The Media Research Center’s longstanding love affair with right-wing CNN commentator Scott Jennings has unsurprisingly continued. Here’s how that fawning over him for peddling conservatively correct narratives looked during the first few months of this year:
- CNN’s Scott Jennings Offers Voice of Reason to Crazed January 6 Panel
- Scott Jennings WRECKS CNN Panel ‘Doomcasting’ Over Trump Disaster Response While Ignoring Incumbent Dems
- CNN’s Scott Jennings DESTROYS Biden’s Farewell Speech
- Scott Jennings SCHOOLS CNN Panel on J6 Pardons
- ‘WE NOW HAVE A PRESIDENT’: CNN’s Scott Jennings Dunks on EVERYONE
- Scott Jennings Schools Liberals on DOGE, Soros Collecting Them ‘Like Pokemon Cards’
- Scott Jennings Disrupts CNN’s Storyline, Points to Trump’s ‘Success’
- Scott Jennings Gets David Axelrod to Admit Dems Looked Bad During Trump’s Speech
- Scott Jennings Exposes Dems’ Filibuster Hypocrisy, BREAKS CNN Panel
- TARIFFDOME: Scott Jennings Stands Tall for American Snacks
- THUNDERDOME: Abby Phillip Crashes Out, Jennings Schools Jarvis
It was not mentioned that Jennings got smacked down in February for defending President Trump’s banning of the Associated Press for not being on board with his arbitrary renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, or that he got brutally fact-checked that same month for denying that Israel hade violated a cease-fire deal in Gaza.
Jorge Bonilla was particularly taken by Jennings’ performance in a March 19 post:
On CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, Democrat apparat and failed Biden OMB nominee Neera Tanden tried to conflate the leftist terror attacks against Tesla vehicles and facilities with the January 6th Capitol Riot. Conservative commentator Scott Jennings had none of it.
Watch the exchange in its entirety, as Tanden realizes about halfway through that she walked into a buzzsaw[.] […]
Credit to CNN’s John Berman, who subbed in for host Abby Phillip and let Jennings and Tanden have it out with minimal intervention. Like a good MMA referee, Berman checked in and cleaned the exchange up a little bit but otherwise let them go. Phillip, on the other hand, would’ve bailed Tanden out about 5 seconds into Jennings’ response to her smug January 6 whatabouting of the Tesla firebugs.
Tanden, who upon discovering she didn’t have the votes for OMB went on to serve as Biden’s staff secretary, had no real response for Jennings beyond the tie ins to January 6th. As it is, her arguments crumbled once Jennings rightly tore into her for incorrectly assuming his stance on the J6 pardons. At one point, Tanden gets so frazzled that she drops her coffee mug on the floor, which broke the tension at the table.
Meanwhile, Mediaite more accurately pointed out that Jennings “lost it” on Tanden for bringing up the Capitol riot. Bonilla went on to huff that “There is no justification for violence in response to viewpoint differences” — but didn’t mention that the son of his then-boss, Brent Bozell, took part in the riot, a fact that the MRC largely censored.
Bonilla also didn’t mention that Tanden trolled Jennings the next day, mocking him as “so emotional” and demonstrating that, despite his (and Bonilla’s) claim to the contrary, Jennings never actually criticized the pardons for the Capitol rioters.