Snort

This is kind of amusing:

Future attorneys are taught in law school to never ask a witness a question they don't already know the answer to. On Saturday, CNN's Don Lemon learned this lesson the hard way.

Well after President Obama finished his speech in Ghana, Lemon was speaking live to correspondent Nkepile Mabuse who was reporting on location.

When Lemon asked whether the warm reception Obama received upon his arrival Friday was unprecedented, Mabuse caught him quite off guard with her response.

Here's the video:

It does look like the news that Bush was also just as warmly received when he traveled to Africa was a little startling to Lemon. Sheppard goes to write, "You get the feeling some producer didn't instruct Mabuse how to answer that question...", but I wonder if it isn't just the all too common phenomenon of blinders when it comes to George Bush. Anything positive about GW can only be grudgingly accepted, if it registers at all. I think that's why myths like "Iraq was only about WMDs" continue to persist. My experience has been, in dealing with people with those blinders, that when confronted with contrary information they will react with a vacant stare, or airy dismissal, or sometimes a vicious denial that seems to so border on psychotic that it's scary.

My bet is that Lemon knew, on some level, how Bush was received in Africa last year, it just didn't register. Whatever the reason, it's a little sad and amusing to see. Kudos to Mabuse for playing it straight though.