Don LeMon Update: Don LeMon Might Have -- Get This -- Lied About the Reason for His Firing

Don LeMon created a fake controversy about getting fired -- again -- and then used that as advertising for his new "show," which will fail.

But he did run to the last people who fired him, CNN, to lie.

Via Instapundit:

This is all a contrived fake controversy to get LeMon an audience for his interview with Musk -- and, he hopes, to get CNN to reconsider and give him his old job back. (Or for MSNBC to decide to add another "diverse" host.)

Now, the word being pushed by Don LeMon and his allies like Kara Swisher is that Elon Musk is a First Amendment Phony because he fired Don LeMon for his speech.

First of all -- that doesn't make him a First Amendment faker. As Don LeMon has repeatedly lectured Elon Musk, there is no First Amendment right to even post one's thoughts on Twitter, let alone be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to do a "show" which essentially no one will watch.

But is it even true that Musk fired him over this interview?

Musk says no. Musk says he offered to host the show, with the standard payments based on how many people watched him.

Don LeMon, a man whose name is synonymous not only with Black Hole Travel Hazards but with ratings failure after ratings failure, demanded a guaranteed minimum payment despite not offering in return a guaranteed minimum audience.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

[Lemon] is welcome to monetize on this platform, just like everyone else.

What we aren't going to do is guarantee minimum payments to him, as he was demanding, which would be going beyond everyone else!

Unfortunately, all [Lemon] wants to do is rehash the dying CNN business model "but on social media", which will do even worse here than it did on cable TV.
11:17 PM * Mar 13, 2024

By the "dying CNN business model," Musk means this whole system of paying "talent" (LOL) a set salary.

Obviously, Musk's idea of a proper model is payments based on performance. Where LeMon is paid what the markets decide LeMon is actually worth.

For reasons that are all too obvious, Don LeMon views salary based on actual performance as a vampire views a silver crucifix hung with a wreath of garlic.

More at Black Conservative Perspective, who has more of LeMon's obvious attempt to try out again for CNN.

Don LeMon is trying to put out the fake spin that he was fired because he asked Musk about moderation on Twitter -- as if Musk has not been asked about that a thousand times -- and because he asked about Musk's admitted use of ketamine as an alternative to the standard, and apparently not very effective, anti-depression medication.

He's trying to pretend Musk was just upset by these super-unexpected questions.

Instead of Musk just saying: You're probably not going to attract any viewers to X so there's no way I'm giving you a guaranteed minimum salary. You will earn what you actually earn, just like any other publisher on X.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:00 PM

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