{"id":651596,"date":"2021-08-16T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=651596"},"modified":"2021-08-16T15:37:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:37:05","slug":"cnns-don-lemon-im-not-an-opinion-host-i-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-don-lemon-im-not-an-opinion-host-i-get-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Don Lemon: \u2018I\u2019m Not An Opinion Host \u2026 I Get It Right\u2019"},"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%2Fcnns-don-lemon-im-not-an-opinion-host-i-get-it-right%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=651596&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Don-Lemon-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In order to reduce vaccination hesitancy and halt the spread of the Delta variant, CNN\u2019s Don Lemon has said he will have to help Fox News viewers become more \u201cmedia literate,\u201d because he\u2019s a straight shooter, \u201cnot an opinion host.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The host dedicated last Thursday\u2019s episode of \u201cDon Lemon Tonight\u201d to examining the spread of COVID-19 in his hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Amid interviews with numerous patients and Governor John Bel Edwards (D), Lemon took a swipe at Fox News \u2014 and positioned himself as uniquely capable of educating its benighted audience.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon began by strangely insulting his own viewers, seemingly implying that they don\u2019t get around as much as he does. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to sit behind \u2014 I don\u2019t mean a camera like me, because I meet people all the time \u2014 behind your television, in front of your televisions at home, and you judge people,\u201d he said, because they \u201cdon\u2019t have as much information or as much knowledge as you have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he turned to Fox News. After acknowledging that \u201cthere are a whole lot of people out there where politics doesn\u2019t have anything to do with\u201d their decision not to get vaccinated, he blamed former President Donald Trump and other right-of-center forces for the unvaccinated population\u2019s purported ignorance, confusion, and refusal to believe CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that because of what happened over the last couple of years \u2014 the attacks on our institutions, the attacks on the First Amendment, the attacks on journalism which is covered in the First Amendment \u2014 that people wrongly don\u2019t know who to trust,\u201d Lemon intoned.&nbsp;\u201cThey believe the propaganda on certain networks. They believe the propaganda on social media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lemon said he and his viewers would have to \u201chelp viewers become more media literate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not an opinion host. I give my point of view,\u201d he said, apparently unaware of his self-contradiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything I say, every single night, is based in fact,\u201d he insisted. \u201cAnd if I screw it up, I come back and apologize, and I get it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what we do here at CNN,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat is the big difference between us and networks that don\u2019t have to operate in that realm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet network insiders seemingly admitted their political bias to Project Veritas, which caught CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester bragging about his role in driving the Republican Party out of the White House. \u201cLook what we did: We [CNN] got Trump out. I am 100% going to say it, and I 100% believe that if it wasn\u2019t for CNN, I don\u2019t know that Trump would have got voted out,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-director-we-worked-to-oust-trump-we-create-propaganda-use-fear-to-pass-climate-agenda\">said<\/a> in an undercover video. \u201cI came to CNN because I wanted to be a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet the left-leaning network publicly considers itself and its hosts honest brokers, as do their supporters in the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sorry-mr-president-10-reasons-don-lemon-is-not-one-of-the-most-informed-journalists-in-the-country\">called<\/a> Lemon \u201cone of the most informed journalists in the country\u201d during a town hall meeting in Cincinnati late last month.<\/p>\n<p>That came shortly after Lemon opined, \u201cI don\u2019t know if America sees black people and especially black gay men as fully human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In January, Lemon said the rioters whose months-long campaign of arson and vandalism inflicted billions of dollars worth of damage to U.S. cities and localities, were morally superior to the D.C. rioters of January 6. \u201cYou can\u2019t compare what happened this summer [BLM riots] to what happened at the Capitol,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chris-cuomo-don-lemon-claim-blm-justified-capitol-hill-riot\">said<\/a>, because BLM grounded its message in \u201cfacts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Lemon opined, without evidence, that then-President Donald Trump may suffer from \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-donald-trump-might-have-early-onset-dementia-bradley-devlin\">early-onset dementia<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While CNN still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/can-partisanship-and-profanity-save-cnn-from-its-ratings-collapse\">holds itself out<\/a> as \u201cthe most trusted name in news,\u201d many of its critics would disagree that the network \u2014 or Lemon \u2014 qualify as unbiased arbiters of truth.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon\u2019s comments bring to mind a quotation from the late, British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: \u201cBeing powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sorry-mr-president-10-reasons-don-lemon-is-not-one-of-the-most-informed-journalists-in-the-country\">https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sorry-mr-president-10-reasons-don-lemon-is-not-one-of-the-most-informed-journalists-in-the-country<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/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&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to reduce vaccination hesitancy and halt the spread of the Delta variant, CNN\u2019s Don Lemon has said he will have to help Fox News viewers become more \u201cmedia &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651596","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\/651596","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=651596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651596\/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=651596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}