{"id":1183167,"date":"2022-01-03T11:34:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T16:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1183167"},"modified":"2022-01-03T11:34:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T16:34:43","slug":"im-a-grown-a-man-kiss-my-behind-don-lemon-launches-self-pitying-rant-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-a-grown-a-man-kiss-my-behind-don-lemon-launches-self-pitying-rant-on-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m A Grown-A** Man \u2026 Kiss My Behind\u2019: Don Lemon Launches Self-Pitying Rant On New Year\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fim-a-grown-a-man-kiss-my-behind-don-lemon-launches-self-pitying-rant-on-new-years-eve%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1183167&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As 2021 turned into 2022 on New Year\u2019s Eve, CNN anchor Don Lemon gave a public demonstration of self-pitying as he celebrated bringing in the new year on air with fellow anchor Alisyn Camerota and comedian Dulce Sloan, mewling, \u201cI don\u2019t give a \u2014 what you think about me, what do you think about that? \u2026 I\u2019m a grown-a** man. I don\u2019t care what you think about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am who I am,\u201d Lemon boasted. \u201cI\u2019m a grown, successful black man who a lot of people hate because they\u2019re not used to people seeing me \u2013 and people like me \u2013 in the position that I am. To be able to share what I \u2026 my point of view on television, it freaks people out. And you know what? You can kiss my behind. I do not care. I don\u2019t care. I really don\u2019t care. I have one life and this is who I am and I feel very, um \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sloan interjected gushingly, \u201cBlessed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlessed,\u201d Lemon repeated. \u201cAnd honored to be in this position to be able to do this. So all the hate I get? It\u2019s motivation to me. Bring it. I don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ohh Don Lemon is loose off that goose! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CNNYE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CNNYE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NYE2021?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NYE2021<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OL4lkU0zjo\">pic.twitter.com\/OL4lkU0zjo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Giselle Phelps (@GisellePhelps) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GisellePhelps\/status\/1477153765505396737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although Lemon stated on New Year\u2019s Eve, \u201cTo be able to share what I \u2026 my point of view on television, it freaks people out,\u201d bragging about offering his opinion, he had previously insisted that he did not foist his opinion on the public with his point of view, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/cnns-don-lemon-im-not-an-opinion-host-i-get-it-right\/\">saying last August<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m not an opinion host. I give my point of view. \u2026 Everything I say, every single night, is based in fact. And if I screw it up, I come back and apologize, and I get it right. \u2026 That\u2019s what we do here at CNN. That is the big difference between us and networks that don\u2019t have to operate in that realm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lemon has stated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/magazine\/cnns-don-lemon-were-living-in-two-different-realities-as-black-and-white-people\/2021\/06\/11\/2f99cff6-b753-11eb-a5fe-bb49dc89a248_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a> that America may not see black people as fully human, asserting last summer:<\/p>\n<p><em>I am secure in my position, and I speak with even more authority than when I started. But if by saying that, people are saying I \u201cwasn\u2019t Black enough\u201d before, then that\u2019s certainly not true. Are you the same person that you were a few years ago? Let\u2019s hope not. We all evolve. \u2026&nbsp;But I also think that people have become used to me now in that position, speaking from a position of authority, giving my point of view as an anchor, on prime time \u2014 especially a Black gay man. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t think America intimately knows enough people like me. I would love America to see Black people, especially Black gay men as \u2014 and I hate this word \u2014 normal, and as human beings and as part of the culture. \u2026 I don\u2019t know if America sees Black people and especially Black gay men as fully human, and as deserving of the American Dream.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2021 turned into 2022 on New Year\u2019s Eve, CNN anchor Don Lemon gave a public demonstration of self-pitying as he celebrated bringing in the new year on air with fellow anchor Alisyn Camerota and comedian Dulce Sloan, mewling, \u201cI don\u2019t give a \u2014 what you think about me, what do you think about that? &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}