Don Lemon needs to choose —journalist or agitator, he can't be both

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Don Lemon needs to choose —journalist or agitator, he can't be both
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Nicki Minaj noted that anti-Trump backlash she's received for her embrace of the administration 'actually motivates me to support him more ... I am probably the president's number one fan,' Minaj told attendees at the Trump Accounts summit. 'And that's not going to change.' 'What people have to say, it does not affect me at all.

, the ex- CNN anchor has been charged after a shameful incident at a St. Paul, Minnesota , church where a group of ant-ICE lunatics interrupted Sunday services.Predictably, his arrest has triggered all the selective free speech advocates to come out screaming that our fundamental rights are being eroded.

Yet journalists have been harassed and targeted for much less.“The FBl’s arrest of our former CNN colleague Don Lemon raises profoundly concerning questions about press freedom and the First Amendment,” CNN said in a statement.The left is truly sick for threatening to deny medical care — and wishing physical harm — to people it disagrees withCelebrities and scholars like Josh Gad, Kathy Griffin, Andy Cohen and Billy Baldwin are among those who have fired off statements of support.Too bad most of these have lost their meaning and their sting, since the left throws them around with impunity.The First Amendment is sacred, but it doesn’t just guarantee freedom of the press. It also promises the right of people to worship freely.rabid anti-ICE agitators who burst into a Cities Church“I can’t tell you exactly what they’re doing,” he said, introducing the head of the group, activist Nekima Levy Armstrong. He greeted her with a giant kiss on the cheek. He then said he was turning the camera off “because they’re giving some critical information here. But…there we go.” And there they went, storming into the church, screaming “ICE out,” yelling in churchgoers faces, allegedly blocking parents from reaching their children in classrooms and reducing frightened children to tears.They chose that church because there were rumors someone high up at the church was potentially affiliated with ICE. As the chaos played out, Lemon interviewed the pastor, who called the invasion “unacceptable and shameful.” He even asked them to leave. Still, Lemon persisted. He didn’t act as an observer, instead he lectured the pastor. Microphone in hand, he straight up badgered the pastor, lecturing him about how there is “freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest.”During his sermon to the church leader, Lemon made sure to clarify, “I’m a Christian.”To me, he acted as the group’s mouthpiece, not as a detached news gatherer.As the group invaded the church in St. Paul, Don Lemon interviewed the pastor who called the chaos “shameful.”Now that he is accused of being party to preventing people from exercising their First Amendment rights, he’s asserting his to wiggle out of trouble. If Lemon had done the same with a group barging into a mosque or an abortion clinic, there would be crickets from the so-called democracy defenders. “Don’t try to be the old traditional journalist of yesteryear. It doesn’t play anymore. Blaze your own trail,” Lemon told Could he have blazed his own trail into legal trouble? We’ll have to wait and see how much juice the feds have against Lemon, who was reportedly indicted by a grand jury. And we’ll be watching.Douglas MurrayAssistant principal accused of swiping 98 items from Walmart using brazen self-checkout schemeSicko teacher sent student nauseating texts -- before they had depraved, hours-long sex marathon: report

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