CNN Squeezes Last Drops From Bruised Lemon: Why We Need Lemon Laws For TV Talking Heads

Posted • October 16, 2024: We need a lemon law (well, a 'Don Lemon' law of sorts) to shield us from washed-up media talking heads. For those who don't know lemon laws are meant to protect consumers who've unknowingly purchased shoddy products that repeatedly fail to meet quality standards. This usually refers to clunky cars that fall apart when you drive them off the dealership lot. Earlier this election cycle saw the rotund return of CNN's Brian Stelter. Now CNN is souring the airwaves with the unwarranted return of Don Lemon. Sadly, the third-place network is desperately trying to pass off two sputtering old wrecks as showroom prizes as the wheels fall off both their faltering news vehicle and the Harris/Walz campaign.

It’s gotten so bad for Kamala, CNN has dragged Don Lemon out of obscurity to trash Trump’s mental state: "He’s not ok." This is getting downright comical. -- Lemon: "He's not okay. That behavior is not okay. Let's just be honest about it. It's odd. It's weird. If you look at his rallies, you'll see when he went to Coachella, he just sort of stands there, and, you know, wants people to sort of, like, bask in the glow of the applause when he, when he goes to just regular rallies." - "He waits for, you know, I'm proud to be an American. He stands there the entire time and just like, you know, letting people sort of praise him as if he's a monarch, this behavior is not okay. And I think leading up to the election, it's going to get worse. The hyperbole, the sort of unusual behavior. It's going to get worse as he gets more desperate until Election Day comes."

A “monarch.” This line of attack is hilariously desperate — made even more so that they’ve trotted a highly incoherent Don Lemon out to make it. For a network that claims it's looking forward, the decision makers keep checking the rear-view mirror for solutions and shifting the whole lumbering mess of a 'news' outlet into reverse. Breakdown is imminent and we'll soon be towing this clunker back to the lot. Better yet, skip the lot and head right to the junkyard. (…)

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