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Don Lemon has 'mixed emotions' about Tucker Carlson's fishing store confrontation

Tucker Carlson found an unlikely ally of sorts in CNN’s Don Lemon Monday night. On Don Lemon Tonight, Lemon came to the defense of Carlson after the Fox News host was confronted at an outdoors store in Montana over the weekend. The man who confronted Carlson, Dan Bailey, posted a video to his Instagram in which he tells Carlson, among other things, that he’s “the worst human being known to man.” While Lemon defended Carlson’s right to be in public without such a confrontation, he admitted to having mixed emotions about it.

“Let me tell you this, I don’t like it. I don’t like it when people do that because I would not want it to happen to me,” Lemon said. “But I have mixed emotions because Tucker has done this to people before. Tucker said some really nasty and silly things about me, and the next day there were paparazzi in front of my house, hiding, taking pictures. So I don't want it to happen to anyone, I don't want it to happen to Tucker, but when you do things like that, I don't know.”

Video transcript

DON LEMON: Let me tell you this. I don't like it. I don't like it when people are-- when people do that, because I would not want it to happen to me. But I have mixed emotions, because Tucker has done this to people before.

KYLIE MAR: On Don Lemon Tonight Monday, Lemon came to the defense of Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who was confronted by a man at a store in Montana over the weekend.

DAN BAILEY: Dude, you are the worst human being known to mankind. I want you to know that.

TUCKER CARLSON: Don't make me-- I'm not gonna debate.

DAN BAILEY: What you have done to this state, to the United States, to everything else in this world. I don't care that your daughter's here. What you've done to people's families-- what you have done to everybody else in this--

KYLIE MAR: Lemon's mixed emotions about the confrontation are for good reason, as Carlson regularly looks for reasons to attack him.

DON LEMON: Tucker said some really nasty and silly things about me, and the next day there are paparazzi in front of my house, hiding-- taking pictures. So I don't want it to happen to anyone, and I want it to happen to Tucker, but when you do things like that, I don't know.

KYLIE MAR: Lemon has repeatedly admonished statements made by Carlson and reiterated how he feels about much of what Carlson says, but believes he has a right to be left alone in public.

DON LEMON: I think that what Tucker says much of the time is completely reprehensible and divorced from reality. But he has a right to be in a space and not be accosted and not be ambushed by anyone.

KYLIE MAR: But CNN contributor Ana Navarro sees things differently. She believes that Carlson's divisive rhetoric concerning race and the misinformation he constantly pushes about the COVID vaccines open him up to such a confrontation.

- In the same way that Tucker Carlson spews out hatred every night and racism every night and anti-COVID rhetoric every night, which puts lives at risk, this guy, in this fish store-- whatever the hell it was-- has the right to his.