Lashing out at 71-year-old President Donald Trump’s rally in Phoenix yesterday, CNN’s Don Lemon proved that he’s part of the Trump-bashing liberal media, identified by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Harvard’s Shorenstein Center for the Media found May 12 that CNN reported 93% negative news about Trump, something so astonishing it defies a credentialed news organization. Defending his response to the Aug. 12 Charlottesville, Va. Race-brawl, Lemon said Trump lied to the public. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence,” Trump told the Phoenix rally. Lemon reminded his audience that Trump omitted “on many sides,” creating the brouhaha that Trump gave the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists a free pass. Lemon called Trump a liar, trying to “rewrite history” to mislead the public.
Lemon bristled at Trump not including “on many sides,” as if it meant Trump admitted to being a racist. When Trump talked about the violence on “many sides,” he referred to the brawl involving violence from white nationalists and Antifa [militant anti-fascist leftist groups] or Black Lives Matters, known for militant exchanges with police. “He’s unhinged,” said Lemon, CNN’s “Tonight” host. “It’s embarrassing—and I don’t mean the media, for us, because he came after us, but for the country,” Lemon said, not explaining why Harvard found 93% of CNN’s coverage negative toward Trump. Trump uses Twitter and holds rallies precisely to rebut networks like CNN that only find negative things to say about him. Lemon preaches to the choir, inviting guests that only spew more vitriol than himself. Lemon welcomes the chance to put on GOP guests that go off on Trump.
Lemon could barely contain himself, insulting the president for defending his record and disputing the liberal press. “This is who we elected president of the United States, a man who’s so petty he has to go after people who he deeps to be his enemies like an imaginary friend of a 6-year-old,” Lemon said, hurling more insults. Trump criticized the liberal press for abusing their special privilege under the First Amendment to get out the facts as a credentialed news organization. Trump didn’t like the fact that the news media twists every word to fit the racist label, something Lemon does nightly. “His speech was without thought. It was without reason. It was devoid of facts. It was devoid of wisdom. There was no gravitas. There was not sanity there. He was like a child blaming as sibling or something else,” said Lemon, not admitting that CNN doesn’t give Trump a fair shake.
When Lemon says Trump was devoid of everything, he wasn’t paying attention to the overflow audience that applauded practically every word. Whether or not Lemon agrees with Trump, he can’t deny that few in the audience agreed with Lemon. Attacking Trump is one thing but Lemon has no regard for anyone that disagrees with his politics. CNN has allowed liberal politics to infiltrate their newsroom and editorial board. Lemon simply mirrors CNN’s left-leaning politics, having nothing to do with what he calls “without reason” or “devoid of facts.” If Trump’s audience found him so outrageous, so off-the-wall, so over-the-top, they would have walked out. “I really question his ability to be—his fitness to be—in office,” said 76-year-old Trump-hating former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Lemon likes to put on former GOP appointees to attack Trump.
Trump has plenty of critics in the Democratic and Republican parties, making him the most independent president in U.S. history. Trump marches to his own drummer, not partisan political parties. When he ran in 2016, he gained independents votes by attacking the GOP establishment. Trump’s criticism before the South Carolina primary of former President George W. Bush for the Iraq War won him crossover Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans. Trump rolled the dice and won, defying conventional wisdom in his march to the White House. Lemon couldn’t take Trump’s criticism of CNN for letting anti-Trump hosts and guests slam the president. Questioning Trump’s fitness for duty was precisely former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s plan for Trump in the 2016 campaign. When it all fizzled Nov. 8, 2016, the liberal media faced a stunning rebuke.
Letting Clapper go off on Trump shows how Lemon exploits his guests to advance his own anti-Trump bias. CNN continues to re-litigate the 2016 campaign. “Having some understanding of the levers that a president can exercise, I worry about, frankly, you know, the access to nuclear codes,” said Clapper, making Hillary’s old campaign arguments over again. Putting Clapper on to slam Trump shows the extent of CNN’s extreme prejudice for the president. When the North Korean crisis heated up, CNN blamed Trump for antagonizing North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. When Trump told Kim he would face “fire-and-fury” Aug. 9, CNN was the first to condemn Trump for provoking war on the Korean Peninsula. When Kim backed down Aug. 15, saying he would wait before attacking Guam, CNN said nothing. No credit was given to Trump for defusing the crisis.
