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Leftists Launch Pressure Campaign to Get Scott Jennings Booted From CNN

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/02/leftists-launch-pressure-campaign-to-get-scott-jennings-booted-from-cnn-n4952422

Scott Jennings might be the best thing to ever happen to CNN. That's not hyperbole. Without him, most of us would have stopped clicking on clips from the network a long time ago. He's one of the rare voices on that channel who actually makes it worth watching — which is exactly why the left wants him gone.

The calls to fire him have been building for a while. Back in 2025, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell singled Jennings out in a monologue, accusing CNN of paying "a Trump supporter to lie on CNN every day and night for Donald Trump." So the groundwork was already laid. Now they have what they think is their opening.

On Thursday, Jennings got into a heated on-air exchange with Adam Mockler, a 23-year-old reporter and YouTuber with the leftist MeidasTouch network. The two were debating the unpopularity of the Iraq war when Mockler brought up Jennings’ service in the George W. Bush administration during the Iraq war, accusing him of supporting an "endless war." Things got tense fast — both men talked over each other, hands were gesturing near faces — and Jennings told Mockler, “Get your f***ing hand out of my face, first of all."

I seem to recall the left fawning over Joe Biden whenever he cursed… But, Scott Jennings? They want blood.

Jim Acosta climbed out of the hole he currently occupies to demand that CNN fire Jennings. "At any other network, in any other era of television news, uttering an impromptu F-bomb would be a fireable offense," Acosta claimed. He also claimed that Jennings was a "hothead" during their days working together, and made sure to note that Mockler is "almost a kid" and "a nice one," concluding that "Jennings should be fired."

TBH, while I don't watch CNN and only see Jennings second-hand, I'm a bit surprised CNN hadn't canned him long ago. He's not a tame obedient token! Maybe someone in CNN management realized that Jennings get viewers who otherwise would never tune in to CNN, and is an over-all viewership positive.

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So it is when dealing with Democrats. No amount of dominating the media space is enough for them. You give them an inch, they take a mile. You take an inch, they act as if they have nothing.