Following almost a year of living in obscurity after being fired by CNN, disgraced primetime host Don Lemon was set to make his return as a political commentator with a show that would premier exclusively on X; with owner Elon Musk being his first guest. But the dream arraignment was over before it really started as Musk killed the deal after Lemon conducted a 90-minute interview that was apparently rather contentious. With their deal torn up, Lemon sprinted to his former employer to whine and claim Musk didn’t really value free speech.
Despite CNN being largely opposed to the idea of free speech (often only favoring the freedom if the press portion of the First Amendment), OutFront host Erin Burnett started off her show by trying to paint Musk as a hypocrite. “Now, this decision coming as Musk had, of course, publicly courted Lemon and has repeatedly made a commitment to free speech when he bought Twitter again and again and again,” she said, following up with a montage of instances of Musk talking about free speech.
In explaining “what happened,” Lemon admitted that there were “tense” moments during the interview and attacked Musk’s commitment to free speech. “Free speech is only important when someone you don’t like, or I would say someone who doesn’t have your same point of view are — someone is — if they’re allowed to speak freely and to say their point of view,” he bloviated. “Apparently, that doesn’t matter to Elon Musk. It’s just for maybe talking points for him or rhetoric…”
Lemon, a documented race baiter, might have also tried to make the flare up about race because he suggested Musk didn’t like getting “questions about him from people like me.”
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