Don Lemon Arrested for Breaking the Law
This is an OUTRAGE or something
Don Lemon was just arrested.
It’s difficult to describe how I feel about this development in words, so I hope this will suffice:
And before you start: The only people whose First Amendment rights have been infringed here are the congregants at the church Don Lemon invaded. He was part of the planning, he trespassed and refused to leave, and he called those churchgoers “white supremacists.” To make matters worse, he’s even profiting from his crimes. And we know everything he did because he was stupid enough to record it the whole time.
Don Lemon’s desperation for relevance is not a pass to break the law. A microphone is not a shield against the consequences of his actions.
If you disagree, why don’t you give us your home address so we can do the same to you?
No? Well, why do you hate journalism?
Apparently Lemon was arrested in Los Angeles while “covering the Grammys.” Isn’t that just called panhandling?
A few other odds and ends on a frozen Friday…
Leftist martyrs keep crapping out, don’t they? First Renee Good, then Destiny Jackson, and now Alex Pretti. These criminals are put up on a pedestal as heroes and victims, which to the left are the same thing. But then the narrative keeps getting shattered by pesky little things like “facts” and “evidence.”
Walter Hudson does a great job of calmly and clearly explaining where Pretti went wrong. And if you refuse to listen to him, or you disagree in any way, you’re a racist because apparently that’s how it works.
The idea that a carry permit somehow entitles someone to walk into an active area of federal law enforcement, get into a physical confrontation with armed agents, and then claim, “I had the right to be there”? That's not how any of this works.
It certainly isn’t. Time to move on to your next fake martyr, Dems.
What better way for Americans to celebrate the 250th birthday of our country than to fart out some robot-concocted videos about it?
That’s what Time magazine and filmmaker Darren Aronofsky are doing:
That was 100% A.I., except for the voices. The voice tech isn’t quite adequate yet, I guess, so they’re treating that like some kind of compromise.
I’m ambivalent about all this stuff. Yes, it’s amazing what these machines can do, and I’m intrigued by the democratization of high-quality video. I’ve messed around with it from time to time, and it’s very amusing.
But I just can’t watch more than 45 seconds of A.I. video without getting creeped out. Maybe one day they’ll solve the Uncanny Valley problem, but it’s just not there yet.
Hunter Biden refuses to talk to his daughter, Navy Joan Roberts, who he fathered out of wedlock and then abandoned. What a great guy, huh? Another liberal hero.
And her grandfather is just as bad. Joe only briefly acknowledged her existence because he was shamed into it, then he went back to ignoring her. He’s never even met her.
What did that little girl never do to anybody?
But she’s better off, really. What in the world could she learn from her father and grandfather that you would ever want a child to know?
Before I cancelled Netflix again (this time for financial reasons), I finally watched the new documentary about Devo:
I’ve loved those guys since I was a kid. Forget Revenge of the Nerds, Devo was a preemptive strike against all the ninnies and the twits.
Their music still sounds as fresh as it did almost 50 years ago, and they’re still influencing new bands today. There’s a whole genre called egg punk that’s basically kids trying to sound like Devo. You could do a lot worse!
And speaking of old guys who still rock:
Throat still hurts. Next week, I hope to get back to a schedule of recording podcasts everybody ignores. See you then!
"Don Lemon’s desperation for relevance" -- he's desperate just for any attention. I've seen short clips of his podcast and his man-in-the-street interviews and he's just as abysmal at those as he was at CNN.
Look. The average intelligence (whatever the heck that was/is) among humans for the past at least 100,000 years was adequate to perpetuate the human race. Most estimates place world population at the time of Christ as 200-300M. Assume the average IQ at that time was 100 (equivalent) and 100-150M people were below average IQ. But they persisted and human population, so they must have been smart enough in enough ways to survive.
If you told me Lemon's IQ is 100, or 105, or 95, I would believe you. He is smart enough to survive and prosper in an environment that caters to him much more than it does to many others.
But he has been told all this time that he's smart. He's not. Much like a parrot he can repeat a great many words and thoughts that he has been taught make him sound smart.
His real problem is two-fold. 1) He is willfully and obdurately ignorant. He doesn't really know much, and he doesn't care to learn. Why should he? So far his life has been great.
2) He is unable, probably, to actually think. Consider the smartest people you are familiar with, personally. I'll bet they share a common trait. They want to think. To ponder. To learn and know new (at least to them) things. They tend to ask a lot of questions of themselves and others. Much like 3-year-olds, they want to know "Why?" "How?" and so on.
Now try to picture Lemon seeking to know something new. Nope. He rides the wave he thinks he knows.
Actual journalists do not participate in planning forced entry into a house of worship, nor harassing those engaged in worship. None of that constitutes journalism…