Don Lemon Talks Being Gay & Non-Liberal & Handling Criticism With GQ [Photos]

On having to use “filler words” during broadcasts (like when he said there’s a smell of marijuana “obviously” during a Ferguson live broadcast):

When you’re a network-news anchor, you have a twenty-two-minute news hole, and you read not even five minutes of copy, if you read that much. When you’re a cable-news host, you’re on for hours and hours and hours live. Right? Sometimes there’s nothing in that box, no words.

On being criticized for his comments about the black community:

I’m speaking to the people from where I came from. I didn’t think I was saying anything bad. Just: Always respect yourself. Go to school. I mean, I think they’re used to me just having a one-way conversation, just reading the prompter and going, ‘Okay, what do you think? What do you think?’ Maybe they were just sort of surprised that I actually have a point of view.

Don even stated that the reason he asked the alleged Cosby victim why she didn’t use her teeth was because he told his rapist that the next time he raped him he would bite his penis off and the molestations ended. Click here for the full interview.

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