MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Rages At CNN For Hiring Scott Jennings

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell spent an entire minute on Monday raging at CNN for employing political commentator Scott Jennings to offer a conservative perspective on the network.

O’Donnell claimed that CNN has “compromised” itself by paying Jennings to supposedly “lie” about President Donald Trump on the network. He accused Jennings of turning into a so-called “rabid, lying Trump supporter” and of becoming the “J.D. Vance of CNN.”

“Scott Jennings, who used to be an aide to Senator Mitch McConnell, was not always a rabid,lying Trump supporter. When he first started appearing on television, he was capable of criticizing some of themore extreme Trump positions,” O’Donnell said. “But Scott Jennings figured out where the money is and how he could get his own podcast anddecided to become the J.D. Vance of CNN.” 

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O’Donnell suggested that Jennings’ appearance is driving down the ratings on “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip.” The show, however, is often ranked as one of the network’s most-watched programs.

“The show that Scott Jennings frequents the most is on opposite this program,” O’Donnell said. “And that show on a good night gets half, half of the audience of this show. This program usually has an audience triple the size of the terrible, terrible televisionthat Scott Jennings is delivering on the absurdly degraded version of CNN presided over by theman who thinks lying for Donald Trump on TV is an honorable pursuit and should be paid