Former CNN host Don Lemon was recently speaking at an event where he suggested that CNN should not even bother trying to be more centrist because people on the right will never watch a ‘factual news organization.’
Every once in a while people like Lemon reveal just how utterly delusional they really are. It is amazing that he was able to say this with a straight face.
Calling CNN factual is like calling MSNOW conservative. It’s just a straight-up denial of reality.
The only person on CNN who ever tells the truth is Scott Jennings, and if he had his own show in primetime, there are people on the right who would watch it. In fact, it’d probably be their top rated show.
Mediaite has details:
Ex-CNN star Don Lemon said soon-to-be CNN owner David Ellison is crazy to believe the cable news channel can win more viewers by covering stories from a centrist or right-of-center viewpoint, with Lemon saying MAGA voters are not interested in watching a “factual news network.”
He shared his take on CNN’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery being bought by Paramount Skydance and what it means for his old channel during an interview with Bulwark podcast host Tim Miller on Saturday. The interview was part of the fifth annual New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University.
Lemon said he was talking to frequent CNN guest and Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary recently about CNN changing its slant. O’Leary said CNN needs to “come to the middle” to win viewers, according to Lemon — and Lemon let him know that idea is foolish.
“You’re out of your mind, that’s never going to happen, are you crazy?” he said. “Those folks are never ever going to watch CNN and they’re never going to watch any network that’s a factual news network.”
Here’s the video:
Don Lemon: Making CNN less lefty won’t work, because the viewers they’d be trying to get aren’t interested in facts.
“Those folks are never going to watch any network that is a factual news organization.”
This was said today. After the week CNN had.
Incredible.
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— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 14, 2026
Like so many people on the left, Don Lemon is simply not operating in reality. He lives in a fantasy world where CNN is factual and balanced, all Republicans are fascists, and Democrats believe in fairness. None of it is true except in Don’s little mind.
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