Did you seriously say that, Don Lemon?
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Don Lemon commented on when women are in their prime. It’s an almost unimaginably stupid assertion. Michele fires back.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sidelined Sanity, everyone, with me, Michelle Tafoya, sponsored by Legacy, precious |
| 0:05.9 | metals. There really has never been a better time to start looking at precious metals and make that |
| 0:10.3 | investment. Go to legacy p.m. Investments.com. Today is February 16th, 2023, and you may have heard that Nikki Haley, the former ambassador to the U.N., the former governor of the state of South Carolina, has thrown her hat into the presidential ring. |
| 0:29.6 | And when she's been talking in the last 24 hours, she mentioned that she thinks there ought to be term limits. |
| 0:36.6 | And she thinks that politicians who are quote unquote past their prime need to, you know, maybe leave office. |
| 0:46.0 | It's not a new thought, but she used the phrase past their prime. |
| 0:51.9 | So what she suggested was that, you know, a cognitive ability test be, be administered. |
| 0:58.7 | And I think we can certainly agree. |
| 1:00.5 | Everyone wanted that for Donald Trump. |
| 1:03.1 | Everyone wanted Trump to take a cognitive ability. |
| 1:04.9 | Everyone was very curious about his mental health. |
| 1:08.3 | Are we curious about the health of people in other parties, other political |
| 1:13.0 | parties? Because I haven't heard a call for that until Nikki Haley made this statement about people |
| 1:19.2 | being past their prime. Well, it gets really interesting. Some of you may be familiar with |
| 1:27.1 | Don Lemon. No, be familiar with Don Lemon. |
| 1:28.3 | No, it is not Don Lemon. |
| 1:30.1 | That's sort of a make-fun name that people use. |
| 1:33.3 | Don Lemon, anchor at CNN, was in prime time, now is in the morning show. |
| 1:38.0 | And it's been in the news for a number of reasons lately, but continues to keep his job there in spite of that. |
| 1:44.2 | What he said this morning about Nikki Haley, I didn't believe at first. |
| 1:51.8 | I read it and I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. |
| 1:55.2 | And it wasn't really just about Nikki Haley. |
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