Some more insight. Mostly the same but,

"We hiring at Wingstop," he added. "And for some reason, I believe you know what you doing with the lemon pepper wings, so man, just send over your résumé. I'mma make sure I get you in front of the right grill, brother. Stay solid, brother."

https://www.insider.com/rick-r...er-cnn-firing-2023-4

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Don Lemon Angry After Elon Musk Cancels His New Show on Twitter

If I was a billionaire media mogul, I'd hire Don Lemon just to have the satisfaction of firing him.

Anything that clenches Lemon’s sphincter is fine by me. I hope he cries himself to sleep tonight.

Right from the horse's mouth...

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1767961809967829154

quote:

Originally posted by Elon Musk:
His approach was basically just “CNN, but on social media”, which doesn’t work, as evidenced by the fact that CNN is dying.

And, instead of it being the real Don Lemon, it was really just Jeff Zucker talking through Don, so lacked authenticity.

All this said, Lemon/Zucker are of course welcome to build their viewership on this platform along with everyone else.

Sounds fine to me. The poofter can still promote his show on X like anybody else, they just aren't going to sponsor it or pay him to do it.

Lemon will shellacked on X. I can’t wait to see it.

Lemon had a great opportunity by having Musk as the subject of his interview. Somewhere during that time, he ran out of talent and decided to become confrontational to try to make himself more relevant.
He has the option to use X but now wants to show it elsewhere, YouTube I believe.

Crybaby can still uses twitter like millions of others. Musk simply canceled their potential business relationship.

Oh, my. The trolling is and will be relentless, and Mrs. Lemon will not like it.

https://twitter.com/JustOneSin.../1766311041397326028

Mark Dice is always entertaining in his analysis.

Wow, she is one dumb woman. She literally screenshots X’s response, highlights and reads one sentence, and in the background the rest of the response clearly stated Lemon is welcome to broadcast his show without censorship on X. It is the definition of taking something out of context, telling half the story, lying. It is idiocy on full display. She is an idiot for being part of that.

Don Lemon demanded Tesla Cybertruck, $5M advance, equity in X before Elon Musk canned him: sources

By Ariel Zilber
Published March 15, 2024, 8:26 p.m. ET

Don Lemon demanded the sun, the moon and the stars from the SpaceX boss – before being unceremoniously dumped this week, The Post has learned.

The ex-CNN anchor sent over an astronomical wish list to Elon Musk during contract talks to host a show on the billionaire’s social media platform X – including a free Tesla Cybertruck, a $5 million upfront payment on top of an $8 million salary, an equity stake in the multibillion-dollar company, and the right to approve any changes in X policy as it relates to news content, according to a document reviewed by The Post.

Lemon — who was expected to air an interview with Musk for next week’s debut episode on X — had also demanded a private jet flight to Las Vegas, a suite for him and his fiance, and that the company pay for their day drinking and massages, a source with knowledge of the situation said.

Musk agreed to do the interview with Lemon despite the fact that he was aware of some of Lemon’s outlandish demands, sources told The Post.

The proposal reviewed by The Post was sent from Lemon’s agents at United Talent Agency to X’s leadership in December.

The partnership was announced in January, but an X spokesperson told The Post that the company “did not have a final or signed agreement with Don Lemon or ‘The Don Lemon Show'” before Musk sat down for the explosive interview last week.

X declined to comment on the details of the document.

Jay Sures, vice chairman at UTA, told The Post: “This is absolute, complete utter nonsense without an iota of truth to it.”

Lemon was fired hours after the one-on-one sit-down, with Musk calling the anchor “dull” and “underwhelming.”

The one-and-half hour grilling included testy exchanges about Musk’s political leanings, his past drug use and the site’s content moderation policy. It is scheduled to run on YouTube next week.

Lemon claimed on Wednesday that he was jettisoned by X because Musk reneged on his “free speech” pledge.

Lemon’s discussions with the company began shortly after he was fired by CNN last April after a series of high-profile incidents, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.

In an interview with veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher on Friday, Lemon claimed they held discussions over the summer in which the company threatened to fire him if he did not attend the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas.

CES, which was held earlier this year between Jan. 7 and 10, is one of the most highly anticipated events on the tech calendar as companies including X flock to the show in order to schmooze advertisers.

A spokesperson for X called Lemon’s claim “a disingenuous lie.”

Lemon wanted to be flown to the convention with his longtime fiance on a private jet and be put up in a private suite, as well as for X to foot the bill for alcoholic beverages and massages that he and his fiance ordered during their stay at the Vdara, the MGM-run resort on the Las Vegas Strip, according to people familiar with the matter.

The negotiations progressed after Musk brought former NBCUniversal advertising executive Linda Yaccarino on board as chief executive officer of X, sources said.

But the talks stalled over Lemon’s extensive demands, which included executive assistants as well as a marketing budget that ranged from $10 million to $15 million, people with knowledge of the situation told The Post.

A spokesperson for Lemon told The Post: “There is nothing in your list of demands that you claim Don made of X that is true. Literally nothing.”

^^^ Kind of hard to believe that even that asshole Lemon would be so brash.
Pretty outrageous if true but how true is it, really?

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Originally posted by smschulz:
^^^ Kind of hard to believe that even that asshole Lemon would be so brash.
Pretty outrageous if true but how true is it, really?

The $5 million up front ask would tick me off. The equity stake in the company would have me showing him the door also.

If fate hands you a Lemon, for God’s sake throw it away!

I'm willing to bet Tucker Carlson did not have these sort of demands. And Don Lemon's CNN ratings were abysmal. His last show had an average of just over 300,000 viewers per broadcast while Carlson had millions.