It’s funny: the media, including CNN, the Washington Post, and Talking Points Memo, have gone into full “Republicans pounce” mode after liberals became totally unhinged during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation. CNN’s Don Lemon hosted a segment on President Trump slamming Democrats with a new talking point: “angry mob.” And that came after CNN’s Brooke Baldwin clutched her pearls at the very use of “the m-word.”
Oh, and the next day, 2020 hopeful Eric Holder announced, “When they go low, we kick them.” And Hillary Clinton basically said to forget about civility until Democrats are back in power. And Maxine Waters is out there telling her constituents to mob and harass members of Trump’s cabinet anywhere: gas stations, grocery stores, restaurants.
Heck, we’re old enough to remember when Don Lemon informed us all that the violent, black-clad members of Antifa with their bandanas over their faces weren’t necessarily bad people: “Listen,” he said, “no organization is perfect. There was some violence.”
So we’ve kind of had it with CNN especially telling us that these mobs are just “people who are upset.” And apparently Dallas News editorial writer Jay Caruso has too, and he tore apart Lemon’s defense of the angry mob harassing members of the GOP.
Something about the video with @mattklewis and @donlemon really stuck out when watching it. You have to put the cart before the horse here because what Lemon says at the end of the video, doesn't line up with what he says earlier. Watch at 8:18 https://t.co/GCYkdOx0l9
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 10, 2018
Lemon says: "Look at the constitution of the United States. And it gives people the right to protest. And it doesn't say where you can protest. And how you can protest." (He and Matt go back and forth and then at 9:01 Lemon says, "You can protest wherever and whenever you want."
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 11, 2018
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"It doesn't tell you that you can't do it in a restaurant or on a football field. They can do it wherever you want and to call people mobs because they're exercising their constitutional rights is beyond the pale."
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 11, 2018
Now, forgetting for a moment that just because a restaurant may be open to the public, doesn't mean it's a public space. But that's beside the point. Now, what you have to do is go back in the video to 4:28 where Lemon says, "The Tea Party people hounded me when I went out to
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 11, 2018
cover them and you know what I said? It was their right to do it because they're American." At that point, @mattklewis says to @donlemon, "Don, if they started following you around a restaurant and running you out of places and cornering you…"
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 11, 2018
Lemon interrupts and says, "I would say they're wrong because I'm not an elected official!"
Ohhhhhhhh. All of a sudden, Lemon's defense of constitutional rights hits a roadblock!
Lemon goes on and says, "Journalists are not public officials."
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 11, 2018
Sorry @donlemon but this is what you said: "Look at the constitution of the United States. And it gives people the right to protest. And it doesn't say where you can protest. And how you can protest."
It also doesn't say WHO you can protest. Nowhere does it say that
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 11, 2018
only elected officials can be yelled at in restaurants. People protest private activity every day. The constitutional right to protest is not limited to government or government officials.
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 11, 2018
If @donlemon believes people have a right to protest Ted Cruz and his wife (who is not a government official, BTW) while they're eating dinner, then people have the very same right to protest against Don in the same way.
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 11, 2018
Now, let me say to @donlemon that I wouldn't support it. In fact, I'd condemn it. And I have no problem with people protesting and lodging complaints with elected officials. They have phone numbers, email addresses, Capitol Hill offices, district offices, Twitter, FB pages etc
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 11, 2018
Gathering up a dozen or so people and harassing a politician while they're trying to eat a meal is what's beyond the pale, not referring to that group of people as a mob. /End
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 11, 2018
Sorry, Lemon, but this angry mob is yours. Own it.
Don Lemon is ignorant. The constitution does not say you get to protest however you choose to define "protest." It's immoral to interfere with the rights of others, even when you call it "protest." https://t.co/XaowR8TEQU
— lizbuddie (@lizbuddie) October 11, 2018
Someone ask Don Einstein why disorderly conduct is a crime.
— Z man (@Julius412) October 11, 2018
Oh, and one more thing:
Remember, everyone. This is what we were told is what led to Gabby Giffords getting shot in 2011: pic.twitter.com/3WXHiLmHlW
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 10, 2018
… and scene.
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ICYMI ==> DAYUM! Kimberley Strassel & Tammy Bruce obliterate Hillary Clinton’s unhinged rant about who doesn’t deserve ‘civility’ https://t.co/l9V3HdhCq6
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 10, 2018
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