Posted on 12/31/2016 11:19:39 PM PST by Pinkbell
CNN's New Year's Eve coverage featured Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin in NYC and then had various anchors/reporters at other locations. They put Brooke Baldwin and Don Lemon together in New Orleans. They cut to them throughout the night, and at 12:30, they went to them for the last half hour of live coverage to ring in the new year in New Orleans which is in Central time zone.
Don Lemon was clearly drunk when they came on the air at 8:00. As the night wore on, he climbed up on the bar, was pouring drinks, drinking drinks, doing shots, etc. There was a tattoo parlor across the street, and he went over and got his ear pierced. This was all before 12:30.
At 12:30 they went fully over to Don Lemon and Brooke Baldwin. He began by stating that he's thinking about getting into a relationship this year and said he's hard to date because he does him and doesn't care what people think of him.
There was brief joking mention of him getting a Trump tattoo (which was quashed). Any viewer of his show can tell he dislikes Trump, but he/CNN tries to feign objectivity. Yet the reason they was joking over him getting that Trump tattoo was because everyone knows he doesn't like Trump.
Don Lemon got more drinks from the bar & then he danced on this bar thing as the night wore on.
At the end of the show, when midnight hit, Don Lemon says that, "2016 WAS AWFUL!" Bam! At that point, CNN cut the mic and went to music and fireworks. It seemed like they were going to cut in at some point but then went out.
I have a feeling they cut the mic then because they were scared he was going to start bashing Trump. It's ok, CNN. We've seen his show. It's not like it would be shocking.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdR1NZ3xl1Y
When CNN finally did come in, Don Lemon (who is gay) asked Brooke Baldwin to marry him. Of course, this is the same guy who said to Kathy Griffin last year on the NYE special, "Nice rack," on live TV after Kathy Griffin stripped down to her underwear.
Video:
http://jezebel.com/don-lemon-out-don-lemons-himself-tells-kathy-griffin-s-1750607148
To conclude the night, they interviewed people in the crowd and asked people where they would like to travel to this year. They found some despondent liberals who wanted to time travel to before Trump's election. Haha!
CNN might have thought they were fooling people by cutting that mic, but they fooled no one. We know why he thought the year was terrible. Liberals' new refrain is that 2016 was the worst year ever. Check out this video by Paul Joseph Watson:
NO, IDIOTS, 2016 WASN'T THE "WORST YEAR EVER"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17lUTNdkOuk
Anyway, we'll never know if actually ripped into Trump or if CNN was just afraid he would. Nevertheless, CNN should have let him finish without cutting the mic. We would not have been surprised. The honesty would have been refreshing.
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lol.... sounds like Don Lemon thoroughly embarrassed himself.
One of these times, Lemon will go too far. Right now, some Program Managers may be afraid to tell him to stop coming on the air visibly drunk, but their afraid of repercussions.
Would he play the Race Card,the Gay Card, the (Comparitive) Youth Card or the one for the Noveau Riche who are still movin on up?
Well, he was drunk on NYE. I believe he was drunk last year on NYE too, although I don’t know if it was this bad or not. I’ve never seen him drunk doing an actual newscast.
Twitter had a field day.
CNN was pathetic... nipple rubbing and all...
Sounds like he has a bit of a drinking problem. I wonder if he’s allowed to drink on the job.
Media = scuzzballs/lowlifes
I don’t assume it was just alcohol.
I can’t imagine caring less about what Don Lemon thinks, says, or does than I already did, but now I REALLY don’t care about the POS.
I was reading what you wrote and it was like some kind of parody. It’s hilarious! But it really happened? How can they put this clown back in the air?
Found some more video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUlGwmKNtHM
I did get one thing wrong. It seems the ear piercing was done at the bar, not the tattoo parlor.
Still better than Mariah Carey.
We watched Fox News coverage with Watters and Guilfoyle for the first time and it was mostly great with some good performances and a serviceman got engaged live on TV and it was announced a servicewoman got a free home that will be built for her family in 2017.
Unfortunately, right before midnight some performer said she had a song for 2017 and it was “Imagine” by Lennon, so we turned the channel. A song that promotes communism isn’t a good dedication song for any year.
We ended up counting down at the last few minutes with Jenny McArthy.
Brooke Baldwin. Is there any more dead-eyed moron on TV today? Probably. From seeing CNN in restaurants, it seems her fill-in is Pamela Brown. She may be a lib moron, too, but she’s pretty hubba hubba.
Kathy Griffith was there to give CNN some class?
Savannah Guthrie is way stupid.
Savannah is Katie Couric stupid.
We tuned in to Fox around 11:00. All was well until they ran Bahn Ki Moon on the set and pumped him every which way to get him to badmouth Israel and Trump. How LOW can you GO?! Bahn Ki Moon on a NYE celebration?!! Hard up to denigrate Trump.
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