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CNN Tonight host Don Lemon began Monday’s edition of the show by bemoaning the death of civility in America by President Trump’s hand. “When our own disagreements turn into personal attacks, are we playing to the hands of those who want to divide us? It is on purpose. Remember, people are doing this on purpose,” he indignantly declared.
“So, is the end of civility in America? If there was any left. Are we fanning the flames of division? (…) Is turning incivility against the Trump administration really the answer,” he rhetorically asked. Lemon then justified harassment of Trump administration officials by describing it as the “unfortunate result” of the administration’s immigration policies and history of incivility.
It was all a part of an over three-minutes-long diatribe about how it was hypocritical of the administration to complain about people being uncivil to them. Basically a ‘they had it coming’ argument. “So, if this is the end of civility in America is anybody really surprised? But the real question for all of us is, can we turn it back around,” he opined.
But, just scrolling through the Media Research Center’s archive on Don Lemon and his show reveals that both have been a hotbed of incivility.
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. melanie.hunter
