{"id":7798,"date":"2015-01-09T14:42:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T14:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7798"},"modified":"2015-01-09T14:42:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T14:42:48","slug":"cnn-anchor-crosses-another-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7798","title":{"rendered":"CNN anchor crosses another line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What in the world is up with Don Lemon?<\/p>\n

The Columbia Journalism Review rated\u00a0Lemon as one of this past year’s worst journalists. Now the CNN anchor has cemented that crummy rating with a seriously bone-headed question posed to an American Muslim.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2015\/01\/08\/do-you-support-isis-watch-cnns-don-lemon-ask-a\/202056<\/p>\n

The link is attached. Take a look.<\/p>\n

I watched the interview in which Lemon asked Arsalan Iftikhar, a human rights attorney, if he supported ISIS, aka the Islamic State or ISIL, the monstrous Islamic cult that has beheaded captives.<\/p>\n

What’s remarkable about the question was Iftikhar’s response, which was that he seemed unsure whether Lemon actually posed that question. He then answered it calmly and rationally.<\/p>\n

Lemon has made a bit of an infamous name for himself lately by suggesting that Malaysian Air 370 might have been swallowed by a black hole and then suggesting to a sexual abuse victim that there are graphic methods to avoid being forced to perform oral sex on a man.<\/p>\n

The discussion about radical Islam needs to remain focused on what I believe is the core issue: Do the terrorists’ actions represent Islam or are they the acts of religious perverts?<\/p>\n

To\u00a0ask an an intelligent, reasonable, scholarly man who happens to be Muslim whether supports the actions of ISIL becomes an immediate distraction. It focuses attention on a dimwitted question.<\/p>\n

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What in the world is up with Don Lemon? The Columbia Journalism Review rated\u00a0Lemon as one of this past year’s worst journalists. Now the CNN anchor has cemented that crummy rating with a seriously bone-headed question posed to an American Muslim. http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2015\/01\/08\/do-you-support-isis-watch-cnns-don-lemon-ask-a\/202056 The link is attached. Take a look. I watched the interview in which … Continue reading CNN anchor crosses another line<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[362,469,1043,1420,2347,2348,2354,2362,4562,4751],"class_list":["post-7798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","tag-american-muslim","tag-arsalan-iftikhar","tag-cnn","tag-don-lemon","tag-isil","tag-isis","tag-islamic-extremists","tag-islamic-state","tag-terrorism","tag-the-columbia-journalism-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}