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Have you noticed that bullies tend to grovel when threatened? They are cruel when they have the upper hand, but cringe, cower, and whimper whenever confronted with superior force.
A case in point is the smarmy CNN dittohead Don Lemón. Last week, while commenting about flash-in-the-pan presidential candidate Nikki Haley, he suggested that women over forty were no longer in their “prime.”
One might ask how Lemón, who takes every opportunity to advertise his homosexuality (also his race), would know. But let’s leave that epistemic puzzle to one side. “Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime, sorry,” Lemón declared. “A woman is considered to be in their [er, that’s “her,” Don, “her”] prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s. If you Google ‘when is a woman in her prime,’ it’ll say 20s, 30s and 40s.”
Well, the world’s biggest surveillance network said it, so it must be true.
The Twittersphere was alive with tiny eructations of unhappiness about the bitchy television yapper, especially from the distaff side. Take a look at Megyn Kelly’s Twitter feed on the subject. Contra Google, Kelly, though 52, is still certifiably dishy.
Goethe’s last words are said to have been “mehr Licht,” “more light.” But where is CNN CEO Chris Licht when you need him? We needed mehr Licht but got weniger Licht instead. The boss man ought to have taken this golden opportunity to relieve the former news network of one its most embarrassing acts. But no. He consented to a little face-saving “formal training” for the silly man — meaning, I suppose, that Lemón would be instructed to keep his maw shut when it came to making casual disparaging remarks about women.
As for promoting policies that actually harm women — for example, encouraging confused men to parade around in women’s clothes, compete on sports teams against women, and even mutilate themselves in a vain attempt to become women — well, such insane policies have the bad housekeeping seal of woke approval. So they are firing on all cylinders in politically correct redoubts like CNN.
So Licht welcomed Lemón back from his little timeout. This morning, Lemón issued one of the those grating mock apologies that minor celebrities emit when caught out in some misdemeanor. “I appreciate the opportunity to be back on @CNNThisMorning, today,” the mildly chagrined mouthpiece tweeted. “To my network, my colleagues and our incredible audience — I’m sorry. I’ve heard you, I’m learning from you, and I’m committed to doing better.”
Note that Nikki Haley was not mentioned in this mock apology.
Not that it matters, of course. Nikki Haley is not going to be president, but she is still very much in her prime. Something that no one would say about the pathetic Don Lemón.
