CNN’s Don Lemon felt disappointed and incomplete in Kevin Hart’s reluctance to come out as a new champion for gays. What’s with the assumption that this is something any sizable portion of the public needed?
There may be a lot of people who don’t like Hart’s comedy, but everyone hates being told how to think and feel under threat of ostracization or being called a bigot.
That’s what liberals do, and it’s what Lemon did using his show.
“Kevin, call me,” Lemon said to the camera in an early December edition of his program. “Let’s talk. Let’s make you an ally to the LGBTQ community. … I believe that your heart could be in the right place.”
Then on Friday, Lemon, who is gay, lamented that he hasn’t seen any “meaningful outreach to the LGBT community” from Hart. He called on Hart to “do the right thing, to change minds.”
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In an interview Monday on SiriusXM radio, Hart described the moral force-feeding he’s been made to endure from people like Lemon after gay slurs and old jokes about gay people he once told resurfaced in the news media, leading him to resign from hosting the Oscars.
“I don’t like the forcing,” Hart said. “Don Lemon goes on CNN [and says] ‘You can fix this, become an ally.’ That’s not my life dream.”
Lemon replayed the audio on his show that night, concluding that gays will have to “march on without [Hart].”
Mind you, this after Hart went on “Ellen” last week to say, “Openly, openly, I say I’m wrong for my past words. I say it. I said it. I understand that. I know that.”
This is a comedian charged with making people laugh and Lemon, plus the Academy, which had apparently demanded a public apology from Hart, believe he should be turned into a spectacle that addresses homophobia.
But as Hart’s experience shows, it’s never enough. He apologized but Lemon wanted him to become a spokesman for gays. Why is that the only acceptable way to atone for old jokes that now are viewed to be in poor taste? Would that help anyone get better sleep at night?
There is no winning when confronted with a liberal’s passion for force-feeding the public their views. That’s what happened to Kevin Hart, and he was brave to shove it back.
