As Don Lemon steps away from his primetime CNN gig, Fox News digital takes a look back on some of the bigger misinformation moments of his career at the network.
A look back at some of the host’s controversial segments over the last eight years as ‘Don Lemon Tonight’ comes to an end.last CNN primetime broadcastIt marks the end of a CNN era filled with the host’s sensational, out-of-context, and flat-out untrue statements, sometimes uttered to attack conservatives or advance a liberal agenda.
Last fall, the anchor embroiled himself and his network in controversy after claiming that podcast host Joe Rogan was taking a horse"Rogan, who had mentioned on his podcast that he was taking Ivermectin for his bout with the virus, was accused by Lemon on air of taking a"horse dewormer," as it has been used to treat horses dealing with parasites.
Substack journalist Glenn Greenwald torched Lemon and CNN for the incident at the time, tweeting,"They told viewers he took horse dewormer: a 100% lie. He took the human version of ivermectin prescribed by his medical doctor. But as I said, lying is not frowned upon at CNN: it's encouraged." Though Fordwich wasn’t buying the narrative. She turned it back on Lemon, saying there are plenty of Africans who sold their own people into slavery that owe descendants reparations, if paying reparations becomes a policy. She said,"Well I think you’re right about reparations in terms of – if people want it though, what they need to do is, you always need to go back to the beginning of the supply chain.
Last month, Jamie Rhome, the acting director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Hurricane Center, refuted Lemon’s insistence that the intensity and large size of Hurricane Ian wasAt the time, the Florida-bound hurricane had been intensifying to near Category 5 levels. The anchor spoke to Rhome about the"period of rapid intensification" and specifically asked if"climate change" was causing this.
Though the Washington Post gave Biden’s claims"four Pinocchios" – its rating for the most egregious misinformation – and CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale admitted Biden wasn’t being truthful, Lemon insisted that Biden had accidentally said the wrong thing and that conservatives were making a big deal of the remark.
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