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As conservative hosts continue to be held to a higher standard than others, it’s interesting to find out just how severe the imbalance really can be.

One major example is CNN’s Don Lemon. His on-air career history is filled with insensitive statements, bizarre gaffes and general weirdness. Where were the calls for his removal during these key moments?

That’s why the Media Equality Project and #StopTheScalpings have decided to highlight Lemon’s peculiar history and the resulting crickets heard from the same people calling for the heads of every conservative talker in the country.

While he has occasionally generated mild criticism from his own side after some of his worst moments, the matters are quickly forgotten.

As TPM reports, Lemon in 2014 lectured a female rape victim on the finer points of fighting back, sort of:

LEMON: Can I ask you this, and please, I don’t mean to be crude, OK? JOAN TARSHIS, COSBY ACCUSER: Yeah.

LEMON: Because I know some of you, and you said this last night, that he — you lied to him and said “I have an infection, and if you rape me, or if you have intercourse with me, then you will probably get it and give it to your wife.” TARSHIS: Right. LEMON: And you said he made you perform oral sex. TARSHIS: Right. LEMON: You know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn’t want to do it. TARSHIS: Oh. I was kind of stoned at the time, and quite honestly, that didn’t even enter my mind. Now I wish it would have. LEMON: Meaning the using of the teeth, right? TARSHIS: Mmhmm. Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking you’re — LEMON: As a weapon. TARSHIS: Yeah, I didn’t even think of it. LEMON: Biting. TARSHIS: Ouch. LEMON: I had to ask. TARSHIS: No, it didn’t cross my mind.

While he later apologized, there were no leftist calls for his outright removal.

In a dubious, career-defining moment, Lemon asked in 2014 (this was a particularly bad year for Lemon) if it was “preposterous” to think a “black hole” swallowed up missing Malaysian flight 370:

Later, he defended the network’s bizarre plane coverage, but there were no calls for removal, or even a psych evaluation:

Though CNN President Jeff Zucker reportedly called Lemon “an idiot”, no one ever labelled him “embattled” or “under fire”.

When it comes to disciplining children, Lemon really knows how to go off the deep end, comparing kids to dogs:

When Lemon makes a gaffe, the full extent of his cluelessness becomes immediately apparent. During riots in Ferguson, Missouri, he didn’t know the difference between fully automatic and semi-automatic weapons (which are two very different animals in terms of use and legality):

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