On Saturday, August 15, 2009, CNN's Don Lemon angrily confronted America's Town Hall Director Alan Hardage for Hardage's use the term real Americans. Below is the video of Lemon's heated exchange with Hardage:
Lemon's ire over Hardage's use of real Americans echoes the sentiments of millions in this nation who take umbrage with supremacist and exclusionary characterizations that undermine the Americanism of others.
While I applaud Mr. Lemon for confronting Hardage, I wonder where his and corporate media's outrage has been for the last eight years while the patriotism of those who opposed George Bush was constantly assailed. Instead of challenging accusations against Bush dissenters, corporate media embraced them. In fact they indulged them.
What's even more contemptuous and journalistically irresponsible is the manner in which corporate media enthusiastically grants wall to wall coverage of right wing anti-tax tea-parties and right wing anti-healthcare town halls, but barely covered the many well attended protests that preceded and followed the Iraq war. The disparity between the maximum attention corporate media gives the small numbers of right wing dissenters compared to the minimum attention it gave the millions on the left who dissented against the war is the height of journalistic dereliction.
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