DL Hughley on Kamala Harris, The Election & Diddy | The Don Lemon Show
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Hi, everyone. Welcome to The Don Lemon Show. We have a very special guest with us, returning guest, by the way, actor, author, commentator, legendary stand-up comedian, good guy all around. He doesn't really like to say what's on his mind. He's a little timid. So we're going to try to pull him out of his shell, and that's D.L. Hughley. How you doing, my brother?
That describes me to a T. I'm good, man. What about you?
I'm doing well. I'm so glad to have you here. We need more voices like you out there speaking out, out here on these streets doing it. What's on your mind?
You know, I really just am disappointed.
Can I say something? I'm sorry. I hate to cut you off. Let me give you your flowers, because I haven't spoken to you. I told you over text. What you did on that stage at the Republican convention... by saying, you know what, I was wrong about what I said about Vice President Kamala Harris. I'd spread misinformation, and I am sorry. To do that in front of an international audience takes a real man to do that, and I don't see anyone on the Republican side doing, standing up and being a man like that, so I commend you for doing that. Good for you.
Well, me and you apologize to each other.
Yeah.
So I think that when you, and man, I just turned 60, so when you get older, it's like, Really what I feel like is mostly I feel repentant in the fact that I was so striding against a really amazing woman. And it doesn't matter how much you apologize or what form you use, the damage was done. I mean, if you... i mean every time i say something then people will say what i said in 2019 and i think so there's no way to apologize somebody after you've already it's hard to pull your knife out of somebody while you what you and apologize but ultimately i feel very repented i think that it was uh and i i'm mostly don't understand how it is that i made those assertions without even looking
doing the research.
People do it all the time. Because research is such a misnomer because most people research to prove, proper research is to disprove what you believe. The thing we call research is to prove what you believe. Confirmation bias.
That's what it is.
Obviously, I grew up in California. California at that time was Texas. It was three-strikes law. This is no excuse, by the way, but the three-strikes law, Proposition 209, 211, it was a very repressive place. I watched it chew up a lot of people. Any agent of that system, I would greet with suspicion. It doesn't justify not looking at this individual, but At the point when I grew up and, you know, it was before this transformation, there had never been, he might have coined the phrase progressive prosecutor. No one ever heard that before. So it would have been a misnomer.
Yeah. So what do you think? Are you watching these polls? Of course.
Of course. But, you know, polls are really funny because the quickest way to make a black dude lie to you is ask him a question with a clipboard in your hand. You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Why did D.L. Hughley apologize to Kamala Harris at the DNC?
We don't care about the, if you ask black people, if you finally get on the phone to ask them what they want, they gonna be suspicious. They gonna lie to you anyway. That number one candidate, we interviewed all the black people, the number one candidate was Deez Nuts. They wouldn't tell the truth. Who are you? How'd you get my number? Right, right, right. Why are you calling my house? Right, right. So I think, but I think like in everything else, it's not disingenuous, it's not inconsistent for black people and people of color to be undercounted in anything. So I don't know that any poll would properly epitomize us. And I just think I paid attention to the polls in that you can see that there is a level of, if you were up, down 18 points in Iowa, and now you're down four.
If the race in Texas is closer, if the race in Florida is closer, if North Carolina and these states have come closer, Something has happened. If she was, you know, it's so funny because when Biden had the debate, two points, Trump was ahead two points on the national average.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:16–3:16
2
Why did D.L. Hughley apologize to Kamala Harris at the DNC?
3:16–5:39
3
How does D.L. explain his change of heart and concern about misinformation?
5:39–11:43
4
What do the polls really say about the election and Black voter representation?
11:43–27:31
5
Why does D.L. argue Republicans favor obedient Black figures like Herschel Walker and Mark Robinson?
27:31–39:51
6
Why wasn't Mark Robinson’s extremist rhetoric disqualifying while porn allegations were?
39:51–43:08