Don Lemon defends Tucker Carlson after harassment video

CNN anchor Don Lemon ripped the person who accosted Tucker Carlson in a Montana fly fishing store, saying he had no proper to invade the Fox Information host’s “private area.”

The liberal Lemon supplied his shocking take throughout his CNN program “Don Lemon Tonight” Monday night, when he devoted a whole section to addressing the weekend encounter, which he stated put him able “to perhaps in some way should defend Tucker Carlson.”

“Let me inform you this: I don’t prefer it. I don’t prefer it when individuals do this as a result of I’d not need it to occur to me,” Lemon started after displaying a snippet of the video, occurring to warning, “I’ve blended feelings as a result of Tucker has completed this to individuals earlier than. Tucker stated some actually nasty and foolish issues about me, and the subsequent day there’s paparazzi in entrance of my home, hiding, taking photos.”

Lemon continued: “We’re all on TV, we’ve been approached. We hear good issues, we hear unhealthy issues from individuals. We don’t even know who they’re, it’s a part of the gig. Don’t you suppose this went slightly too far, although?”

However CNN commentator Ana Navarro then defended the person who accosted Carlson, recognized as Dan Bailey, saying she had been via related experiences and that the Fox persona needs to be understanding given his generally heated rhetoric.

“Cope with it,” she advised, noting these people’ First Modification proper to method them.

“However I don’t suppose that ought to occur to you, Ana. I don’t suppose that ought to occur to [CNN star] Chris [Cuomo]. I don’t suppose it ought to occur to me,” Lemon replied, noting related experiences his cable information colleagues have confronted.

“Your First Modification proper doesn’t imply invading my private area, I’m sorry, Ana, I perceive what you’re saying and I get it. I feel that what Tucker says a lot, a lot of the time is totally reprehensible and divorced from actuality, however he has a proper to be in an area and never be accosted and never be ambushed by anybody.”

“Folks yell on a regular basis at me,” he added, referencing a go to to Cincinnati, Ohio, the place he stated that “there have been Trump supporters on the market yelling throughout no matter. They weren’t in my face. So if you wish to stand throughout the road, wonderful.”

The temporary video, taken over the weekend, confirmed a person confronting the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host as he shopped for fishing gear along with his household at Dan Bailey’s Out of doors Co. in Livingston, Mont., which stated afterward that it was not affiliated with the person who confronted Carlson.

Bailey, who posted the footage Friday, accused Carlson in an accompanying publish of “kill[ing]” individuals with vaccine misinformation and supporting “excessive racism.” 

Within the 22-second clip, Carlson will be heard politely responding to Bailey by saying, “I admire that” after which laughing when he realizes that he’s being filmed.