This mentality allowed Lemon to provide film director Qasim Basir a platform from which to promote “Mooz-lum” – a movie intended to “clear up some of [the] ignorance” Americans seemingly have about Islam.

(Don’t you love it when CNN, or any other liberal outlet, begins a story on the relationship between Americans and Muslims by focusing on how ignorant the Americans are?)

In addition mocking Americans’ supposed lack of knowledge pertaining to Islam, the Lemon/Basir segment highlighted the need for tolerance in religion. Not surprisingly, they focused on a lack of tolerance in the U.S. without ever mentioning the modesty police in Muslim countries like Iran: modesty police publicly flog women for wearing skirts that are too short or clothes that are too revealing. Nor did they mention the fact that it’s still illegal to build a Christian church in Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia (where it’s also against the law for women to drive cars).  And the list goes on…

(Don’t you love it when CNN, or any other liberal outlet, allows a guest to criticize America’s supposed intolerance, all the while that guest is not even asked about the examples of intolerance coming from the other side?)

How refreshing it would have been had Lemon looked Basir right in the eye and said: “Since you seem fixated on tolerance, can you explain why Saudi Arabia refuses to tolerate U.S. military personnel carrying their Bibles into that country?” or “Why is it that homosexuals in Iran are not tolerated?” and so on and so forth. But instead of doing any real reporting, Lemon just smiled and allowed Basir to leave all these matters for another day, choosing instead to mock the backwoods, hick-town, hayseed mentality of Americans who actually see a link between radical Islam and terrorism.

CNN is bad enough by itself. But when you couple CNN with that haughty attitude so prevalent in liberal Hollywood circles today, it’s simply unbearable.

For the record: I’d much rather be considered ignorant, un-edgumacated, and love this country, than be viewed as cultured and worldly-wise yet be willing to turn a blind eye toward those who wish nothing less than our absolute destruction.

Watch Lemon’s response around thirty seconds in. It looks like someone gently pokes him with a stun gun.

Can we go back to that moment again? But this time, producers, let’s slow-mo it.

Joy! In that instant, you learn a couple of valuable things:

-Lemon is adorable when he’s miffed

-It’s always hilarious when a reporter’s assumptions aren’t met. Blinded by ObamaLove, Lemon overlooks the fact that Bush is pretty much a hero in Africa – ending brutal wars, giving tons of humanitarian aid, and most important saving millions of lives fighting AIDS and malaria (a disease brought to you not just by mosquitoes, but by your average environmentalist and his misguided hatred toward DDT).

-In sum, when it comes to Africa, Obama has some pretty big shoes to fill. How disturbing it must be for Lemon, that they belong to Bush.

Tonight, the delightful John Gibson, the hilarious Frangela, and the delectable Anna Gilligan. And finally, our softball game. It’s worth the wait.