The Dumbest Man on TV: Don Lemon
One thing I learned during 17 years as a metro columnist for a daily newspaper: No one sheds progressive “principles” faster than a liberal facing a strong, conservative woman.
They loathe us. They call us names. And these phony feminists inevitably resort to catty name-calling.
I wrote about this more than once:
When I was a metro columnist I ticked off hundreds, maybe thousands of Virginian-Pilot readers. Hey, it was my job and - I don't like to brag - I was pretty good at it.
I quickly learned that irate readers are name callers. They aren't particularly creative, so columnists are regularly called idiot, moron and fool. But opinionated females get something a little extra. Angry readers routinely sling insults at our appearance because they think they know how to push a girl's buttons.
You’re ugly, they’d say. As if I didn’t own a mirror. You’re fat. As if they weren’t. Your hair is a dye job. (Actually one apoplectic reader spelled it die job.) As if the color of my tresses could possibly be found in nature.
As time went by they started calling me an old bag, a hag or a harpie.
One habitual hater - who used a pseudonym, of course - liked to accuse me of being a bored housewife, implying that I was a dilettante instead of a full-time working woman who’d toiled for decades in newspapers, hunched over my computer in my cubicle late at night, on holidays and weekends, outworking my male counterparts on my way to a coveted columnist slot.
Sadly, lefties never change.
Exhibit A: CNN’s failed primetime news anchor now demoted to breakfast TV co-host, Don Lemon.
No sooner had Nikki Haley announced that she was running for president, than Lemon came after the conservative former South Carolina governor. In her Wednesday announcement Haley delivered an elegant jab at both President Biden and Former President Donald Trump: She said that there should be a mental competency test for candidates over the age of 75. Trump is 76. Biden is 80.
Here’s Lemon’s idiotic rejoinder:
Don Lemon: "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…"
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 16, 2023
Poppy Harlow: "Are you talking about prime for like child bearing?"
"Don’t shoot the messenger! I’m just saying what the facts are! Google it!" pic.twitter.com/n1HmtkWTpl
Yep, this CNN knob-turner headed to Google to research the “prime” age for women and learned - from Google! - that we’re washed up once we hit 50. And Haley is a decrepit 51.
Lemon is 56, by the way.
The reaction was swift and angry. One thing this toolbox didn’t know is that American women are exasperated from suddenly being devalued.
We’re fed up with idiotic expressions like “pregnant people” as if anyone other than a WOMAN can get pregnant.
We’re livid that men can slap on lipstick and kill our daughters’ dreams by stealing their spots on sports teams and in the Olympics.
We’re furious that we’re expected to pretend that some women have penises, or that men who have their male organs removed can become women.
Oh, and we don’t need some guy who’s not even into women telling us we’re has-beens after 49.
There have reportedly been tensions on the CNN set recently. Looks like Lemon doesn’t play nicely with his female co-hosts. I feel for them. This man is profoundly unintelligent and unserious.
By Thursday afternoon, he issued an apology - of sorts - on Twitter.
The reference I made to a woman’s “prime” this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it. A woman’s age doesn't define her either personally or professionally. I have countless women in my life who prove that every day.
— Don Lemon (@donlemon) February 16, 2023
Not “a” woman, Lemon. NIKKI HALEY. Say her name.
