CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings clashed with MeidasTouch podcaster Adam Mockler during a fiery debate in which Jennings said, “Get your f***ing hand out of my face.”
“Honestly, I’m not going to have this guy’s hand in my face,” Jennings said Thursday on CNN NewsNight With Abby Phillip.
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Jennings and Mockler debated the Iran war when Mockler criticized Jennings for the U.S.’s involvement in the Middle East, as war tensions continue amid postponed ceasefire deals.
“I was only a few years old while you were in the administration defending prior ‘endless wars,’ now this war is failing,” Mockler said.
“Eight weeks is ‘endless’ to you?” Jennings said. “What, you have the attention span of a gnat?”
“Homie, I debated you on TV four to six weeks ago, and you said we were weeks away from it, and now you’re making condescending remarks because you can’t defend the fact that this war is not going your way,” Mockler said.
That’s when Jennings fired back and repeated Mockler’s statement, “‘Not going your way?’ Get your f***ing hand out of my face.”
Anchor Abby Phillip interjected, “Everybody hang tight, everybody calm down, OK? We’re having a debate.”
“Scott, you can respond,” Phillip said.
Jennings defended himself and said the main goal is to make sure Iran does not have any nuclear weapons.
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Mockler snapped back that Jennings could not answer the question, “Name one political concession we’ve gotten.”
“So you can’t answer the question? I’d get mad too,” Mockler said.
The debate has stirred pushback among the group.
“Grown man on the verge of tears because he can’t answer a question,” Mockler said on X Thursday after the debate.
Early Friday morning, Mockler posted a full clip of the debate and said, “He throws a personal jab… then folds the second he gets pressed. Scott loves to dish it but can’t take it.”
Jennings posted a clip of the debate on Friday, and called out Democrats for arguing that the United States is the aggressor in Iran.
Mockler criticized Jennings’s post, and noted that Jennings did not include the moment of tense debate or saying, “Get your f***ing hand out of my face.”
“Took you 12 hours to edit out your melt down,” Mockler said on X.
Mockler later called out Jennings for being a “MAGA beta male with low emotional control and high cortisol” who “CRASHES OUT on young man preoccupied with war.”
Political commentator Keith Olbermann even called for CNN to fire Jennings.
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“It’s the morning after and@cnn has still not fired @ScottJenningsKY for threatening, in another burst of paranoid rage,@adammocklerr. This event needs to be reported to the New York DA – and if CNN has not fired Jennings by Monday it MUST be just boycottED. Do not watch CNN,” Olbermann said.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Jennings and Mockler for comment.
