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CNN pundit calls for talking head Scott Jennings to be fired after F-bomb meltdown at 23-year-old reporter on air

The Independent·Josh Marcus·about 1 month ago
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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 . 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 other’s faces.…

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