We’ve documented how the Media Research Center has become a solid fanboy of right-wing CNN commentator Scott Jennings. A July 2 post by Curtis Houck gushed over Jennings’ new radio gig:
On Wednesday morning, our friends at Salem Media announced that CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings — a 2025 MRC Bulldog Award winner, daily viral sensation, and conservative star — will be joining their radio side starting on July 14 for a weekday talk show at 2:00 p.m. Eastern.
Jennings has plenty of experience in the radio and podcasting sphere, most recently hosting the podcast Flyover Country and served last year as a fill-in host on the Salem Radio Network for the great Mike Gallagher.
[…]In a press release, Jennings added: “We’re going on offense. Every day, I’ll take calls, interview big names, and take the fight directly to the liberal machine. It’s time to bust the narratives and bring back some plain old common sense.”
Jennings will be in prime real estate on Salem’s schedule, airing between The Charlie Kirk Showand The Hugh Hewitt Show. The spot is currently held by Human Events’s Jack Posobiec, but he will remain with Salem on their podcast network.
Since he first started his regular appearances on CNN in 2017, Jennings has become one of the most recognizable conservatives, obliterating liberal narratives through unflinching yet civil debate and simultaneously winning friends and plaudits from across the aisle.
Houck refused to disclose the fact that all those “prime” Salem radio hosts are right-wingers, calling into question just how “prime” they really are. Instead, he threw in one final gush: “Based on how you, dear readers, react to Jennings content and our videos on X of Jennings, this is sure to be a hit.”
Just a week or so after his debut, the MRC’s nepo-baby boss conveniently made an appearance on Jennings’ show:
On Friday, MRC President David Bozell joined The Scott Jennings Show to discuss a historic victory: the House vote to defund PBS and NPR. Hosted by Jennings, CNN’s lone voice of reason and MRC’s Bulldog Award winner for “Outstanding Achievement Behind Enemy Lines,” the show spotlighted MRC’s decades-long campaign to end taxpayer funding for these far-left outlets.
Bozell credited MRC’s persistent evidence-gathering for exposing the progressive bias that fueled this legislation, declaring, “The MRC’s been bringing the receipts on NPR and PBS for 38 years.”
Writer Kurt Etheridge failed to disclose that an MRC writer had gushed over Jennings’ show just a couple weeks earlier, which makes his boss’ appearance on the show a little too convenient. He followed with more gushing from Jennings:
Jennings closed by praising the MRC: “I thank you, David, and your dad and the Media Research Center for pushing this campaign for years and finally getting it over the finish line.”
Jennings reciprocated for Tim Graham’s Nov. 21 podcast:
Conservative CNN contributor Scott Jennings stars in viral clips for the verbal battles he has on NewsNight with Abby Phillip. How does he prepare for TV combat? He explains his CNN battles and discusses his new book on Trump, A Revolution of Common Sense: How Donald Trump Stormed Washington and Fought for Western Civilization. Buy it here.
We gave Jennings a Bulldog Award winner for Outstanding Achievement Behind Enemy Lines. MRC president David Bozell joined me to interview the man. Scott says he didn’t know Trump well until February, when he began interviewing him for this book. He told us that behind the scenes that Trump is quite funny and asks a lot of questions and listens a lot, which isn’t the cartoon you see on TV.
While some people were suggesting Jennings for Press Secretary before the new term began, Scott had warm words for how Trump’s communications professionals were doing.
Of course he did. Why wouldn’t he? Graham also failed to disclose that Jennings’ appearance was a reciperocal deal for Bozell appearance on Jennings’ show shortly after it began.
Houck served up more gushing praise of Jennings in a Dec. 17 post:
Axios’s Tal Axelrod delivered a welcome scoop Wednesday that, starting in 2026, Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow and CNN senior political commentator (and 2025 MRC Bulldog Award winner) Scott Jennings would occupy the three hours of radio previously filled by the late Charlie Kirk on the Salem Radio Network, marking a step up for the pair from their previous roles inside Salem.
Launching January 5, Axelrod explained Marlow and Jennings would split the noon to 3:00 p.m. Eastern Kirk held until his September 10 murder with Marlow hosting from noon to 1:00 p.m. Eastern and Jennings taking the remaining two hours.
In Jennings’s case, this marked an expansion of The Scott Jennings Radio Show that began on July 14 as a one-hour program at 2:00 p.m. Eastern that both this writer and Media Research Center President David Bozell have made guest appearances.
Houck did not disclose how his nepo-baby boss had contributed to Jennings’ show just a few months earlier.