Don Lemon finally did it. For the first time in the limited span during which I've been professionally obligated to track the "CNN This Morning" co-host, he inspired me to enter a search term into Google that wasn't some version of, "What did Don Lemon do now?"
Millions of people know what he did this time, but for the benefit of the blessed news cycle virgins who have avoided the latest fracas, here's a brief recap. On the Feb. 16 episode of CNN's still-nascent a.m. show, Lemon confronted former South Carolina Governor and Nikki Haley's ageist call for mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old with . . . more ageism, mixed with old-fashioned sexism.
