CNN pundit Scott Jennings brutally mocked the mainstream media on Wednesday for accepting Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) explaining away his lies by essentially claiming that he’s “too dumb to tell the truth.”
During the panel discussion on Tuesday’s broadcast of “Newsnight,” Jennings argued that the mainstream media needed to show at least a modicum of curiosity about Walz’s lies. He pointed out that the media is always “worried” about supposed lies told by former President Donald Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), but they completely ignore lies from Vice President Kamala Harris and Walz — who has lied about his military rank, serving in combat, being in China during the Tiananmen Square massacre, and numerous other issues.
“So everybody seems to be worried about JD Vance and dishonesty or Donald Trump and dishonesty,” Jennings began, adding: “I never hear the same concern about Harris and the lies that she tells about Trump, or in Walz himself, who gave the most disastrous response to a question about his own dishonesty about being in Tiananmen Square that I’ve ever heard in a debate.”
Walz was specifically asked about the Tiananmen Square lie during his debate with Vance on Tuesday evening, and responded by effectively blabbering on about nothing, then ultimately attributed it to having “misspoke” and being a “knucklehead” after the moderators pressed the question.
Most awkward VP debate answer ever has to be Walz here as he tries to explain his blatant lie about being in China when the Tiananmen Square m*ss*cre happened pic.twitter.com/XwsSuAC45g
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) October 2, 2024
“He also did the same thing with Dana Bash when questioned about dishonesty a couple of months ago, and effectively what he has said is, ‘Sorry, guys, I’m too dumb to tell the truth,’” Jennings continued. “I mean, he called himself a knucklehead. ‘I have bad grammar.’ This is a guy who holds himself up to be a schoolteacher and a coach. Is that the life lesson that he’s giving the kids that are under his care? Hey, you can lie, and then you can just kind of slough it off as being, you know, too dumb to tell the truth.”
“I think it’s — we spend 99% of our time going down rabbit holes about Vance and Trump and honesty and campaigns, and we spend no time — no time at all — holding Walz and Harris to the same standard and I don’t understand it,” he added.
Tim Walz effectively says he’s just too dumb to tell the truth. Why is that good enough? It’s not. My latest on @cnn. pic.twitter.com/gApQTT49jv
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) October 3, 2024
This is not the first time that Jennings called out the media for failing to push back on Walz’s lies. In a previous CNN panel, Jennings pointed to Walz’s joint interview with Harris hosted by CNN anchor Dana Bash, noting that Bash had pressed him about his lies regarding his military experience, and Walz once again essentially called himself dumb — stating that his “grammar’s not always correct.”
Dana Bash: "You said you carried weapons in war, but you never deployed in war. Did you misspeak?"
Tim Walz: "My grammar's not always correct."pic.twitter.com/jYRAdyfMpc
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) August 30, 2024
Jennings stated: “His only consequential press interaction with our Dana Bash, who asked him about the fabrications in his own resume, and his answer was essentially, ‘Me no understand words good.’”
Tim Walz gets absolutely WRECKED by @ScottJenningsKY
"Me no understand words good"
🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/gA8jNrzoxF— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) September 29, 2024
