CNN anchor Don Lemon lashed out at White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, accusing her of pushing propaganda while she was critical of media.
Lemon criticized his former colleague during his Wednesday show, noting that she used to work for CNN as a paid commentator and saying that she had been happy with the network when she was getting paid to be there.
“Do you know she also worked for — girl, bye. I mean there’s no other — girl, bye. Buh-bye,” Lemon began, adding, “So much disinformation coming from the podium.”
Lemon went on to McEnany for being critical of media, specifically CNN.
“It’s every day, it’s like, comes out, reads propaganda, talks about the what the media is doing, criticizes the media, ‘This what you should be covering.’ I think we got this,” he said.
“You used to sit here on the set with us. I think we got it. When you sat here with us, you thought we had it. You were happy to be here, but now we don’t know what we are doing? Girl, bye.”
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The comments come after White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany criticized the media on Tuesday.
At the end of the media briefing, McEnany segued from a story the media wasn’t giving much coverage to the effect of President Donald Trump’s hard line on Iran to point out “in the last 24, 48 hours, there have been quite a few stories that have not gotten a ton of coverage in the mainstream media. As former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said, bias is often found in stories the press does not cover. And last week we found out that Democrat Congressman Eric Swalwell was infiltrated by an alleged Chinese spy.”
“But after entangling with this spy for years, Swalwell hypocritically went on to be one of the lead instigators of the Russia collusion hoax and the impeachment sham,” McEnany said.
“Swalwell wrote this on his congressional webpage: ‘President Trump and his team are directly and indirectly tied to Russia.’ That was not true. He then said in September of 2020, ‘The president has a compromised relationship with Russia.’ Untrue. April of 2019, he said, ‘President Trump certainly acts on Russia’s behalf and acts like Russia’s leader.’ Not true. January, 2019, Eric Swalwell said, ‘It’s pretty clear President Donald Trump is an agent of Russia.’ Not true.
“And Swalwell shamelessly claimed Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner had an eagerness and a willingness to work with the Russians during the 2016 election,” she continued. “Again, it was false.
“There was no coverage, however, of Swalwell being the one implicated with not Russia, but China. In fact, the New York Times website, as of this morning, had not one result for Eric Swalwell’s ties to Chinese spies. Not one result. And when the Swalwell story broke, guess how many minutes of coverage it got on ABC, NBC, MSNBC and CBS? Zero. CNN devoted three minutes and 16 seconds to it. However, it was covered on Fox.”
This is an excerpt from The Daily Caller.
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