{"id":1758544,"date":"2022-12-01T14:48:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T19:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758544"},"modified":"2022-12-01T14:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T19:48:24","slug":"female-co-hosts-tag-team-don-lemon-for-daring-to-defend-mens-soccer-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/female-co-hosts-tag-team-don-lemon-for-daring-to-defend-mens-soccer-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Co-Hosts Tag Team Don Lemon For Daring To Defend Men\u2019s Soccer Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Ffemale-co-hosts-tag-team-don-lemon-for-daring-to-defend-mens-soccer-team%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=1758544&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>Anchor\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/watch-don-lemon-offers-bizarre-rebuttal-when-colbert-says-new-cnn-boss-wont-let-anchors-be-liberal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/watch-don-lemon-offers-bizarre-rebuttal-when-colbert-says-new-cnn-boss-wont-let-anchors-be-liberal\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Don Lemon<\/a>\u00a0apparently stepped in it on Thursday morning when he argued \u2014 against \u201cCNN This Morning\u201d co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins \u2014 in defense of the U.S. men\u2019s\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/ill-be-ready-u-s-soccer-star-speaks-out-after-game-winning-goal-lands-him-in-a-hospital-bed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/ill-be-ready-u-s-soccer-star-speaks-out-after-game-winning-goal-lands-him-in-a-hospital-bed\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">soccer team<\/a>\u00a0making more money than the women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>Collins and Harlow argued that because the women\u2019s team had traditionally done better in international competition, they should be paid accordingly. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/don-lemon-journalists-must-treat-republicans-as-dangerous-to-our-society\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lemon<\/a> agreed that the members of the women\u2019s team should be paid more than they were, but countered that the men were paid more because more people were interested in watching them play \u2014 and therefore willing to shell out more money for tickets and merchandise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Don Lemon raises legitimate points here, and gets tag-teamed for his trouble. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F8F8IYMHl7\">pic.twitter.com\/F8F8IYMHl7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VAKruta\/status\/1598376360036405249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harlow began by suggesting that media and Big Tech were somehow responsible for suppressing public access to the women\u2019s team, saying, \u201cUntil big media companies, Big Tech companies, advertisers invest and put them on their airwaves more \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand what you\u2019re saying,\u201d Lemon interjected, but Harlow continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo-no-no-no-no! And allow people to see it more and gain more fans, then you will push toward more equality,\u201d she asserted, arguing that more visibility would make people like women\u2019s soccer more. \u201cBut if they are blocked in so many ways and not invested in as much \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys are \u2014 I\u2019m not sexist,\u201d Lemon tried again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you\u2019re not!\u201d Harlow agreed. \u201cBut they don\u2019t even have a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up the only boy in a family of all women, I understand what you\u2019re saying,\u201d Lemon said, pivoting to make his point. \u201cBut not everybody, honestly, has the same skill. Not everybody has the same interest in the sport. I think the women should be paid more, I do. But if the men \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re right that not everyone has the same skills because the women are better skilled,\u201d Collins interrupted, prompting Harlow to respond: \u201cMic drop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lemon continued, however, noting that the women were certainly very skilled in competition \u2014 against other women. \u201cBut if the women played the men, they wouldn\u2019t be winning the way that they win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?? What??!!\u201d Harlow was clearly taken aback by Lemon\u2019s statement. \u201cI\u2019m not going to get into that argument.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following a lawsuit demanding equal pay, the U.S. Women\u2019s National Team will receive half of the prize money the U.S. Men\u2019s National Team <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/30\/us-womens-national-team-will-get-half-of-money-won-by-usmnt-at-world-cup\/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=NYPTwitter&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brings home<\/a> from the ongoing World Cup, including some $6.5 million from their advancement into the Round of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anchor\u00a0Don Lemon\u00a0apparently stepped in it on Thursday morning when he argued \u2014 against \u201cCNN This Morning\u201d co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins \u2014 in defense of the U.S. men\u2019s\u00a0soccer team\u00a0making more money than the women\u2019s team. Collins and Harlow argued that because the women\u2019s team had traditionally done better in international competition, they should be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1758547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758544","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1758547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}