CNN's Lemon Insists Gun Rant 'Wasn't Advocacy,' Compares Gay Rights to Civil Rights
After the Newtown shooting, CNN anchor Don Lemon cried
that "We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the
streets," but he still insisted it "wasn't advocacy" and that he's
"about accuracy and the truth," in an interview with the LGBT publication Dallas Voice.
"It wasn't advocacy. It was being a human. I've always said we are human beings before we are reporters," was Lemon's excuse.
However, Lemon has long claimed objectivity even while admitting that he's out to "change minds" as an openly-gay journalist. His "defense" is that he's out for the "truth," not to be "fair and balanced" to opponents of same-sex marriage and gun rights advocates:
"And that's not my slogan to be fair and balanced. My thing is about accuracy and the truth. Just because someone has another point of view or opinion, I don't believe in false fairness. I just believe in the truth."
Lemon still wants a "conversation" on guns though: "We have issues when it comes
to gun violence in this country and we need to talk about it."
Then there's Lemon's absurd excuse for comparing Mitt Romney's defense of traditional marriage to Gov. George Wallace's cry for "segregation forever" in 1963:
"When someone says marriage is between one man and one woman, I imagine what that will sound like in 40 or 50 years. I’m offering you the opportunity to think about it. I'm not saying that will sound like George Wallace. I'm just giving you the opportunity to think about it."
Lemon compared the fight for same-sex marriage to the civil rights movement: "the fight and crusade for equal rights and civil rights are exactly the same."
