Don Lemon took a break from screaming at Kaitlan Collins to mock Nikki Haley’s fertility
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After Chris Licht took over CNN last year, one of his first moves was to overhaul the flaming dumpster fire that was its prime-time lineup, demoting Don Lemon from his flagship late-night show and moving him to the morning. Lemon, fed up with playing second fiddle to two women, has made more headlines for scolding and disrespecting co-anchor and network rising star Kaitlan Collins than for ratings, which are the lowest of any one of CNN’s prior morning shows.
Well, Lemon took a break from being sexist on air to his colleagues to aim his hatred of women at GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley. The sin of the former ambassador to the United Nations? Calling for politicians older than 75 — around the nation’s average life expectancy — to participate in “mandatory mental competency tests.”
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“This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable,” Lemon commented. “I think it’s the wrong road to go down. She says people, you know, politicians are suddenly not in their prime. Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime, sorry. When a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.”
After co-anchor Poppy Harlow asked Lemon to clarify if he meant a woman’s “prime for childbearing,” he told her to “Google it.”
“Everybody at home, when a woman is in her prime, it says 20s, 30s, and 40s,” said Lemon. “And I’m just saying she should be careful about saying that politicians are not in their prime and they need to be in their prime when they serve because she wouldn’t be in her prime.”
All I or anyone else can really say to this is, what the hell? Does Lemon think that Haley’s “mental competency test” was code for a semen analysis? Or is Lemon so virulently bigoted against women that the moment one challenges a man’s mental acuity, his response is to consider her fertility the comparable trait for a woman. (God forbid, of course, we value a woman running to be the leader of the free world for her brain instead of her uterus.)
Lemon (sort of) backtracked the comments, calling his remarks “inartful and irrelevant.” But it was the former South Carolina governor herself who had the perfect response.
Let’s just see how long Licht stands his antics, or if Collins and Harlow kick Lemon to the curb.
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Original Author: Tiana Lowe
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