Don Lemon is out at CNN, after 17 years at the network, a move he says he was never given any heads-up was happening.
Finally saying,"With that said, I want to thank my colleagues and the many teams I have worked with for an incredible run. They are the most talented journalists in the business, and I wish them all the best."
Don was on air Monday morning, without a hint that anything might be off, and ending his show with the words,"Bye, everyone." The move comes just 2 months after Lemon was benched briefly for sexist comments he made about Nikki Haley, when he said she was no longer"in her prime" at age 51.He was also recently caught on a hot mic making comments about Jon Stewart ... however, it seemed those incidents had both cooled off with the network.
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