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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·6 months 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.…

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