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THUNDERDOME: Scott Jennings SCHOOLS Liberal Professor on Free Speech

September 18th, 2025 3:21 AM

ABC’s summary suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! over the host’s callous remarks regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk quickly became the top story across the insular Acela Media. CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip was no exception.

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CNN Guest: Kirk Suspect Was ‘Love-Torn Child,’ ‘Motivated Emotionally’

September 17th, 2025 7:48 PM

On Tuesday’s CNN NewsNight (aka CNN Thunderdome), former TV talk show host Montel Williams channeled ABC’s Matt Gutman from hours earlier in finding a new motive for the alleged Charlie Kirk assassin, which was the suspect — “a love-torn kid” in “probably his first real relationship” — murdered Kirk out of devotion to his trans significant other.

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Ghoulish: Media Make Charlotte Stabbing a ‘Republicans Pounce’ Story

September 9th, 2025 1:19 PM

The corporate media have finally been shamed into covering the brutal stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zaruska by a mentally ill black man in Charlotte, and predictably, they’ve turned it into a “Republicans pounce!” story. In between gasps of horror that the Trump administration has “seized on” the story, print outlets and TV talking heads have been hard at work identifying the…

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STUDY: CNN NewsNight Is a Televised Struggle Session for Conservatives

September 4th, 2025 8:53 AM

Since last summer, when CNN NewsNight shifted to an panel discussion-only format, host Abby Phillip has been praised for consistently inviting prominent conservatives onto the otherwise lopsidedly left-wing network. But with how rarely Phillip actually permits said conservative guests to finish a point without interrupting them, NewsNight is more akin to a televised struggle…

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THUNDERDOME: Scott Jennings Triggers Panel Libs over ‘Pregnant People’

August 29th, 2025 1:48 PM

CNN Senior Political Commentator and MRC Bulldog Award Winner Scott Jennings continues to confound the left and trigger them into taking the most absurd positions. The most recent example of this came in the middle of a panel discussion on CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip regarding the firings and mass resignations at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

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THUNDER-LID: Abby Phillip Keeps ‘Maryland Dad’ Off NewsNight Table

August 26th, 2025 12:42 PM

In an interesting editorial choice, CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip elected to keep credibly-accused human trafficker, wifebeater and MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego García off the table and away from any meaningful panel discussion. Phillip instead elected to do a brief blurb on Abrego García to close the show.

NewsBusters Podcast: Abby Phillip Cries 'No Evidence' of Weaponization

August 25th, 2025 11:07 PM

When someone cries "no evidence," it’s probably because they can’t handle the evidence. CNN host Abby Phillip repeatedly argued over the weekend that there was no weaponization under Democrats because you can't identify a "Big Puppeteer" who has directed the entire conspiracy against Trump or Tea Party conservatives.

NewsBusters Podcast: Car Crashes Are News, Except for Illegal Aliens

August 21st, 2025 10:09 PM

When is a non-lethal car accident a national news item -- and a car crash that killed three is not? When an illegal alien killed three. ABC, CBS, and NBC wouldn't touch the story of an illegal alien (with a commercial driver's license from California) who drove a truck so badly it killed three people during a bumbled U-turn in Florida. We discuss this and other wokeness topics with Bill D'…

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THUNDERDOME: Scott Jennings Brutally SCHOOLS a Meidas Bro

August 21st, 2025 12:35 PM

A segment on Target’s financial woes on CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, colloquially known as the Thunderdome, laser-focused on the retailer’s recent financial woes. A liberal panelist took an opportunity to try to make hay at the expense of Scott Jennings, and it did not end well.

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Phillip Blasts Jennings for Ignoring ‘Guard Rails,’ Playing ‘Games’

August 20th, 2025 7:33 PM

Appearing Tuesday on her friend and fellow progressive Kara Swisher’s podcast, CNN Newsnight host Abby Phillip — aka Mrs. CNN Thunderdome — knocked CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings and past panelist Jillian Michaels as examples of people who disrespect her “guard rails” and are “playing...games” with the show.

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CNN Host Shouts Down Panelist for Bringing Facts to the Discussion

August 20th, 2025 4:47 PM

CNN used to use the tag line “facts first” in their advertisement campaigns, and on Tuesday’s NewsNIght, host Abby Phillip demonstrated why they stopped. In their discussions about racism and President Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., Phillip shouted down commentator Batya Ungar-Sargon when she attempted to cite facts and statistics. Spurred on to talk about racism in…

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Dem Congressman Tries to Gotcha Scott Jennings on Guns, Gets SHUT DOWN

August 13th, 2025 11:58 AM

Last night’s edition of CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, more colloquially known as the “Thunderdome”, opened with a segment on the federalization of Washington D.C.’s Metro Police Department- which is clearly the media’s Current Thing (at least until the Smithsonian cycle kicks off in earnest). A liberal media darling tried to flex his talking points outside of the usual amen corner…

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CNN Thinks Enforcing Civil Rights Is ‘Fascism’ and ‘Extortion’

July 25th, 2025 2:05 PM

If you watched Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN NewsNight, Ana Navarro and Keith Boykin would have you believe Donald Trump is “extorting” Columbia University and running a “fascist” operation from the White House. But let’s get serious. What actually happened at Columbia is not a criminal shakedown, it’s accountability. When a university accepts billions in federal funding, it has a…

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Scott Jennings SHUTS DOWN Colbert Cancellation Mourning Session

July 18th, 2025 12:39 PM

Last night’s episode of CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip featured a segment dedicated to liberal grieving over the cancellation of CBS’s Late Night with Stephen Colbert. Conservative stalwart Scott Jennings took the opportunity to remind everyone that there was a far more important story taking place.