Former CNN host Don Lemon hosted Sunday night’s #WinWithBlackMen discussion, coming out with full-throated support for Vice President Kamala Harris’s Democratic campaign. Towards the end of the meeting, he launched into a monologue staunchly defending the vice president and attacking those who dared to hold a different opinion, particularly those who don’t look like him.
Lemon first celebrated his independence from the “corporate overlords,” overjoyed that he could “stand up for democracy [and] say who I’m supporting,” which was especially ironic since he made no pretense of impartiality while at CNN. He further affirmed that he was “on the side of someone who’s gonna help our people,” claiming that the two campaigns weren’t “at an equal level, because that’s not what it is.”
Lemon then railed against the media for their “over-indexed” coverage of former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. In fact, Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) had made a similar complaint at the Aspen Ideas Festival where he condemned the media for fostering the drastic polarization that dominated American politics.
Ex CNNer @DonLemon, in Tues vid, on Sun hosted “Black Men for Harris.” He celebrated no longer having to listen to “corporate overlords” so now “I can stand up for democracy, where I can say who I’m supporting and I’m on the side of democracy.” Unlike Melania, Harris not “naked.” pic.twitter.com/lvXySToHc8
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) July 30, 2024
However, where Manchin’s denunciation arose from a desire for unity, Lemon (unsurprisingly) displayed his craving for greater division, demanding the media spotlight be shifted from Trump to black people who would “decide this election.”
Lemon also claimed that “the worst things that I hear about Kamala Harris comes from white men–straight white men,” falling right in line behind liberals like MSNBC’s race-obsessed Joy Reid, MSNBC host Michael Steele, and activist Roland Martin (one of the meeting participants), who immediately vilify the white men who dislike the vice president.
“They can't really explain why they don't like her, they just know that they don't like her and they, you know, send out the worst memes about her, say the worst shit about her,” Lemon blustered before bragging that “when they do that, l confront them to their faces.”
Lemon instructed the other participants to “confront them to their faces, you gotta ask them why and then tell them the truth about her record” and reminded them that they “had a first lady, in the White House, who came from questionable means and who, you know, is a model and naked,” referring to former First Lady Melania Trump. “I don’t see Kamala Harris doing any shit like that,” he added.
Numerous sources, like The Federalist’s Mark Hemingway, would suggest otherwise, pointing to Harris’s affair with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown which launched her political career.
Lemon had a bad track record when it came to defending Democrats and their impropriety (to put it gently). For example, back in 2015, he angrily cut off conservative Kurt Schlichter’s microphone when he called former President Bill Clinton a “serial sexual abuser.” And his track record on race wasn’t much better; in 2018 he suggested the “biggest terror threat is white men” who were “radicalized to the right.”
This instance should have been little cause for surprise, as the 2024 presidential race continues to be overshadowed by the liberal media’s bias and hypocrisy. Yet, voters must remain on guard against attacks by the left and the media's increased efforts to censor the undesirable truth.
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Don Lemon YouTube Channel
7/28/2024
DON LEMON: I want to say, I'm happy to be in an independent space where I don't have to worry about the corporate overlords now, where I can stand up for democracy, where I can say who l'm supporting. And I'm on the side of democracy, and I'm on the side of people who are going to–someone who's gonna help our people. I'm not on the side of Project 2025, I'm not gonna pretend to put these two campaigns on equal footing and equal, you know, at an equal level, because that's not what it is.
And also, I think that instead of amplifying–I do agree with the young man who said, “Do not put–do not respond. If you want to respond, you know, that's your business.” We have heard enough about Donald Trump. We've heard enough about MAGA. They're over-indexed in all of the news coverage and all of the news coverage you see on cable, and traditional television, and radio. Everyone wants to know, “What do we…what do we need to know about the MAGA people? We need to understand them.” Well, people need to understand black people in this election, because that's who's gonna decide this election.
So, l run in a lot of different circles, and the worst things that I hear about Kamala Harris comes from white men–straight white men. They can't really explain why they don't like her, they just know that they don't like her and they, you know, send out the worst memes about her, say the worst shit about her. And when they do that, l confront them to their faces.
So you gotta confront them to their faces, you gotta ask them why and then tell them the truth about her record. And then also tell them that they have a first lady–had a first lady, in the White House, who came from questionable means and who, you know, is a model and naked. I don't see Kamala Harris doing any shit like that. Pardon my French.
