Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Don Lemon goes there, blames ‘horrible Reagan’

© Tasnadi/ASSOCIATED PRESS In the first days of his president, Ronald Reagan meets with black Leaders at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1981. From left are: Hosea Williams; Dr. Ralph Abernathy; Reagan; and Mayor Charles Evers. Now CNN’s Don Lemon said Reagan is to blame for racism.

This week’s Liberal Media Scream features ranting CNN host Don Lemon tying everything he doesn’t like to one of the most popular presidents in U.S. history, Ronald Reagan.

“Reagan was horrible,” said Lemon who suggested the Republicans two-term president paved the way for the Capitol riots.

Shouting over fellow CNN host Chris Cuomo, Lemon said that Republicans are also bad for respecting Reagan. “They hold him up to a gold standard. When you look at what he actually accomplished, he didn’t!” he said.

From the Thursday, February 11 CNN Tonight, during the handoff from Chris Cuomo’s 9 p.m. show to Lemon’s 10 p.m. show:

CHRIS CUOMO: Reagan and Bush Republicans were nothing like these guys.

DON LEMON: I don’t know about that.

CUOMO: Just the issue of immigration. Look at how Reagan and George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush talked about immigration.

LEMON: Reagan was the first presidential election that I voted in. And listen…I’m just saying people hold him up to be – Reagan was not perfect. Reagan was horrible when it came to-

CUOMO: Perfect? He gave us one of the biggest deficits we’ve ever seen and absolutely fed the divide.

LEMON: I’m saying they hold him up to a gold standard. When you look at what he actually accomplished, he didn’t! He was horrible when it came to racial issues, he was horrible when it came to the AIDS crisis. He was horrible when it came to uniting the country. He didn’t unite the country; he was a divider! And so they hold him up as a gold standard. Listen I just think it’s degrees but I think the Republican party has been moving in this direction forever.

Again, they are the party of everything that they’re trying to pretend that they’re not. The people in the Capitol, that’s not us. Yes, it is you! The people that were in Charlottesville, that’s not us. Yes, it is you! They’re not marching for Democrats. This whole weird thing that they keep saying, what about the riots and demonstration that happened this summer? That’s apples and oranges. First of all, the demonstrations, the protests, were for something that’s real. It was for inequality, it was for police brutality. It was for all those things. It was people who were rising up for their rights. What happened at the Capitol was built on a lie.

Rating: 4 out of 5 SCREAMS.

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