Talk about serious brain damage.
Writing Monday night at his newsletter site Status, former conservative reporter-turned-snake Oliver Darcy beclowned himself by tag-teaming with a cadre of anonymous sources inside his former employer CNN to claim our friend, talk radio host, MRC Bulldog Award winner, and senior political commentator Scott Jennings has become isolated in CNN with guests increasingly canceling on the network so as not have to associate with him.
His claim? He told readers that “CNN leadership being made aware of the concerns” he’s become for other commentators and “actual journalists” considering his weekend scoop on X that U.S. intelligence had predicted Iran would attack U.S. military targets.
Darcy whined in his piece “CNN’s Cosplaying Correspondent” that a quad-bylined, anonymously-sourced CNN.com story — featuring obsequious Deep State tool Natasha Bertrand — “pour[ed] cold water on a claim anonymously peddled by the Trump administration that had ricocheted across MAGA Media...that Iran was not planning to launch an unprovoked strike on U.S. forces in the Middle East.”
To put it simply, Deep State Natasha and her ilk are shilling for the now-barbequed Iranian regime and upset President Trump was the one who took Iran down more than a few pegs.
Darcy paints himself as a reporter, but he’s really a childish liberal stooge as he declared the late Saturday story “must have made for uncomfortable reading for CNN’s resident MAGA pundit, Scott Jennings”:
Earlier in the weekend, Jennings blasted the claim out to his nearly one million followers on X, asserting that senior Trump administration officials had told him “that credible intelligence indicated Iran planned preemptive missile strikes against US military targets in the region, and against civilian targets as well.” In Jennings’ own telling, “Failure to act would’ve resulted in mass US casualties.” His post was shared more than 13,000 times and racked up over five million views, according to the platform’s analytics.
He then insisted Jennings’s X post “did not sit well with many of CNN’s actual journalists” and “some...were frustrated, to put it mildly, that Jennings had stepped outside his lane of punditry and used his platform to credulously amplify absurd anonymous claims...that CNN’s own journalists quickly undercut.”
Relaying this bellyaching “made its way up the chain” to “senior CNN leadership,” Darcy seemed crestfallen “Jennings...appears unbothered” considering he “reliably parrots Trump talk points, no matter how dishonest they may be.”
Of course, what this is all about is the fact that Darcy and his lemmings seethe over the idea half the country is allowed to speak outside of conservative media.
“Inside CNN, resentment toward Jennings has simmered for some time. While he came up at the network as a conservative willingly to break with Trump, in recent years he has morphed into an overt pro-Trump propagandists, rarely straying from MAGA line. That, couple with his combative on-air persona in which he often sneers and rolls his eyes at other panelists, has only deepened tensions,” Darcy seethed, again showing his hatred for half the country and purposefully unaware of liberals having done this for years.
Then came the scoop about guests cancelling as he said “some producers now give other on-air talent a heads-up” that they’d appear opposite Jennings and thus provide an early, easy out.
Towards the bottom, he lamented Jennings’s success on CNN NewsNight, blaming the show’s daily devolvement into “partisan food fights” not on host Abby Phillip being Joy Reid with an inside voice, but on the fact that “the Trump perspective” is “present[ed].”
