{"id":383208,"date":"2018-11-01T14:33:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T13:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cnns-lemon-doubles-down-on-white-man-terror-threat-comment\/"},"modified":"2018-11-01T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T13:33:39","slug":"cnns-lemon-doubles-down-on-white-man-terror-threat-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cnns-lemon-doubles-down-on-white-man-terror-threat-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Lemon Doubles Down On \u2018White Man Terror Threat\u2019 Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Host says anyone angry at him is \u2018missing the entire point\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>November 1, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN host Don Lemon said Wednesday night that anyone who is angry at his comments that the biggest threat to the security of the nation is white conservative men is \u2018missing the point\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lemon drew massive outrage after he posited that there should be a travel ban on white right wing American men, and said \u201cwe have to start doing something about them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NMwgMaLgObQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Responding to the backlash, Lemon doubled down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said that the biggest terror threat in this country comes from radicals on the far right, primarily white men. That angered some people.\u201d the CNN host noted.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/JGZX6Fnc-zffGtjRq.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut let\u2019s put emotion aside and look at the cold hard facts. The evidence is overwhelming.\u201d Lemon continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA recent report from the Government Accountability Office shows that. Even though more people died in attacks connected to Islamic extremists, the vast majority of deadly attacks in this country from 2001 to 2016 were carried out by far-right violent extremists.\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo let me break that down for you even further,\u201d he continued. \u201cTheir analysis shows that for every 8 deadly attacks by right-wing extremists, there were 1 by left-wing extremists. Those are the facts.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon then flashed a graphic detailing deaths stemming from attacks by \u201cfar right-wing extremists,\u201d compared to jihadists and \u201cblack separatists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-01-at-8.15.28-AM.png\" width=\"640\" title=\"\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo people who were angered about what I said are missing the entire point.\u201d Lemon argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t need to worry about people who are thousands of miles away,\u201d the host declared, adding \u201cThe biggest threats are homegrown. The facts prove that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, \u201cblack separatists\u201d and \u201cleft wing extremists\u201d are not exclusively one and the same. Neither are white male Americans and \u201cfar right-wing extremists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lemon&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/video-cnns-lemon-doubles-down-on-white-man-terror-threat-comment.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host says anyone angry at him is \u2018missing the entire point\u2019 Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comNovember 1, 2018 CNN host Don Lemon said Wednesday night that anyone who is angry at his comments that the biggest threat to the security of the nation is white conservative men is \u2018missing the point\u2019. Lemon drew massive outrage after he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}