{"id":1449995,"date":"2024-01-10T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1449995"},"modified":"2024-01-10T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T04:00:00","slug":"don-lemon-announces-launch-of-new-show-on-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/don-lemon-announces-launch-of-new-show-on-x\/1449995\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Lemon Announces Launch Of New Show On X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Don Lemon Announces Launch Of New Show On X<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>It&#8217;s funny how after you&#8217;re fired for being an authoritarian left-wing lunatic,<em> it&#8217;s only then<\/em> that you&#8217;re proud to fall back on the first amendment to pull yourself up by your bootstraps&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon looks like he&#8217;s going to be getting his own show back, this time on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a post published on Tuesday, Lemon wrote on his X account:\u00a0<strong>\u201cI\u2019ve heard you \u2026 and today I am back bigger, bolder, freer! <\/strong>My new media company\u2019s first project is The Don Lemon Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, he hasn&#8217;t heard <em>us<\/em>, because he wouldn&#8217;t be launching a new show in the first place if he had.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/donlemon.jpg?itok=Xuppo8rV\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be available to everyone, easily, whenever you want it, streaming on the platforms where the conversations are happening,\u201d he wrote, suggesting his show would likely follow the same model as Tucker Carlson&#8217;s show on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lemon praised X in his comments, saying his show would be\u00a0\u201cfirst on X, the biggest space for free speech in the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recall, back in April of last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/and-now-stunned-don-lemon-out-cnn\">Lemon was fired from CNN<\/a>.\u00a0He\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donlemon\/status\/1650533617636966400\">said<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter at the time: &#8220;I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re delighted to announce a new content partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donlemon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DonLemon<\/a> for his new project, The Don Lemon Show. The award winning TV journalist will share his unique and honest voice in 30 minute episodes, three times a week, covering politics, culture, sports and entertainment.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Business (@XBusiness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XBusiness\/status\/1744758555876430038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;I am stunned. After 17 years at CNN I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly. At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For a review of his rocky (to put it mildly) controversies at his former network and largely failed morning show, here&#8217;s a trip down ZH headline memory lane:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/don-lemons-new-morning-show-debuts-immediately-bombs-ratings\">Don Lemon&#8217;s New Morning Show Debuts, Immediately Bombs In Ratings<\/a><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/don-lemons-co-hosts-stormed-set-after-his-comments-about-nikki-haley-being-past-her-prime\">Don Lemon&#8217;s Co-Hosts &#8220;Stormed Off The Set&#8221; After His Comments About Nikki Haley Being Past Her Prime<\/a><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/don-lemon-air-again-monday-following-growing-fallout-his-sexist-comments-about-nikki-haley\">Don Lemon Off Air (Again) Monday Following Growing Fallout From His Sexist Comments About Nikki Haley<\/a><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/watch-2023-don-lemon-would-accuse-2013-don-lemon-being-white-supremacist\">Watch: 2023 Don Lemon Would Accuse 2013 Don Lemon Of Being A White Supremacist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How long before the rest of the journalists that have been dragging Elon Musk&#8217;s name through the mud and taking every shot possible at X come crawling back to the billionaire and the platform to launch <em>their\u00a0<\/em>next projects? Paging\u00a0Brian Stelter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to \ud835\udd4f! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r9c67EUMEG\">https:\/\/t.co\/r9c67EUMEG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1744764984930742407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2024<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Wed, 01\/10\/2024 &#8211; 18:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/don-lemon-announces-launch-new-show-x\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/don-lemon-announces-launch-new-show-x<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Lemon Announces Launch Of New Show On X It&#8217;s funny how after you&#8217;re fired for being an authoritarian left-wing lunatic, it&#8217;s only then that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}