Fox News Drags Don Lemon for Self-Identifying as ‘The Arbiter of the Truth’: ‘It’s Pretty Laughable’ (Video)

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first interview since his firing, slamming the journalist for positioning himself as what Hallberg deemed “the arbiter of the truth.”“I think it’s pretty laughable to most people,” she said.

The “Fox & Friends First” discussion kicked off Monday with Shimkus introducing the fact that in his first interview since being fired from CNN in April, Lemon maintained that he has and will continue to always “tell the truth” and “abide by the promises of the Constitution.”“Someone we haven’t heard from in awhile is former CNN anchor Don Lemon,” Shimkus began. “He just did his first interview since getting fired about two months ago, and he says, ‘I have a responsibility not only as a journalist but as an American to tell the truth and to abide by the promises of the Constitution because the Constitution says “a more perfect union,” not, “a perfect union.” I’m not perfect, no one is.

In order to fulfill the promise of the Constitution, we have to stand up for what is right, and we have to stand up for the truth.'”The host then punted it over to Hallberg, who was videoing in as a contributor. “I think it’s pretty laughable to most people that Don Lemon thinks he is the arbiter of the truth,” she began, making note of a well-documented discrepancy in his retelling of his CNN dismissal. “We can even look at his past interaction with CNN.

On the day he was fired, he sent out a tweet saying that he had no opportunity to talk to management, to which CNN replied with their own tweets saying that is absolutely false, that they did reach out to him.” On April 24, Lemon announced the news of his firing from his home network of 17 years via tweet, writing, “I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN.