Don Lemon Says He Looks At Conservative Media — But Not ‘Fact-Averse MAGA People’

Ex-CNN host Don Lemon told Mediaite he consumes conservative media, but added he favors truth, and  noted that the “MAGA people” in that world have more of a tendency to be “fact-averse.”

Lemon was a guest on this week’s edition of Mediaite’s new Press Club podcast, hosted by Aidan McLaughlin. Among the topics in their extensive interview was the host’s surprising media diet — and distaste for Trump’s media acolytes:

 You wrote about your media diet for Puck recently, which included Ben Shapiro and Patrick Bet-David, who’s a conservative commentator on YouTube. Do you think that you are more conservative in your politics than most people assume?

Yes, I do. But also, I listen to people who I don’t agree with. I don’t have to agree with you to find you interesting. I don’t agree with my mom all the time, and she and my fiancee are the two people I love most in the world, and my sister, and I don’t agree with them all. You know, my mom and I had a disagreement the other night. My sister and I had a disagreement the other night, but the next morning we were planning the next time we’re going to see each other. I think it’s also a byproduct if you will of being in cable news where you have these intense conversations with people and then you end up going to have a beer with them after the show. I do think my politics are probably more centrist and even sometimes right, more right than people would assume. Do I have left-leaning politics sometimes or stances on issues? Yeah, I do, but I also have some things where I agree with with folks on the right. I always agree with the truth and facts, though, and lately in this atmosphere and this world, it has for the most part been the right-wing, the extremists, and the MAGA people in the Republican Party that are fact averse.

Trump changed a lot of things in that sense.

He did. Nothing matters. And you just put a lot of things out there, and you have so much chaos going on, and then nothing really matters. And then you undermine institutions like the press and the Justice Department and democracy. Because none of it matters and you can do what you want, so facts don’t matter and people believe what they want to believe and everyone’s in their own silos.

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