{"id":1851180,"date":"2023-02-17T12:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T17:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1851180"},"modified":"2023-02-17T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T17:24:15","slug":"cnns-don-lemon-absent-from-morning-show-after-making-sexist-remarks-about-nikki-haley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-don-lemon-absent-from-morning-show-after-making-sexist-remarks-about-nikki-haley\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon Absent From Morning Show After Making Sexist Remarks About Nikki Haley"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fcnns-don-lemon-absent-from-morning-show-after-making-sexist-remarks-about-nikki-haley%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=1851180&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-->\n<p>Don Lemon was absent Friday <em>CNN This Morning<\/em>This was just a day after CNN anchor Nikki Haley claimed that she is not the presidential candidate. &#8220;in her prime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don has the day off,&#8221; Kaitlan Collins, co-host of the broadcast, said the following: Lemon was criticized for saying that Haley, who has announced her presidential campaign this weeks, is too old. &#8220;a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m just saying what the facts are. Google it,&#8221; Lemon juice added.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon&#8217;s comments place pressure on <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> Chris Licht, CNN CEO and Man of the Year, will fire Lemon <em>New York Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/16\/poppy-harlow-leaves-cnn-set-after-tense-exchange-with-don-lemon\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Licht stated that there will be &#8220;recourse&#8221; If Lemon keeps saying it, &#8220;stupid things&#8221; On air, a source revealed to the <em>Post<\/em>. The source also stated that &#8220;Chris isn\u2019t happy&#8221; And &#8220;Don knows it can\u2019t happen again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lemon&#8217;s &#8220;remarks were upsetting, unacceptable and unfair to his co-hosts, and ultimately a huge distraction to the great work of this organization,&#8221; Licht said to his staff during an inter-departmental call: a href=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/17\/business\/media\/cnn-don-lemon-apology.html&#8221;>according<\/a> The <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Haley tweeted that Lemon&#8217;s comment was misunderstood. &#8220;it&#8217;s always the liberals who are the most sexist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lemon tweeted his &#8220;regret&#8221; Thursday afternoon<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reference I made to a woman\u2019s &#8216;prime&#8217; this morning was inartful and irrelevant,&#8221; Lemon wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that &#8220;a woman\u2019s age doesn&#8217;t define her either personally or professionally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These comments aren&#8217;t the first controversies on the show&#8217;s months-old morning program. Lemon, who was upset about Collins&#8217; interruptions in December, yelled at Collins off-air, leaving Collins &#8220;visibly upset,&#8221; Source <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/02\/don-lemon-screamed-at-cnn-this-morning-co-host-in-off-camera-tiff-sources\/\">Telled<\/a> The <em>Post<\/em>. Lemon had an argument with his hosts a week before over differences in compensation between the men&#8217;s and womens soccer teams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/fact-check-cnns-don-lemon-says-nikki-haley-isnt-in-her-prime\/\"><strong>READ MORE\u2014FACT CHECK: CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon Says Nikki Haley &#8216;Isn&#8217;t in Her Prime&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Lemon was absent on Friday from CNN This Morning, a day after the CNN anchor faced backlash for saying presidential candidate Nikki Haley is not &#8220;in her prime.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon Absent From Morning Show After Making Sexist Remarks About Nikki Haley appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1851183,"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":[544],"tags":[15470,4881,5742,16093,7044,5739,5112,6514],"class_list":["post-1851180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-absent","tag-cnns","tag-haley","tag-lemon","tag-morning","tag-nikki","tag-remarks","tag-sexist"],"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\/1851180","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1851183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}