CNN’s Don Lemon rushed to defend his colleague, White House correspondent Jim Acosta, after his heated clash with President Donald Trump resulted in his hard pass to the White House being suspended, but he played a different tune when a similar incident happened with former President Barack Obama.
During his broadcast of “CNN Tonight,” Lemon slammed Trump and praised Acosta for “trying to do [his] job.”
But this divide on the standard of behavior between for reporters didn’t always exist. In fact, when Neil Munro, a Daily Caller reporter, interrupted Obama, nearly everyone, including Lemon, called him out.
Lemon condemns Munro’s behavior:“Some in the conservative media have called Munro’s hissy fit refreshing, most, thankfully, have denounced it. […] As a journalist, I know there are ways to get my questions answered. It may not always be on the timeline I want, but there’s always a way to do it, and Mr. Munro interrupting the leader of the free world, at the White House, in front of an international audience is not the way, and quite frankly, you’re the one who should be answering and asking questions of yourself.” – READ MORE