>>LARRY WILMORE WAS TOUGH ON CNN AT THE WHITE HOUSE
CORRESPONDENTS DINNER, HE WAS TOUGH ON EVERYBODY.
THE ROOM WAS
UNCOMFORTABLE BECAUSE WILMORE KEPT PRESSING THE ISSUE, WHICH
IS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS SUPPOSED TO DO.
HE IS A COMIC.
HE TOOK IT
TO THEM.
OBAMA IS POPULAR IN THE ROOM BECAUSE HE TWEAKS THE PRESS,
HE PLAYFULLY JOKES ABOUT THEM, AND THEY ARE LIKE, THE PRESIDENT
MENTIONED ME.
AND HE DIDN'T HIT ME, HE JUST TWEAKED ME.
AND
LARRY WILMORE THREW THE GLOVES OFF AND SAID LET'S GO.
HE WENT
AFTER CNN SAYING THEY WERE A SO-CALLED NEWS NETWORK, HE WENT
AFTER WOLF BLITZER, THEY CUT TO HIM AND HE WAS LIKE -- AND WHEN
DOES HE NOT LOOK LIKE THAT?
SO THAT PROVES THEM RIGHT.
>>SOME OF AMERICA'S FINEST BLACK JOURNALISTS ARE HERE TONIGHT.
DON LEMON IS HERE TOO.
HEY, DON.
HOW'S IT GOING?
ALLEGED
JOURNALIST DON LEMON, EVERYBODY.
>>DAMN.
NOW, DON LEMON AFTERWARDS WAS A GOOD SPORT EVEN
THOUGH HE GAVE HIM THE MIDDLE FINGER THERE, HE TOOK PICTURES
WITH HIM, AND NOW IN A MEDIAITE EXCLUSIVE IT TURNS OUT THAT DON
LEMON INVITED LARRY WILMORE ON HIS SHOW BUT LARRY WILMORE WAS
NOT ALLOWED TO COME ON.
LET ME GIVE YOU THEIR REPORTING --
>>NOW, I KNOW A THING OR TWO ABOUT CABLE NEWS AND SINCE I WAS
ON THERE BOTH AS A GUEST, GUEST HOST, AND AS A HOST ON MSNBC, I
KNOW THAT THEY LITERALLY HAVE BLACKLISTS.
I DON'T MEAN THAT
KIND OF BLACK LIST, I MEAN PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT ALLOWED ON
AIR.
WE WOULD TALK ABOUT IT.
SOMETIMES I WOULD WANT A GUEST
AND THEY WOULD SAY NO, THEY ARE ON THE NO GO LIST, THE
BLACKLIST.
THIS IS NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY, THOSE LISTS
EXIST.
THE QUESTION IS WHETHER LARRY WILMORE IS ON ONE OF THOSE
LISTS, MEDIAITE HAS A SOURCE THAT SAYS HE IS.
YOU CAN BELIEVE
IT OR NOT, BUT THEY ARE REPORTING IT, AND BASED ON MY
EXPERIENCE I'M NOT AT ALL SURPRISED BY THAT.
YOU ARE
TELLING ME AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER LARRY
WILMORE WOULD NOT HAVE MADE AN INTERESTING GUEST ON CNN?
IT
WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD GET AND PEOPLE WOULD HAVE TUNED IN, THEY
WOULD HAVE TUNED IN AT THAT POINT, AND CERTAINLY ONLINE.
MY
GUESS IS THE EXECUTIVES CANCELED IT BECAUSE IF YOU ALLOW WILMORE
TO HAVE ANOTHER SHOT AT THE MIC HE MIGHT SAY THOSE THINGS ON OUR
AIR.
CAN'T HAVE IT.
LATER IN THE
STORY, THE EXPLAINED --
>>MAN, THEY ARE TOUCHY, AREN'T THEY?
IF HE WAS JUST JOKING AND
THERE IS NO VALIDITY TO HIS JOKES ABOUT HOW YOU GUYS ARE NOT
REAL NEWS NETWORK, YOU WOULDN'T MIND AT ALL.
YOU WOULD HAVE A
GOOD LAUGH OVER IT.
APPARENTLY CNN IS NOT LAUGHING ANYMORE
BECAUSE THAT ONE KIND OF HURT, KIND OF TOUCHED HOME.
IN ESSENCE
IT APPEARS THEY DID NOT WANT LARRY WHITMORE TO COME BACK ON
AND EXPLAIN HOW THEY ARE NOT THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS, THEY
ARE THE MOST BUSTED NAME IN NEWS.
SO NO MORE LARRY WILMORE
ON CNN.
DAMN.
THAT IS HOW THE REAL WORLD WORKS.
I WONDER HOW
CNN LOST THE TRUST OF ITS AUDIENCE?
CAN'T QUITE TELL.
>>YOUNG TURKS.