See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
For the second time in a week, CNN Tonight host Don Lemon entered into an on-air debate late Wednesday with a conservative by misrepresenting the newly-signed religious freedom law in Mississippi as akin to “discrimination,” banning interracial marriage, and what “they did with black folks” before the Civil Rights Era.
Decisively outgunned by former Department of Justice official Roger Severino of the Heritage Foundation, Lemon ignored the fact that the term “sexual orientation” is never mentioned in the law and instead accused Severino of not listening to his liberal viewpoints and being “disingenuous.”