The Patriot Post® · Women Sour on Don Lemon
Old-fashioned misogyny isn’t exactly the biggest story of the week, much less where it’s so prevalent at CNN. But in this case it sure is a funny story.
Don Lemon is, shall we say, not the sharpest tack in the drawer. We suppose that’s why he’s got a job at CNN — well, that and identity politics. He’s a gay black man, which earns him all sorts of intersectionality points, though that didn’t keep him from losing his prime time slot and being sent to a morning show.
Those points also weren’t enough to spare him from blowback for his comments about Nikki Haley and women generally. Specifically, he was responding to Haley’s presidential announcement, in which she repeatedly went after the age of our leaders. (Given Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, who can blame her?)
“America is not past our prime,” Haley said, “it’s just that our politicians are past theirs.”
Cue Lemon’s complaint.
Don Lemon: “Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Sorry, when a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s, and 30s, and maybe 40s…”
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Poppy Harlow: “Are you talking about prime for like child bearing?”
“Don’t shoot the messenger! I’m just saying what the facts are! Google it!” pic.twitter.com/n1HmtkWTpl
“This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable,” he whined. “I think it’s the wrong road to go down. She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime. Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime, sorry, when a woman is considered to be in their prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.” Haley is 51. Lemon is 56. For anyone keeping score, Kamala Harris is 58.
Lemon’s two female cohosts immediately bristled at his assertion. Poppy Harlow, 40, and Kaitlan Collins, 30, demanded an explanation, and Lemon claimed it was just the Google results.
“If you Google ‘When is a woman in her prime?’ it’ll say 20s, 30s and 40s,” Lemon mansplained. “I’m not saying I agree with that.”
After more incredulous responses from his cohosts, he continued digging his hole: “I’m just saying what the facts are. Google it. Everybody at home — ‘When is a woman in her prime?’ It says 20s, 30s and 40s, and I’m just saying Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that politicians are not in their prime and they need to be in their prime when they serve because she wouldn’t be in her prime according to Google or whatever it is.”
CNN has a history of sexual perverts treating women poorly, so we suppose this is just par for the course.
Hole dug, Lemon did later apologize, though without mentioning Haley. He called his comments “inartful and irrelevant,” adding, “A woman’s age doesn’t define her either personally or professionally.”
Laughing at Lemon is certainly a worthwhile pursuit, but his comments actually get to a deeper issue that ought to perplex more people.
It’s fair to say that Googling women is a huge problem for millions of men, who objectify the fairer sex all the time. To be sure, women are often more than willing participants in making themselves little more than objects for ogling. (Note the irony that “Google” is just “ogle” with two more letters.)
Just this past week, model and actress Raquel Welch died at 82. The headlines were everywhere, but what’s she remembered for? Playing that bikini-clad cavewoman in the 1966 film “One Million Years B.C.” She was, according to the news media, effectively nothing more than “an international sex symbol.” Of how many more women can that be said?
Again, Lemon is homosexual, so maybe this isn’t a problem for him, but American culture certainly has degraded women. Feminism arose largely to counter this, though it has achieved basically two things: A bit of outrage over chauvinism and the preposterous reality that the most celebrated women today are actually men pretending to be women. Hooray feminism.
Maybe Lemon, Harlow, and Collins should do a show exposé on this sad turn of events. Or maybe they could explore why there’s no one leftists hate more than minorities like Haley or Clarence Thomas who stray from the Democrat plantation.
Update: Lemon was off the air Friday and Monday as well. “There are ongoing conversations about Don’s future,” a CNN source said. “He is a constant distraction.”