{"id":601914,"date":"2021-07-24T16:06:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T20:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=601914"},"modified":"2021-07-24T16:06:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T20:06:28","slug":"sorry-mr-president-10-reasons-don-lemon-is-not-one-of-the-most-informed-journalists-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sorry-mr-president-10-reasons-don-lemon-is-not-one-of-the-most-informed-journalists-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Mr. President: 10 Reasons Don Lemon Is Not \u2018One Of The Most Informed Journalists In The Country\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsorry-mr-president-10-reasons-don-lemon-is-not-one-of-the-most-informed-journalists-in-the-country%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=601914&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7C58EAB1-86E5-4324-83BB-28DE8AABE70D-scaled-e1627156429987.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Of all the mistakes and misstatements that fact-checkers have let President Joe Biden get away with during his six months in office, perhaps the biggest came during a televised town hall in Cincinnati on Wednesday night, when the president <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DontWalkRUN\/status\/1418009910722371584\">called<\/a> CNN\u2019s Don Lemon \u201cone of the most informed journalists in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"16.10781671159\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joke Biden is a liar.<\/p>\n<p>1) &#8220;I made a commitment, that when I made a mistake, I&#8217;d tell ya.&#8221; Border Crisis, low unemployment, inflation. All his fault, no apologies.<\/p>\n<p>2) Said with a straight face that Don Lemon is &#8220;one of the most informed journalists in the country.&#8221; \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kYhttK5mWj\">pic.twitter.com\/kYhttK5mWj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew @ Don&#8217;t Walk, RUN! Productions (@DontWalkRUN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DontWalkRUN\/status\/1418009910722371584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ironically, his statement came while discussing the need for politicians to tell the truth. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to restore faith in government. You\u2019ve got to get people to the point where they trust government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made a commitment that, when I made a mistake, I\u2019d tell you. And I\u2019ve made mistakes,\u201d Biden said to roaring applause. Turning to the moderator, Don Lemon, he said, \u201cYou know \u2014 because you\u2019re one of the most informed journalists in the country \u2014 you know the criticism I got when I said I want to unite the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That complimentary view certainly reflects the way Lemon and his coterie of guests see themselves. Maybe the clearest view into their self-image came last January, when Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson and New York Times author&nbsp;Wajahat Ali belittled Trump voters as uneducated, backwoods imbeciles who don\u2019t know anything about \u201cyer geography, and yer spellin, and yer math, and yer readin.\u201d Lemon laughed until he cried. The clique\u2019s banter seemed so blatantly elitist that the Republican National Committee turned it into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-watch-gop-launches-campaign-ad-fundraiser-off-cnns-don-lemon-mocking-trump-supporters\">campaign ad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.954545454545\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents.<\/p>\n<p>If Donald Trump wins re-election this year, I\u2019ll remember this brief CNN segment late one Saturday night in January as the perfect encapsulation for why it happened. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8kQ6zN9AZV\">pic.twitter.com\/8kQ6zN9AZV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveKrak\/status\/1221988232528826369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite their positive self-esteem, Lemon and his clique have seemingly gone out of their way to undermine confidence in their reporting, their network, and broadcast media as a whole. Here are a few of the most egregious examples of Lemon\u2019s errors and exaggerations:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Lemon insists there\u2019s no urban \u201cchaos\u201d during the 2020 BLM\/Antifa riots<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last July, Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1280685148611248128\">mocked<\/a> American citizens who \u201cfall for\u201d the \u201cright-wing media machine\u201d message that, after months of riots and looting, \u201cDemocratic cities are in chaos right now.\u201d A month later, Lemon warned that Democrats had to tamp down on leftist lawlessness, because \u201cit\u2019s showing up in the polling.\u201d But after the election, Lemon returned to morally excusing the summer\u2019s spree of property damage that left more than a dozen people dead. \u201cYou can\u2019t compare what happened this summer [BLM riots] to what happened at the Capitol,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chris-cuomo-don-lemon-claim-blm-justified-capitol-hill-riot\">said<\/a> in January, because BLM grounded its message in \u201cfacts.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.36676217765\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ghoulish behavior from CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo laughing about and mocking the rising crime in major U.S. cities, defunding the police, taking down statues, and erasing the Founders from our history.<\/p>\n<p>Dead kids like Secoriea Turner and Horace Lorenzo Anderson aren&#8217;t funny. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BorIYoiC8t\">pic.twitter.com\/BorIYoiC8t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1280685148611248128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>2. The NFL\u2019s \u201cTake a Knee\u201d protests had nothing to do with the flag or patriotism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/very-fake-news-cnns-don-lemon-says-kneeling-during-ryan-saavedra\">misinformed<\/a> his audience about the reason sports figures refused to stand during the national anthem. \u201cTaking a knee at an NFL game was never about the flag or the military,\u201d he said. But then-quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who started the movement, explicitly stated, \u201cI am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. President Trump has \u201cearly-onset dementia\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don Lemon isn\u2019t a doctor, but he played one on TV in August 2017. He told CNN viewers that there was a possibility that President Trump suffered from \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-donald-trump-might-have-early-onset-dementia-bradley-devlin\">early-onset dementia<\/a>\u201d \u2014 citing the medical expertise of CNN contributor Ana Navarro. Lemon generously added that \u201cwe don\u2019t know that\u201d the president suffered from irreversible mental decline (a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/foreign-media-skewer-joe-biden-as-barely-cogent-bizarre\">concern<\/a> he has not leveled against President Biden).<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Critical Race Theory denialism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the 2020 \u201cracial reckoning,\u201d leftists intensified their efforts to teach Critical Race Theory in schools and other public institutions. After parents learned about its teachings and fomented a public backlash, Don Lemon has taken the lead in denying that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/7-lying-media-outlets-claiming-crt-isnt-being-taught-in-public-schools\">CRT is being taught in public schools<\/a>. Ironically, a guest host on his show tried to prove that earlier this month \u2026 by featuring an interview with a woman who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/crt-teacher-crt-isnt-taught-in-schools\">teaches CRT<\/a> in the public schools. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat set Lemon straight on July 15, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/thats-not-right-cnn-guest-corrects-don-lemon-live-on-air-when-he-says-crt-isnt-taught-in-schools\">saying<\/a> that \u201ccurricula are being developed that do reflect ideas that come out of Critical Race Theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Only Republicans commit political terrorism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a disturbed individual mailed bombs to multiple left-wing activists and politicians in October 2018, Lemon deemed political violence the exclusive domain of conservatives. \u201cI don\u2019t see Democrats killing people,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/don-lemon-says-i-dont-see-democrats-killing-people-james-barrett\">said<\/a>. That drew a dubious <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveScalise\/status\/1057280899258163200\">response<\/a> from Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), who was nearly murdered by a supporter of Bernie Sanders at a congressional baseball game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2yaXglIOlx\">https:\/\/t.co\/2yaXglIOlx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveScalise\/status\/1057280899258163200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lemon has tried to pin violence on his political foes. After a 19-year-old allegedly called CNN with death threats in January 2018, Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-don-lemon-accuses-trump-being-responsible-hank-berrien\">said<\/a>, \u201cThis is what happens when the President of the United States, Donald Trump, repeatedly attacks members of the press simply for reporting facts he does not like.\u201d He proceeded to complain that Trump called Jim Acosta\u2019s reporting \u201cfake news \u2026 over and over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Questionable U.S. history lessons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the key arguments of CRT is that, because America\u2019s founding was tainted by slavery, founding documents like the U.S. Constitution have to be revised. Leftists also justify reparations to black people and other minorities on those grounds. But in May, Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/don-lemon-contradicts-1619-project-europeans-did-not-found-this-country\">upended<\/a> that argument in order to contradict <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-fires-rick-santorum-after-he-claimed-founding-fathers-birthed-a-nation-from-nothing\">then-CNN contributor Rick Santorum<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rick-santorums-firing-proves-cnn-doesnt-want-to-hear-anyone-who-sounds-like-you\">argued<\/a> that American Indian tribes had little influence on most of America\u2019s founding documents. \u201cEuropeans did not found this country,\u201d Lemon said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Antifa denialism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Lemon defended the cause of Antifa, whitewashing its fascistic use of violence to achieve political ends. \u201cIt says it right in the name: Antifa, anti-fascism,\u201d Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2018\/08\/28\/don_lemon_defends_antifa_no_organization_is_perfect.html\">said<\/a>. \u201cListen, no organization\u2019s perfect. There was some violence. No one condones violence, but there were different reasons for Antifa and for these neo-Nazis to be\u201d at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. \u201cOne \u2014 racists, fascists; the other group, fighting racist fascists. There is a distinction there.\u201d That\u2019s more chilling since, in January, Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-anchor-everyone-who-voted-for-trump-sided-with-the-klan-nazis-rioters\">equated<\/a> the 74 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump with Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan, presumably making them worthy of an Antifa thrashing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Jussie Smollett, martyr<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jussie Smollett\u2019s well-staged \u201chate crime\u201d blew up in his face thanks to a contradictory story, African partners who went public, and video footage of the \u201cattack.\u201d But Lemon seemed to indicate that none of this means Smollett was wrong. In February 2019, Lemon said the fact that the American people did not believe Jussie Smollett\u2019s story was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnns-lemon-its-not-jussie-smolletts-fault-he-lost-ryan-saavedra\">not his fault<\/a>\u201d; he lost in the court of public opinion, Lemon said, and apparently not due to his story being objectively false.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. America was about to become a dictatorship\u2026last year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like any commentator, Lemon warned his followers that American\u2019s light of freedom would soon be extinguished \u2014 because President Trump wanted people to crack down on BLM\/Antifa rioters. Lemon was triggered last June when the president implored America\u2019s mayors to \u201cshow strength\u201d against the rampaging rioters. \u201cWe are teetering on a dictatorship,\u201d Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-cnns-don-lemon-says-trump-ready-to-impose-dictatorship\">told<\/a> his audience. \u201cAmerica, open your eyes.\u201d Curiously, that dictator slinked off hours before his successor was sworn into office six months later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. Americans think black people are subhuman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part of the elitist mindset is reassuring yourself that others are not as refined, evolved, or genteel as you and your allies. \u201cI don\u2019t know if America sees black people and especially black gay men as fully human,\u201d Lemon, who is black and gay, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnns-don-lemon-i-dont-know-if-americans-see-black-people-as-fully-human\">said<\/a> last month. Objectively, racist attitudes continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/163697\/approve-marriage-blacks-whites.aspx\">reach new lows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable mentions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Lemon\u2019s erroneous reporting ranges from the ethereal to the mundane. In 2019, Lemon said that the word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/disrespectful\">disrespectful<\/a> is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnns-don-lemon-disrespectful-i-think-is-not-actually-a-word\">not actually a word<\/a>.\u201d On the other hand, Lemon said that \u201cJesus Christ, admittedly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/don-lemon-jesus-christ-admittedly-was-not-perfect-when-he-was-here\">was not perfect<\/a> when He was here on this Earth.\u201d He went on to say that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/shaun-king-and-the-white-jesus-that-undermines-racism-\/\">Jesus was not white<\/a> but \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/don-lemon-the-true-identity-of-jesus-was-he-looked-more-like-a-muslim-or-someone-who-was-dark\">looked more like a Muslim<\/a>\u201d \u2014 apparently unaware that Islam is a religion, not a race.<\/p>\n<p>No one who talks for a living can avoid making mistakes \u2014 but Lemon\u2019s mistakes emanate from his far-Left worldview, which he admitted in an August 2017 exchange with The Daily Wire\u2019s founder, Ben Shapiro. Lemon admitted, \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t pretend that there\u2019s this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-shapiro-gets-lemon-admit-media-has-fake-hank-berrien\">fake objectivity<\/a>\u201d in the media. \u201cEveryone has a point of view. That doesn\u2019t mean that you\u2019re biased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reporting a narrative rather than the facts doesn\u2019t mean that you \u2014 or your viewers \u2014 are well-informed, either.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the mistakes and misstatements that fact-checkers have let President Joe Biden get away with during his six months in office, perhaps the biggest came during a televised town &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}