Don Lemon handicaps the possibility of him running for president at 2-to-1 in favor. “If the people want me,” he told a podcaster, “I’ll do it. But it is a daunting undertaking to run for president in this country because you’d have to be devoted to it full-time, and I would like to devote much of my time to journalism.”
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Leaving aside the Michael Avenatti-egotism to imagine a public clamor for him to run for president, Lemon undermines his longstanding claims that critics confuse “good journalism” for a liberal bias.
To cover politicians one minute and become one the next suggests something other than a disinterested or objective party. Notice nobody asked this “journalist” which party’s nomination he might seek. Good journalists ask any question save for the ones in which the public already knows the answer.
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