Host Don Lemon: “I want to get your take on what we heard from Senator Tim Scott last night about this country not being racist.”
CNN’s United Shades of America host W. Kamau Bell: “No, don’t do it to me, Don! No!”
Lemon: “Why not? Listen. Let me tell you what he said….He said the original sin isn’t the end of the story, it is a story of redemption. What are your thoughts on what he said? I…
“At 54 years it’s my humble belief that what will give us all the sadness and loss that we’ve all lived through meaning is our common humanity, what connects us is greater than what keeps us apart. And the more we include each other, and see each other and hear each other, the faster we will heal our broken hearts and minds. We have a dying mother just like the mother in our story. She is Mother…
“At 54 years it’s my humble belief that what will give us all the sadness and loss that we’ve all lived through meaning is our common humanity, what connects us is greater than what keeps us apart. And the more we include each other, and see each other and hear each other, the faster we will heal our broken hearts and minds. We have a dying mother just like the mother in our story. She is Mother…
“And the contrast on display tonight was so stark. I mean, those lights that are, that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial along the reflecting pool….It’s like almost extensions of Joe Biden’s arms embracing America. It was a moment where the new President came to town and sort of convened the country in this moment of remembrance, outstretching his arms. And contrast that with…
“It was a beautiful speech. Both of them, they strengthen each other….They’re both steadier together. They’re both stronger together. That was such a beautiful thing to see. I think if you’re going to give a headline today it would be ‘Hope Reborn.’ That’s what I felt. Hope reborn. You just haven’t heard people talking that way about the country and cutting through and seeming authentic...They…
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“He [rapper Curtis Jackson] doesn’t wanna go from being 50 Cent to ‘20 Cent’ and I had to remind him that he was a black person, so he can’t vote for Donald Trump.”
— Former Netflix host/comedian Chelsea Handler discussing ex-boyfriend rapper Curtis Jackson AKA 50 Cent decision to vote for Trump due to Biden’s tax plan as aired on NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy…
“History will also ask what was in the hearts of the men and women who continued to support this creature Trump, after his defeat. After his repudiation. After the national wildfire that was COVID-19 accelerated into this hellscape of conflagration in the days after the 2020 election. Who let Trump continue to run the pandemic fight into the ground? Who let Trump stay manifestly insane as he is…
“We want the prisons so filled with Trumps and Trump flunkies and Trump apologists and Trump enablers that we have to convert Trump buildings into new God-damned Trump prisons!”— Thanksgiving message from Keith Olbermann on his YouTube show Olbermann Vs. Trump, November 24, 2020.
White House correspondent Rachel Scott: “Everything about it [cabinet announcements] the tone, the message, the rollout. All of it amounted to a very sharp rebuke of President Trump....Joe Biden has promised to have a diverse cabinet that reflects the diversity of America.”
Correspondent Martha Raddatz: “And so far he’s doing that.”
— ABC’s This Week, November 29, 2020.