Watch Don Lemon get put in his place after the ridiculous charge that Trump was encouraging people to mass insurrection

The comical imbroglio over Donald Trump's Second Amendment remark gets more comical by the hour. Trump makes one of his usual unintelligent, off-the-cuff, meaningless remarks, this time joking about what Second Amendment advocates might do if Hillary puts judges on the Court who want to do away with gun rights through judicial fiat (and barely even doing that).

Just watch CNN's Don Lemon go completely apoplectic, accusing Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent who backed Ted Cruz in the primary with being a "Trump surrogate," all the time acting himself as a Hillary surrogate.

Three minutes in, Bongino: "For twelve years of my life I was a secret service agent ... while you were learning how to be a TV personality."

OUCH.

Trump's comments didn't even approach irresponsibility, and as jokes go, it was pretty poor. But folks, bad taste and inarticulateness (not to mention being ungrammatical) do not constitute a threat to the Republic.

But, as you might expect, Hillary and her surrogates in the liberal media fell all over themselves, acting like Trump had just suggested mass violence and insurrection.

C'mon.

In fact, one of the funny things about all this is that, even if Trump were encouraging people to take up arms for the right to take up arms, he would only be doing the very thing the founders intended for people to do under the Second Amendment. Even Allan Dershowitz, commenting on CNN (I think) made the point that the Second Amendment is not about the right to hunt. It was put there to ensure that if the government became tyrannical, people would have the means to preserve their freedoms.

This is a liberal talking here and he's absolutely right. That's why the Second Amendment is there. And that's why Dershowitz was so outraged by what he was convinced in his conspiratorial liberal mind Trump was doing: the very thing the Second Amendment authorizes people to do (but which Dershowitz doesn't happen to like, but which doesn't matter because all a liberal has to do is ignore plain constitutional language and change the definitions of words and generally make things up).

But still the more important lesson here is that the media has now as become as trivial and unserious as the candidate they are trying to convince everyone is trivial and unserious--except when he's calling on Americans to start firing their weapons at public officials in which case he is a threat to our system of government which they don't really care about anyway which we know because they support Supreme Court justices who want to rewrite it.

Don Lemon and his liberal media colleagues are a far more serious threat the Republic than Donald Trump.

Live blogging Piers Morgan's coverage of Whitney Houston's Funeral

Okay, I am sitting here on Saturday trying to get some work done and I have the Whitney Houston funeral playing on the teevee. And I am watching CNN, which is, unnaccountably, broadcasting a church service.

12:46: As the Black church funeral proceeds, devoted entirely to glorifying God, Piers, unable to utter the word "God," as whoever his female co-host seems easily capable of doing, Piers, clearly trying to make sense of his "church service," is "uplifted." We will see, as this proceeds, whether Piers is able to formulate the word.

1:45: No word from Piers for a while. White people have taken over the podium, however, talking about non-religious things, although Kevin Costner says he grew up in a church. That's something. And now some white music promoter (don't know his name), is admitting that, yes, God meant something to Whitney, but what she really liked was music.

2:02: Black people have taken the podium back, and the subject is now back to God. Meanwhile the white people running the television stations have only scheduled 2 hours for the funeral, apparently unaware of how long black funerals are. It could be days.

2:19: Stevie Wonder, a secular singer, is singing. About God. He's black.

2:43: Still no word from Piers. All this "church service" stuff may have been too much for him. He was probably unaware of the strong Christian influence in the Black community. Maybe he can have some well-known Black person on his show to explore this whole "church" thing.

3:09: The white media controllers have apparently fallen asleep at their panels, otherwise all this talk of God would never have been allowed to go on this long on national television (the funeral now in its fourth hour), even for a Black pop celebrity. Why couldn't Whitney have been almost completely white and secular, like Princess Diana. Sheez.

3:15: Another sermon has started. It's a Black sermon, about God. Piers is slumped over in his chair.

3:41: Network officials are getting nervous thinking about the fact that they have been paying Piers time and half for overtime for the past 2 hours. The cost to CNN could be significant.

3:48: Piers is back. He's awake. He calls the funeral "uplifting, moving." The "mix was good." He saves his most lavish praise for one of the White speakers. He thinks Kevin Costner's address was "moving, funny." The Black stuff, the stuff about God, he's doesn't seem to be able to make much sense of. He's sure what he just saw is "very common" in Baptist services, which, as we all know, are all about 4 hours long. No mention of "God." He asks a guest if this is like many "musical events." The music was "off the charts."

Okay, well, we're signing off now. We were waiting for Piers' evaluation, and now we have it. As to our own evaluation of Piers' performance today, it was, of course, largely non-existent, since he only said a few things to introduce it, said almost nothing during the service, and said only a few things afterward. It was almost all funeral and very little Piers.

In short, the mix was good.

Have a nice rest of the weekend.
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