Posted on 08/29/2018 6:09:39 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
CNN's Don Lemon on Tuesday appeared to defend Antifa Tuesday night, praising the group as "fighting racist fascists" while adding "no organization is perfect" in acknowledging the group's violent past on his primetime program.
"It says it right in the name: Antifa. Anti-fascism, which is what they were there fighting," Lemon said in reference to clashes between neo-Nazis and Antifa members in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017.
"Listen, no organization is perfect. There was some violence. No one condones violence, but there were different reasons for Antifa and for these neo-Nazis to be there," Lemon continued. "One, racists, fascists, the other group, fighting racist fascists. There is a distinction there."
Antifa has been involved in several protests that have seen violence occur since Charlottesville, including most recently at a second "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville that included an altercation with NBC News reporter Cal Perry.
Lemon's commentary came after reports President Trump told evangelical leaders at the White House on Monday that Republican losses in this year's midterms could lead to liberals "violently" overturning his administration's accomplishments for the Christian community.
The president warned that if Democrats take back the House "they will overturn everything that we've done and they will do it quickly and violently."
"There's violence. When you look at Antifa and you look at some of these groups — these are violent people," Trump said.
CNN chief legal analyst Jeffery Toobin said Trump's criticism of Antifa is an "appeal to racism" while stating the group "is widely perceived as an African-American organization."
"Let's be clear also about what's going on here, the theme here is ‘I'm Donald Trump and I'll protect you from the scary black people,’ " Toobin, a staunch Trump critic, said in a panel discussion on Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room."
"Antifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization and this is just part of the same story of LeBron James and Don Lemon and Maxine Waters and the NFL players and the UCLA basketball players," Toobin added.
Antifa is the next Red Army Faction.
The Baader-Meinhof Complex
Rogues Gallery.
Just a bunch of low-life losers.
Hey, isn’t that the cast from Idiocracy??
I don't know.
When they're all wearing masks, they all look alike.
Antifa are nothing but anarchist thugs who want to break things and hurt people. They should be met with overwhelming resistance.
Sorry but they are far, far more dangerous than that.
This is an organization which has links to left wing terrorists in Europe back in the 70’s.
They originally started as an anti-war group after the Vietnam war.
They got funding and training from Yasser Arafat and pro-Palestinian terrorist groups.
They are now loosely combined with the eco-terrorist group ELF
They are hiding right now to keep their real goals a secret from voters.
Antifa is made up of Black People? Hmmm I live here in DC and every time I see these idiots in the street, it seems to be 98% White Angry Trust-fund Babies who refuse to move out of their Parent’s basements and find a real job with their Liberal Artists Degree.
I have thought the Nazi “Aryan Race” stuff was funny, since the real Aryans are Persians and Indians!
Hello, blue wave.
Dammit, meant RED wave. Lol
I thiMk I saw these two groups of people at our local church helping to organize next years March For Life in D.C. Maybe antifa is just a part time job for them.
Their parents must be proud.
No organization is perfect.
A perfect rationalization for one to say that Germany’s National Socialist party of the 1930s-40s were no sweethearts, but they DID keep the trains running on time.
It makes me wonder if Lemon got it wrong OR CNN is trying to create the idea Antifa is a black group so it can't be criticized like BLM.
Please stop giving Don Lemon free publicity. His ratings are so low that he is getting beat by the Home Shopping Channel. No cares what he says or thinks.
I perceive them as spoiled rich kids who live in mommy’s basement. And never worked. Black indeed!
Is it my imagination, or in not a single face put together well to look like a healthy individual? Wow. Talk about small noggin inbreeds. And not black.
Yet the Left has a hissy fit whenever anybody points out that the National Socialists were.........wait for it........Socialists - even though that too is right there in the name.
Maybe Lemon has his job because he is a black gay who prefers white homosexuals?
CNN veteran anchor Don Lemon, 51, leaves SNL after party holding hands with rumored boyfriend.
Why does Don Lemon only have homosexual relations with white men...? Seems very racist!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 10-1-2017 Posted on 10/1/2017, 12:40:08 PM by boycott
CNN anchor Don Lemon stepped out on Saturday night holding hands with his rumored boyfriend. The 51-year-old veteran journalist attended the star-studded Saturday Night Live after party at Tao Restaurant and Night Club in New York City with Tim Malone. It appears as though Lemon has been dating Malone since at least April, according to a number of photos posted to their respective social media accounts. But this is the first time Lemon has been photographed publicly with Malone, who works as a sales executive in his 30s and graduated from Boston College in 2006, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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