Don Lemon Kinda, Sorta, Not Really, Apologizes for Saying Nikki Haley is Past Her Prime as a Woman
“I was trying to make the point that no one’s age should define their ambition or potential for success and I was saying those comments to Nikki Haley.”
CNN morning host Don Lemon apologized for his comments about Nikki Haley being past her prime as a woman.
I guess CNN CEO Chris Licht went off on Lemon for his latest attack on a woman:
“I’m sorry I don’t mean to hurt anyone. I did not mean to offend anyone,” Lemon said Friday morning, Fox News Digital confirmed. “What I said came out wrong and I wish I hadn’t said it. I believe women of any age can do anything they set their minds to. The people I am closest to in this organization are women.”
“When I make a mistake. I own it and I own this one as well. I understand why you are upset and disappointed,” Lemon continued. “I was trying to make the point that no one’s age should define their ambition or potential for success and I was saying those comments to Nikki Haley.”
Haley, who announced her 2024 Republican presidential candidacy, said she supported a competency test for candidates 75 and up.
Lemon thought this was an intelligent response:
Lemon: This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable. I think it’s the wrong road to go down. She says people, you know, politicians are suddenly not in their prime. Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Sorry, When a woman is in their prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s…
Poppy Harlow: What are you talking — Wait…
Lemon: That’s not according to me.
Harlow: Prime for what?
Lemon: It depends. It’s just like, prime. If you look it up. If you Google when is a woman in her prime, it’ll say 20s, 30s, 40s.
Harlow: Forties! Oh my god, I have another decade.
Lemon: I’m not saying I agree with that. So I think she has to be careful about saying that, you know, politicians are in their prime.
Harlow: Are you talking about prime for, like, childbearing? Or are you talking about prime for being president?
Lemon: Don’t shoot the messenger, I’m just saying what the facts are. Google it. Everybody at home, when is a woman in her prime? It says 20s, 30s and 40s. I’m just saying Nikki Haley should careful about saying that politics are not in their prime, and they need to be in their prime when they serve. She would not be in her prime according to Google or whatever it is.
Don Lemon says Nikki Haley “isn’t in her prime”
“A woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s, and 30s, & maybe 40s…"
Harlow: "Are you talking about prime for like, child bearing?"
“Google it! Everybody at home, ‘when is a woman in her prime?’”pic.twitter.com/u9d19x12yY
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) February 16, 2023
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It means not attractive to men, which is what a woman has going for her.
The best part is that they immediately nagged him about it.
He’s been doing his mean-girl routine for a while. It doesn’t seem to be directed at the subject but more at the real girls he works with.
Perhaps we should ease up on the guy, as he seems to have first hand knowledge of what being past one’s prime is like. Maybe he was just getting Nikki and Kamala mixed up?
In fact, I think Nikki is really angling to be Trump’s VP, knowing how good she would look against Harris. We should pray for the good health of Kagan and Sotomayor.
De Santis VP…. not a huge difference really.
…. though in cynical terms it could be asserted that she’s angling to use a man’s success to boost her own position.
I’m not entirely that cynical. Not a huge Haley fan but not necessarily a detractor either.
And, in other celebrity news…
Don took the loop freeway entirely around his own prime, so there’s that.
Don Lemon thinks typing a phrase into Google and going with the first response constitutes “research.” If he had been my student I’d have flunked him for that.
“google it” … whoa boy you’re headed for trouble. I was surprised at his lack of recognition of context for which “prime” he was describing. Peterson had a recent interview in which he and his guest discussed the “maiden, mother, matriarch” … tri-chotomy??? … and Don accidentally, ignorantly seemes to focus on that second one.
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My 10-year-old kid is smart.
Tie his shoes smart, cook breakfast smart, or do Daddy’s taxes smart?
It depends. He’s just like, smart.
Define ‘prime’
Childbearing years? 40 is about the top. My mother turned 40 right after I was born.
Bikini years? Over 30 is getting there, but some still have it later.
Party years? Face it, once you hit 25, you just don’t rebound as well as in your teens.
Studying years? A good info sponge gets less spongy after college.
Political years? Those don’t really *start* until 40. Before that is just doodling around with politics. There’s a reason Congress looks like AARP. Although once you hit mid-80s….
Past her sell-by date.
yeah, google told him her child bearing years. I think it’s fair to say women enter their political/professional primes later, especially after they’ve raised a family. Maybe that;’s partially true of men too, but men seem more able to set aside the family responsibilies.
why would haley (or any other sentient adult) give the remotest damn what donna lemone “thinks” about anything?–with an iq barely nudging 70, he’d otherwise be laid back with a blunt waiting on the mailman to bring his check
Oh, Don, Don there was just sexualizing the persona they’re painting on her to up the ick or the eeeeeew. You don’t have to think through how it works — if it feels a little uncomfortable to say, smear them with it. The discomfort will stick, n that will drive away attention, confidence and votes.
See Cialdini or Lackoff lately, of course Orwell or Bernays. Or pay attention to Brutus’ “I come not to bury Caesar, but to praise him” — a brilliant example of sliming on the associated ick with crafted pseudo-praise.
That Shakespeare guy was pretty good. Might be worth keeping his stuff around for reference.
It is clear that CNN is in a death spiral and their people are showing it. Lemon is acting out as he realizes his career is over and soon he will have nowhere to go.