The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Fool Around and Find Out

“At my direction, early [Friday] morning federal agents arrested Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy, in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.” —Attorney General Pam Bondi

Shot/Chaser

“Do you have a reaction to the arrest of Don Lemon overnight?” —reporter

“I don’t know what that means. What are you looking for me to do? Jump up and down? No, I don’t have a reaction to it.” —Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche

A Trip Down Memory Lane

“Nobody is above the law.” —Don Lemon in 2019

Yellow Journalism

“Don Lemon arrested after conservative backlash to Minnesota church protest.” —Axios headline

Circling the Wagons

“Lemon walked in, yes, with a microphone and a camera to document what happened at the church. And, frankly, I think viewers are better off for him having told us what happened in the church that day.” —CNN’s Brian Stelter

Belly Laugh of the Day

“On the plus side, Don Lemon will now be judged by a Jury of 12 people, which is more than he had watching him at CNN.” —Jimmy Failla

Race Bait

“We had handcuffs with bars in the middle. As someone who majored in African American Studies, I can tell you that that is the closest I ever felt to slavery in my life. Being shackled as if I was a slave.” —church rioter Nekima Levy Armstrong on being arrested for committing a crime

Ahistorical Nonsense

“We are seeing something that is absolutely unprecedented. It actually goes back 250 years in Boston when the Minutemen and the Minutewomen [sic] rose up.” —Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) on the violent agitators in Minnesota

Demagoguery

“We cannot trust the Department of Justice. They’re an illegitimate organization right now.” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)

Projection

“Republicans don’t want a free and fair election because they know when that happens — and we’ll ensure that it happens — they’re gonna lose. They’re gonna lose the House. They’re gonna get crushed.” —Hakeem Jeffries

For the Record

“[Alex] Pretti died, probably thinking he was on the right side of history. But the side he was on created an immigration nightmare in the country, allowing an open border, then protecting illegal immigrants over American citizens and resident aliens who are our neighbors.” —Erick Erickson

“What’s missing in the video of Pretti spitting on agent and smashing SUV’s brake lights? The police arresting him for unlawful acts like assault, which would have altered future events. His family will have quite a lawsuit against the city, the mayor and the state.” —Greg Gutfeld

Re: The Left

“The current position of the Democratic Party is that as long as you are holding a cell phone or a camera you can literally commit any crime you want and face no consequences.” —Scott Jennings

“Minnesota is not an outlier; it is a case study of what happens when institutions that once fostered moral restraint abandon that role. … When God and His word are removed as moral restraints, lawlessness fills the vacuum — and that is the fertile ground in which Marxism takes root and gains power.” —Tony Perkins

Caveat Emptor

“Not only will [the Epstein release] never satisfy anyone, but the release of all investigatory and grand-jury material has done and will do damage to the normal practice of law enforcement and prosecutorial discretion. There are good reasons why this kind of material does not usually get made public, since it includes rumors, speculation, and allegations that do not have evidence to support those. Investigators and prosecutors separate the wheat from the chaff in those instances, and leave the latter sealed to protect the innocent. This has long departed from the pursuit of justice, however, and has been instead a circus.” —Ed Morrisey

And Last…

“Hillary Clinton just penned a column for the Atlantic on ‘MAGA’s War on Empathy’ because, when one thinks of empathy, one thinks of her. From dismissing women raising sexual assaults as ‘bimbo eruptions’ or her chilling Benghazi testimony, Clinton is empathy personified.” —law professor Jonathan Turley