Lemon Musk!

It ain't over yet.

The hypocrisy of Elon Musk.

The so called "free speech absolutist" couldn't handle a Black opinion host. On top of that, he violates his pledge for his platform X to be a townhall of ideas.

All bullshit.

It will be a public relations nightmare.

Don Lemon, the former CNN host who was let go in 2023 after Vivek Ramaswamy cried about his interview style. Chris Licht, then president of CNN was ordered by David Zaslav and top Republican donors to put Lemon in his place. 

They demoted him to their failed CNN This Morning. Placed him with conservative agitator Kaitlin Collins and fiancial agitator Poppy Harlow. Lemon and Collins clashed a lot and it cost him big time.

Lemon was involved in an onscreen argument with co-anchors Collins and Harlow over the pay inequity in women's sports. Lemon argued that "people are more interested in the men". In defending his stance, he stated that he could not be sexist because he had grown up as the only male in a family of all women.

In February after former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley called for "mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old"; Lemon said "this whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable, I think it is the wrong road to go down", before continuing "She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime. Nikki Haley isn't in her prime, sorry. A woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s". His remarks were criticized online as sexist; Lemon later apologized, and did not appear on CNN This Morning on February 20; he returned on February 22.

In April 2023, Variety published a report alleging that Lemon had a history of misogynistic behavior towards his colleagues, including Soledad O'Brien, Kyra Phillips and Nancy Grace, dating back to 2008. This reportedly included questioning whether O'Brien was black, threatening Phillips, and mocking Grace. A spokesperson for Lemon denied the allegations, saying, "The story, which is riddled with patently false anecdotes and no concrete evidence, is entirely based on unsourced, unsubstantiated, 15-year-old anonymous gossip."

I bet you money, you respond to Musk with his bald head, he will block you and ban you from X.

He was fired in April on the same day Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox.

Since his firing, CNN fulfilled his remaining contract and was paid out.

He bragged about his return to television and social media. Musk asked for him to join X.

Musk owns X, formerly known as Twitter, and frequently proclaims himself a “free speech absolutist.” In a post on X, the San Francisco-based company said only that after careful consideration, it “decided not to enter into a commercial partnership with the show.” It added that Lemon’s show “is welcome to publish its content on X, without censorship, as we believe in providing a platform for creators to scale their work and connect with new communities.”

In a video posted to X, Lemon declared that “ Elon Musk is mad at me ″ and said he will be airing his interview with the Tesla CEO on YouTube and via podcast on Monday.

X cancelling Don Lemon's contract seems like a case of Elon Musk proving his critics right – revealing Musk to be thin-skinned and erratic – here's my analysis: https://t.co/rbl74vKQb0 pic.twitter.com/0ADCdXDzHZ

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 14, 2024

Don Lemon asked Elon Musk about drug use – here's some of the exchange + Lemon's context (from @OutFrontCNN tonight) pic.twitter.com/0BAVCUUHaG

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 13, 2024

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 13, 2024

Lemon didn’t go into specifics about the source of Musk’s alleged unhappiness, but wrote, “Throughout our conversation, I kept reiterating to him that although it was tense at times, I thought it was good for people to see and hear our exchange and that they would learn from our conversation.”

“But apparently free speech absolutism doesn’t apply when it comes to questions about him from people like me,” he added.

In a later CNN discussion with Lemon on Monday, anchor Erin Burnett played clips of his Musk interview in which the Tesla and SpaceX CEO grew testy when asked about content moderation and the spread of hate speech on the X platform.

March 18, the debut of The Don Lemon Show.

In the clip, Lemon asked Musk if he believed that he and his social platform held any responsibility to moderate hate speech on X. He singled out the spread of the “ great replacement theory,” a racist belief that, in its most extreme form, falsely contends that Jews are behind a plot to diminish the influence of white people in the U.S.

Musk replied sharply that he doesn’t have to answer questions from reporters. “The only reason I’m in this interview is because you’re on the X platform and you asked for it,” he said. “Otherwise I would not be doing this interview.” When Lemon followed up with a question about the criticism Musk has faced over the issue of hate speech, the CEO replied, “I’m criticized constantly. I could care less.”

X announced in January a “new content partnership” with Lemon for the show, saying it would post 30 minute episodes three times a week on subjects including politics, culture, sports and entertainment. That deal was part of the struggling platform’s efforts to bolster its content offerings and attract advertisers. X also announced shows hosted by former member of Congress Tulsi Gabbard and sports radio host Jim Rome.