CNN’S Lemon of a Town Hall Meeting
Townhall.com | July 23, 2021 | Tim Graham

CNN became apoplectic whenever former President Donald Trump called them “fake news,” but on July 21, they offered President Joe Biden a nationally televised boost that can accurately be described as a “fake town hall.”

A real town hall would sell tickets in a city like Cincinnati and let the locals mix it up with the president and ask him whatever was on their minds.

That’s not what CNN did. It was an “invitation only” audience, which means nobody boos or laughs at inappropriate times. CNN was talking over the video, but when Biden waved goodbye at the limited crowd, they gave him a standing ovation.

The questioners were typically tilted: eight Democrats and three Republicans, plus a mother who lost a son to opioids. Questions are clearly pre-scripted. The network knows exactly what’s going to be asked on what topic. CNN.com had a preview article telling viewers the night’s topics in advance. Airing it live doesn’t mean it’s lively.

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Then there was “moderator” Don Lemon, who could be expected to ask eight or 18 questions like a Democrat. As usual, he was more activist than journalist. After the college kid demanded we shred the filibuster, Lemon went on a rant about how his grandmother had a fifth-grade education and couldn’t read but

“would tell me stories about people asking her to count the number of jelly beans in the jar, or the soap in — so why is protecting the filibuster — is that more important than protecting voting rights, especially for people who fought and died for that?”

Wait. What?

Oh: Democrat logic.

Damned jellybeans: two-faced pony soldiers.

“She’d tell me stories about people asking her to predict the winning lottery numbers each week!

Those racists were never right!

“So why is protecting our border so important — more than people who fought and died for that?”

Somehow, Lemon was trying to claim that Republicans were going to insist Black voters in 2022 will have to count jelly beans as a “literacy test.” This is CNN, which claims to hate “gaslighting” and “misinformation.”

But Biden also made false claims that Lemon didn’t check. Early on, he insisted more people have died from COVID-19 “than in all our major wars combined.” The Department of Veterans Affairs said there are more than 650,000 “battle deaths” before you even count 300,000 other deaths in theater. As Biden was speaking, PolitiFact tweeted, “That doesn’t seem right. Our last tally of all war deaths was 1.3M.”

Even Politifact is too far right for Biden.

Guam will capsize as a result.