When an Elitist Media anchor attempts to fact-check a conservative, there is usually some pre-baked talking point or data piece that they refer to. Not so with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who tried to fact-check Scott Jennings with not much more than “trust me, Bro.”
Watch as Cooper tries to suggest, after admitting that he hadn’t seen the segment in question, that U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton didn’t say that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth might face the death penalty for blowing up drug boats:
WATCH: @ScottJenningsKY checks Anderson Cooper’s sight-unseen denial of Rep. Seth Moulton saying SECWAR Pete Hegseth might be executed for blowing up drug boats
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) May 1, 2026
ERIN BURNETT: Seth Moulton, do you think Pete Hegseth committed war crimes?
SETH MOULTON: What Hegseth did with the… pic.twitter.com/xUT7ul87Ku
ERIN BURNETT: Do you believe that the Secretary of Defense is guilty of war crimes?
SETH MOULTON: Absolutely. I mean, he's clearly behind the operation to shoot all these boats in the Caribbean when it's very unclear that we actually have any confirmation that these so-called “narco terrorists", a term the administration invented to justify this action, are even on the boats. I mean, in fact, there's a lot of evidence that these are just fishermen, you know, getting jobs, piloting these boats, trying to feed their families. There's been press reporting on some of these individuals who've been killed who are clearly not war criminals. And on top of that, we then have the strike where they came back in and hit it again. A double tap, just purely to kill these survivors who were clinging to wreckage. You know, it's interesting, Erin, another historical analogy. Back in World War II, the Allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing. And guess what the conclusion was. They got executed. Listen to that, Mr. Secretary.
(24 HOURS LATER:)
SCOTT JENNINGS: Honestly, too, Hegseth here- he gets banged on a lot. I saw Seth Moulton, a Democrat member of Congress, on our air last night, suggesting that he needed to be executed for war crimes. And so there is a lot of rhetorical volleying going on here. And so I give him a little latitude on that because he'-s he's taken a fair amount of incoming, but he's there also to defend the military. He runs the military. He's there to defend the military. And I don't think you could argue with a straight face anything other than they have performed brilliantly. But some of the Democrats have suggested otherwise, and I think that’s what he’s getting at.
ANDERSON COOPER: I didn’t hear Moulton last night but I don’t think he said he was-
JENNINGS: He did. He said it to Erin Burnett. I mean-
COOPER: All right-
That’s just egregious. But it isn’t shocking, either. Offhand comments like these on cable TV often demonstrate the contempt that the Elitist Media display for conservatives. That exchange inadvertently demonstrated both the high degree of trust shown by the media to Democrats, and their natural skepticism of conservatives- regardless of whether they are actually right.
Jennings presented Cooper with the fact set, and Cooper’s first reflex was to say "I didn’t watch but still don't believe what you say.” When you see a major story suppressed on the Elitist Media, you can look back at this exchange in order to understand why. It boils down to a dislike of inconvenient and/or counternarrative information.
No one should be shocked, then, that trust in the media is at an all-time low. That is a self-inflicted wound. That's now TWO CNN anchors papering over the fact that a Democrat congressman called for Hegseth to be executed.
