Bozell: ‘If They Believed in Market Economics…They Would Fire Everybody on CNN’

(CNSNews.com) – While participating in a panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, Brent Bozell, the founder and president of the Media Research Center (of which CNSNews.com is a part) discussed Don Lemon, the co-host of CNN’s “This Morning” program.

The panel was moderated by radio host Larry O’Connor and included Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik and Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter as well as Bozell.

When former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced last month that she was running for the Republican presidential nomination, Lemon said on CNN that because of her age, Haley was a woman who was “not in her prime.”

“Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime, sorry,” said Lemon. “When a woman is considered in her prime in her twenties, or thirties, and maybe forties.”

“Let’s bring it back to Don Lemon really fast because this supposed career-ending mistake that he made—saying that Nikki Haley was past her prime—it is really my favorite video ever because of the hands on the hips,” O’Connor said at one point during the discussion.

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Addressing the issue, Bozell said to O’Connor: “If you were employed by CNN—God, help us—but if you were, and you made that statement, you wouldn’t have finished the sentence before you were fired. Absolutely, fact. It would’ve happened to any conservative. But Don Lemon—‘Well, I don’t know, let’s explain, let’s punish him a little bit.’ They are scared to death of firing Don Lemon.

“If they believed in market economics, by the way, they would fire everybody on CNN,” said Bozell.

Here is a transcript of the exchange that the CPAC panel had on Don Lemon:

Larry O’Connor: “And let’s bring it back to Don Lemon really fast because this supposed career-ending mistake that he made—saying that Nikki Haley was past her prime—it is really my favorite video ever because of the hands on the hips. He’s just so right about that.”

Chaya Raichik: “And then he said to Google it and that’s what Google says. But Google actually said the exact opposite.”

O’Connor: “But the real story here is that he only did that because he was so craven in his desire to find something to criticize a Republican woman who was running for president. He had to say something. He had to attack her, Brent. Because–.”

Brent Bozell: “If you were employed by CNN—God, help us—but if you were, and you made that statement, you wouldn’t have finished the sentence before you were fired. Absolutely, fact. It would’ve happened to any conservative. But Don Lemon—‘Well, I don’t know, let’s explain, let’s punish him a little bit.’ They are scared to death of firing Don Lemon. If they believed in market economics, by the way, they would fire everybody on CNN.”

O’Connor: “Yeah, clean house.”

Kurt Schlichter: “Brent, if they believed in market economics, you and I would have a show. Now, I’m very expensive, they would have to pay me a lot to sully my good name with CNN [inaudible]. I mean, that’s the thing, Larry. They could be successful. They choose not to because it’s more important to pursue their bizarre, creepy un-American agenda.”

Bozell: “You know, and I’ll give you an example of this. Several years ago, there was a president named on CNN and I called him, and I knew him. And I said: Look, I’m going to tell you how to become the number one network in America today. And I told him: All you have to do is let Rush Limbaugh have a show. And he said: Well, do you have any other ideas. I mean, they would never countenance something like that.”