Scott Jennings Creates a Stir on CNN Setting the Record Straight
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he stated facts, refused to back down, and let the panic on the panel hang in the air. The specific flap about Greenland was a masterclass. The press corps has spent a week insisting the deal is a fantasy and that Denmark is a steadfast ally being bullied.
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No one is like Scott Jennings. The Salem Radio host and CNN contributor took the CNN panel to school numerous times this week, including once when he slapped down the press for saying the Greenland deal will never happen and that Denmark is somehow slipping away from its good graces.
That's not the case, as the nation’s prime minister demonstrated at the United Nations:
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he stated facts, refused to back down, and let the panic on the panel hang in the air. The specific flap about Greenland was a masterclass. The press corps has spent a week insisting the deal is a fantasy and that Denmark is a steadfast ally being bullied. Then the Danish prime minister stood at the UN and publicly left the door open for cooperation with Washington. The entire premise collapsed in real time.
You have to appreciate what Jennings does on that network. He does not yell. He does not pretend the liberal anchors are stupid. He simply brings receipts and waits for the cognitive dissonance to set in. When the narrative is "this will never happen," and the actual government in question starts signaling a willingness to talk, the debate is over. The only people who missed it are the ones who decided the Trump administration is incapable of diplomacy—which is a strange hill to die on when the current president is the one getting the call returned. The facts have a well-known liberal bias problem, and he exploits it perfectly.
The reaction to his segments tells you everything. The people who hate him cannot attack his logic, so they attack his job or his motives. They frame a guy saying "Europe is not a monolith and this deal is not dead" as some partisan stunt. It is not partisan. It is realistic. The left has become so allergic to the idea of American strength that they treat any successful outreach to other nations as a trick, or worse, a betrayal of some internationalist code. They would rather be wrong about a deal than admit the president was onto something.
We say this a lot, but it bears repeating: the mainstream media is not in the business of reporting anymore. They are in the business of pre-emptively declaring what is impossible so they don't have to apologize later. Jennings is doing exactly what a commentator should do—he is holding them to the standard of reality. It is a beautiful thing to watch, and it is even better when their own sources make them look obsolete by Friday. The point isn't that Jennings won; the point is that he was right. The rest of the panel was just loud.
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