This can be a hilarious clip from over the weekend and in case you missed it, you want to see it. No matter CNN is paying Scott Jennings, it’s not sufficient.
After the persevering with decision handed, Jennings praised Chuck Schumer for stopping the ‘racist, Jim Crow period’ filibuster, a direct dig at Democrats who used this kind of language once they had been final in energy and had been threatened with a filibuster.
Jennings will get about midway by way of his remark earlier than Jake Tapper jumps in to clarify to the viewers the context of what he’s saying. Jennings in all probability ought to have requested Tapper why CNN viewers would want to have that defined to them.
Transcript through Real Clear Politics:
SCOTT JENNINGS, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Effectively, as a result of, to start with, I simply need to say I’m grateful for Chuck Schumer at the moment. He helped defeat a racist Jim Crow filibuster within the Senate and to face up towards the racist Jim Crow filibuster ways, was a second of pure braveness. And I simply suppose he must be lauded by anyone in any get together for — that’s primary.
Quantity two…
TAPPER: That’s a deep minimize… Let me simply clarify for the individuals at dwelling, when there was a Democratic push towards the filibuster, individuals within the Democratic Social gathering had been saying it was a racist period — Jim Crow period tactic, the filibuster.
JENNINGS: And it was horrible.
TAPPER: So he’s being cheeky. All proper, again to…
JENNINGS: And never solely that, however he saved us from the Democrats within the Home shedding each single veteran within the federal authorities. Chuck Schumer working with Donald Trump saved us from that.
So, I feel he deserves a whole lot of credit score this morning. Each veteran would have been laid off. Each veteran would have been laid off.
Right here’s the clip:
SAVAGE: Scott Jennings praises Chuck Schumer’s “pure braveness” for serving to “defeat a racist Jim Crow filibuster within the Senate” —
— forcing Jake Tapper to clarify that Democrats referred to as the filibuster a racist Jim Crow relic once they had been out of energy (and now they like it). pic.twitter.com/dpFht0Kwwz
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 16, 2025
After all, Jake Tapper might have identified all of this himself, however that may require him going towards his personal group, so it falls to Scott Jennings to make the purpose.
