are the fault of systemic “deep state” actors beyond your control is the new flex. Failing up only really happens on a mass scale in politics, and the higher up these types of people fail, the worse they are as people. Don Lemon sits near the top of the hill, though he is not alone. All of them are ready to return to their grift or cash in on failure or victimhood. Don’t buy any of it. When life gives you Don Lemons…pour it out and drink water.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.