CNN host Don Lemon ranted and whined about Sen. Tim Scott during a segment on his Wednesday show, slamming the South Carolina Republican Senator for comments he made in an interview with Trey Gowdy on Fox News.
Lemon first gave us a lecture on America’s history of slavery; which to be honest, he does a lot. He noted that he had his ancestry traced twice but that it was difficult to find complete records as black families were very often separated during the slavery era.
Lemon got a little dramatic now, leaning in… “You know why? They were considered property,”
“So….god….ugh…it just angers me sometimes when people can be so ignorant,” he continued, staring into the camera and pausing for effect.
“And then there’s Tim Scott. Tim Scott is the only black — the only — only — Black Republican in the Senate,” Lemon ranted. “Telling Fox News — of course Fox News — that what he calls ‘woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy.’”
After playing the clip, Lemon paused for extra dramatic effect.
He then address Sen Tim Scott directly.
“Do you want to explain who these woke supremacists are?”
“I’ve never seen a woke supremacist lynching anybody. Never saw a woke supremacist denying anybody access to housing or a job or education or voting rights. Never seen any woke supremacists enslaving anybody. Never saw any woke supremacists trying to keep people from marrying amongst different races.”
Lemon then raised his voice and shouted, “Come on, Tim Scott!”
“I didn’t see any woke supremacists storming the blanking Capitol. Where are the woke supremacists attacking police?
“Where are the woke supremacists hunting people in the halls of the Capitol and beating them with Blue Lives Matter signs with white supremacist insignia on their shirts?” Lemon continued. “Guess who I saw. Guess who police officers were beaten by. Guess who wanted to hang the vice president. White supremacists, Tim Scott! What are you doing?”
Lemon continued his rant against Sen. Scott.
“This is ridiculous!” Lemon said. “You are gaslighting people. You are giving people misinformation. What are you doing, brother?! What are you doing? What are you doing? You’re not helping.”
BizPac Review notes,
Left out of Lemon’s diatribe is the fact that Scott, in making his comment about “woke supremacy,” was responding to a degrading insult from MSNBC’s Joy Reid, in which she suggested he was just a “token” black man being used by Republicans.
“Woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. We need to take that seriously,” Scott told Gowdy after the host railed against Reid over her comment and explained how Scott, a former business owner, had made himself a subject matter expert on a variety of issues, but especially tax reform and other economic issues.
“Tim Scott is a United States senator who worked his tail off to be part of nearly every significant policy conversation this country has,” Gowdy said Tuesday before bringing Scott in. “He can stand wherever the hell he wants to stand and any group he wants to stand with because he has earned the right to be there.
“The fact that you see a black man as a prop, Joy Reid, says a lot more about you than it does about Tim Scott,” Gowdy added.
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