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2022-07-15 -Great Cultural Revolution
CNN Don Lemon Republicans must be treated as danger to society by media, cannot be 'coddled'
“Pay attention to MEEEEEE!!” he cries, but it won’t increase his abysmally small market share by so much as a single point.
[FoxNews] Lemon claimed he and other journalists 'are not doing our jobs' if they don't give GOP harsher treatment.
Given your ratings and your new boss, you will likely not have a job to do, Puddinghead
Appearing on CNN's New Day Thursday morning, Don Lemon once again urged the media to hold Republicans to a different standard than Democrats in their media coverage.

The primetime host tied the GOP to the threat of "growing extremism" on the right. He warned journalists to not give a "false equivalence" to both sides, and instead acknowledge Republicans were endangering America.

"We sit around and we talk about these things and we want to give this false equivalence to Democrats and Republicans. That is not where we are right now. Republicans are doing something that is very dangerous to our society and we have to acknowledge that. We have to acknowledge that as Americans, we must acknowledge that as journalists because if we don't, we are not doing our jobs," Lemon declared.

A Pew survey of nearly 12,000 journalists found that a majority of journalists, 55%, reject the idea that both sides "always deserve equal coverage."

Lemon was referring to Republicans who continue to support former President Trump after the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol, as well as the recent Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.

"They have to answer for those questions if they come here on CNN, they must answer for that. If they go on MSNBC, they must answer for that. If they go on ABC, they must answer for that. And they cannot expect to be coddled when they go on to a news organization or if they step in front of a crowd of supporters or voters or Americans."

He made a similar plea in June, saying, "we cannot pretend as journalists" that both sides are "equal."

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-07-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Another call from the left for a Marxist purge.
Posted by Black Charlie Slairt1430 2022-07-15 01:25||   2022-07-15 01:25|| Front Page Top

#2 

Liberal Socialist Media Puppets would be required to
answer for inciting hate crimes against others.
Posted by NN2N1 2022-07-15 07:03||   2022-07-15 07:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Every member of the GOP lives rent free in his head...
Posted by 49 Pan 2022-07-15 08:13||   2022-07-15 08:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, it's a vacant place, Pan
Posted by Frank G 2022-07-15 08:51||   2022-07-15 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 He wakes up every morning and finds a new imaginary racist oppressing him...
Posted by magpie 2022-07-15 09:53||   2022-07-15 09:53|| Front Page Top

#6 It is more of a homeless shelter. There is a whiff of je me sais quoit, by that I mean urine and b.o. about the interior of his empty head. Better to pay rent somewhere else.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-07-15 10:20||   2022-07-15 10:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Coddled like a bar patron.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-15 12:13||   2022-07-15 12:13|| Front Page Top

#8 That's funny. I think CNN is a danger to society.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-07-15 12:17||   2022-07-15 12:17|| Front Page Top

#9 I haven't seen one conservative being coddled on 98% of the news in along time.
Posted by Chris 2022-07-15 12:41||   2022-07-15 12:41|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ Unless you consider the satisfaction we derive from watching absolute retards take themselves seriously.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-15 12:50||   2022-07-15 12:50|| Front Page Top

#11 I am certain that this is a preemptive attempt to provide contextual evidence for his "wrongful termination" lawsuit subsequent to his coming termination. He will play the black, queer, woke cards to the Manhattan audience and CNN will settle to avoid the messy process. The possible alternative is that they will see it coming and payoff his departure bigtime with an included NDA and this was just planned as an enhancement to those negotiations!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-07-15 13:23||   2022-07-15 13:23|| Front Page Top

#12 Someone missed the poll not too far back, that the majority of those polled considered the media to be an enemy of the people.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-15 20:11||   2022-07-15 20:11|| Front Page Top

#13 Frank! Classic...
Posted by 49 Pan 2022-07-15 20:13||   2022-07-15 20:13|| Front Page Top

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