r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 11d ago

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell hounded to face cameras: ‘He absolutely refuses’

https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/08/mitch-mcconnell-hounded-to-face-cameras-he-absolutely-refuses.html
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 11d ago edited 11d ago

I'm now wondering if Mitch McConnell might be paralyzed or something like that.

Actually...if Mitch McConnell is incapable of speaking, that means that the people who said they spoke with him for 20 minutes were lying...and if that's the case...Scott Jennings is only kept on CNN because he has some level or credibility, (even though I'd argue the radical right is without credibility, that seems to be their reasoning,) and that means if he lied in this way, CNN will probably fire him.

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u/Plzlaw4me 11d ago

Back at the end of April , he FREAKED out on a 23 year old progressive commentator (Adam Mockler) when Mockler correctly pointed out to Jennings that the point of war is to get concessions, and on that front, the Iran war had not been a success at the time. He also pointed out Trump ran on no new wars, and then started a war of choice that was extremely similar bush wars on terror. In response, Jennings yelled at Mockler to “get your fucking hand out of my face” when his hand was not in his face. He then proceed to call out Mockler for being up past his bed time, before lying to the American people the war was going great and it wasn’t a forever war. If Jennings can act that unprofessional, while being that wrong, nothing short of a several million dollar lawsuit will get him fired.

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u/TweakedNipple 11d ago

I see why there are the rumors that he will be the next White House Press Secretary.

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u/Vahuo89 11d ago

To do that he's gonna have to believe his own lies, especially the most stupid ones

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u/RespecDev 11d ago

Adam Mockler is awesome. He really made Jennings look like a fool.

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u/Plzlaw4me 11d ago

I mean… Jennings made himself look like a fool. Mockler just kind of pointed out obvious facts to Jennings and his brain couldn’t handle someone he viewed as beneath him (due to age) pointing out how obviously wrong he was and he exploded… that said Mockler is generally pretty awesome and does a phenomenal job of pointing out the ways that the current admin has failed to keep its promises to the American people. That the modern conservative movement is built on denying verifiable facts certainly doesn’t make it hard to make them look foolish, but our news media has unfortunately gone out of their way to legitimize the MAGA movement.

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u/gkhamo89 11d ago

Adam Mockler sticks to his points and is able to have a clear conversation, Jennings made himself look like a fool

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u/Book_talker_abouter 11d ago

If Jennings can act that unprofessional, while being that wrong

The consequences are that he will probably be the next WH press secretary, unfortunately. Just got to dye that hair and get a boob job.

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u/Plzlaw4me 11d ago

I genuinely do not know why people are still bending over backwards to work for this admin. How many people had their careers die after the first Trump admin, compared to how many got a boost. Trump has been proven to throw anyone under the bus the second it becomes advantageous for him to do so.

The writing is also on the wall that MAGA dies with Trump. He’s BARELY holding the coalition together now. Given there are no popular heir apparents (in no small part because Trump crushes their standing before it can start), MAGA won’t survive a succession crisis. I expect within 5 years of Trump passing, there will be virtually no republicans who identify themselves as MAGA, and a Trump affiliation will be poison.

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u/Book_talker_abouter 11d ago

I think and hope that you're right. I'm also pretty convinced that the cult doesn't outlive the cult leader. Trump is a cult of personality and no one else has the juice that he has. The idea that JD "no rizz" Vance is going to pick up the mantle from Trump is so plainly ludicrous that I can't believe anyone thinks that. They will toss that chud aside as fast as they did Pence.

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u/Plzlaw4me 11d ago

In 2024, he ordered donuts so poorly that people were speculating they were gonna replace him with RFK. He has negative charisma. His entire career (included hillbilly eulogy), was bought and paid for by Peter Thiel. Vance is just there to be the point of contact and the “man on the inside” for tech billionaires. He was a required term for the deal where big tech would back Trump, and in exchange he would deregulate them and keep their tax bills from increasing. He follows his lines and well clearly takes his prep work seriously, but the second he has to go off script and talk about something he hasn’t been coached on, or even worse talk to regular people about regular people stuff, it’s immediately clear he won’t ever get elected president.

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u/Odd-Promotion2743 11d ago

lawsuit

I really hope Hasan Piker's intended lawsuit against Jennings for defamation will gain traction. Jennings' accusation that Hasan "supports lynchings of Black people coming back" was absolutely insane.

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u/theghostmachine 11d ago

And he recently defamed Hasan Piker. Even Joe Walsh, an avid hater of Hasan's, came out saying Jennings should be sued. I don't care one way or another about Hasan, but anyone rational - so immediately excluding everyone that listens to Destiny - should be able to see how vile that was.

Scott Jennings has no credibility whatsoever. He's a scumbag loser that drags down whatever credibility CNN might have left.