{"id":1957335,"date":"2023-06-26T15:34:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T19:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-returns-to-tv-with-a-surprise-new-look-but-the-same-inability-to-tell-the-truth\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T15:36:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T19:36:18","slug":"don-lemon-returns-to-tv-with-a-surprise-new-look-but-the-same-inability-to-tell-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-returns-to-tv-with-a-surprise-new-look-but-the-same-inability-to-tell-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Lemon is back on TV with a fresh appearance, but his truth-telling skills remain unchanged."},"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\">32<\/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%2Fdon-lemon-returns-to-tv-with-a-surprise-new-look-but-the-same-inability-to-tell-the-truth%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=1957335&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--><h2>Don Lemon Returns to TV with a Surprise New Look, But the Same Inability to Tell the Truth<\/h2>\n<p>He\u2019s looking a little worse for wear these days, and his ability to tell the truth hasn\u2019t gotten much better either.<\/p>\n<p>Don Lemon, the one-time veteran CNN host whose stint ended at the network with his abrupt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-don-lemon-announces-fired-cnn-following-brutal-ratings-scandals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissal in April<\/a>, made his first return to broadcast television over the weekend with an interview blasting his longtime employer.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, he proved why Americans never should have taken him seriously in the first place.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe in platforming liars and bigots, and, you know, insurrectionists and election deniers and putting them on the same footing as people who are telling the truth \u2014 people who are fighting for what\u2019s right, people who are abiding by the Constitution,\u201d he told WATN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that would be a dereliction of journalistic duty to do those sorts of things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is what has gotten me to this point, and that is what is going to carry me forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It didn\u2019t go down well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is not a journalist he is a liberal mouthpiece,\u201d as one Twitter user put it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Don Lemon touts \u2018abiding by the Constitution\u2019 in first TV interview since firing: \u2018Journalistic duty\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FftgIr0L7H\">https:\/\/t.co\/FftgIr0L7H<\/a><br \/>\nHe is not a journalist he is a liberal mouthpiece<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 5.56maxtip (@trick1us) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trick1us\/status\/1673027845785010177?\">June 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, branding anyone who disagrees with you a \u201cliar\u201d or a \u201cbigot\u201d \u2014 and thinking news coverage should be determined accordingly is pretty much the definition of \u201cdereliction of journalistic duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-returns-to-tv-with-a-surprise-new-look-but-the-same-inability-to-tell-the-truth\/\" title=\"Don Lemon is back on TV with a fresh appearance, but his truth-telling skills remain unchanged.\">leftist establishment media outlets<\/a> like CNN and MSNBC \u2014 along with their fuzzier versions in the broadcast networks \u2014 have brought the American news media.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who was familiar with Lemon\u2019s incessant attacks on Donald Trump, as a presidential candidate and as president knew Lemon had no interest in presenting the American people with a balanced picture of the man in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>His career in the post-Trump years \u2014 pretending any American with a legitimate question about the obvious irregularities of the 2020 presidential election is an \u201celection denier,\u201d that \u201cinsurrectionists\u201d were behind the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion \u2014 showed that he hadn\u2019t changed a bit. (Claiming Trump supporters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/don-lemon-suggests-trump-supporters-need-deprogrammed-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">need to be \u201cdeprogrammed\u201d<\/a> like refugees from a cult was one of Lemon\u2019s classic moments of \u201ctruth.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Even his demotion to \u201cCNN This Morning,\u201d where his openly leftist politics, overweening ego and poor treatment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hilarious-video-lemons-ex-co-hosts-couldnt-given-quicker-happier-goodbye-don\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">of his colleagues\u2019<\/a> ego made headlines more frequently than anything substantive that might have happened on camera, didn\u2019t change his style.<\/p>\n<p>His racially blinkered, arrogant treatment of Vivek Ramaswamy, a successful businessman and contender for the Republican 2020 nomination was a case in point.<\/p>\n<h3>Do you think Don Lemon will return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/genocide-games-disaster-nbcuniversal-paid-7-75b-for-olympics-rights-saddled-with-ratings-loser-for-10-more-years\/\" title=\"Genocide Games Disaster: NBCUniversal Paid .75B for Olympics Rights, Saddled with Ratings Loser for 10 More Years\">prime-time television<\/a>?<\/h3>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-question\">Do you think Don Lemon will return to prime-time television?<\/div>\n<div id=\"pollFormBox\" style=\"display: none\">\n\t\t<label>Yes<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<label>No<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n\t\tCompleting this poll entitles you to The Western Journal news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/terms-service\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\" style=\"display: none\">\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-yes\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n\t\t\tYes: 0% (0 Votes)\n\t\t<\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-no\" style=\"width: 100%\">\n\t\t\tNo: 100% (4 Votes)\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whatever any viewer might have thought of Ramaswamy\u2019s chances in a primary campaign that includes Trump as the frontrunner and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as an attention-magnet second place, they had a right to make that decision without Lemon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/don-lemon-loses-gop-candidate-live-tv-gets-distracted-happening-ear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">needlessly combative, hectoring<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m black, you\u2019re not\u201d tone in a debate over gun control.<\/p>\n<p>That made it all about Lemon, as Lemon\u2019s broadcasts usually did. Remember his comments about former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a one-time ambassador to the United Nations who is also seeking the Republican presidential nomination?<\/p>\n<p>Most recall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/don-lemon-offers-strange-apology-nikki-haley-comment-gets-bad-news-cnn-big-boss-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lemon\u2019s boorishness<\/a> in speaking about Haley\u2019s \u201cprime\u201d years \u2014 and the \u201cprime\u201d years of women in general. Few likely remember it was in the context of Haley\u2019s opinion that political candidates over a certain age should have to take cognitive tests to prove they\u2019re up to the job.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon, in other words, might be sporting new facial hair that he might think makes him look distinguished but his misguided <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/best-actress-winner-appears-shred-don-lemon-oscars-speech-without-even-saying-name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">view of the world<\/a>, American politics, and himself haven\u2019t changed a bit. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-furious-ca-restaurant-owner-confronts-inspectors-issuing-citation-are-you-gonna-pay-my-rent\/\" title=\"WATCH: Furious CA Restaurant Owner Confronts Inspectors Issuing Citation: \u2018Are You Gonna Pay My Rent?\u2019\">social media users<\/a> let him know it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t fired for telling the truth. He was fired because nobody was listening to his lies.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 It\u2019s us against them and we\u2019re the many. (@thedownliner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thedownliner\/status\/1673326603793727492?\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now that\u2019s funny! He can\u2019t \u201cstand up for the truth\u201d if it hit him in the face. Let him tout<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 kelraff (@kelraff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kelraff\/status\/1673184150667288577?\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Don Lemon has officially become a parody of himself<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 kyleb557 (@nytisfailing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytisfailing\/status\/1673183377346686976?\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, the new look isn\u2019t winning rave reviews either. Lemon doesn\u2019t look as much like a man with a trim goatee as he does an 18-year-old determined to sport facial hair he doesn\u2019t have the ability to grow.<\/p>\n<p>And that gray doesn\u2019t help matters either. Take away the jacket and tie and Lemon could be one of those guys on a New York subway talking on the \u201cphone\u201d to a banana in his ear.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Don Lemon got fired, and it aged him 37 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pW4Wx3uG58\">https:\/\/t.co\/pW4Wx3uG58<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brenden Dilley (@WarlordDilley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WarlordDilley\/status\/1673297527997710337?\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All in all, as returns to the spotlight goes, Lemon was just continuing his losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, he said he is in no \u201crush\u201d to make a decision about his career. And doesn\u2019t really have to make any decision at all. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/26\/don-lemon-speaks-out-about-responsibility-to-tell-the-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>, Lemon could be collecting $25 million from CNN for ending his employment.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever he does, though, Americans should be thinking twice before taking him seriously again.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s already proven that, time and time again.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/don-lemon-returns-tv-surprise-new-look-inability-tell-truth\/\">Don Lemon Returns to TV with a Surprise New Look, But the Same Inability to Tell the Truth<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Lemon, the former CNN host, made a comeback on broadcast television after his sudden departure from the network in April. 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