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Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett’s five month twitter silence ended sharply this afternoon with a tirade aimed at CNN’s Don Lemon‘s impassioned reaction to the Michael Dunn verdict yesterday.
As news broke of a verdict on four of five counts in the Jordan Davis murder case, Lemon said he was “pissed” at the “ridiculous” fact that a jury couldn’t come to a consensus on whether Dunn was guilty of “murdering a teenager because his music was too damn loud.”
The jury ultimately found Dunn guilty on four counts—including second degree murder—but a mistrial was declared on the first degree murder charge.
Apparently, Jarrett—who covered murder trials at Court TV for years—didn’t like Lemon’s take.
Pathetic: Don Lemon –everything that happens in the world happens to him personally. The Dunne verdict. It happened to him personally.
— Gregg Jarrett (@GreggJarrett) February 16, 2014
Lemon was "pissed". Forget about some measure of objectivity as an anchor. That's not his thing.
— Gregg Jarrett (@GreggJarrett) February 16, 2014
The sum total of what Lemon knows about the law and this case… could be written on the head of a pin.
— Gregg Jarrett (@GreggJarrett) February 16, 2014
And there would be plenty of space left over.
— Gregg Jarrett (@GreggJarrett) February 16, 2014
Did you watch all of the testimony? Did you examine all of the evidence? Were you in the jury room for deliberations? No you were not.
— Gregg Jarrett (@GreggJarrett) February 16, 2014
Yet, you have the audacity to claim that you know better than these jurors. What a pompous, pretentious jerk.
— Gregg Jarrett (@GreggJarrett) February 16, 2014
Lemon has responded, tweeting at Mediaite.com: “Wow, someone is suffering from a bad case of the Michael Dunns. Guess my tv’s too loud…Mind your business old man.”