Newsnight

CNN’s Thunderdome, more commonly referred to as NewsNight with Abby Phillip, was particularly lively tonight. Given the issue array, there was bound to be fireworks. And sure enough, there were.

A very interesting exchange on last night’s CNN NewsNight With Abby Phillip (AKA The Thunderdome) proved that a worthy argument can be undermined by an ineffective spokesperson. In this case, a point on the everyday effects of tariffs on imported goods that ended with Scott Jennings standing tall in defense of American snack foods.

On CNN NewsNight, CNN contributor Ashley Allison, a former Obama and Biden aide, says "I believe" Jasmine Crockett's claim that when she called Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott "Governor hot wheels," she wasn't alluding to the fact that he is a paraplegic who has been confined for decades to a wheelchair. 

In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s Dallas-Fort Worth-area affiliate KXAS and went viral on X Monday, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) talked repeatedly about wanting to beat up and repeatedly “punch” Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz. Leaving aside her sudden code switching in the last year, the incendiary rhetoric is the sort of thing ABC, CBS, and NBC would look to call out if…

On CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, Democrat apparat and failed Biden OMB nominee Neera Tanden tried to conflate the leftist terror attacks against Tesla vehicles and facilities with the January 6th Capitol Riot. Conservative commentator Scott Jennings had none of it.

A discussion on Wednesday’s CNN NewsNight took a turn so outrageous that even CNN’s own fact-checkers would object. During the discussion, political commentator Ana Navarro accused President Trump of “making up stories about transgender mice” despite CNN’s own website saying otherwise.

CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip, known colloquially as “The Thunderdome”, was particularly lively as conservative commentator Scott Jennings clowned multiple guests across multiple segments. Each own was progressively more brutal than the other.

When you as a liberal Democrat have lost CNN’s Abby Phillip and your protest gets LITERALLY laughed at live on CNN air, it may be a sign that your ability to influence coverage of the day’s events is waning. This was the reaction garnered by Congressional Democrats’ protest outside the headquarters of the dying United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

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A wild segment on CNN News Night with Abby Phillip, AKA “The Thunderdome”, left bare for all to see that the network is now tripling down on dangerous disinformation. Despite being recently found liable and punished for defamation, the once and former World Leader in News persists on smearing Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk by flogging the dead-and-debunked Salute Hoax. 

Washington Post economics columnist Catherine Rampell lashed out Thursday afternoon at SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly and blamed her for threats and ugly words being hurled her way after Kelly shelled her for smearing Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth as merely a “TV host” and thus tossing aside his 20 years of boots-on-the-ground military service. This, dear readers, is what one…

On CNN’s “Thunderdome”, more commonly known as NewsNight with Abby Phillip, the conversation over the response to California’s catastrophic wildfires inevitably led to Donald Trump. To be more precise: pre-imputing a bad response to a man who is still days away from taking power as President of the United States.