Don Lemon Spars With Tavis Smiley Over Obama's Handling of Race

[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

Don Lemon rushed to President Obama's defense on the 8 December 2014 edition on CNN Tonight, after guest Tavis Smiley attacked the Democrat from the left over supposedly not doing enough to help blacks. Smiley criticized Obama using his recent BET interview to "lecture black folk," and then doing the "jokey-joke thing" with Stephen Colbert. He later asserted that the President needed to "provide the kind of moral leadership...the kind of focus on a social justice agenda that would make sure, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King said 50 years ago, that we aren't still dealing with what he called the triple threat of racism, poverty, and militarism."