During a conference Thursday in New York City, CNN “news anchor” and “journalist” Don Lemon reportedly claimed that neither he nor his employer boast a liberal bias and whined that he may step down from his job before 2020 due to the “toxicity” in Trump’s America.

Both sets of remarks were made at a “Future of News” conference hosted by the Financial Times. While there’s no video footage of either set of remarks, the first set — that CNN isn’t a liberal network — was revealed by Financial Times columnist Kenneth Fisher:

While the remarks had yet to go viral as of Friday morning, they’d already triggered a flurry of mockery for obvious reasons.

Look:

I totally agree. If an entire network cannot tolerate hearing a single word that is antithetical to its narrative, it isn’t liberal at all – just really, really leftist. — Nancy Hirst (@GreatGramGreen) June 6, 2019

Completely out of touch or intentional? — Sir (@holdingmyplace) June 6, 2019

He’s kidding, right? Or he’s trying to be a comedian, right? pic.twitter.com/Mh2EXtZM7N — Howard Lerner (@HowardL168) June 7, 2019

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Too funny. I have read and seen a lot of deluded lies in the past few years but this one ranks right at the top. — The Alt-Middle (@thealtmiddlenet) June 6, 2019

Liberals never consider their views liberal. It is some sort of insulation they have that protects them against reality. The late Don Hewitt of 60 min fame had all lib views on guns taxes etc, but said they weren’t liberal views they were the right view. pic.twitter.com/5ejY7vG2Uu — shark bite (@sharkbitetony) June 6, 2019

If there existed a “Lemon Law” for so-called journalists, Don Lemon would be “recalled”.

What a joke! Lemon, Cuomo and the other frauds on CNN and MSNBC are an extension of the DNC. — Bob Petrozzino (@BobPetrozzino) June 6, 2019

If CNN isn’t liberal, then water isn’t wet. All facts — as in actual facts — point to CNN being a far-left network that functions as a branch of the Democrat Party.

According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll published in March, 99 percent of CNN’s audience views President Donald Trump in a negative light.

“‘Has the President been truthful or honest on Russia?’ Among Fox viewers, 84 percent of Fox viewers believe the president has been truthful. Among MSNBC viewers, that’s 21 percent. Among CNN viewers, that’s one percent,” NBC’s Chuck Todd explained at the time.

“Conversely, 12 percent of Fox viewers, 76 percent of MSNBC viewers, and again, 99 percent of CNN viewers thought the President had lied.”

Listen:

That’s not normal …

Nor is it normal that over 90 percent of the network’s coverage of President Donald Trump is negative. And it’s certainly not normal for a network and its “journalists” to …

Defend Antifa:

CNN’s Chris Cuomo says Antifa is “a good cause” pic.twitter.com/mCMgoyPszQ — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 30, 2019

Ignore crimes that bolster the president’s point about illegal alien crime:

CNN still has not published *anything* about the illegal alien who was charged in Dallas last week for allegedly murdering 12 elderly women Both stories are sad and violence is never okay However, it shows that CNN is not a news organization, it’s a far-left activist group https://t.co/Y63JogeoeS — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 20, 2019

Not 1 word pic.twitter.com/HCcNpijyBp — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 20, 2019

Here’s the story, which broke several days ago: Suspected Illegal Alien Serial Killer Charged In Killings Of 12 Elderly Womenhttps://t.co/RuvvPcD8Kb — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 20, 2019

And make up “facts”:

CNN won’t say where they got these “facts”: “35 US School Shootings Since Fall”

“336 School Shootings Since 2008” Misleading: “373,663 Killed By Gun Violence From 2007-2017.” This includes: -Unintentional

-Suicide

-Homicide

-Undetermined

-Legal Intervention/Operations of War pic.twitter.com/BWy5i3bC4t — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 14, 2019

What makes CNN’s bias so glaring — particularly in comparison to the bias displayed by the network’s counterparts at MSNBC and Fox News — is its continued denial.

It’s a point noted by Lara Logan, an award-winning journalist, earlier this year.

“I was wondering myself this morning … Is Don Lemon an opinion person?” she said in April. ” Like, I know Sean Hannity is [on the] right, he makes no secret of it. So does Tucker Carlson. So does Laura Ingraham. But what about Don Lemon? Is he an opinion person?”

“Rachel Maddow, I know where she sits. So what about people like Don Lemon … There’s a lot of opinion in his show,” Logan told Levin. “In fact, it’s almost all opinion from beginning to end and Stelter, who is the media guy… appears to be the anti-Fox guy.”

Exactly. Even some Democrat party officials have admitted as much.

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Dovetailing back to the conference, Lemon reportedly also whined about the “toxicity” he allegedly suffers.

“Lemon told the audience at the Financial Times’ ‘Future of News’ conference in New York City on Thursday that he was not sure how long he could keep doing his CNN show while Trump was in the White House,” The Daily Beast reported.

“I don’t know if it’s worth this level of toxicity. I’m 10 years older than when he rode down the escalator in July 2015,” he said, adding that Trump’s presidency has threatened “my privacy, my safety and security, and the safety and security of my loved ones and my family.”

One could argue that now he knows how anyone who’s not a far-left zealot feels …

‘Taking this threat very seriously.’ Michael Savage hit with death threat so disturbing he goes into hiding https://t.co/nlSDrAiNof pic.twitter.com/Y93loBXyXg — Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) January 3, 2019

@realDonaldTrump: THIS MUST STOP WE ARE TURNING INTO 3rd WORLD>’We will rape you for days’: Threat to Vermont GOP candidate includes ‘open season for Republican death’ https://t.co/gkdLQXZ2TW via @BIZPACReview — DeplorableCrowCount (@DeplorableCrowC) October 23, 2018

⁦@DNC⁩ and the left try to convince people they support freedom of speech and yet they repress us. We must put this show on! Theater backs out of Dean Cain-starring play about Mueller investigation, producers give fiery response https://t.co/p9QQLLN9HC — rstet1 (@rstet1) June 1, 2019

“I wonder how long I will continue to do this particular job,” he continued, adding that he’s been harassed in public by alleged Trump supporters.

Harassed like this, you mean?

By the way, here’s how many stories CNN has run about the disturbing altercation above: ZERO.

Speaking later Thursday evening on CNN, Lemon clarified that he doesn’t actually plan to quit.

“The headlines are hyperbolic and they don’t really reflect the tone and the conversation that I had,” he said. “Someone asked me a question about how tough it’s been the last couple years with all of this alternative reality and the president attacking you and all that, and I gave a very honest answer, but I’m not going anywhere, knock on Wood.”

So it’s hyperbolic to quote his exact words? Gotcha …

#ThisIsCNN

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