CNN’s Jeffrey Lord and Symone Sanders made an apparent breakthrough on Monday’s New Day, despite their regular sparring on the cable network.
Near the end of a panel discussion segment, Lord pointed out that Sanders has created a T-shirt that bears the phrase, “oh, Jeffrey” a reference to a segment where the Trump supporter contended that the President was the “Martin Luther King of health care.” Lord also noted that he had just published a proposal about splitting the proceeds of the clothing.
“My friend, Symone, has put out T-shirts which she’s selling that say, ‘oh, Jeffrey.’ So this morning, at the American Spectator — spectator.org — I’ve asked the readers if they will buy them. And hopefully, Symone will split the proceeds between the Martin Luther King Center and a scholarship fund for Dr. Ben Carson.”
Anchor Alisyn Camerota was amused by this offer: “I like that you guys are pedaling the merchandise that you two — your vaudeville act — has come up up with on New Day.”
Sanders cracked up. “I’ll make sure to send a T-shirt. I’m pulling my Kellyanne Conway today. Buy the stuff.” The liberal pundit also promised to have a conversation over the proceeds, but took at jab at Lord over their earlier spat.
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Camerota joked that the two could “have a summit about where you want to spend the vast proceeds that will be rolling in from your ‘oh, Jeffrey’ t-shirts.”
Anchor Chris Cuomo ended the segment by snarking that the “oh, Jeffrey” phrase was “much more sellable than the other phrase that Symone coined in that particular discussion.”
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