CNN's Don Lemon rips man who confronted Tucker Carlson in public: 'Your First Amendment right doesn't mean invading my personal space'
CNN host Don Lemon defended Fox News' Tucker Carlson during a segment Tuesday night on "Don Lemon Tonight" after a man angrily accosted Carlson in a Montana fly fishing shop.
What's a brief history here?
Earlier this week, a video featuring a man who identified himself as Dan Bailey emerged.
Bailey shared the video to his Instagram page and captioned it, "It's not everyday you get to tell someone they are the worst person in the world and really mean it! What an a**hole! This man has killed more people with vaccine misinformation, he has supported extreme racism, he is a fascist and does more to rip this country apart than anyone that calls themselves an American. #f***tuckercarlson[.]"
In the video, the man can be seen confronting the Fox News host as he was shopping for fishing gear with his family in Livingston, Montana.
In heated remarks, Bailey accused Carlson of being a fascist, supporting "extreme racism," and of killing people with what he said was "vaccine misinformation." He also vehemently insisted that Carlson was the "worst human being known to man."
Carlson kept his cool for his part and navigated away from Bailey into another area of the store.
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What did Lemon say?
During the segment, Lemon argued that Bailey had no right to publicly accost Carlson and invade the Fox News host's "personal space."
"Let me tell you this," he began. "I don't like it. I don't like it when people do that because I would not want it to happen to me. I have mixed emotions because Tucker has done this to people before. Tucker said some really nasty things about me, and the next day there's paparazzi in front of my house hiding, taking pictures. ... We're all on TV, we've been approached. We hear good things, we hear bad things from people. We don't even know who they are; it's part of the gig. Don't you think this went a little too far though?"
CNN commentator and guest Ana Navarro responded that she believed Bailey's actions were right on the money — and argued that Bailey was simply exercising his First Amendment rights.
"Deal with it," she advised.
Lemon responded, "But I don't think that should happen to you, Ana. I don't think that should happen to [CNN anchor] Chris [Cuomo]. I don't think it should happen to me. ... Your First Amendment right doesn't mean invading my personal space, I'm sorry, Ana. I understand what you're saying and I get it. I think what Tucker says much, much of the time if completely reprehensible and divorced from reality, but he has a right to be in a space and not be accosted and not be ambushed by anyone."
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Biden calls CNN's Don Lemon 'one of the most informed journalists in the country' during town hall
President Joe Biden recently called partisan CNN anchor Don Lemon — who has argued that Americans don't see black people as "human beings" and that parents against critical race theory are just being selfish — "one of the most informed journalists in the country."
What happened?
The president made the remarks while responding to a question about how to restore faith in the American system of government during a town hall on Wednesday night.
"How do you change the mistrust in the system among some members of the black community?" the question said.
Biden began his response by reciting a commitment he made to take responsibility for his mistakes by publicly owning up to them. Then he went on to say that generally, it's about "raising confidence in elected officials."
But confidence in government is at all an all-time low, Biden explained, as evidenced by the scoffing that ensued after he declared on the campaign trail that he wanted to "unite the country." According to Biden, Lemon remembered the criticism he received because he is well-informed.
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"I know this is going to sound like a non-answer to you, but part of this is that — you know because you're one of the most informed journalists in the country," Biden said.
"You know the criticism I got when I said I want to unite the country, 'You can't unite the country,'" he continued. "And if you can't unite the country, we can never get some of these problems solved. And that goes to trust. Why can't you unite the country? Why isn't there a willingness to trust?"
What else?
Lemon has insisted in the past that he is a "journalist" and "not a political person" despite his clear and obvious political leanings.
Earlier this year, Lemon made claims of nonbias while in the same breath trashing the Republican Party as "obsolete" and the Democratic Party as the only one "operating in reality."
"Perhaps Americans who want this country to be a country that is sane and rational and equitable and equal ... need to challenge the Republican Party more," he added.
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Lemon and fellow CNN anchor Chris Cuomo routinely use the handoff time in between their shows to ruminate on the political happenings of the day from a progressive perspective.
Even so, Lemon has expressed that he doesn't understand why people view his network, CNN, as biased.
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