{"id":67546,"date":"2021-05-04T18:53:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T23:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=67546"},"modified":"2021-05-04T21:13:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T02:13:17","slug":"67546","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=67546","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The staggering stupidity of Don Lem\u00f3n<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What the stupidest thing you will hear today?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s one way to improve your odds at an accurate answer: who is the stupidest television commentator currently polluting the airwaves?<\/p>\n

If you said \u2018Don Lem\u00f3n\u2122\u2019,\u00a0you are hot on the trail.<\/p>\n

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When I first encountered the CNN talking head, I thought he was just the latest embarrassing affirmative action hire. How could anyone take this unpleasant, unremittingly partisan hack seriously?<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

But it soon became clear that Lem\u00f3n (accent on the \u2018o\u2019) was something special.<\/p>\n

It was partly the brittle touchiness, partly the steady emission of self-satisfied entitlement.\u00a0Mostly, though, it was the stupidity, unwritten by ignorance and fired by adamantine self-certainty.<\/p>\n

The latest instance is one of the best.<\/p>\n

Responding to Rick Santorum\u2019s appearance last night on\u00a0Chris \u2018Fredo\u2019 Cuomo\u2019s show<\/a>, Lem\u00f3n went on a tear about Santorum\u2019s defense of his remarks about American Indian culture, remarks that had the moist PC-crowd in a tizzy. \u2018There isn\u2019t much Native American culture in American culture,\u2019 Santorum\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in a speech last month.<\/p>\n

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He neglected to make the obligatory obeisances about European \u2018genocide\u2019, etc. and even had the temerity to allude to \u2018Christian settlers\u2019 without disparagement.<\/p>\n

All that sent Lem\u00f3n off the deep end. Santorum\u2019s speech was \u2018horrible\u2019, he said. Moreover,\u00a0he shouted<\/a>, \u2018Europeans did not found this country. It was here, the Native Americans had this country before the Europeans came.\u2019<\/p>\n

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Before the arrival of the Europeans, the Indians roamed the continent. But the space between the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans wasn\u2019t yet a country. It was inhabited territory. It became a colony, or series of colonies, from the 16th through the mid-18th century thanks to European settlers, most of whom, as Rick Santorum noted, were Christians. Then there was something called the American Revolution. That began in 1776 and ended in 1783. It was prosecuted overwhelming by the European colonists, with a little help (and a little hinderance) from the Indians, and at the end a lot of help from the French. There were articles of confederation that outlined a country, but the Constitution \u2014 this country\u2019s founding document \u2014 was framed at the Philadelphia Convention from May 25 to September 17, 1787. It was signed on September 17, 1787. It was ratified by the necessary nine states the following year, in 1788.<\/p>\n

You might think that a prominent commentator from a major, if fading, network would know these things. But Don Lem\u00f3n\u2122 is too busy feeling slighted and calling other people racist to bother with such niceties as facts. It\u2019s also true that Santorum is a, if not the, token conservative voice on CNN. Perhaps that helps explain Lemon\u2019s particular determination to make him persona non grata.<\/p>\n

I should probably note that I would never have seen Lem\u00f3n\u2019s embarrassing performance had not a friend sent me a clip.\u00a0 I am told that CNN\u2019s contract to bleat out its twisted and tendentious version of the news at America\u2019s airports has been canceled. That is a mercy for travelers, who have enough to put up with dealing with the mask Nazis and the constant blaring reminders to stay away from their fellows because of our latest Chinese import.<\/p>\n

It is a consolation to know that so many fewer people will be subjected to its politicized idiocy, not least to Don Lem\u00f3n\u2019s aggressively stupid and bitchy outbursts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The staggering stupidity of Don Lem\u00f3n. What the stupidest thing you will hear today? Here\u2019s one way to improve your odds at an accurate answer: who is the stupidest television commentator currently polluting the airwaves? If you said \u2018Don Lem\u00f3n\u2122\u2019,\u00a0you are hot on the trail. When I first encountered the CNN talking head, I thought … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67551,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67546\/revisions\/67551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}