{"id":2658875,"date":"2026-09-11T23:21:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-cbs-gayle-king-dumbfounded-after-learning-lindsay-clancy-holdout-juror-is-black\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T23:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:32:20","slug":"watch-cbs-gayle-king-dumbfounded-after-learning-lindsay-clancy-holdout-juror-is-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-cbs-gayle-king-dumbfounded-after-learning-lindsay-clancy-holdout-juror-is-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: CBS&#8217; Gayle King Dumbfounded After Learning Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror Is Black"},"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%2Fwatch-cbs-gayle-king-dumbfounded-after-learning-lindsay-clancy-holdout-juror-is-black%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=2658875&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>The content discusses the concept of identity politics and its complexities, highlighting how it can lead to unintended conflicts. An example is provided involving CBS host Gayle King during an interview about the Lindsay Clancy trial, where revelations about the racial identity of a juror-a Black man-caused surprise and discomfort among progressives. The discussion emphasizes that focusing on immutable characteristics like race or gender can undermine the moral integrity of identity politics, especially when different protected classes come into conflict. The situation illustrates how such identity-based frameworks may produce absurd or embarrassing moments, exposing flaws in reducing individuals to single traits and revealing tensions within identity-driven narratives.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ah, identity politics.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the favorite rhetorical tactics of the modern left. And, admittedly, it can certainly be effective. Just look at the never-ending culture war being waged over diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI. One way or the other, people pretty clearly care deeply about the issue.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2014 and this should go without saying \u2014 there are also a lot of issues with being so adherent to identity politics.<\/p>\n<p>And no issue may be funnier than when this question lands on the head of an identity politician: \u201cWhat do you do when two of your most protected classes collide?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because the answer will, more often than not, involve wild amounts of unintentional comedy or a pretty embarrassing slip of the mask.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/notorious-race-baiter-cbs-host-gayle-king-will-lose-millions-dollars-bari-weiss-reported-shakeup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">progressive<\/a> CBS host Gayle King, it was both.<\/p>\n<p>During an early Friday interview, King spoke to one of the female jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial.<\/p>\n<p>(If you are somehow unfamiliar with the grisly details of that trial, which saw the 2023 deaths of three beautiful children, you can read more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lindsay-clancy-mistrial-dealt-devastating-damage-chance-future-conviction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, while the trial is specifically about whether Clancy should be held legally criminally responsible for the deaths of her children by reason of insanity, the case itself has somehow transcended into a broader clash between radical feminists and everyday men who are utterly appalled that Clancy was getting as much support as she was. And yes, you could actually put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lindsay-clancy-fangirls-push-child-killers-gofundme-total-staggering-1-1m-following-mistrial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a number<\/a> on the support.<\/p>\n<p>That clash became exceptionally pronounced when it was revealed that the reason Clancy did not get her desired \u201cnot guilty\u201d verdict was that one juror refused to go along with the other eleven. And when it was revealed that this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clancys-lawyer-blows-up-in-courtroom-demands-holdout-be-removed-from-jury-to-end-11-1-deadlock\/\" title=\"...&#039;s Lawyer Blows Up in Courtroom: De...ds ... Be Removed from Jury to End 11-1 Deadlock\">lone holdout juror<\/a> was a man? You don\u2019t have to have much of an imagination to imagine the vitriol that was being hurled at this faceless male juror.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, you don\u2019t need any imagination at all. Three of the female jurors (there were nine female jurors and three male jurors) went on national television to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lindsay-clancy-jurors-break-silence-publicly-rage-lone-man-held-not-guilty-verdict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trash the holdout<\/a> after the mistrial verdict, and went so far as to describe the man as \u201cvery arrogant,\u201d framing him as a stubborn dunce who simply didn\u2019t understand how the justice system works. That was Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Then came Friday morning, and that CBS interview with Gayle King happened.<\/p>\n<p>One of the jurors, Paula Devlin (ironically enough, the very one who called the holdout juror \u201cvery arrogant\u201d), spoke to King in an interview that aired early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>While the interview covered a number of different things, the most interesting tidbit by far from this interview segment was the revelation from Devlin that the dissident juror was a black man.<\/p>\n<p>Uh-oh. What happens when a racial minority collides with radical feminists? Nothing pleasant for anyone involved, I\u2019ll tell you that much.<\/p>\n<p>Or, as Gayle King put it: \u201cWhoa.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin tells <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GayleKing?\">@gayleking<\/a> that the holdout juror was a Black man, whom she estimates is in his 30s. Devlin says after watching a video of an interview with Clancy, the holdout juror \u201crealized that it wasn\u2019t murder in the first degree,\u201d adding the jury\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZxFa2hgSsY\">pic.twitter.com\/ZxFa2hgSsY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBSMornings\/status\/2098381048681755112?\">September 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Devlin was explaining to King that the jury included 11 white people and one person of color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas the person of color a woman or a man?\u201d King asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA man,\u201d Devlin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA man,\u201d King repeated back to Devlin. Then, almost as if it were dawning on King that she was about to step into a quagmire, she followed up: \u201cIs the holdout juror a person of \u2026 a black man?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d Devlin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA black man is the holdout juror?\u201d King asked again, the disbelief almost dripping from her words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoa,\u201d a suddenly quiet King said. \u201cI have to sit with that for just a second.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This revelation that the holdout juror was not some nefarious white man \u2014 which had been the accepted caricature in discourse \u2014 seemed to genuinely unsettle King. She literally lost her train of thought before getting the interview back on track.<\/p>\n<p>And this is going to be a real big problem for any Clancy trial observers who are also proud practitioners of identity politics. Which means it\u2019s going to be a real big problem for leftists. It\u2019s #BelieveAllWomen versus #BlackLivesMatter, and as King clearly showed, it\u2019s going to cause them to short-circuit.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the real indictment against progressives here. The point is, it really shouldn\u2019t matter that the holdout juror was a black man. This is the leftist mask slipping off: Their morality is tied to things that should have nothing to do with a person\u2019s inherent worth. Why does anyone, let alone a seasoned television personality, need \u201ca second\u201d to \u201csit with\u201d the fact that the holdout is black? What does it matter?<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t. But the fact that it mattered to King \u2014 and other progressives who have been really quiet about the fact that the holdout is a black man \u2014 is the real takeaway here.<\/p>\n<p>Identity politics is the figurative snake eating its own tail. Reducing people to single, immutable characteristics is flawed, kindergarten-like thinking. And it\u2019s inevitably going to run into itself when some of those singular characteristics start colliding.<\/p>\n<p>And as King showed, it makes for some hilarious television.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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While it can be impactful, there are notable issues with relying solely on identity-based arguments. A humorous example arises when two protected groups clash-such as in a recent case involving a juror who was both Black and male. During an interview with CBS host Gayle King, it was revealed that the holdout juror was a Black man, which caused visible discomfort for King. This highlights how identity politics can sometimes cause contradictions or awkward moments when different protected identities intersect unexpectedly. Ultimately, focusing on individuals&#8217; character or actions rather than immutable traits tends to be more rational-and less prone to internal conflict-than reducing people to single characteristics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2658876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Gayle-King-flustered.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7585,33126,84476,84295],"class_list":["post-2658875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-cbs","tag-gayle-king","tag-juror-3","tag-lindsay-clancy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Gayle-King-flustered.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658875","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658879,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658875\/revisions\/2658879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2658876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}