Insipid CNN host Don Lemon didn’t exactly get fired last week, but he did get a heck of a demotion from CNN CEO Chris Licht. Lemon lost his low-rated, self-named prime-time show and was slapped all the way down to playing co-host with two ladies on the cable channel’s even lower-rated morning show. Naturally, he attempted to claim it wasn’t a demotion at all, but nobody believed him when he said it, not even Lemon.
Lemon couldn’t seem to get with Licht’s new edict of toning down the hyper-partisan politics that have caused CNN to lose fully half its audience since Donald Trump was forced from office while hosting his nightly solo show, and apparently still hasn’t got the message as he prepares to head to his new gig.
That failure - or refusal - to grasp his new operational reality is what led him Monday night to this:
Here is how British royal expert Hilary Fordwich responded to Lemon’s taunt that the royals should be paying reparations for their country’s supposed participation in the slave trade:
“I think you’re right about reparations in terms if people want it though, what they need to do is you always need to go back to the beginning of the supply chain. Where was the beginning of the supply chain? That was in Africa,” royal expert Hilary Fordwich explained. “Across the entire world when slavery was taking place which was the First Nation in the world that abolished slavery? First Nation in the world to abolish it…was the British.”
“Two-thousand naval men died on the high seas trying to stop slavery. Why? Because the African kings were rounding up their own people. They had them in cages waiting on the beaches. No-one was running into Africa to get them,” she continued. “I think you’re totally right. If reparations need to be paid we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, who was rounding up their own people and having them hang from cages. Absolutely, that’s where they should start. And maybe, I don’t know, the descendants of those families where they died in the high seas trying to stop the slavery, those families should receive something soon.”
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Ooooof. Brutal. And all true.
Lemon was left so speechless by Ms. Fordwich’s guided tour through the real history of the African slave trade and the crucial role played by Britain in bringing to an end that he didn’t even attempt to bleat out a response, choosing to simply end the segment and go to commercial instead.
By attempting to salvage this insufferable jackass, Mr. Licht has made a great error in judgment. He has likely already realized that - most likely knew it in advance, but decided to be “fair” to Lemon since he checks so many of the radical left’s identity politics grievance boxes - and will probably give Lemon just enough rope to hang himself before finally giving him the old heave-ho out the door entirely.
I give it until the end of this year, if not sooner.
WOKE CULTURE UPDATE:
Hey, y’all, we have another gender! Isn’t that great?
That’s right: “Eunuch-identified people” is a real thing now, not just something we’ve always assumed Brian Stelter identified himself as.
To confirm the existence of this new “gender,” activists point to a science-y study conducted by a bunch of science-y “scientists” to lend it the air of actual “science”:
If you look at that partial list of authors of this study - the full list can be found here - you will notice a distinct lack of any denotations of advanced degrees that would indicate a single one of them is, in fact, what we used to refer to as a real “scientist.”
But that lack of any real scientific pedigree won’t matter to the activists, or the media hacks who will now go to work to attempt to force this newest fake gender into what we used to call normal society.
Because, science.
Bexar County Sheriff and part-time circus clown Javier Salazar was back in the news on Tuesday, doing his duty as the designated point person in the latest Democrat/media hoax targeting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis:
If Democrats like Sheriff Salazar didn’t already exist, you could never possibly make them up. And who in their right mind would even want to?
Meanwhile, our installed nominal president had a new set of fake talking points about the illegal immigration crisis he has intentionally created:
See, these illegal aliens are different because they’re supposedly all coming from South America (an outright lie), and we just can’t feasibly send them back to South America (an outright lie).
All these people do is lie. That is literally how they spend every waking moment.
But hey, Stacey Abrams, whose campaign is foundering like a beached whale, says she’d be thrilled to death to have the old reprobate come down to Georgia to campaign for her:
Well, of course she’d welcome Old Joe. After all, she has yet to poll above 42% in her gubernatorial race, which is about the high point for Old Joe’s own public approval ratings. At this point, she’s all like, ‘what the hell? It can’t hurt.’
While all this was going on, the editorial board at the Dallas Morning News obviously has decided to take its op/ed page in a new direction:
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to get a member of the DMN Ed Board on TV and have him or her describe the editorial decision-making process that took place to arrive at the choice to print that?
Holy crap.
That is all.
Well, I want to post a meme here, but it doesn’t appear to be possible, so…
Recognized experts over time:
1980s - Leading Scientist
1990s - Ph.D Student
2000s - Media Expert
2010s - Karen on Facebook