Here was now “independent journalist” Don Lemon last night on Lemon LIVE at 5. …

“Now, let me just say this. I said something in reference to– I was responding to the MAGA folks who were being racist in relation in regards to the gentleman that Donald Trump nominated to be the head of AI. They were on the Internet. Look it up yourself, being very racist and very vitriolic about Donald Trump appointing this person. And Vivek Ramaswamy got involved and then he insulted, according to them, the MAGA people. Okay. So, as always, everybody gets all butthurt! I’m not referring to all Trump supporters. I’m talking to the MAGA-brained people who will say and do anything to make excuses for any behavior that Donald Trump does, any bad behavior that the MAGA movement does. So yes, I stand by my words! And if you don’t like what I said, then too F-ing bad, I don’t care! And let me just let me point the hypocrisy out to you, because you guys always say “We are not electing. We are not voting for what? A pastor in chief. I. Sometimes I have an issue with some of the things that he says. It’s true. I don’t like how he says it, but it’s true.”. So you have to have the same standards for other people that you have for your guy, some of you, the cult leader. You guys have a higher– this is this is how messed up you are. You have a higher expectation of me. An independent journalist, a former cable news host, than you do for the person who sits in the Oval Office. Because he. His mouth is worse than mine. He calls everybody dumb. He calls black women dumb. He’s called me dumb. He calls people stupid. He’s called Kamala Harris stupid. He’s called her names. And he’s used profanity against athletes. He called them sons of bitches. He calls people out of their names all the time. And you love it. But when someone says the truth about you, you get all butthurt! And you get all in your feelings! So what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. What’s good for the Donald is good for the Don.”

Well said, Cicero! One bit of clarification: when Donald Trump, or anyone, calls you dumb, it isn’t because you are black, it’s because you are dumb, and that attack of high school drop-out-caliber logorrhea that you apparently think is worth broadcasting in public proves it.

As for the fact that a news organization would pay millions to a news reporter whose level of thought and analysis results in emotional belches like that—Is this a great country or what?