The elitist media have pouncing on dissension between some of the biggest names in conservative media and have been using it to try to portray a movement and a Republican Party in disarray, in danger of destruction. The coverage has been predictable, but what happened Monday night on CNN's NewsNight was an exercise in only policing the right wing.
Host Abby Phillip began her show this way: "Tonight we are getting a fresh glimpse into the deep divisions that are splintering President Trump's MAGA coalition. There is bitter infighting that exploded at that Turning Point USA Annual Convention over the weekend, and it exposed some serious rifts over things like conspiracy theories, bigotry, anti-Semitism and extremist views. Some of MAGA's biggest stars threw jabs at each other."
Phillip then played short clips of Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, and Megyn Kelly, before we heard from Vice President JD Vance.
VANCE: I didn't bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform. I know some of you are discouraged by the infighting over any number of issues. Don't be discouraged. Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of free thinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?
Phillip, who like many in the media have focused on infighting over support for Israel, and some who have refused to condemn those who have made anti-Semitic remarks, then turned to CNN's Scott Jennings, who set her straight with some interesting numbers.
PHILLIP: So fundamentally, this is about whether or not there should be boundaries to the conservative movement... I mean, there are all kinds of other issues, and I will get to some of them, including the rift over Israel, which is a part of this...
JENNINGS: .. For all the talk of rift, if you look at the straw poll results that they took among the 30,000 people who were there, (TPUSA AMFest) 87 percent of them said that Israel was either our top ally or an ally of the United States. Only 13 percent said no. And the number one issue facing the United States, according to the respondents, was radical Islam...
Great job by Jennings, who would soon face what can only be described as left wing insanity. First up, Adam Mockler of Meidas Touch Network, who ripped Vance for not condemning anti-Semitism on the right. Then Jennings pushed him over the edge.
JENNINGS: You brought up (NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran) Mamdani. Do you believe that Mamdani has shown any moral clarity when it comes to Israel and the attacks on Jews?
MOCKLER: The day after he was elected, there was a swastika...drawn on a window and he immediately tweeted out and condemned it! ..There was no equivalent between the way Zohran and JD Vance have conducted themselves...(Crosstalk) Do you think JD Vance should condemn the (Nick) Fuentes? Should JD Vance condemn the Groypers?
JENNINGS: He has. He told him he could eat s- - -.
MOCKLER: Not on stage. He didn't do it on stage in front of the Groypers.
JENNINGS:.. Mamdani got asked.. there are people on your transition team who have said it's okay to kill Jews after October the 7th, and he said, oh, well, you know, we have a diversity of political opinion. I think to throw Mamdani in with JD Vance is a huge reach. Mamdani has been the opposite but morally clear on any of this.
In fact, this week a report from the ADL found that at least 20% of Mamdani’s transition committee members have ties to radical anti-Zionist groups that openly promote terror and harass Jewish people. And last week a key member of his new staff stepped down after anti-Semitic posts resurfaced. Abby Phillip wasn't bringing that up.
The liberal insanity continued as Phillip appeared to back Mockler's claims and pressed Jennings on his willingness to condemn hate speech from those on the right, and how Vance wouldn't take a side, and he didn't take kindly to it.
PHILLIP: This is actually to Adam's point....if you're willing to condemn Mamdani for what you just described, again, why would you not condemn conservatives for doing effectively the same thing when you have people like, you know, Nick Fuentes who are out here?JENNINGS: Are you questioning me about what I've had to say about anti-Semitism?...I have repeatedly on this show said anti-Semitism has no place in our political discourse and we don't need to be associated with them.
PHILLIP: I get that JD Vance is JD Vance. But I'm wondering about you. What's the principle that you apply to JD Vance and is it the same that as what you're applying to Mamdani?
JENNINGS: I don't put them anywhere near in the same universe, A. B, look, it is up to us as conservatives to decide who we want to be associated with. I can assure you, we do not want to be associated in any way, shape, or form with Nick Fuentes or anybody approximating what he has to say, period, full stop. It will destroy us if we do it.
It's interesting that Phillip and her allies on the set are so interesting in comparing conservatives to Mamdani's views on the Jews. Phillip had a chance to interview Mamdani for 11 minutes in September, and never brought up his takes on Israel and the Jews.
