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The American Mind

CNN is Still Trash | The Roundtable Ep. 2 Segment 4: Our Editors Unleashed

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

CNN’s Don Lemon lets the mask slip to reveal his utter contempt for Trump voters. Our editors have some choice words in response. Plus: China’s dysfunction makes globalization a fool’s gambit.

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0:00.0

Smile though your heart is a can smile, even though it's breaking.

0:17.0

When there are clouds in the sky.

0:26.0

So here in our final segment,

0:27.9

thanks to our listeners for their patience.

0:29.8

We're once again, so much to talk about

0:32.3

we're over an hour.

0:33.6

But we wanted to finish with something

0:34.8

a little lighter and a little more cultural

0:37.5

and sort of roaming the international landscape.

0:40.0

And so we thought first we'd bring up this this interesting little exchange that got a lot of play

0:46.0

with Don Lemon and Rick Wilson and Wajalie talking about Ukraine and Trump voters with some bit of derision so our engineering

0:56.4

crew is going to play that for us and then we'll discuss.

0:59.2

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh wait. That's not the right clip. I think James has inserted some

1:17.0

some show-er highlights. I don't know. Okay, no, actually now the real CNN clip please.

1:22.0

Part that Donald Trump couldn't find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it.

1:29.0

He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world and so that's partly

1:35.8

him playing to their base and playing to their audience you know the the credulous

1:40.7

boomer rub demo that backs Donald Trump that wants to think that that

1:46.3

Donald Trump's a smart one and there oh y'all elitist are dumb.

1:50.0

So yeah that as as you could expect that kind of sneering contempt from from Rick Wilson and that was Don Lemon sort of snorting and joy at the joke and

2:01.3

and then right after that Wajale jumped in with another fake southern accent.

2:06.0

I thought it was interesting I when I originally emailed to the group I said it you know it makes you sort of rightiously indignant at this really continued

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