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CNN’s Don Lemon appears to slight Jon Stewart during hot-mic moment | New York Post
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0:55Now PlayingCNN’s Don Lemon appeared to dis Jon Stewart during a hot-mic moment — saying the former “Daily Show” host has more “leeway” as a comedian following Stewart’s tense exchange with a Pentagon official.
During a segment on “CNN This Morning” Monday, a clip was played of Stewart, 60, interviewing US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks about the military’s inability to take care of service members despite its $850 billion budget.
“If I give you a billion dollars, and you can’t tell me what happened to it? That to me is wasteful. That means you are not responsible,” he told Hicks. “But if you can’t tell me where it went, then what am I supposed to think?
“We got out of 20 years of war and the Pentagon got a $50 billion raise. Like that’s shocking to me now,” Stewart continued.
“I may not understand exactly the ins and outs and the incredible magic of an audit, but I’m a human being who lives on the Earth and can’t figure out how $850 billion to a department means that the rank and file still have to be on food stamps.
The comment was followed by a few seconds of awkward silence, making it appear that Lemon believed he was speaking to his co-anchors off-air.
Lemon then appeared to try frantically backtrack.
“We’re just discussing that Jon Stewart is so much more than a comedian — he’s a thought leader,” he interjected.
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