CNN Cuts Out Part of Oscar Speech That Poked Right at Lemon – Was Network Afraid He’d Go ‘Ballistic’ Again?

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Look, at this point, CNN’s Don Lemon should probably be thankful anyone is talking about him.

His morning show’s ratings are in the dumps, with the top-performing hour coming in at No. 47 in the cable news ratings last week.

His fractious relationship with co-hosts Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow is the openest of open secrets.

And he’s coming off of a very public scolding in which he’s being forced to undergo “formal training” after saying on-air that GOP presidential contender and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, 51, “isn’t in her prime. Sorry. When a woman is considered to be in her prime — in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.”

So, when “Everything Everywhere All At Once” star Michelle Yeoh won the Best Actress Oscar and took a not-so-good-natured dig at Lemon, you’d think CNN would do everything to show the “formal training” had worked and Lemon was able to not take himself so seriously.

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