Don Lemon fired by CNN

[Indus]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/media/don-lemon-cnn/index.html

Bloody Monday..

Wonder if more anchors are going to be let go today with the Tucker distraction!

 

[Puffnstuff]

Nobody is giving a reason yet so IDK what to think about this one.

 

[eelw]

Well being demoted from nighttime show and forced into morning show, the new management didn’t like him from the get go. And a lot of foot in mouth on air just compounded it.

 

[ivwshane]

There seems to be a lot of hate for lemon, I don’t watch cnn so can someone explain what issues people have with him?

 

[nOOky]

I found him to be rather boring, and kind of a whiner. I don't normally watch or listen when he was on, but when I did he wasn't captivating. I dislike Reverend Al also, mainly because of his voice lol. Still, I didn't think Lemon was bad enough to get fired, must have been the sexual misconduct allegations scare?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Who?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Who?

ha ha!

 

[ch33zw1z]

Meh, nobody on the left cares. Wasn’t this the guy who said some misogynistic words recently?

 

[eelw]

Meh, nobody on the left cares. Wasn’t this the guy who said some misogynistic words recently?

After the Nikki Haley announcement, he says she’s past her prime even thought she’s younger than all the potential candidates.

 

[ch33zw1z]

After the Nikki Haley announcement, he says she’s past her prime even thought she’s younger than all the potential candidates.

Ah, ok, I knew his name sounded familiar. I probably even commented in a thread about it. Was pretty dumb thing to say

 

[IronWing]

With this announcement, I realized that I had never seen Don Lemon.

 

[UNCjigga]

Apparently this was the last straw—GOP long shot presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was goading Lemon with his comment that “the NRA helped secure voting rights for black Americans through protecting the 2nd Amendment” (let’s just ignore what the NRA did when the Black Panthers armed themselves).

Lemon made it personal and was completely unprofessional in his response, then veered into racist rhetoric with his “whatever ethnicity you are” comment. I mean…really, I’m surprised CNN took this long to fire him. Definitely used Tucker as cover. Shame.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1650563196795641871

 

[hal2kilo]

There seems to be a lot of hate for lemon, I don’t watch cnn so can someone explain what issues people have with him?

He's just crass and condescending. The subject of Nickey Haily came up, talking about women in their prime, and he just blurts out that she isn't in her prime. Much more along those lines.

 

[purbeast0]

Yeah he's basically just a giant douchebag. Look at that clip above.

 

[Pens1566]

Apparently this was the last straw—GOP long shot presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was goading Lemon with his comment that “the NRA helped secure voting rights for black Americans through protecting the 2nd Amendment” (let’s just ignore what the NRA did when the Black Panthers armed themselves).

Lemon made it personal and was completely unprofessional in his response, then veered into racist rhetoric with his “whatever ethnicity you are” comment. I mean…really, I’m surprised CNN took this long to fire him. Definitely used Tucker as cover. Shame.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1650563196795641871

I mean, that's kind of tame ... I've seen lots of analysis on this and Lemon is right. There's a whack-job on his show telling him to his face that he's wrong about his own history. It's just that we're (americans) not used to seeing this kind of push back in interviews AT ALL and when we do the fainting couches come out.

If I had to guess, this is being used as an excuse to get rid of him based on more than a few things. First, the change in direction of CNN in general. They've turned right with new leadership. Second, his previous statements (which were much much worse) about Haley.

 

[iRONic]

Chris Licht is taking a sword to that staff at CNN.

 

[eelw]

Chris Licht is taking a sword to that staff at CNN.

But they have too many anchors. Why do you need 3 for the morning show? And they moved to that format for the next 2 blocks of shows.

 

[iRONic]

I don't know. I don't have cable TV.

 

[ivwshane]

Kinda sounds like he was too uppity for a lot of people…

 

[ivwshane]

I mean, that's kind of tame ... I've seen lots of analysis on this and Lemon is right. There's a whack-job on his show telling him to his face that he's wrong about his own history. It's just that we're (americans) not used to seeing this kind of push back in interviews AT ALL and when we do the fainting couches come out.

If I had to guess, this is being used as an excuse to get rid of him based on more than a few things. First, the change in direction of CNN in general. They've turned right with new leadership. Second, his previous statements (which were much much worse) about Haley.

I’ve heard about the Haley comments but don’t know the full context. Was she past her prime as in she’s over the hill or was she past her prime as in her 15 minutes of fame were over? Does he have a history of sexist remarks?

 

[Pens1566]

I’ve heard about the Haley comments but don’t know the full context. Was she passed her prime as in she’s over the hill or was she passed her prime as in her 15 minutes of fame were over? Does he have a history of sexist remarks?

Not sure about his history of remarks, but the Haley comment was definitely the former.

 

[eelw]

I’ve heard about the Haley comments but don’t know the full context. Was she passed her prime as in she’s over the hill or was she passed her prime as in her 15 minutes of fame were over? Does he have a history of sexist remarks?

Yup somehow a female politician is over the hill in their 50’s yet no issues with males serving into their 80’s

 

[ivwshane]

Not sure about his history of remarks, but the Haley comment was definitely the former.

Yup somehow a female politician is over the hill in their 50’s yet no issues with males serving into their 80’s

It’s a pretty stupid comment for sure but a fireable offense? That seems a little extreme.

 

[Pens1566]

It’s a pretty stupid comment for sure but a fireable offense? That seems a little extreme.

Agree. I personally think it has more to do with the switch at CNN and Lemon's unique (for the network at least) characteristics. The rest is just convenient reasoning.