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Don Lemon On Combative Sen. Rand Paul Interview: ‘It’s Not Ideological’ To Insist On Direct Answers

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CNN’s Don Lemon is getting a lot of attention as of late. Whether it be the comedic spotlight from the likes of Stephen Colbert or The Daily Show, or a clash with Tea Party favorite Senator Rand Paul, Lemon is quickly distinguishing himself as an authoritative and serious voice for CNN as he reveals his “no talking points” rule here.

Lemon, commenting on his combative interview with Paul, explains “I didn’t insist on Rand Paul answering directly just because he’s a conservative and a member of the Tea Party.” Instead, Lemon states that he was just as a persistent with a Democratic senator who was his guest earlier in the show. Lemon concludes:

“It’s not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented. It’s just being respectful of you the viewer, the voter, who deserves direct answers from the people who are fortunate enough to be given a platform on national television to speak directly to the American people.”

Following in the footsteps of Jon Stewart who suggested Lemon be given his own show called “Lemon Harangue,” given that now Lemon seems to be debuting his own version of a “No-Spin Zone,” might an appropriate name for Lemon’s new “no talking points allowed” segment be “You Are Now Entering The Lemon Square?”

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  • Anonymous

    Enjoy it Don, your 15 minutes are about up. Remember where you work, the channel most watched by pissed of stranded air travelers.

  • Anonymous

    A look at Reid’s record, however, shows that in the last decade his own
    voting on the issue of the debt ceiling is not only partisan but
    perfectly partisan. According to “The Debt Limit: History and Recent
    Increases,” a January 2010 report
    by the Congressional Research Service, the Senate has passed ten
    increases to the debt limit since 2000.  Reid never voted to increase
    the debt ceiling when Republicans were in control of the Senate, and he
    always voted to increase the debt ceiling when Democrats were in
    control.Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/07/reid-durbin-and-obama-very-partisan-record-debt-ceiling#ixzz1TijuSs50

  • Anonymous

    Tea Party, when will you fight for our jobs to come back home?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    Really?

    Have you ever tried that approach with say… Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  • Anonymous

    Lemon claims he was just as hard on Dems/liberals earlier on his show but did NOT show the video of that treatment he gave the Dems??? Mmmmm… wonder why?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    Fareed Zakaria can’t carry all the water over there at CNN…

  • Anonymous

    She would eat him whole and spit him out… using his wishbone as a toothpic.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    The obvious name for Don Lemon’s new segment should be “Lemon Party”.

  • Anonymous

    Ummm… the “Tea Party” is like 2 years old tops. Jobs have been leaving the US thanks to unions and Dems for 50+ years. Get a clue.

  • Anonymous

    But he sure does try.

  • Anonymous

    Ask Barry to ask his job adviser, GE’s Jeffery Immelt, to stop shutting down USA plants and sending the jobs to China.

  • splash

    I saw that interview with Sen. Paul and thought that Lemon was condescending and arrogant.  Let the man have his say and then challenge him on the facts.  Where does Lemon get off laying down rules.  After the interview I stuck around and was struck by how lacking in depth Lemon is. If this guy is being held up as some rising star then CNN is in more trouble than I already thought.

  • Anonymous

    Get the unions and the government the hell outta the way and a lot of companies would expand, hire and open up.

    Who the hell is gonna expand with The Chicago Jesus strangling them? 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    At least now we know the two things about Rand Paul, he thinks people should go to jail for attending “radical speeches” and he doesn’t know how to answer a direct question.

  • Anonymous

    Don, you forgot to ask him how many gay friends he had?

  • Anonymous

    Unions and Dems……….along with deregulation and Repubs.

  • Anonymous

    Notice all the jobs are going to non-union states? When Obama lets them anyway. Obama is pro-business…. union business that is.

  • Anonymous

    True…..

  • Anonymous

    This is CNN “explaining” why it tries to limit the presentation of libertarian and conservative views on the air.  You would never see them implementing these rules when a liberal is interviewed.  

    My advice to the Left:  if you don’t like Rand Paul’s views, try to debate them rather than silence them.

  • Anonymous

    “Where does Lemon get off laying down rules.”

    An interviewer setting rules for the interview.  How dare he!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    Rand Paul DID answer the questions directly.  There just weren’t what Lemon wanted to hear.  Hell, he didn’t even let him answer half the questions.  Out of all the politicians out there the Pauls are the most sincere and direct.  It just didn’t make any sense for Lemon to interrupt and condescend.

  • Anonymous

    Lemon didn’t try to silence Paul.  He tried to get him to answer the question. 

  • Anonymous

    But when Fox News does it with Obama you poop your pants. Mmmmm…. Hypocrite much?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    I caught this Lemon lying daily I can’t watch anymore.. Remember the last half black we got fooled by…

  • Anonymous

    Ha! I enjoy your attachment to reality.

    If you’re like me you’re just getting sick of everybody. I would think dignified politicians would be embarrassed posturing about the exact opposite positions they held just a few years ago. But as long as they have millions of Americans absolutely out of their mind with partisanship then why bother?

  • Darladoon

    boy those tea baggers sure are thin-skinned!

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    And CNN wonders why people haven’t tuned in since Michael Jackson died.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget the unions and Boeing in SC!

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget the unions and Boeing in SC!

  • Anonymous

    CNN… “When disaster strikes our ratings go up. So burn baby burn”.

  • Anonymous

    Are you serious. Have you even SEEN Obama?

  • Anonymous

    Are you serious. Have you even SEEN Obama?

  • Anonymous

    Or “The Lemon Head”

  • Anonymous

    myself i wish all journalist would interview all guest this way…….devil’s advocate

  • Anonymous

    Lemon is a double threat.  Gay and black.  The man can never be fired even if he is an arrogant ideological idiot.  Thanks CNN.

  • Anonymous

    I saw the interview live too. I thought he was condescending too. Rand goes on all the networks and he gets berated for being honest. He’s not as nutty as his father.

  • Anonymous

    False.

  • Anonymous

    Being a liberal was enough to keep him save in the MSM.

  • Anonymous

    I would love to hear about those lies you caught him in. Can you cite a few of the lies?

  • BeggarBoy

    Yeah, yer right, stupid unions demanding their members make more then 25 cents an hour to make Nikes. 

  • Anonymous

    Generally, when you have to make a statement about something you’ve done, you were in error.

    Lemon is a boring interviewer. As is most of the “talent” on CNN. CNN needs to bring in some hard interviewers on the Right. I’ve always said to bring on Dana Loesch. She’d be a good starting point.

  • Anonymous

    Bingo… it would be nice for BOTH sides to be treated this way.

  • Anonymous

    So is Don Lemon the only interviewer on the White Noise Networks that you can play the Ideological Talking Points drinking game?

    These people are as predictable as an episode of “Law and Order” without the pleasure of a Jerry Orbach wisecrack.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    I like Lemon Party or as it’s better known WCinWI’s favorite .jpg

  • Lurch

    us lib commie socialists are coming to your red states soon, and we will jam a large stick up your bagger rear very soon. man up rethuglickers, the lefty’s are coming to fornicate your children right in front of you.  we will bring all your bastard scum children to our political camps, and re-educate them into commie socialism.  we have as many guns as you, but we have way more troops.  texass, better worry about the liberal liberation movement coming to you, as you burn in that hell hole you call home…..  we won the last civil war, we will win the next one…. now you morbid obese inbred, go back in your trailers and get off on your blond foxettes, since your fat wife wont let you touch her anymore….. yeah, you goober……

  • Michelle

    You beat me to it.  Remember how they whined about Brett’s interview with The One? 

  • Michelle

    His skin is so thin, it’s translucent.

  • Anonymous

    So it’s your position that unions have done a GOOD job of keeping jobs in America and making this county attractive to production and business? A simple yes or no will due. ;)

  • Rich

    “It’s Not Ideological’ To Insist On Direct Answers”… Unless you work at Fox..Then it’s ideological, AND racist… Rich 

  • Anonymous

    Not when teabaggers make every perceived slight go viral with their incessant cry-babying.

    Then it need to be addressed.

    Teabaggers = Professional Victims.

  • Anonymous

    Not when teabaggers make every perceived slight go viral with their incessant cry-babying.

    Then it need to be addressed.

    Teabaggers = Professional Victims.

  • Anonymous

    No, what does this Obama you speak of look like?

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    CNN is praying for another Casey Anthony so they can get their ratings back.

  • Anonymous

    First of all, Lemon didn’t “interview” Rand Paul — he attack Rand Paul. His questions were hostile and confrontational, and filled with Democrat talking points.  Then he started shouting him down. 

    This is not honest journalism by any measure.  But this is what we have come to expect from CNN.  They have been doing this from day one of the tea party. 

    Remember when the CNN reporter showed up at an early tea party and started screaming at the people there?   Or when Anderson Cooper introduced CNN viewers to the term “teabagging”?  or Fareed Zakaria (just the other day) accused the tea party of plotting a dictatorship?   As anyone can see, CNN doesn’t report on the tea party — they work hard to spread disinformation on the tea party, and prevent the tea party message from getting out to the public.  That’s why they are deathly afraid of letting Rand Paul speak his mind. 

  • Anonymous

    It was more so the UAW standing around for 6 hours a day with their thumb in their ass while knocking down $100k a year…

    You can argue the minutae I suppose with the NIKE example, but you can’t deny how unions drove manufacturing straight outta the US. They’ll end up doing it again with Boeng too if The Chicago Jesus get’s his way and they squash that South Carolina plant. They’ll pack it up and move it off shore. That’ll make you union thugs happy now won’t it?

    I’ve never seen a group of people so proficient at slicing their own throats as unions, it’s amazingly stupid.

  • Anonymous

    You have “interpetive” problems I see. Do you have dyslexia as well?

  • Anonymous

    Off topic …. how do you use the quote feature?

  • Anonymous

    Why is it all about race and sex with you guys?

  • Anonymous

     You’re cute… don’t ever change…

  • Anonymous

    Like you did with Gabby Giffords???

  • Anonymous

    Lemon did the same thing with two Democrats that he interviewed before Paul.  Only the right has been crying about it.

  • Anonymous

    I like sex… something wrong with that?

  • Anonymous

    And HLN….

  • Anonymous

    Why so much hate for Don Lemon?  The issue highlighted is more about hosts asking their guests to leave the talking points at home.  Unless your an idiot, you know all these politicians go into an interview with answers and talking points they’re going to make no matter the question.  I think people are tired of it and I commend Don Lemon for challenging all his guests, from both parties, to answer with what THEY think. Not what they think they’re supposed to say or how they’re going to deflect the question to their talking point answer.

  • Anonymous

    why is it always about race with you guys? 

  • Anonymous

    wow profound insight.

  • Anonymous

    Or getting high and drunk in the parking lot on their lunch break…..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Did you mean “interpretive”? I don’t have dyslexia but you aren’t very bright, are you?

  • Anonymous

    keep your nose out of my pants please.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is the quintessential cry baby thin skinned pussy. He figured that he could play his race to stay beyond reproach, but has shown himself to be such an unprepared failure, that even that doesn’t work anymore.

  • Anonymous

    Have you sen the video… Because Lemon didn’t show it in the above clip for some reason to compare it to his treatment of Paul. Would have been nice if he had done that. Would have made his point if he’s telling the truth.

  • Anonymous

    Talking points are simply part of political discourse. Would you sign up for a math class, then tell the professor to leave his numbers at home?

  • Anonymous

    The odor is getting to us…..

  • Anonymous

    No quote feature.
    You have to put your quote between these tags…

    http://i.imgur.com/U1NQ2.jpg

  • Anonymous

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/07/29/fareed-zakaria-flat-out-lies-about-deficits-debt-ceiling-and-credit-ratingFareed Zakaria Flat Out Lies About Deficits, Debt Ceiling and U.S. Credit RatingPlease understand that none of these things are happening because the United States is running deficits. There was no indication – by any metric – that the United States was having difficulty borrowing money one month ago. In fact, the world has been lending money to the United States more cheaply than ever before.
    We face downgrades and investor panic not because of our deficits but because we are behaving like deadbeats, refusing to pay our bills, pouting while the bill collector waits at the door.
    Absolute total nonsense.
    The high and mighty Zakaria conveniently forgot the downgrade warning Standard & Poor’s published on April 18 of this year:
    * We have affirmed our ‘AAA/A-1+’ sovereign credit ratings on the United States of America.* The economy of the U.S. is flexible and highly diversified, the country’s effective monetary policies have supported output growth while containing inflationary pressures, and a consistent global preference for the U.S. dollar over all other currencies gives the country unique external liquidity.* Because the U.S. has, relative to its ‘AAA’ peers, what we consider to be very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness and the path to addressing these is not clear to us, we have revised our outlook on the long-term rating to negative from stable.* We believe there is a material risk that U.S. policymakers might not reach an agreement on how to address medium- and long-term budgetary challenges by 2013; if an agreement is not reached and meaningful implementation is not begun by then, this would in our view render the U.S. fiscal profile meaningfully weaker than that of peer ‘AAA’ sovereigns.
    That last sentence warrants repeating: “We believe there is a material risk that U.S. policymakers might not reach an agreement on how to address medium- and long-term budgetary challenges by 2013; if an agreement is not reached and meaningful implementation is not begun by then, this would in our view render the U.S. fiscal profile meaningfully weaker than that of peer ‘AAA’ sovereigns.”
    This was issued on April 18, more than three months ago. As you can see, there was nothing in this report about the debt ceiling. In fact, it wasn’t even mentioned.
    Quite the contrary, S&P on that day issued a negative outlook for our debt specifically due to our “very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness.”

  • Anonymous

    Are you saying the shooting of Giffords was a slight?

    What’s wrong with you?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Agreements have been reached again but those 75 leftist progressives cult just want America ti default and Reid can’t lead them to compromise. Credit intrest will grow and grow and 401K’s will drop like rocks. Pitiful anti-American bunch just can’t help America when it needs Americans to drop the crap at the door.

  • Anonymous

    I think they refer to them as talking points because “Empty platitudes and Annoying Attitude” just doesn’t have the cache.

    These idiots can’t even explain their talking points.  I thought “Cut, Cap, and Balance” was silly (mostly for the Balance part), but I could explain the logistics of the first two in a paragraph.  I saw one person (a Congresswoman from Missouri, whose name I forget) who explained the difference between the CBO numbers of January and March (CBO reset them in light of the CR that was passed to get us through Sept. 30th) and I wanted to kiss the TV.

    This woman explained in two sentences something that you won’t see even in the print media.  The GOP should just put this woman on every show, because I’m sure she can explain these things better than leadership or half the asshats that get invited.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Obama can’t get his lefties better know as the socialist progressives cult to compromise. Demarodents again show how anti-American the hole cult is against any deal from anyone. They have zero principals.

  • Anonymous

    We’re trying to keep it on your level.

  • Anonymous

    I’m saying you used the shooting to gain political advantage, and it was beyond shameful.. but yet you knew that and tried to be cute. It didn’t work BTW. :P

  • Anonymous

    I’m saying you used the shooting to gain political advantage, and it was beyond shameful.. but yet you knew that and tried to be cute. It didn’t work BTW. :P

  • Anonymous

    And, according to Charlie Gasparino, the Treasury Department has been talking to the ratings agencies since MARCH, trying to convince them not to downgrade our bonds.

    MARCH, folks, MARCH!

    If the Left and the Obama White House ever told the truth, the TEA Party might just fall on the floor in total shock!

  • Anonymous

    My point stands.
    It’s one thing to be outraged by a shooting and another to be outraged by a tough interview.

    Can your side grow a little balls please?

  • Anonymous

    profound!

  • Anonymous

    but a side was not responsible for the shooting……one man was

  • Anonymous

    As with most “talking heads,” Don Lemon didn’t WANT an answer to his questions, and he didn’t want to LISTEN to Rand Paul’s answers if he was ALLOWED to give one. As I recall, O’Reilly also states he doesn’t want “talking points.” How do you Libs react to HIM? (Personally, I don’t think O’Reilly LISTENS, either.)

  • Anonymous

    Now you’re a champion for talking points.  too rich!

  • Anonymous

    not true.  He wanted Rand to say something that Lemon could hammer him with and Rand wasn’t taking the bait.  Loved the idiot who kept saying “be respectful” when Lemon was as rude as possible – cutting the guy off – being a blowhard.  

    So Lemon wasn’t able to make lemonade and was acting like a moron.  Pretty much painted himself as an extreme partisan hack.  lol

  • Anonymous

    Don’t confuse him. He’s still convince it was the Tea Party, Sarah Palin and all right wingers that “really” pulled the trigger.

  • Jayamerican1

    It’s the secret oath we all took when Obama was elected. Someone please blow the dog whistle.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t have that clip but I specifically remember Don Lemon was as tough on ol’ Alvin Greene as he was on  Rand Paul..

    My point is Lemon treats retards on both sides equally.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Reid should quit as a leader if he can’t bring
    in the leftist progressives cult that are continuing to be anti-American. They
    must want to see the President Fail and interest rates to grow and grow. 401K is
    falling like rocks due to the fact they will not budge or compromise.
    Demarodents have no shame!

  • Anonymous

    You may enjoy this one ….
    Lawrence O’Donnell Attempts to Get Marsha Blackburn to Explain Her Previous Debt Ceiling Votes
    http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/lawrence-odonnell-attempts-get-marsha-blac

  • Jayamerican1

    Have you missed out talking points. We only view sex as being between a man and a woman.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Demarodents want to quit paying the seniors and the military because they aren’t wanting to compromise and it’s all a big joke to the leftist progressives cult!

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the refresher.  That helps.

  • Anonymous

    So everything does relate to sex then.  Thanks.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: That was beyond a doubt the worst nastiest post
    I ever read on Mediaite. Real classy. Lurch is one of theirs 4 sure!

  • Anonymous

    Funny how you righties are always projecting the left as playing the race card when you don’t seem to be able to put a thought together without bringing up race.

  • Marymary57

    Why are gays such jerks?

  • Struckgld

    If you are homosexual you can say anything and get away with everything on national tv.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Bite me. jacka**

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Bite me. jacka**

  • Anonymous

    As soon as Mom gets home, if she’ll let you borrow the car, right?

  • Anonymous

    As soon as Mom gets home, if she’ll let you borrow the car, right?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    The teabaggers bagged the budget just for starters. You haven’t seen anything yet…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SI5NXALBPMGH5A7BLRV6GWW3BM Jim

    This was difficult to watch, Don Lemon being such an irritating schmuck and all.

  • Anonymous

    When you’re interviewing a United States Senator, you ask your questions and let the man answer them. Paul isn’t auditioning for Lemon, and it’s a kindness that he gave him the time of day, let alone an interview.

  • Anonymous

    And O’Reilly’s. The whined about that one for like 3 weeks.

  • Anonymous

    progressive_kitty wrote:You may enjoy this one ….
    Lawrence O’Donnell Attempts to Get Marsha Blackburn to Explain Her Previous Debt Ceiling Votes
    http://videocafe.crooksandliars…

    OK, whether you hate Lawrence O’Donnell, or just his guts, that segment is incredible the way the Congresswoman is just filibustering non-stop with talking points that all add up to almost nothing.

    And in the few instance when she’s pressed, she won’t answer very simple and direct questions. She practically pleads the Fifth. Now I know “everybody does it” blah blah etc., and this clip right here is a perfect sample of the worst of it.

    Many of them almost never speak clearly and factually… it’s all empty filler that just goes on and on and says nothing of any substance.

  • Anonymous

    I like Obama’s previous debt ceiling vote… don’t you? ;)

  • Anonymous

    Filibustering only works in the Senate.

  • Anonymous

    Gee, another lamestream socialist media twit squashed by the superior intellect of a Tea Party American.
    But, fear not, America, these lamestreamers are so stupid they are incapable of learning from their mistakes and will get squashed over and ever again, exactly like Wile E. Coyote being bested by The Road Runner. It’s fun to watch – it’s the new reality TV – and it’s ONLY available on the lamest of the lamestream socialist media !!!!

  • realheadline

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/all-an-act-dean-gives-how-to-be-an-evasive-crazy-politician-lesson-in-europe/

    This is how progressives are trained to respond to legitimate media questions. The method is explained here by number one nut job, Howard Dean.

  • Anonymous

    It kinda makes you miss Rick Sanchez.

  • Anonymous

    felix_w sez:First of all, Lemon didn’t “interview” Rand Paul — he attack Rand Paul.
    His questions were hostile and confrontational, and filled with
    Democrat talking points.  Then he started shouting him down.

    It was confrontational but can you possibly cite a few of the “Democrat talking points” you saw Senator Paul “attacked” with felix?

    The entire interview is right up there in the article. Shouldn’t be too hard.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Or “Lemon-aid for Obama”

  • Anonymous

    The Blaze? Isn’t that Glenn Beck’s internet web site? Your comfortable using him as a source of “reliable” information.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VTR7OAHC55DNHUAFUT6K2IJK2E Lemon Limey

    That sure explains Lemon’s low ratings.  He should move over to MSNBC – he would get another 10 viewers.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VTR7OAHC55DNHUAFUT6K2IJK2E Lemon Limey

    Don, you forgot to ask him how many gay black friends he had.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Perhaps you missed it, but just this past week we got Jesse Jackson Sr and Jr, Al Sharpton, Whoopie Goldberg, the NAACP, Shiela Jackson Lee, etc., all bringing up Obama’a race when disagreeing with those who disagree with The Chosen One.

  • Anonymous

    What do you care? Your a FIXED NOISE consumer of news anyway. By the way can you tell how many foreign bureaus FIXED NOISE have? What about journalism awarded to any FIXED NOISE had bestowed upon them. CNN is clearly the best “hard news or breaking news” cable channel in the business.

  • Anonymous

    The late, great Jerry Orbach’s Lennie Brisco was legendary. I miss Jerry and his character.

  • Anonymous

    Why can’t Rand answer a simple question?

  • Anonymous

    Why can’t Rand answer a simple question?

  • Anonymous

    Just like Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  • Anonymous

    Unemployment has gone up since the baggers took control in the house.

  • Anonymous

    Because he showed it earlier in the show?

  • Anonymous

    But then you don’t complain when O’Reilly is constantly interrupting and trolling his interviewees.

  • Anonymous

    Awww poor baby Rand couldn’t answer the questions…

    Why do conservatives always have a victim complex?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Lemon Party=Tea Party

  • Anonymous

    just4thefax claims:Fact: Demarodents want to quit paying the seniors and the military
    because they aren’t wanting to compromise and it’s all a big joke to the
    leftist progressives cult!

    Fact: After the GOTP shuts down the US government, President Obama should pay the all the seniors and military FIRST and pay the Congress dead-LAST if there’s anything left over (which there won’t be… ha ha)
    Fact: America will literally stand up and cheer if President Obama HALTS conrgresional pay in a shutdown so we can take care of our soldiers and seniors.
    Fact: Those Teabag respresentatives don’t deserve to get paid $174k by the taxpayers if they can’t even manage to keep our government running smoothly without blowing everything up!
    Fact: Refusing to pass a clean bill without all that radical teabagge was reckless and stupid.
    Fact: Teabaggers have probably cost the US economy hundreds of billions because of their instability.
    Fact: These are all facts.
    Fact: The previous fact was a fact (that’s a double fact).

  • Anonymous

    Here’s an idea. Let’s just keep borrowing and spending like a teenage girl with her daddy’s credit card. We will never be able to pay back what we already owe to China and eventually they will stop loaning it to us anyway. Let’s see how high that ceiling can go before it comes crashing down. I hope you have lots of dollar bills stashed away because it is probably going to cost $10,000 for a loaf of bread when we cease to exist as a nation when the creditors come calling. You better learn to speak Chinese now.

  • Anonymous

    2012freedom sez:Here’s an idea. Let’s just keep borrowing and spending like a teenage girl with her daddy’s credit card. …

    Reagan already tried that and it went badly so HW Bush tried it again and it wasn’t good so GW Bush tried it all over again and it just made even more debt and deficits and that’s why some nitwits want another Republican in the Whitehouse because they don’t know the defitition of “insanity.”

  • Sean

    That is rich coming from a progressive. Your whole party owes its existence to race baiting.

  • Anonymous

    Wake the f*ck up. Continuing to keep blaming the other side does nothing. Both sides have screwed us. We are $14 trillion in debt and looking at adding another $7-$10 trillion in 10 years. How long do you think this is sustainable? At what point will China decide enough is enough, and when they do what then? We borrow .40 of ever dollar we spend. Taxing the rich only goes so far. Eventually you can’t tax them anymore.

  • Anonymous

    Do you have a clip of her doing that? I’ll watch it.

  • Sean

    Don Lemon is a homosexual activist who would not have a job if he wasn’t a homosexual activist libtard. CNN is a national disgrace and is trying to push a family distruction agenda. Rand should have laughed at Lemon and walked away when Lemon gave his “No taking points” rule. Everything Lemon said was a talking point.

  • Anonymous

     Want to hear one of the funniest interviews ever. Listen to Neil Cavuto interview Jan Schafowsky on the debt crisis and listen to how she flip flops all over the place trying to place the blame on the Republicans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZE3TEiIfcM

  • Anonymous

    Taxing the rich only goes so far. Eventually you can’t tax them anymore.

    Eventually? We can’t tax them anymore right now because the radicals and extremists have already made that absolutely unacceptable.and are willing to take the country down in flames to prove it.

    Wake up and open your eyes!

  • Michelle

    I tried to tell her to use carbon when she changes her little box, but she won’t listen.

  • Anonymous
  • Michelle

    It’s called selective hearing and the libs are masters of it.

  • Michelle

    Too bad he can’t get Ozero to do the same.  I’d love to hear his spin on it. 

  • Anonymous

    Okay, you keep your totally partisan head up your totally partisan ass and pretend it is all the other sides fault. I understand that Liberals aren’t ones for deep thinking anyway.

  • Anonymous

    Okay, you keep your totally partisan head up your totally partisan ass and pretend it is all the other sides fault. I understand that Liberals aren’t ones for deep thinking anyway.

    Ya, nothing partisan to see over there… Move along now. Sheesh

  • J Vandergrift

    Don, I wish more “interviewers” would require direct answers to their questions. That is the only way we listeners can come away with any understanding of a persons point of view. Other wise we can only know what they want us to know and that is seldome the whole story.

  • Anonymous

    I watched Lemon’s interview with Sen. Paul.   Lemon constantly interrupted Paul as he was in the middle of answering the interview questions.   Very unprofessional.    I don’t think Lemon was even listening to the answers.

  • Anonymous

    The only retard here is Lemon.   He can’t seem to follow more than a “No” or “Yes” answer.   Anything else is a “talking point” to him and far too complicated for him to understand.

  • Socratease

    Hahaha don’t insult my intelligence by comparing Paul to that dumbass who couldn’t put a complete sentence together, let alone a campaign. Gee, an anchor who’s black and gay, he’d never be a Democrat hack. /sarc

  • Anonymous

    Lemon:  Why won’t you compromise?

    Paul:  Well, like I said when I was on the floor of the Senate, I willing to vote ….

    Lemon:  Answer my question!  No talking points!

    Paul:  I am willing to compromise and vote for the Reid bill if a balanced budget amendment is added. Furthermore I think…

    Lemon:  You’re not answering my question.  It’s rude of you, you’re
    being rude to the viewers, when you don’t answer.  Why won’t you
    compromise?!!

    *facepalm*http://www.flickr.com/photos/39453023@N00/3003232946/

  • Anonymous

    You didn’t watch the clip.  Paul directly answers all of Lemon’s questions.

  • gordonbloyershow

    CNN needs to stop the affirmative action hiring.

  • Paul G

    Especially a BLACK homosexual!!!….OMG…If he now said he was a now a muslim…He could shoot his ‘guest’ on live TV and not a word from the LSM!!!!   …AND if he joined the Black Panthers?!?!?….OMFG….Just imagine the damage he could do and Holder would…….HAHAHAHAHA!!!
    NOT HAHAHAHAHA!!!

  • TXarc

    All the teabaggers have is talking points as that’s all a simple mind can grasp.

  • Winstonmart

    Completely unnessecary for him to have to defend the interview. And I like Paul.

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this lemon guy is not a journalist.

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this lemon guy is not a journalist.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KPKFYC5CCVUCNGVK4A4OSAT3ZM Amen Baby

    There were NO talking points being offered to Lemon’s question
    Lemon didn’t get the answer he wanted is all

  • Marty

    Glad to see CNN becoming more than a talking points platform.

  • Gman

    What?

  • Gman

    What?

  • Anonymous

    I watched the CNN sponsored Don Lemon spectacle the other day and it was clear from the start that Rand Paul was not going get a fair shake or be treated with courtesy let alone respect.

    Don was itching for a confrontation with Senator Paul but was not interested in an interview.  He was deliberately interupting Paul’s answers between condescending remarks and loaded questions.

    Only a gentleman and kind hearted person like Senator Rand Paul could have resisted the urge to throttle Don for his abuse and cheap drive by tactics.

    Don you may get your own show but it won’t be what you expect unless you’re expecting a clown show.

  • Anonymous

    I watched the CNN sponsored Don Lemon spectacle the other day and it was clear from the start that Rand Paul was not going get a fair shake or be treated with courtesy let alone respect.

    Don was itching for a confrontation with Senator Paul but was not interested in an interview.  He was deliberately interupting Paul’s answers between condescending remarks and loaded questions.

    Only a gentleman and kind hearted person like Senator Rand Paul could have resisted the urge to throttle Don for his abuse and cheap drive by tactics.

    Don you may get your own show but it won’t be what you expect unless you’re expecting a clown show.

  • http://twitter.com/AlamedaGardener Claire Splan

    There is no point in watching news segments where all the politicos do is spout the same old talking points. Anything anyone can do to get them to knock it off and answer real questions is worth watching. I’d love to see more “No Talking Points” news. Good for Lemon!

  • Hank

    Except he had a Democrat on in the same hour… and let him talk on and on and on with talking points. Let’s face it–Lemon is a lemon. Dull, not particularly bright, and typical liberal bias.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: hahahahahaha………… No tax raise but built in trigger to cut entitlements if leftist prgressives cult refuse to act. hahahahahaha…………. Demarodents got the crapper on this deal………… hahahahaha…….

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Republicans lead Reid by the ears and got no new taxes.  hahahahaha…… Rich win again..Hahahahaahaa…………

  • Anonymous

    Fact: He did and it was over your head!  hahahahahaha……………………….

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Oh Reagan the most popular president of the last 100 years? That Reagan? He had a way to get demarodents in line and he was brilliant!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NUT75XKRMJZ2QZJUUWOYH7Y7TA Cincy

    Ogabe’s job czar, Jeffy Immelt, just sent 2800 more jobs to China

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NUT75XKRMJZ2QZJUUWOYH7Y7TA Cincy

    Boston Scientific just sent 2000 high paying, high-tech jobs to China because of Ogabe’s healthscare scam

  • Anonymous

    It’s not playing devil’s advocate if you only ask quesitons and then don’t allow answers by your interuption.

    Go ahead and ask hard questions, the public is begging for that.  But if you don’t allow answers, you’re just talking to hear yourself talk.

  • http://twitter.com/kalifani6 kalifani6

    After he was forced to by a real reporter that didn’t back down or let him slide.
    [Take notes David Gregory].

  • http://twitter.com/kalifani6 kalifani6

    See above reply.

  • http://twitter.com/kalifani6 kalifani6

     …not.

  • http://twitter.com/kalifani6 kalifani6

     

    Unions like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and The Heritage Foundation.
    Not to mention the union of Right-wing fundamentalists The John Birch
    Society.

    Labor unions only crime was effectively protecting you and our democracy from them.

    Pay attention to history instead of  Regressive talking-points. It has you living in Bizarro World.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ON4HHDYPEEDF3USYEBHZ7CJBCU potvin

    This condescending hack would be a better fit at MSNBC.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ON4HHDYPEEDF3USYEBHZ7CJBCU potvin

    This condescending hack would be a better fit at MSNBC.

  • Anonymous

    Paul.  Another very Tiny Man with a crooked soul.  Intellectually impoverished & constipated.  A bright-light for the “new” GOP.  Ummm.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

    Asking pointed questions and getting answers is a generalist job. If the person uses talking points, as Bachman, Walsh do we will not know what they think. Isn’t it important to know what they think? Fox news and others allows these politicians to rant on talking points and never ask pointed questions, and this is when the 4Th estate fails. The American public is not getting facts but talking points written by corporations, and Wall Street. That is not a democracy at work. Your Congressmen are not working for you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_D7PBZ3RBZ42BSOI52XBTJEJFY4 bill q

    ok, so lets see don demand some direct answers from barry soetoro or barack or whateverthehellhisname is about his fraudulent use of a social security number, how much “blow” barry has used since becoming president, or how many gay lovers he has had in the last 10 years or so…………the silence will be deafening. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

    Remember the right’s talking points, Obama appointing Czars….? Well what are these commissions? So it’s OK that a small group of Politicians do the work of our elected representatives? Aren’t they Cars too. Wake up!

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Is it Fixed Noise or Faux News? You guys need to stick with one pun and go with it.

    Wow congratulations to CNN. I didn’t know they gave out awards for “best news programming in airport terminals” but they clearly deserve it.

    And as we all know from Obama and Gore’s peace prize, awards mean everything. 

    Awards are NOT AT ALL a sycophantic way for their peers (all liberal of course) to pat each other on the back. and if your not liberal, sorry no award. and if you aren’t award winning, well then you aren’t as good are you? See a 10 year old could see the shell game that they play better than you.

    I guess I will just have to take solace in the fact that real people vote their approval by watching.

    How’s that working out for CNN? Well at least they have shiny statuettes. I’ll rather win the hearts and minds of the American people, which is what conservatism has done.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

     ”empty platitudes and annoying attitude” actually have alot of cache. Very clever!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_D7PBZ3RBZ42BSOI52XBTJEJFY4 bill q

    what makes you think its ok with us conservatives?

  • Teanationisacancer

    You go lemon!!! Rands face was getting redder than a hot burnin cross on a kentucky summer night!!

  • Anonymous

    So you’re saying that “compromise” is a “Democrat talking points” ?  Really?

  • Foraker1sg

    Hey dumb DICK Shut UP!

  • Foraker1sg

    You are one pathetic liberal, things are screwed and you just dont get it clown. YOU, YES YOU, ARE THE ONE WHO IS NOT VERY BRIGHT. OPEN YOUR eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Foraker1sh

    When you and all your friends join us and do all that you can to make things right. We can’t do it alone we need YOUR help. Thank You.
    BECOME A PATRIOT TODAY

  • Foraker1sg

    And they will continue to go to China as long as someone doesnt do something about it. Mr Trump is correct the Chinese are cutting our throats and no one is addressing it.
    THINK ABOUT IT AMERICA HOW MANY THNIGS DO YOU BUY THAT ARE MADE IN CHINA AND HOW MANY ARE MADE IN THE USA? When will you get it?

  • Foraker1sg

    This is Obamas joke on us! Immelt is Obummers jobs zar and he is also the CEO to GE. He has approved every GE job in Wisconsin to be moved to China! How do ya like that? Obummer loves this country doesnt he!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a joke!  

  • Foraker1sg

    You can tell Obummer is lying when his lips are moving……………..

  • Foraker1sg

    Because conservatives are victim to have to work with ignorant liberals like Idiot Pelosi and her boyfriend Reid. Dont forget Chucky he is a classic dope as well. You TARD you didnt know that?
    I bet you even LIKE the current tax system, damn liberals!

  • Foraker1sg

    Race is the democrat trump card!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Is that all you’ve got? Name-calling?

  • LJB57

    Lemon-head is a shit for brains liberal. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Preston/15204358 Robert Preston

    Uh, all you did was call names, so I guess he’s on your level. Rand answered all of the questions and was rudely interrupted by someone trying to DIRECT the interview rather than get actual answers.

  • Anonymous

    No Rand kept trying to make a campaign speech (like Obama always does) instead of answering the question.

  • http://www.facebook.com/prostamusic Prosta Chudo

    again.
    it’d like asking a disgusting question that has underlying meaning…
    it’s like asking “which do you prefer having sex with… little boy’s,
    old women or dogs?” and as soon as the person says “well I don’t-” Don gets
    started with his whole no no no! no talking!! just pick one! If he asks
    “do your parents know you’re gay?” and then only allows the answers yes
    or no when the person is not gay… then there is no fairness and the
    question’s real answer is “I’m not gay DON!” but no… these fools that like Don can’t
    put that simple logic together even when it’s in a video.

  • http://www.facebook.com/prostamusic Prosta Chudo

    again.
    it’d like asking a disgusting question that has underlying meaning…
    it’s like asking “which do you prefer having sex with… little boy’s,
    old women or dogs?” and as soon as the person says “well I don’t-” Don gets
    started with his whole no no no! no talking!! just pick one! If he asks
    “do your parents know you’re gay?” and then only allows the answers yes
    or no when the person is not gay… then there is no fairness and the
    question’s real answer is “I’m not gay DON!” but no… these fools that like Don can’t
    put that simple logic together even when it’s in a video.

  • Dante

    Nor is it civil to be a disrespectful and antagonistic douche bag.

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