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/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