Don Lemon on Dog Whistles: We’ve Got To Stop Pretending How They Didn’t Know What It Meant

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LEMON: “I didn't hear anything. Come on, Chris! Are you kidding me? We got to stop prtending like, oh, no, they didn't -- that's exactly what he meant. What's worse? That he didn't know what he was saying or that he did? I think they're equally as damaging. The fact that you can say it and you know it's a dog whistle, if it is, or it could just be a loud cry, or you're just ignorant of the facts. So you got he didn't know what a nationalist was, right, by saying he was a nationalist. Didn't know the ramifications of that, the history of that. Cindy hyde-smith saying I'd be on the front — “