CNN's Don Lemon criticized Blake Masters, the GOP candidate for the US Senate seat from Arizona, over his "affirmative motion" feedback.
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CNN host Don Lemon blasted Arizona GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters for labeling President Biden’s cupboard an “affirmative motion regime” after the administration touted the range of its personnel.
Lemon, the ratings-challenged host of “Don Lemon Tonight,” appeared on CNN’s “New Day” on Wednesday and slammed the Trump-backed candidate, accusing him of exploiting resentment of “disaffected” and “aggrieved” white individuals.
He made the feedback as CNN’s new company mum or dad, Warner Bros. Discovery, has given the community’s new boss, Chris Licht, a mandate to chop down on opinion-driven programming and commentary.
Earlier this month, Licht made the dramatic determination to fireplace the community’s media reporter, Brian Stelter, and cancel his long-running media criticism present “Dependable Sources.”
Stelter, Lemon and Jim Acosta, CNN’s former White Home chief correspondent and present anchor, have been thought-about by many to be the face of CNN’s anti-Trump “resistance” programming.
Lemon started his assault on Masters by saying, “He is aware of precisely what he’s doing. He doesn’t consider something he’s saying … and that he’s attempting to rile up his base.”
“He’s … attempting to succeed in this white inhabitants who feels aggrieved. It’s a grievance tradition,” Lemon added.
Lemon’s feedback have been transcribed by the information web site Mediaite.
Masters triggered a stir on social media together with his assault on Biden this week.
“Look, I don’t care if each single worker on the Fed is a black lesbian,” Masters, who's working to unseat the incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly this November, stated in a Twitter video titled with the caption “I’m declaring struggle on Joe Biden’s dysfunctional affirmative motion regime.”
“So long as they’re employed for his or her competence and never due to what they appear like or who they sleep with.”
Masters added: “Information for Joe Biden. We're finished with this affirmative motion regime.”
Masters doubled down on a tweet from Sunday wherein he criticized the Related Press information company for a narrative touting “essentially the most various ever” management on the Federal Reserve.
“There are extra feminine, Black and homosexual officers contributing to the central financial institution’s interest-rate choices than at any time in its 109-year historical past,” the AP tweeted.
Masters sarcastically responded: “Lastly a compelling clarification for why our economic system is doing so effectively.”
Lemon’s 10 p.m. nightly present has been lagging effectively behind its opponents within the cable information rankings race.
Based on Nielsen rankings cited by Mediaite, Lemon’s present was watched by 509,000 viewers on Monday night time — effectively beneath the two.03 million who tuned in to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell and the two.07 million who watched Laura Ingraham on Fox Information.
Lemon fared worse within the second hour of his present on Monday night time, throughout which he drew simply 422,000 viewers — a fifth of the top-rated “Gutfeld!” on Fox Information.
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