Don Lemon has been an outspoken pundit during his time as a cable news anchor, and has routinely caught the ire of conservatives for his stances. 1210 WPHT host Dom Giordano took issue with an assertation made by Lemon, and said he hasn’t always been this way.
The moment came on CNN This Morning as Lemon and Audie Cornish discussed the decision by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) to ban an African American advanced placement course in state high schools after stating that the course was guilty of “pushing an agenda on our kids”.
“People of the moment say ‘We shouldn’t be talking about X because it’s too political, get it out of the classroom’…I don’t know where he wants to draw the line,” Cornish said. “Slavery was political at one point. Martin Luther King, who Republicans love to talk about every January, this was a political movement. And no one wanted to learn about that then, either. If that’s the lineage he wants to join — people who are saying don’t talk about the political thinking of people of marginalized groups– he’s welcome to do it.”
“So, slavery became illegal, and now it’s going to become illegal to teach it?” Lemon questioned before adding “Isn’t education all about critical thinking?”
“My god, you stupid moron!” Giordano shouted as the clip of Lemon’s thoughts concluded. “Don Lemon is being paid millions of dollars a year.”
Giordano then noted that he has known Lemon since he was a local news anchor in the City of Brotherly Love.
“We know him! At the old building — a few old buildings ago — he used to be right down the hall from us at NBC 10. He seemed ok when he was on NBC 10. He used to stop in many times. He’s a big time figure in the media. Very recognizable. But this is a racist country, and a racist couldn’t have prevented this,” Giordano sarcastically concluded.
Lemon, 56, began his television career in Birmingham, before working in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chicago, and NBW News in New York before joining CNN in 2006.
