[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
Don Lemon acted less as an anchor and more like a liberal activist during two segments on the 6 January 2016 edition of CNN Tonight — tag-teaming with Igor Volsky of Think Progress to repeatedly interrupt and shout down conservative radio host Ben Ferguson over his support for gun rights. This was an escalation from the previous evening, where he merely granted Volsky the heckler's veto. Lemon dismissed Ferguson's concern over President Obama's executive orders: "Does anybody in their right mind out there in America actually believe that the President is going to take away guns in America? It's never, ever, ever going to happen."
During the second segment, Volsky attacked Ferguson and Second Amendment activists for "stoking fear," as Lemon himself put it in the first segment, and advancing conspiracy theories. The Think Progress editor, who repeatedly interrupted the conservative guest on Tuesday's CNN Tonight and earlier in the program on Wednesday, even had the audacity to whine at one point, "Ben, would you be quiet and let me talk for a minute here."