{"id":91193,"date":"2023-02-26T12:33:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T20:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91193"},"modified":"2023-02-26T12:33:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T20:33:28","slug":"sensitive-tv-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/02\/26\/sensitive-tv-hosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensitive TV Hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much as I like to think otherwise, words matter.&nbsp; And surely <strong>Don Lemon <\/strong>learned that lesson last week.&nbsp; During a discussion where presidential candidate <strong>Nikki Haley <\/strong>was described as being \u201cin her prime\u201d, Lemon said, \u201cNikki Haley is not in her prime.&nbsp; Sorry.&nbsp; When a woman is considered to be in her prime is her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.\u201d&nbsp; Here\u2019s the problem \u2013 he specified \u201cwoman\u201d.&nbsp; If he said \u201cpeople\u201d, it might have slid by.&nbsp; But it does beg the question \u2013 when are we in our prime?&nbsp; Don Lemon is 56 \u2013 is he in his prime?&nbsp; Did he ever have a prime?&nbsp; Or is he (I shudder to use the term) \u201cpast his prime\u201d?&nbsp; After an unscheduled day off, Don returned to his show and said, \u201cI\u2019m learning from you, and I\u2019m committed to doing better.\u201d&nbsp; He\u2019s also going to take some \u201cformal training\u201d \u2013 whatever that means.<\/p>\n<p>They might need some of that \u201ctraining\u201d over at <strong><em>The View<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; <strong>Liam Neeson <\/strong>felt very uncomfortable during a recent appearance when he was held up as <strong>Joy Behar<\/strong>\u2019s object of lust.&nbsp; He hoped to have some intelligent conversation or perhaps dig into some hot topics.&nbsp; \u201cBut then the segment\u2019s all about this\u2026er\u2026thirteen, fourteen-year-old crush.&nbsp; It\u2019s just a bit embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much as I like to think otherwise, words matter.&nbsp; And surely Don Lemon learned that lesson last week.&nbsp; During a discussion where presidential candidate Nikki Haley was described as being \u201cin her prime\u201d, Lemon said, \u201cNikki Haley is not in her prime.&nbsp; Sorry.&nbsp; When a woman is considered to be in her prime is her<\/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-91193","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\/91193","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=91193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91194,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91193\/revisions\/91194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}