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Don lemon, case study of liberal hypocrisy and selective discrimination

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  1. LosPollosHermanos

    LosPollosHermanos Houston only fan
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    This guy has had riduculous stupid **** over the years but liberals have loved him (please don’t pour in the “I never liked him”!). He has been paraded by your favorite networks for years even after mysoginistic and threatening behavior to female staff. Because he’s a liberal and Ticks off enough boxes for the peanut gallery, he gets a pass. CNN didn't even discipline him after he threatened his co anchor in early 2000s

    black conservatives however are vilified and called “uncle toms” and “diversity hires”. Its a shame that neoliberals are essentailly trumpists at this point

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/don-lemon-is-reportedly-a-misogynist-off-camera-too.html

    Don Lemon Is Reportedly a Misogynist Off-Camera, Too
    By Matt Stieb, Intelligencer staff writer
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    Photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

    Since CNN anchor Don Lemon said in February that Nikki Haley didn’t stand a chance at winning the Republican presidential nomination because the 51-year-old former South Carolina governor “isn’t in her prime,” Lemon’s history of dumb and misogynistic comments on-air have been making the rounds. There’s Lemon’s addendum to the Haley comment, clarifying that a women is “considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.” There’s his comment from December saying that the U.S. men’s national soccer team should be paid more than the women’s team because the men are “more interesting to watch.” And there’s his bizarre question in 2014 to an alleged rape victim of Bill Cosby on why she didn’t stop him by “the using of the teeth.”

    According to an investigation by Variety published Wednesday, Lemon has also had several hostile encounters with female colleagues while at the network.

    In 2008, two years after arriving at CNN from a local TV station in Chicago, Lemon reportedly grew frustrated with his co-host Kyra Phillips, who got the field assignment from Iraq that he wanted. After she returned to the U.S., she received a text from an unknown number: “Now you’ve crossed the line, and you’re going to pay for it.” When the texts were traced back to Lemon, he was taken off the show with Phillips and demoted to a weekend gig.

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    Similar conduct continued over the years, according to Variety’s sources: Lemon called one of his producers fat to her face. He mocked his co-host Nancy Grace on-air by mimicking her. “That was the beginning of when you knew that Don was kind of volatile and didn’t say good things about women,” someone in the room told Variety.

    Lemon — who has cemented his status as one of CNN’s biggest stars since the firing of Chris Cuomo in 2021 — was also frustrated when he didn’t get the job hosting the network’s Black in America docuseries launched in 2008. In an editorial call with around 30 staffers listening, he was said to have suggested that the reporter who earned the role, Soledad O’Brien, isn’t actually Black. O’Brien, who wasn’t in the meeting, told Variety: “Don has long had a habit of saying idiotic and inaccurate things, so it sounds pretty on-brand for him.” A spokesperson for Don Lemon denied stated that report was “riddled with patently false anecdotes.”

    A spokesperson for CNN denied the allegations, claiming that the report contains “no actual proof and instead relies on anonymous sources and unsubstantiated claim from 10 to 15 years ago.” Returning to host his morning program after a few days off following the Nikki Haley controversy, Lemon said he is “committed to doing better,” though he did not address his comments on her otherwise.

    This post has been updated.
     
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  2. JayGoogle

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    Honestly never met another liberal that liked this dude.

    Seems like no one cared when he was fired or let go

    Lol...she is though?

    Journalists really are lazy these days.
     
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    thats what lemon said, not journalist
     
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    i dont know any liberals who love him or anyone who even likes him for that matter. which favorite networks are you talking about? what has been been on besides cnn...and is cnn liberals favorite network?

    you seem really angry here...over don lemon! haha. youre going to let that dork get you wound up enough to do whatever it is youre doing now?

    neoliberals are trumpists because of don lemon? do neoliberals pay any attention to don lemon? does anyone (besides you)?
     
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    Mock CNN because of their abysmal ratings.





    (the empty space where brain matter should be)





    Accuse everyone of watching Lemon.









    joking joking
     
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    Is this thread for the lemon party?
     
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    Well that makes it even funnier then since both Lemon and Soledad are both half-black with one black parent. Not sure why he thinks he's more black than she is.
     
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    I'm not sure I know who the hell he is, I know the name but really, who is he?...is this a joke timmyman post?
     
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    They haven’t fired Lemon
    Then they will have nobody else

    Andersen cooper doesn’t want to work that much

    breh
    @Os Trigonum
     
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    I`ve always liked him, but something seemed to change when he went from primetime to the am show. I don't get to watch him as much now, but I have kept up on some the issues he`s been dealing with and to be honest it's not a good look, you never know who is embellishing or fibbing, but the optics are not great and, in this day and age it seems harder to get over the hump once you screw up. No one seems to want to forget you F`d up
     
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    And lemon is LGB so he thinks he’s the top of the oppressed chain
    That’s why he’s been telling straight white chicks about age and Indian dudes about race
    @ROXRAN
    @AroundTheWorld

    I think he’s actually mad he got demoted to the am show
     
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    Weird thread after the highest rated conservative news channel got caught making massive lies. Not to mention the other two conservatives outlets that already got spanked for their lies
     
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    I do remember that story where he told some one that she was past her prime or something?

    Definitely a smug dude that needed to be humbled.
     
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    he was put through 'sensitivity training'
    lol

     
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    DonLemon getting lit by facts lol…
    Sadly he looked out of control

    the host of the. Video, ( who is black btw ) is correct, once you get over the victim mindset, you have so much less holding you back
     
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    when all that convenient attacks on non-repugnant political/business leaders have failed to stick, leaders such as

    • POTUS Biden,
    • VPOTUS Harris,
    • former House Speaker Pelosi,
    • the squad,
    • distinguished U of Houston alum Dominic Chu
      • Who, btw, is a registered Republican.
        • but because he is a Chinese American, making him an easy target to tie to the Chinese Gov't
    • dedicated/accomplished law maker Judy Chu,
    • George Soros,
    • etc,
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    the repugnant right resorts to cherry-picking an easier target, making him out to be representative of all the non-repugnants.

    last i check, Lemon is just a so-so anchor, who program is not even in the top 4 most-watched one on CNN.
     
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    I only watch David Muir, Lestor Holt, and Norah O'Donnell. Because I can't justify being subscribed to Cable.
     
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    Then I guess I'll say I don't know anything about him. I don't have cable and I avoid CNN as a general rule anyway. I also hate opinion shows. So all these factors triangulate on me never watching this guy. I suppose if there is a relevant liberal opinion-maker to target it would be Trevor Noah, who can slip opinions through by being funny. But even with him, I don't take his show's opinions very seriously. But, Don Lemon, sure I'll take your word for it, he's probably garbage.
     
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