Claim: CNN canceled Wilmore for joking about them at WHCD

Posted by | May 16, 2016 23:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Top Stories


Mediaite reports that CNN canceled a booking of Larry Wilmore on Don Lemon’s show to talk about comments at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Mediaite has learned, Lemon personally invited Wilmore to come on his evening show to discuss the speech, the “N-word” and politics. After all, Lemon was clearly good natured about the whole thing as is evidenced by his reaction and the photos he tookwith Wilmore after the event.

Mediaite learned that Wilmore was scheduled to appear on Lemon’s show the evening of Wednesday, May 4 a few days after the speech. But that appearance was abruptly cancelled by a CNN producer shortly beforehand under the guise of needing to cover “politics” and to focus on the “Indiana primary” (which had ended more than 24 hours earlier.) Wilmore was never rescheduled.

Lets be clear, a Lemon-Wilmore interview would have been a big event for CNN that week in the wake of the WHCD speech and its aftermath. Wilmore would have been a “get” for CNN and Lemon. It’s obviously absurd to claim that after booking him that they just could not find time to squeeze in the interview. It is also crystal clear to all involved that a very senior CNN executive or executives decided that they did not want Larry Wilmore on their air after the skewering he inflicted on the network.

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6 responses to Claim: CNN canceled Wilmore for joking about them at WHCD

  1. whatthe46 May 16th, 2016 at 23:04

    big babies.

    • Tommie May 16th, 2016 at 23:37

      IKR, others took the jokes in good stride but not CNN!

      • whatthe46 May 16th, 2016 at 23:51

        oh, fox lies was up in arms. why does he get to say it and not me? but, CNN is fine with having tRump on while spewing all the racist crap he calls others.

        • clemans May 17th, 2016 at 07:08

          cr-p, there goes my big break…….I will NEVER get onto CNN if they find out the things I say about it….it was my last hope for cable news. Now it is just digging it’s heels in and being FOXspin=lite.

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  2. cogitoergodavesum May 17th, 2016 at 09:31

    The Comedy Channel in Canada has had a long running promo with Larry saying “we read a bunch of Tweets! Or as CNN calls it, regularly scheduled programming!”

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