CNN, Don Lemon and the Cancer of Identity Politics

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CNN, Don Lemon and the Cancer of Identity Politics

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So over there at my old stomping grounds at CNN, my own former Pennsylvania United States Senator Rick Santorum and my former CNN colleague Don Lemon got into a dust-up.

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