Don Lemon, usually offensive just by being Don Lemon, plays 'Does this offend you' game

Brett T. | 11:13 PM on June 22, 2015

CNN’s Don Lemon seems to appear on the cable channel for two reasons: first, to clown around with celebrity llamas or tool around the city in complete darkness in CNN’s much-ridiculed “Blizzardmobile”; and second, to inspire hate tweets (and even live hecklers) accusing him of being an “Uncle Tom,” modern day house negro, and turncoat mofo, to name a few.

We’re not sure in which category to plug Lemon today, after he appeared in a special segment entitled, “Does this offend you?” Yes, the transparent effort by one of TV’s least interesting news anchors to appear edgy and controversial does offend us. Who wants to break it to him that Cornel West already dropped a variant of the N-word on CNN hours earlier?

https://twitter.com/Jesse_Andreozzi/status/613167107128344576

@Jesse_Andreozzi Idiot

— Biji Berxwedana SDF (@boerneaj) June 23, 2015

@Jesse_Andreozzi lamestream news..

— Old School (@DaveyBiglyHands) June 23, 2015

@Jesse_Andreozzi @TwistAnonymous Yup, he's officially in my asshole of the year book.

— Rimel (@RimelSilver) June 23, 2015

@RimelSilver @TwistAnonymous lol, he was going for the shock factor. I just don't think it was the best way to make his point

— Jesse Andreozzi (@Jesse_Andreozzi) June 23, 2015

don lemon remaking Common's "come close" video hella wrong yo pic.twitter.com/Mfrq19cfsq

— Desus Nice (@desusnice) June 23, 2015

@desusnice I can't deal with Don Lemon's ass tonight.

— SFR (@cali94612) June 23, 2015

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https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/613180672748965888

Don Lemon is a conspiracy. That's the only reasonable explanation I can think of. He's a conspiracy, a hoax. Sticking to that belief.

— adam harris (@AdamHSays) June 23, 2015