{"id":762932,"date":"2021-09-16T15:29:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T19:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=762932"},"modified":"2021-09-16T15:29:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T19:29:16","slug":"its-time-to-start-shaming-the-stupid-unvaccinated-don-lemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-time-to-start-shaming-the-stupid-unvaccinated-don-lemon\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Time To Start Shaming\u2019 The \u2018Stupid\u2019 Unvaccinated: Don Lemon"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fits-time-to-start-shaming-the-stupid-unvaccinated-don-lemon%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=762932&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>Most Americans believe that badgering, belittling, or excluding citizens who have not yet chosen to receive the COVID-19 vaccine is counterproductive, but CNN\u2019s Don Lemon is not like other men.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon believes the time has come to publicly humiliate the unvaccinated, because they are \u201cstupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time to start shaming them,\u201d Lemon told his audience on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon shouted his derision during an extended and unfocused banter with fellow CNN host Chris Cuomo at the beginning of \u201cDon Lemon Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lemon began by saying it is \u201cabsolutely ridiculous\u201d for Republican to call for General Mark Milley to resign or be fired as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after he reportedly promised to give the Chinese military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/thursday-september-16-2021\">advance warning<\/a> of any U.S. attack and inserted himself in the nuclear chain of command.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave a seat!\u201d Lemon told Republicans criticizing Milley. \u201cYou didn\u2019t do the right thing\u201d during the Trump administration. \u201cYou\u2019re still trying to elevate yourself through some Big Lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without any provocation or apparent connection, Lemon abruptly shifted to denouncing anyone who refused a COVID-19 vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we have to stop coddling people when it comes to this and the vaccine, saying, \u2018You can\u2019t shame them. You can\u2019t call them stupid. You can\u2019t call them stupid.\u2019 Yes, they are!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon made clear that he believes everyone who questioned the vaccine is as \u201cstupid\u201d as anyone who questioned any aspect of the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people who aided and abetted Trump are stupid because they believed his Big Lie.&nbsp;The people who are not getting vaccines \u2014 who are believing the lies on the internet instead of science \u2014 it\u2019s time to start shaming them \u2026 or leave them behind, because they are keeping the majority of Americans behind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that the only reason Americans refuse the vaccine \u201cis because of your politics today.\u201d Yet only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/coronavirus-covid-19\/issue-brief\/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity\/\">43%<\/a>of black Americans have received at least one dose of the COVId-19 vaccine, while Republicans voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/covid-19-pandemic_poll-finds-startling-difference-vaccinations-among-us-republicans-and-democrats\/6207847.html\">passed that threshold<\/a> by July. According to exit polls, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/voices\/2020\/11\/12\/americans-didnt-repudiate-donald-trump-but-black-voters-did-column\/6222692002\/\">90%<\/a> of black Americans voted for Joe Biden in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop it. Stop with it the ignorance!\u201d Lemon harangued.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that \u201cwe have to stop saying, \u2018You know, you have to listen to people.\u2019 No, you don\u2019t! These people are being harmful to the greater good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People should set aside any lingering concerns about the vaccination, Lemon averred, because \u201cscientists and science aren\u2019t political.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI accept everything you\u2019ve just said,\u201d Chris Cuomo responded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.466911764706\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donlemon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DonLemon<\/a>: Like Trump voters, we should call unvaxxed Americans \u201cstupid\u201d and \u201cstart shaming them\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Or leave them behind. Because they\u2019re keeping the majority of Americans behind.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Ga4oQ7kic\">pic.twitter.com\/6Ga4oQ7kic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1438451759245111301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lemon has long insulted and belittled the intelligence of Republicans, especially supporters of former President Donald Trump. Last January, Lemon\u2019s guests Wajahat Ali and Rick Wilson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-cnn-mocks-trump-supporters-as-stupid-rednecks-who-cant-read-spell\">mocked<\/a> Trump supporters who believe only \u201celitists\u201d know geography, spelling, math, or reading.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveKrak\/status\/1221988232528826369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1221988232528826369%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fwatch-cnn-mocks-trump-supporters-as-stupid-rednecks-who-cant-read-spell\">laughed<\/a> until he shed tears.<\/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>Those on the Left have increasingly made the unvaccinated or vaccine-hesitant the subject of anger and calls for discrimination or social exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the vast majority of you who have gotten vaccinated, I understand your anger at those who haven\u2019t gotten vaccinated,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/09\/09\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-fighting-the-covid-19-pandemic-3\/\">said<\/a> President Joe Biden in a national address outlining his plan to fight the coronavirus last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd my message to unvaccinated Americans is this: What more is there to wait for?\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin.&nbsp; And your refusal has cost all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then unveiled sweeping new mandates for federal employees and contractors, medical personnel who work at institutions that accept Medicaid or Medicare, and businesses that employ at least 100 people.<\/p>\n<p>CNN health expert and former Planned Parenthood CEO Leana Wen has endorsed the concept of vaccine passports and said those who refuse to be vaccinated should be stigmatized in the same way as drunk drivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say that we need to start looking at the choice to remain unvaccinated the same as we look at driving while intoxicated,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/CPT\/date\/2021-09-09\/segment\/01\">told<\/a> Chris Cuomo on September 9. \u201cYou have the option to not get vaccinated, if you want. But then, you can\u2019t go out in public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wen has also claimed the right to travel is not a constitutional right, although that conflicts with legal precedent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he right of passing through a state by a citizen of the United States is one guaranteed to him by the Constitution,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/73\/35\/\">ruled<\/a> the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1867 case <em>Crandall v. State of Nevada<\/em>. \u201cWe are all citizens of the United States, and as members of the same community must have the right to pass and repass through every part of it without interruption.\u201d<\/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>Most Americans believe that badgering, belittling, or excluding citizens who have not yet chosen to receive the COVID-19 vaccine is counterproductive, but CNN\u2019s Don Lemon is not like other men.Lemon &#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-762932","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\/762932","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=762932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762932\/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=762932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}