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Maybe CNN’s Don Lemon could use the insanity defense.
For a jaw-dropping 10 minutes Wednesday night, the network anchor actually led a discussion about whether the livestreamed torture of a mentally disabled white man by a hateful group of black teenagers met the liberal definition of “evil.”
And Lemon argued that it didn’t, instead blaming the on-camera, racially motivated torture episode on a factor that should make any thinking person’s mind reel.
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It was a stomach-turning vision of exactly how bereft modern American liberals really are of a moral compass.
“I don’t think it’s evil,” Lemon said in response to a panelist’s comment. “I don’t think it’s evil. I think these are young people and I think they have bad home training.
“Bad home training?” Sounds more like a casual description one would have for pets that chewed the furniture.
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“I have no idea who is raising these young people, because no one I know on earth who is 17-years-old or 70-years-old would ever think of treating another person like that. You wonder, at 18-years-old, where is your parent, where is your guardian?”
Actually, what any person with the moral sensibilities of a toddler would wonder is, just how crazy are these people? And not the Chicago attackers, the CNN talking heads.
Of course, this is the same Don Lemon who kept downing alcoholic beverages on-air during CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage until he became so intoxicated the network had to cut his mic.
Check out the anchor’s head-spinning comment about the Chicago brutality below. Lemon’s stunning statement takes place about the 3:25 mark. But the whole thing is worth watching.
I can’t define evil, bt I knw it whn I see it @donlemon calls it “bad home training.”
Gv me a break
#BLMkidnapping https://t.co/oM0lgYbtSj— =^..^= (@La_G4ta) January 5, 2017
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Let’s review this for a second.
According to Lemon’s own network, the four depraved men and women involved in the attack on Tuesday abducted their victim from a suburban Chicago neighborhood and took him to an apartment on the city’s West Side, where he was bound to a chair, gagged, and beaten – besides having part of his scalp cut off with a knife.
All of it recorded on video and made available online via Facebook Live, with the laughter of the attackers intermixed with shouts of “F*** Donald Trump” and “F*** white people.”
Two men, 18-year-old Jordan Hill, and Tesfaye Cooper, and two women, Brittany Covington, 18, and Tanishia Covington, 24, have been charged with committing a hate crime, felony aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, according to CNN.
But that’s for the legalities of the case, and the justice system will decide it as it will.
The point here is that Lemon’s segment showcased five apparently sane, educated human beings arguing over whether the calculated cruelty involved in the attack actually constituted “evil.”
“Poor home training” might lead some kids to be shoplifters, some kids to vandalize or even steal cars. But abduction and torture of another human being – a mentally retarded human being – just for the sake of amusement, and to make a Facebook video?
If that’s not evil, the word has no meaning.
Sadly, but not surprisingly, it wasn’t just Lemon and his morally bankrupt guests who were so benighted. The Washington Post headlined a column with a similar theme, “Pro-Trump narratives converge in one awful attack streamed on Facebook,” as though the worst thing about the attack (for a liberal) was that it could help the president-elect’s poll numbers in the run-up to Inauguration Day.
Conservatives have been warning for decades that an America governed by liberalism would lose its soul. One could argue that a country that countenances the murder of millions of unborn children with their dismembered body parts sold for profit had already proven that.
But to experience — and then to broadcast to the world — the pure evil of moral confusion that liberalism has fostered, one good look at the Lemon panel discussion will do it.
What happened in Chicago was evil. What happened on Lemon’s CNN show was worse.
Editor’s Note: This post has been corrected to properly identify the gender of one of the suspects.
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