CNN’s Don Lemon Says Use of ‘Monkey’ Is a ‘Dog Whistle’

CNN’s Don Lemon Says Use of ‘Monkey’ Is a ‘Dog Whistle’ (NewsBusters)

During Wednesday’s edition of CNN Tonight, host Don Lemon played a clip of Representative Ron DeSantis, Republican nominee in the Florida gubernatorial election, saying “the last thing we need to do is monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state” during an interview with Fox News. Lemon asked: “Does anybody else hear that dog whistle? It’s kind of a bullhorn.”