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Don Lemon: 'It's my obligation as a journalist' to call Trump a racist
The Hill ^ | May 4, 2018 | Joe Concha

Posted on 05/04/2018 4:00:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

CNN anchor Don Lemon said Friday that it's his "obligation as a journalist" to call President Trump a racist.

“Critical thinking is important as a journalist. If you cannot surmise that this president — if he’s not racist, he’s certainly racist-adjacent," Lemon told an audience as the keynote speaker at Variety’s Entertainment & Technology NYC Summit. "We have come to a consensus in our society that facts matter. I feel like it’s my obligation to say that.”

“If you have the evidence that shows you, that leads you to nothing else but this president being racist, then I feel it’s my obligation as a journalist to say it," he added.

Lemon called the president racist on the Jan. 11 edition of "CNN Tonight,” the same day the first reports emerged that Trump had referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” during an Oval Office meeting with lawmakers....

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KEYWORDS: blacks; fakenews; homosexualagenda; lowiqfool; media; racism; trump
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Half a million dollars and a coach airline ticket to any country that'll accept you. You give up your US citizenship. Deal?
1 posted on 05/04/2018 4:00:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You’re not a journalist, Lemonhead!


2 posted on 05/04/2018 4:02:35 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Invective is not journalism, Mr. Lemon. Quite the contrary.


3 posted on 05/04/2018 4:04:17 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (We)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To D. Lemon:

It’s my obligation as a sane person to point out you’re both an idiot and a nut case...


4 posted on 05/04/2018 4:04:19 PM PDT by txrangerette
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Keep goin’ Don!
We love watching the implosion of what you call “ journalism”
Keepin’ a good journal of Trumps lifetime of racism?


5 posted on 05/04/2018 4:04:32 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You know that word we’re not supposed to say about black people?

Yeah, that one.

Mr. Lemon exemplifies why this word is still a valid, concise, and accurate description of people like himself.


6 posted on 05/04/2018 4:04:58 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: txrangerette

Don has viewers?


7 posted on 05/04/2018 4:05:34 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another Leftist who doesn’t understand the difference between a journalist and a commentator.


8 posted on 05/04/2018 4:06:41 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He may be right that Malaysian Flight 370 was swallowed by a black hole.

Well, then where is it?


9 posted on 05/04/2018 4:07:50 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don Lemon: ‘It’s my obligation as a Soros stooge to call Trump a racist.’


10 posted on 05/04/2018 4:07:59 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, your job is to tell the truth.

If you are going to call him a name, then prove your accusation.


11 posted on 05/04/2018 4:08:30 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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“Critical thinking is important as a journalist.

True, Don. Maybe that's why you should take the time to actually learn that skill.

12 posted on 05/04/2018 4:08:31 PM PDT by Maceman (We need a temporary ban on Muslims just until churches and synagogues can be built in Mecca.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, it’s just as much of his (and that of other elite media people) obligations to make similar pronouncements on gun control or political economic theory or other things involving them being just their limousine socialist selves.


13 posted on 05/04/2018 4:08:34 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: txrangerette

I think that there’s room in there for liar too!


14 posted on 05/04/2018 4:11:01 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
CNN anchor Don Lemon said Friday that it's his "obligation as a journalist" to call President Trump a racist.

This is taught in every School of Journalism in America today. Facts and truth and the 7 W's are irrelevant. It's all about "making a change" and "influencing opinion".

15 posted on 05/04/2018 4:12:12 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Most journalists are renowned liars and sex predators.


16 posted on 05/04/2018 4:13:18 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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Heres a racist incident for ya Don. Trump gives $10K to bus driver who stopped a suicide
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2493052/Hero-driver-Darnell-Barton-stops-bus-middle-bridge-saves-suicidal-woman.html

Hey here’s another one. Trump shelters Jennifer Hudson for free when her family was murdered
http://people.com/celebrity/donald-trump-shelters-jennifer-hudson/

Hey heres another one. Trump flies Michael Jackson on his jet to visit dying AIDS patient Ryan White. Really really racist
https://www.wthr.com/article/retired-indiana-pastor-supporting-trump-because-of-visit-more-than-20-years-ago

Here’s another one. Trump receives Ellis Island award with Rosa Parks
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/1986-trump-received-ellis-island-award-along-rosa-parks-muhammad-ali/


17 posted on 05/04/2018 4:13:50 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Keep talking dunce. Comments like this have a way of coming back.


18 posted on 05/04/2018 4:16:04 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nonsense. A journalist’s job is to report facts. Report the facts of what Donald Trump says and does. It is up to the viewer to decide whether he believes the words or actions are “racist.” It is not the journalist’s job to tell them.


19 posted on 05/04/2018 4:16:26 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

CNN is where the CIA goes when it wants to leak something, or put a narrative into society.


20 posted on 05/04/2018 4:17:11 PM PDT by PGR88
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