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UPDATE with video The return of Jeffrey Lord on tonight’s Real Time With Bill Maher wasn’t quite the bloody slugfest that might have been expected: Even Rob Reiner defended the conservative Trump die-hard from his firing last summer by CNN. A refresher: Lord, the ever-smiling, gray-haired defender of all things…

Bill Maher, guesting this morning on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, defended the network’s recently ousted pundit Jeffrey Lord as a victim of political correctness. Lord, formerly CNN’s resident Trump supporter, was fired by the network last week after tweeting "Sieg Heil!" at a member of liberal watchdog group Media…

UPDATED with Lord reax: Conservative commentator Jeffrey Lord took to Twitter again Thursday afternoon, moments after CNN announced it had kicked him to the curb for tweeting “Sief Heil!” in response to a tweet from the head of liberal org Media Matters. In a statement issued Thursday afternoon, CNN said, “Nazi…

Apparently all’s well between CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and the network’s go-to conservative pundit Jeffrey Lord. After Cooper apologized for a “crude sentence” he tossed Lord’s way on-air Friday, Lord was letting bygones be bygones. “Anderson Cooper is my colleague and a friend for whom I have the highest…

CNN brought Donald Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord back this evening to address his remarkable statement from this morning calling President Donald Trump “the Martin Luther King of healthcare.” “Jeff, I want to give you a chance to explain yourself, what you meant by your earlier comments,” Anderson Cooper began…

Jeffrey Lord, CNN’s Donald Trump surrogate-cum-Pecks Bad Boy, struck again this morning, calling the former The Apprentice star-turned-POTUS “the Martin Luther King of health care.” As always, Lord’s incendiary remarks got quite a rise from other talking heads on scene. Lord trended on Twitter. Mission…

Podcaster and former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett was having a perfectly pleasant conversation with CNN’s Brian Stelter on Reliable Sources this morning – even after saying cable news speaks in a “dead language” – until the subject turned to the network’s political panels. Without naming CNN’s resident Trump…

Update with interview video Bill Maher continued his lambasting of the media on tonight’s Real Time With Bill Maher, and this time he narrowed his impatience to one person in particular: Jeffrey Lord, CNN’s resident Donald Trump supporter. Interviewing the ever-smiling Lord during the one-on-one top of show segment…

This afternoon, during CNN’s convention-hall skybox navel-lint-gazing walking up to Donald Trump’s RNC Victory Lap speech tonight, Trump himself began to speak sternly to anchor Anderson Cooper, through his CNN surrogate/medium Jeffrey Lord: “Anderson, I’ve just heard from Donald Trump himself,” Lord began, looking…