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Don Lemon did something miraculous on Sunday: He managed to prove he is even more despicable than we previously thought.
What a feat for that putz.
The former CNN anchor livestreamed himself joining a band of lunatic anti-ICE protesters who stormed the Cities church in St. Paul, Minnesota, after reports that a pastor there might be affiliated with ICE — though there’s been no confirmation of such a tie.
Lemon, who is no longer affiliated with a news outlet, enthusiastically embedded with the group that barged into the house of God, shattering the peace and security of a Sunday service and exhibiting behavior befitting a psychiatric ward at Bellevue.
They started screaming “ICE Out” and chanting Renee Good’s name.
Naturally, spooked congregants filed out, and some tried to plead with screaming protesters. In a heartbreaking scene, a young boy cried as he was comforted by his parents.
The footage is disgusting. It was not a peaceful protest. It was thuggery and intimidation in a house of worship.
As a backlash rightfully mounted online, Lemon claimed in a follow-up video that he was not affiliated with the group and merely a journalist on the scene of a news event — and whined that he’s being criticized because he’s black and gay.
Yeah, that old chestnut.
Despite his claim, he had filmed the offending group gearing up for their shameless Sunday ambush, explaining that they “surprise people, catch them off guard and hold them to account.”
That crying kid better learn.
“These are resistance protesters, they’re planning an operation we’re going to follow them on,” Lemon said on his livestream with delight. “I can’t tell you exactly what they’re doing, but it’s called Operation Pull-Up.”
Then, like a good impartial chronicler would do, he planted a creepy kiss on the cheek of cheek of agitator Nekima Levy Armstrong.
“This is what the First Amendment was about, the freedom to protest. I’m sure people here don’t like it, but protests are not comfortable,” said Lemon, sounding like a proud alum of the Quality Learing Center.
Of course, he’s now attempting to distance himself from the debacle. But Lemon wasn’t merely a narrator. He conducted contentious interviews with parishioners and the pastor, essentially trying to convince them of the gang’s righteousness and their collective guilt.
(And he mentioned that he was a Christian, more than once. And I’m Gisele Bündchen.)
It would be like a person knowing of a stick-up, happily following along — and then interviewing the robbery victims, cutting them off to explain why they deserved it.
In one video, Lemon said that if, he were the pastor, he would offer to pray with the group. But the deranged trespassers were only there to prey.
During the height of 2020’s BLM summer of love, roving bands of activists swarmed cities, disrupting people’s brunches and demanding fealty to their Marxist cause. If they raised a fist, they were able to return to their eggs Benedict. If not, no justice, no peace and certainly no bacon grease.
The terrorizing had nothing to do with racial justice. It was a humiliation tactic and a power grab that did not change hearts and minds. It only disgusted decent people. What happened on Sunday was a gross escalation of those already abhorrent methods.
None of those radicals actually care about Renee Good. They’re using her name to further advance their chaos agenda.
Reasonable folks can disagree on policy. But it’s dangerous and dumb to interrupt federal law enforcement. And it’s reprehensible — and illegal — to storm a church and disrupt religious liberty.
We know that Lemon wouldn’t have the cojones to invade a mosque.
“A house of worship is not a public forum for your protest! It is a space protected from exactly such acts by federal criminal and civil laws! Nor does the First Amendment protect your pseudo journalism of disrupting a prayer service,” DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon tweeted, saying that Lemon was “on notice.”
In an interview with a podcaster Monday, Lemon railed against religious groups, saying they have an “entitlement [that] comes from a white supremacy.”
He claimed to be befuddled as to how he has become the face of marauding demons.
But Lemon is obviously nestled in the bosom of delusion, as he relayed the explanation his producers offered him: “Don, you’re a gay black man in America.”
Being a gay and black man in America has been very very good to Lemon. So much so, that despite being an absolute jackass and a bully of female coworkers, he managed to make millions on cable news.
Those millions have allowed him to live in great comfort — and far away from the unwashed masses. He reportedly resides in a Manhattan doorman high-rise and has a beautiful house in the Hamptons.
Lemon will never feel the heat of being physically confronted in his safe haven.
And sadly, he will never feel shame either.
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