CNN anchor to protester: Hey, stop calling yourselves “real Americans”
posted at 4:45 pm on August 17, 2009 by Allahpundit
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All this poor guy meant by “real” is that the people at Obama’s town halls were true grassroots activists who went on their own initiative, not as fronts for the White House or some conservative astroturf operation. After three weeks of being smeared every which way as flakes and phonies by the guardians of tolerance, capped by Madam Speaker calling shouters un-American, who can blame him for stressing the point? Answer: Don Lemon, deciding that even the remote chance that viewers might take this as a challenge to the patriotism of ObamaCare supporters warranted an impromptu lecture on proper political rhetorical in the age of Hopenchange. And I do mean lecture. There’s nothing in the way of a question here, as one might expect from a “reporter.”
Shot in the dark: Any CNN fans among the Hot Air readership? I’m mighty curious to know if Lemon’s flown into any similar snits about the cavalcade of “divisive” Nazi/brownshirt/political terrorist spin oozing from his side of the aisle. Click the image to watch.
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When did they let you back in?
right2bright on August 17, 2009 at 5:26 PM
+1000
I’m betting that protester wakes up every night now thinking “man…what I should have said was…”
29Victor on August 17, 2009 at 5:26 PM
I watch occasionally, as in a couple minutes to be fair and balanced while channel surfing and that’s all I can stomach. Happened to be doing just that yesterday and I caught a little CNN blip touting their status as #1 in the ratings above FOX and MSNBC. Almost fell off the couch. Say it ain’t so!
rezgirl on August 17, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Sorry. just tuned in. Is it true Begala raises gerbils?
LarryG on August 17, 2009 at 5:26 PM
I did the same thing. I watched, and when the first open registration came around, I gladly registered. Being just an observer just isn’t good enough! :)
NathanG on August 17, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Not so much with the blowhards…you forgot the sarc tag…
right2bright on August 17, 2009 at 5:27 PM
For once, we totally agree.
This CNN footage is another textbook example of the school of journalism that says to scream over anyone who disagrees with your personal opinion. See “O’Donnell, Larry.”
BakerAllie on August 17, 2009 at 5:27 PM
The front door was opened about 3? days ago.
MB4 on August 17, 2009 at 5:27 PM
CNN fans at Hot Air. Hee Hee. That’s funny.
CarlaPHX on August 17, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Yeah, uhmmm, I don’t need to do that, because apparently I’m not a Real American.
And the story is that G.I. Joe is no longer a “Real American Hero” – at least in terms of marketing…
juanito on August 17, 2009 at 5:28 PM
They lie … something they can’t seem to stop doing.
darwin on August 17, 2009 at 5:29 PM
He’s not? What is he … some Marxist revolutionary? Is he gay too?
darwin on August 17, 2009 at 5:30 PM
hee hee hee heee
NathanG on August 17, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Shortly after the prez took office, CNN did a poll on their Web site: Who are you most enthralled with, Barack or Michelle. No option box for neither. That was the last time I went there, and certainly won’t watch CNN on t.v. either.
Now….if they had asked the more appropriate question: Who are you more appalled with? Barack or Michelle. Now you’re talkin’.
betsyz on August 17, 2009 at 5:31 PM
I don’t know where cranky has been not protesting, but the ones that I attended had people from non-white races and people who had legally come from other countries and become citizens of the USA who were there protesting. My “adopted” black son is totally against Nobama’s health care program, but he doesn’t have any transportation to get to the protest sites.
TruthToBeTold on August 17, 2009 at 5:31 PM
You should have heard his lecture directed at Nancy Pelosi after she called those protesters “un-American.” Oh, wait a minute, no lecture. I guess some are “more American” than others, huh Lemon? Here’s some advice: Wearing your rank hypocrisy on the outside for all the see is not proving to be effective for your side in this debate.
Rational Thought on August 17, 2009 at 5:32 PM
That movie was no more GI JOE than that ‘Godzilla’ movie in 1998 with Matthew Brodrick was a Godzilla movie.
Wolftech on August 17, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Good that they let you re-sign…they obviously made a mistake and didn’t want to admit it…
It would have been more correct to say they pulled the trigger to quickly, and are restating you…
right2bright on August 17, 2009 at 5:32 PM
They probably polled CNN viewers…
rezgirl on August 17, 2009 at 5:34 PM
hey Ed,
when are you gonna start a thread on all the advertisers that are bailing on Beck? I’d love to see the list so I know what to never buy again.
Palin/Bachman 2012!!
greataunty on August 17, 2009 at 5:34 PM
What is it about Fox women?
CNN tried to populate their anchors with beautiful women. But, to me, most of them look like airhead cheerleaders/booth babes. They’re not the least bit attractive to me.
Most of the Fox women are not only beautiful, they seem intelligent and mature. For example, Patti Ann Browne is gorgeous and has a wholesome quality you can’t find on CNN. She can also be white hot, like when she wore her low cut dress on Red Eye. Yum.
Daggett on August 17, 2009 at 5:34 PM
It’s true. PETA is having me lead yet another clandestine raid on his house tonight to free his latest abused captives. Fortunately Begala is not very smart so it’s a pretty easy mission.
Cheshire Cat on August 17, 2009 at 5:35 PM
All I wanted was another label. Now I can be a brown shirt,nazi,racist,crazee, REAL American right winger.
conservativegrandma on August 17, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Must’ve been a quick survey.
darwin on August 17, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Wow, what a jerk. The real American protestor he was “interviewing” was way too polite.
4shoes on August 17, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Palin/Allapundit + cat 2012 !!!!
darwin on August 17, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Here
darwin on August 17, 2009 at 5:38 PM
AS cheesy as it sounds… the RNC need to use the old theme song of Hulk hogan for the next ad run…
DaSaintFan on August 17, 2009 at 5:39 PM
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TruthToBeTold on August 17, 2009 at 5:41 PM
This is the same guy who thought Obama’s reception in Ghana was somehow unprecedented, and the reporter was like, “No, they’re pretty much always like this”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf9q_4n5-1A
Jim Treacher on August 17, 2009 at 5:45 PM
This Lemon guy was the beginning of CNN deciding to not pay much money for anchors. He is absolutely inept as an anchor; probably couldn’t have gotten hired in the smallest of markets – if not for Affirmative Action. Reminds me of a black guy trying (and failing miserably) to do black-face comedy.
pcpower1 on August 17, 2009 at 5:45 PM
It’s happened to me almost eerily the same. I used to slough it off with shows like the west wing — good writing but I knew Aaron Sorkin was a diehard lib so it was ok, regardless of the crazy “white Christian” sterotypes they would have show after show. I mean, the guy wrote A Few Good Men, after all, so he’s talented even though he’s lib.
I actually used to love Boston Legal before it got 80% anti-war. By about 2006, it was basically just a setup for James Spader’s character to do a closing statement on how bad bush was.
The funny thing is, NOW i’d be interested in watching this drivel…. the dems have ALL THE POWER….. and yet i bet ole David E Kelly doesnt write up trial cases attacking Obama re: Afghanistan and Iraq. I bet the focus will be on ‘teabaggers’.
battleoflepanto1571 on August 17, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Use the “Lemon law” on Lemon.
darwin on August 17, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Don Lemon doesn’t want to hear the phrase”real American”,because he doesn’t know what it means.It certainly doesn’t apply to him.
DDT on August 17, 2009 at 5:50 PM
OK……..
……….. if Lemon doesn’t like “Real Americans”,
we can start calling him an “Obama Stooge”.
Seven Percent Solution on August 17, 2009 at 5:52 PM
I was cool with CNN until this last election. They pretty much lost me as a viewer. They’re still better than MSNBC and the broadcast networks (although ABC gives them a run for their money with Jake Tapper and John Stossel). But if I want real reporting I’ll watch the actual non-talk-show newshour on Fox.
Caiwyn on August 17, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Hell No I am not a CNN fan. In fact I refuse to even watch this clip. I heard about it earlier. CNN reporter: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and in conclusion blah blah blah blah.
Terrye on August 17, 2009 at 5:55 PM
The last CNN reporter that humiliated a protester ended up out of a job. Maybe it is time to complain to management again.
Terrye on August 17, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I agree. I used to love The Practice, so I was mildly interested in watching Boston Legal, but the liberal bias is too much to take. It sucks, because most of the shows on television are liberally biased. It’s almost as if the writers think only liberals watch their shows. Law and Order is another show that comes to mind in the bias department. It’s satisfying though that Boston Legal was cancelled. Very satisfying. NCIS and King of the Hill seem to be the only shows that aren’t liberally biased and King of the Hill is now cancelled.
I agree about The West Wing too. Back when it first came on, I was fascinated by it because of the “movie” feel of the show, but then I lost interest and I’m glad I did.
NathanG on August 17, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Hmmmm…. lets see….
I’m a Vet.
My Father a WWII and Korea Vet.
Grandfather? Gassed in WW1.
Civil War? Direct ancestors on both sides.
1812? Direct ancestor was in a militia… another served on a Privateer according to family legend…
Revolution? Yep… Direct Ancestor was a Green Mountain Boy…
But I guess I don’t qualify as a REAL American according to the Progresives out there….
Romeo13 on August 17, 2009 at 5:58 PM
hey Ed,
when are you gonna start a thread on all the advertisers that are bailing on Beck? I’d love to see the list so I know what to never buy again.
Palin/Bachman 2012!!
greataunty on August 17, 2009 at 5:34 PM
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ms on August 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Sven10077 to Communist News Network Operatives:
Stop calling THIS:
“strong signs of an economic recovery”…..it’s called a recession…..
have a day newsie
Marxism is not an American Value
sven10077 on August 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM
thanks!!
stupid libs can’t handle the truth!
greataunty on August 17, 2009 at 6:02 PM
typical…at least no one watched CNN.
mperek on August 17, 2009 at 6:03 PM
But Mr. Reporter Sir, I am a Real American and you are a real Douchebag!
No CNN fan here, Fox only and ONLY when Whorealdo is not on!
dhunter on August 17, 2009 at 6:08 PM
we can start calling him an “Obama Butt-Boy”
Wade on August 17, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Not a chance, AP. It’s hard to go back and find historical references on Lemon — he was selling shoes for a living last year.
Jaibones on August 17, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Lemon is a tool
cmsinaz on August 17, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Don’t go on CNN and expect to get a fair hearing. You will get sandbagged. Same applies, of course, to MSNBC, CBS, ABC, etc. I wish all conservatives, including politicians, would clue in to that basic fact.
F-ing conservatives. They think it’s still 1955 and they should say “please” and “thank you” every time they get kicked in the crotch. Duhhhhhh…. The only reason the networks have a guest like that on their network is so they can hand their ass to them.
Anyone agreeing to appear on a network has to go in like Ann Coulter does – alert, informed, and ready to fire back immediately. If you’re not ready to do that don’t go on the show.
Django on August 17, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Lemon makes a fair point–but he needs to make to both sides.
Yes, liberals are real Americans, too–but it was Pelosi who said that we were fake ["astroturfed"]. Oddly, i still haven’t gotten my paycheck from Big Insurance.
And it is the president and some Democrats who are planting and packing their audience with supporters so they will not be asked any hard questions. That’s what the guy meant when he “real Americans” to Lemon; that is, a real cross-section of Americans, not a hand-picked fan club.
Noel on August 17, 2009 at 6:12 PM
George Allen, John McCain, and Sarah Palin were stupid to keep using the phrase “Real America”. Why insult people who live in cities? There are some conservatives that do, after all. It lends itself easily to liberals saying that we don’t consider them countrymen.
Speedwagon82 on August 17, 2009 at 6:12 PM
I watched Meet the Press on NBC on Sunday and nearly had to through a brick through the screen. The moderator was fixated on the man legally carrying a gun near a rally that Obama had.
SC.Charlie on August 17, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Real Americans are the ones actually paying for all of the %$#@ing government programs.
Mojave Mark on August 17, 2009 at 6:18 PM
He looks like a real American to me
WyoMike on August 17, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Dude, don’t go there. For every man’s “intelligent and mature” Fox chick, there is someone thinking that dying your hair white for a job is just slutty. As for cheerleaders, you can call Robin Meade names all day long, but her smoking hotness is no mirage.
Jaibones on August 17, 2009 at 6:19 PM
“Liberals” are liberals first and Americans second if at all. Just ask them.
elduende on August 17, 2009 at 6:21 PM
I’m not sure when any of the above differentiated between “us” and “them”, but I don’t consider liberals my countrymen. Why would I? They stand for an ideology that is hell bent on destroying this nation.
In any case, the left constantly derides the south and southerners … which is certainly worse then calling people “real Americans”.
darwin on August 17, 2009 at 6:21 PM
A Neo-Comm is always a Neo-Comm first!
darwin on August 17, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Pelosi and Hoyer just got through calling the protesters “un-American.” That scumbag Reid and all the White House dirtbags and their media sycophants have repeated the same thing, both expressed and implied, but this guy can’t say he and his fellow protesters are “real Americans.”
Bulls—.
Django on August 17, 2009 at 6:24 PM
always. and they don’t bother to deny it. America is a place they disdain and want to “change”.
elduende on August 17, 2009 at 6:26 PM
lemon is a complete tool. do a little searching and see how poorly he treated a black conservative during the campaign last year.
oh, and the one where he is made to look like the imbecile that he is by a woman in africa is a winner, too. the look on his face when she tells him that the welcome that obama got there was pretty much the same as bush got is priceless.
homesickamerican on August 17, 2009 at 6:27 PM
I call myself a old school “typical” American that will not hesitate to go Jominian on any lib stupid enough to get in my face.I was nearly arrested for knockin’ the crap out of a couple of kids at a bar near Kent State who were actually cheering the WTC collapse on 9/11.When the police learned the circumstances of the fight they let me go.That was my very own “guilty as —- free as a bird moment.”
McBride on August 17, 2009 at 6:28 PM
“Listen, Buddy, as a journalist I’ll decide what free speech is and just what’s appropriate and not appropriate. So, lose the inappropriate ‘real Americans’ diatribe although we journalists are convinced that you teabaggers are not ‘real Americans’. That’s why I can talk down to you like this.”
Don Lemon, Another Arrogant A$$.
ExpressoBold on August 17, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Affirmative action hire… Obviously!
dhunter on August 17, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Exactly. And because of that, they lost the entire South in 2000 and 2004. Why try to emulate them?
They have been much less outspoken in their South hatred since Kerry lost. Thats why they ran conservative Dems in 2006 and 2008. Theres no doubt they still feel that way, but they are getting better at hiding it.
Speedwagon82 on August 17, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Lemon is a perfect example of why affirmative action does not work.
Wade on August 17, 2009 at 6:34 PM
CNN – check
Black – check
Full of sh!t – check
Absence of surprise – check
LimeyGeek on August 17, 2009 at 6:37 PM
So, is Obama the only real American left?
Michelle O. will be so proud!
profitsbeard on August 17, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Correct..They look THAT good,and intelligent too. The perfect package.
Jeff from WI on August 17, 2009 at 6:41 PM
CNN “anchor” Anderson Cooper is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt and heir of Cornelius Vanderbilt. This would tend to skew CNN’s definition of “real American”, wouldn’t it?
Del Dolemonte on August 17, 2009 at 6:42 PM
CNN tried to populate their anchors with beautiful women. But, to me, most of them look like airhead cheerleaders/booth babes. They’re not the least bit attractive to me.
Are you crazy? That woman is a pig compared to most on Fox.
LOL..Buy some glasses…LOL
Jeff from WI on August 17, 2009 at 6:43 PM
I’m a very petite lady, McBride…but I think I would have gotten some jabs in for that.
Punks. Raised in the best country the world over, living in the lap of her opportunity, and they cheer on the death of 3,000 people plus.
Grace_is_sufficient on August 17, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Cornholio – Are you threatening me?
petefrt on August 17, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Smokin’
LimeyGeek on August 17, 2009 at 6:45 PM
To paraphrase T. Clancy:
“But you’re a reporter… why should I trust you?”
Blacksmith on August 17, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Darwin
Australopithcus Liberalus and Australopithucus Conservativus are two branches of the same lineage. The difference being the Liberalus “sub-species” typically sit in the dark outside the campfire waiting for Conservativus to cook more food and toss the bones into the bushes.
trollkiller on August 17, 2009 at 6:47 PM
He’s an unreal American.
RobCon on August 17, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Hey, it was Jet Screamer (Howie Dean) who started it. When he ran in 2004 he shouted that he was “going to take back my country” from the evil Rush Limbaugh.
In other words, he was saying exactly what CNN now has their getalifes in a bunch over.
Del Dolemonte on August 17, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Sarah Palin’s ‘Real Americans’ were a bunch of angry white losers. I’m guessing this guy fits the bill. Country First!
simplesimon on August 17, 2009 at 6:49 PM
OT: Krauthammer just said they’ll never get national healthcare now. At best they’ll get some insurance reform but nothing more.
elduende on August 17, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Comment of the day so far on this story from another board
“Lemon has soured me on CNN”.
Del Dolemonte on August 17, 2009 at 6:57 PM
We really need to have you secede from the Union, simple.
Del Dolemonte on August 17, 2009 at 7:00 PM
That should be the Dems’ campaign slogan in 2010. Please.
Are they? Or is that just a convenient club to use to beat them over the head? Anyway, that’s not what the guy was saying; and even if he were, after being called “un-American” by various Dem pols, he has the right.
As for the racial composition of the protesters, I’ll have to check that with Protester Central. Maybe they can send over some non-whites pronto.
ddrintn on August 17, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Thanks Fidel.
NathanG on August 17, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Like the old cliche says, “if the people lead, the leaders will follow”.
ddrintn on August 17, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Hah. Its a damn shame really but its probably for the best. I’d take the leadership of the people rather than rely on these thieves we have as “leaders” any day.
elduende on August 17, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Darn wife made tacos tonight. I hate Mexican food. Well I’ll be one REAL GASEOUS AMERICAN.
Jeff from WI on August 17, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Or is it just that it “cheeses” you off that they think that they are real Americans too?
Scrappy on August 17, 2009 at 7:17 PM
NathanG – don’t despair, Mike Judge is still on the air. He has another animated show now, The Goode Family on ABC. It’s a hilariously vicious rip on a far-Left Libtard Enviro family. The husband is a chair-moistener at the local community college, the wife is a community activist, the daughter cringes every time her mother tries to be her friend and talk to her about sex and best of all the son is an adopted South African. Turns out the parents were, uh, baked when they filled out the adoption app and didn’t realize the kid was from white Afrikaners. I reckon they thought they’d be emulating Brad & Angelina by adopting a black African baby but their son, who they named Ubuntu, is as white as they come.
Finally, their dog is named Che. The poor little guy is force-fed Vegan dog food so of course his ribs were showing like those of a concentration camp victim. But like his namesake, Che goes on a murderous rampage, devouring neighborhood squirrels, raccoons, cats, birds, and so on. Soon after, Missing Cat posters begin sprouting throughout the ‘hood. Every episode of this show is a laugh-yer-a**-off funfest.
CatchAll on August 17, 2009 at 7:30 PM
CNN lost me when they made a deal with our enemy during the first Gulf War.
d1carter on August 17, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Anyone to claim jessie jackass a ‘Huge’ Leader, a ‘Great One’..is bound by ignorance and dare I say… “racism”.
christene on August 17, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Lemon is just trying to make for all the damage he caused during the Prof. Gates fiasco. He interviewed the cops and got a totally different answer than what he was expecting. He’s just trying to help his man…isn’t that what MSM “journalists” do?
d1carter on August 17, 2009 at 7:35 PM
CNN –
MSLSD
Their all the same
it doenst matter..
To them they are the ONLY americans
the rest are just pee-ons..
and they do plan exactly that
to piss on our constitution
to piss on americans who disagree with them
But then they will go much further..
veteranoutrage on August 17, 2009 at 7:47 PM
I haven’t watched the show, but I might watch it online if it’s available. It didn’t even finish its run. I don’t think the ratings were good enough to justify it. Summer series never do well anyway. I’m willing to bet it’s on ABC.com though.
NathanG on August 17, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Love how the “journalist” that are supposed to advocate Free Speech take it upon themselves to tell people what they should and should not say.
Lemon will get some credibility on the “real Americans” issue when we see his spot calling out his liberal friends that have spent the last several weeks calling Americans “mobsters”,”right-wing extremist”,and the democratic leadership calling them “un-American” in an op-ed of a national newspaper.
Until then,a “journalist”(or Obama campaign worker) is the last person who has any authority or credibility in telling people what they can and can’t say.
Baxter Greene on August 17, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Sorry, Lemon, but net tat payers are the real Amurricans.
Net tax consumers, on the other hand, are nothing but societal leeches.
Screw you.
Dave R. on August 17, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Journalism is an unregulated, inregistered profession. There are no tests, or state boards of journalism examiners. Anyone can call themselves “journalist” or “reporter.”
Hell’s bells, a manicurist or a dog groomer takes a test and has is licensed.
Pelayo on August 17, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Hell’s bells, a manicurist or a dog groomer takes a test and
hasis licensedFIFM
Pelayo on August 17, 2009 at 8:08 PM
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