Chaos At CNN - Don Lemon Gets The News

Ladies and gentlemen, it's hard to believe things could have gotten worse for CNN host Don Lemon

but they just did and it could mean the end of him at CNN

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Those tiny little things do help a small channel like ours grow. Don Lemon, his problems are growing

See, there was a lot of backlash for Don Lemon this past week when he made the comments about

women over 50 not being in their prime. Now he intended that to be a shot at Nikki Haley

but it just exploded in his face fantastically, brutal. And not only did he get pushback from his

two co-hosts, both female, one was in her 40s, the other one younger. He got pushback by everybody

pretty much in media except for Whoopi Goldberg who at 67 believes a woman's not in her prime

in her 50s also, but apparently only if that's a Republican woman. And then he got pushback

even from the White House with Corrine Jean-Pierre and John Kirby actually mocking the fact that he

took aim at women over 50 not being in their prime. But the biggest problem he's facing is twofold

And it could spell, and it probably is going to spell the end of him at CNN. He's right now on a

vacation, which I think you guys know what that means. But he's on a vacation, but this is

different because you have staffers, female staffers at CNN that are saying to management

we are not going to let this go. We're simply not going to let this go

Then you have fans. Apparently CNN has been inundated with calls and letters from fans

who want Don Lemon gone. Now that, that's something that's going to be very hard for

CNN to take. In fact, CEO Chris Licht, you know, said there were remedies for when people make a

mistake like Don Lemon just made. And it's a sincere and serious mistake to tell women over 50

that they are past their prime. And I can just speak for myself. I saw my mother

may she rest in peace, buy and sell real estate and become an investor from, you know

we were living in, in, in, you know, a tough neighborhood and she became a realtor. And from

a realtor, she got into investing and she did all this on her own. And she did all of it over the

age of 50, well into her seventies. So I know there's a lot of strong women out there. There's

a lot of smart women out there. And there's no difference in a man in his fifties or sixties or

seventies and a woman in her fifties, sixties or seventies. There's no difference. Your mind still

works the same. And I think a lot of those people, they actually have, you know, the experience that

the younger people don't have. So I think 50, 60 years old, that is the prime of your life. That is

when you're hitting your stride. That's when you got some experience, you got the energy, you got the know-how. I think Don Lemon, as they said, can't, you know, and the staffer said

he can't apologize his way out of this. And I think that's correct. You've insulted a large

swath of people and that's going to be hard to undo. Folks, I want to thank you so much for

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