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The Don Lemon Show

LEMON DROP | Bari Weiss’ CBS Town Hall with Erika Kirk Was A FAILURE!

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Don breaks down the failure of Bari Weiss’ CBS town hall with Erika Kirk, an event that ultimately fell flat with viewers. The ratings were weak, the response was mixed at best, and many were left questioning the editorial choices behind the broadcast. Don examines why the town hall struggled to connect, the lack of journalistic pushback, and what this moment may signal about CBS’s apparent attempt to shift right in search of a new audience. Is this a misread of what viewers actually want? And what does it mean for a legacy network navigating a rapidly changing media landscape? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Get started today at Vantor.com. Let's talk the media. And I want to talk CBS once again because I think Walter Cronkite is turning in his grave right now. And I don't say that lightly because what we're watching at CBS News right now, it's not,

0:56.0

I don't think you can just say it's a programming misstep or it's a bad weekend experiment.

1:00.0

It feels like something more serious than that.

1:04.0

Like the network is drifting.

1:07.0

Like there's confusion.

1:09.0

They don't, they don't, they can't find their footing like you know like a network

1:13.2

that doesn't quite know who it's speaking to anymore and let me just i'm just going to say this

1:18.8

up front i've gone through this before and if they continue down this road it's not going to work

1:24.2

i don't believe it's going to work they're never going to to get the conservative Fox News viewers. It's just it doesn't work that way.

1:33.0

And it takes a while in order to do that, you've got to be all in. Like every part of the day has to be that or it's not going to work.

1:44.0

And so when a place like CBS News loses its sense of self, that should worry anyone who still

1:49.2

believes journalism matters.

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