Laugh Out Loud Funny: Don Lemon Claims He’s an ‘Independent’

Nicholas Fondacaro | November 2, 2018
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It’s always funny when a member of the liberal media pretends that they’re not in lock step with the Democratic Party. During the later portion of CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time, incendiary CNN host Don Lemon proclaimed that he didn’t belong to any political party and was an “Independent” just like Democratic Party campaign star Oprah Winfrey.

I love the spirit of Oprah's speech today, who is an independent. She's sick of political parties like me,” Lemon claimed to host Chris Cuomo. “I’ve been an independent for a long time. Don't I own my own mind and my own vote, and don't tell me who to vote for.” He also boasted that he had just cast an early ballot because he was going to be in Washington D.C. on Election Day.

Cuomo agreed with a previous statement by Lemon that praised how Oprah would energize the get out the vote efforts for the Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate. “She did have something that I haven't seen from Democrats right now,” he added.  “She was coming with equal passion. But not with equal animus.”

Lemon loved that apparent aspect of Winfrey’s speech at a Georgia town hall:

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