CNN’s lone conservative firebrand voice, Scott Jennings, has been added to the Los Angeles Times editorial board in yet another sign of the corporate media finally moving away from the far left.
The announcement of Jennings’ hire came this week via the paper’s owner, Pat Soon-Shiong.
First, Pat Soon-Shiong retweeted a viral clip of Jennings schooling his CNN peers on the undeniable truth that Twitter/X is the most ideologically balanced platform in the world.
And then, dovetailing off the clip, Soon-Shiong announced that he’d hired Jennings.
“That’s why I want Scott on our new editorial board!!!” he wrote. “Growing the board with experts who have thoughtful balanced views and new candidates are accepting the challenge to join us! Way to go Scott and thanks for accepting @latimes.”
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That’s why I want Scott on our new editorial board!!! Growing the board with experts who have thoughtful balanced views and new candidates are accepting the challenge to join us! Way to go Scott and thanks for accepting @latimes @ScottJenningsKY Stay tuned we are making this…
— Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong (@DrPatSoonShiong) November 26, 2024
The announcement prompted hesitant, thoughtful praise, with conservative critics who’ve long been critical of the Times’ leftwards bias writing that they welcomed the idea of a conservative joining the team.
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Thank you making this important change to make journalism truthful and balanced again.
— Chien Kwok (@chien_kwok) November 29, 2024
Would absolutely LOVE to see the LA TIMES restored to the great newspaper it once was, so many years ago….
— Dave Roman (@DaveRom86052473) November 26, 2024
Thank you for adding Scott. I have been a subscriber for 35 years and wanted to cancel multiple times because of the lack of balance, and too much liberal propaganda. Adding Scott is a strong move!
— Robert Manus (@bob_manus) November 29, 2024
I live in Washington state now but grew up south of LA. The LA Times was the paper of record for us when I was a kid but it turned into a vile liberal mouthpiece. If you remake the paper as you suggest we will resubscribe.
— lowlevelbuzz (@lowlevelbuzz) November 26, 2024
I learned to read by reading the LA Times. It was a grand paper with companion stories deeper into the pages. And, it had Conrad as its political cartoonist. Something happened along the way and it ceased being a great paper. I look forward to the reinvention.
— William Kolb (@KolbBill) November 30, 2024
From the radicalized, hate-filled left meanwhile, Soon-Shiong’s announcement triggered pure, unrepentant rage. It was like watching the liberal response on Election Night all over again.
“[S]cott is a f–king idiot and only repeats magat talking points, it’s all he knows to do as he has zero original thought. Your publication is going to have a magat infestation & become nothing more than birdcage liner,” one nearly illiterate Trump hater whined.
“Losers of a feather listen to Scott Jennings together. Go f–k yourself,” another profane critic shrieked.
“You absolute craven, greedy, MAGA-ass-kissing turd. Your readers – your CUSTOMERS – the community you pretend to serve – are Californians. They’re not interested in this Breitbart-lite crap,” another deranged leftist lunatic barked.
But the most deranged response came from former CNN “reporter” Oliver Darcy, a shameless propagandist for the Democrat Party.
CNN boss reportedly called Oliver Darcy to the carpet over ’emotional’ town hall criticism https://t.co/whViCORRHo pic.twitter.com/CY5H6mCOcC
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) May 16, 2023
Sounding just like the leftist lunatics on Twitter/X, Darcy reportedly got on the phone with Soon-Shiong and then proceeded to lecture him about how Jennings is just a Trump Toadie.
“The problem with Jennings is that his commentary is, at its core, dishonest,” Darcy later wrote for his newsletter, Status, as reported by Mediaite. “He may not outright blurt out lies, but he isn’t being truthful, either.”
“His entire career hinges on defending a politician who subjects the populace to an endless stream of lies and conspiracy theories. Honest people are not in the line of work of defending dishonest people — especially when they are in such important positions of power,” he added.
Soon-Shiong, much to his credit, did not take kindly to his contrived narrative. First, he accused Darcy of harboring bias, which many would agree he does indeed in droves. And then he called him a “so-called reporter.”
Conservatives staunchly agreed.
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Oliver Darcy isn’t a reporter. He’s not even human.
— BigApplePhoenix (@BigApplePhoenix) November 28, 2024
Oliver Darcy is a bigger clown than Emmett Kelly
— Sweet Willy Rollbar, excitable boy (@vorozab) November 28, 2024
Darcy told The Post: “I I think it actually revealed quite a bit about him.” Darcy is like kryptonite to self-awareness.
— Ronnie Schreiber (@RonnieSchreiber) November 29, 2024
Ex CNN star Oliver Darcy is jealous of current CNN star Scott Jennings. Did he not realize how bitter it would look for him to go after Scott with gossip like that?
— Daniel Giannuzzi (@dangiannuzzi) November 28, 2024
What a terrible journalist. Toting that all Donald does is lie YET it’s been proven the media has insistently lied about almost everything he did! 95% of negative coverage! Never forget!
— Bx Mike Guy (@RedWave25) November 29, 2024
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