Jim Acosta, whose own CNN program was quietly shuffled into obscurity before he exited the network, is now publicly seething over the prominence of conservative commentator Scott Jennings on the channel.
According to Gateway Pundit, Acosta and other media figures are demanding CNN cut ties with Jennings after the right-leaning analyst pushed back forcefully during an on-air clash with a progressive guest. From Yahoo News: Media figures are calling on CNN to fire panelist Scott Jennings after the conservative commentator told a fellow on-air guest on Thursday to get your f***ing hand out of my face.
At any other network, in any other era of television news, uttering an impromptu F-bomb would be a fireable offense, former CNN anchor Jim Acosta wrote on his Substack, framing the exchange as a breach of decorum rather than a heated response to provocation. Acosta added that he remembered Jennings as a hothead from their time working together, traits the former anchor argued were on display when Jennings lashed out on Thursday at panelist Adam Mockler, 23, a reporter and YouTuber with the progressive MeidasTouch network.
As Mockler and Jennings debated the low popularity of the Iran war, Mockler claimed Jennings was once again backing an endless war, after serving in the George W. Bush administration during the time of the Iraq war. Tensions rose as the pair went back and forth, speaking over each other and gesticulating near each others faces.
Acosta, who built his brand on combative grandstanding during briefings with President Donald Trump, is now complaining to virtually anyone who will listen about Jennings continued presence on CNN. His outrage underscores a familiar pattern on the left: even a single nonanti-Trump voice on a liberal network is treated as intolerable dissent rather than legitimate diversity of opinion.
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