{"id":5267,"date":"2019-08-18T23:37:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5267"},"modified":"2019-08-18T23:37:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:37:12","slug":"a-twist-of-lemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/08\/18\/a-twist-of-lemon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Twist of Lemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s not funny is sexual assault.&nbsp; But in the current climate where career-ending accusations come fast and furious, where does due process fit in?&nbsp; What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?&nbsp; Case in point \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Don Lemon<\/strong>.&nbsp; According to reports, he was in Sag Harbor last July and had an encounter with bartender&nbsp;<strong>Dustin Hice<\/strong>, who is suing for unspecified damages stemming from emotional pain and loss of earnings.&nbsp; Hice was working at a bar called&nbsp;<em>Murf\u2019s<\/em>.&nbsp; According to his statement, Hice \u201ctried to get Mr. Lemon\u2019s attention and offered to buy Mr. Lemon a drink.\u201d&nbsp; Don apparently declined.&nbsp; Later, Hice claims that Lemon \u201cput his hand down the front of his own shorts, and vigorously rubbed his genitalia, removed his hand and shoved his index and middle finger in Plaintiff\u2019s moustache and under Plaintiff\u2019s nose.\u201d&nbsp; He then asked Hice, \u201cDo you like pussy or dick?\u201d&nbsp; The \u201cattack\u201d has left Mr. Hice with \u201cfeelings of shame, humiliation, anxiety, anger, and guilt\u201d \u2013 in other words, the way I felt in Casablanca!<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that Mr. Hice asked Lemon for $1.5 million not to file the suit.&nbsp; Lemon (again) declined.&nbsp; Hice then posted a photo standing in front of&nbsp;<em>CNN&nbsp;<\/em>headquarters with the caption, \u201ctouring the #CNN center today\u2026or as #Trump would say, \u2018the home of Fake News\u2019 lol.\u201d&nbsp; As for the network,&nbsp;<em>CNN&nbsp;<\/em>is standing by Don Lemon, stating, \u201cThe plaintiff in this lawsuit has previously displayed a pattern of contempt for&nbsp;<em>CNN&nbsp;<\/em>on his social media accounts.&nbsp; This claim follows his unsuccessful threats and demands for an exorbitant amount of money from Don Lemon.&nbsp; Don categorically denies these claims and this matter does not merit any further comment at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s not funny is sexual assault.&nbsp; But in the current climate where career-ending accusations come fast and furious, where does due process fit in?&nbsp; What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?&nbsp; Case in point \u2013&nbsp;Don Lemon.&nbsp; According to reports, he was in Sag Harbor last July and had an encounter with bartender&nbsp;Dustin Hice, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5268,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions\/5268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}