In a lengthy rant decrying the ruination of CNN among other things, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell made the time to take gratuitous swipes at CNN Senior Political Commentator Scott Jennings. The rant, aside from being weird and gratuitous, was unwarranted.
Watch as O’Donnell, from the cloister of MSNBC, curses the bespoiled CNN both for daring to fire the paragon of journalism Jim Acosta and for having the temerity to air voices from beyond the far-left fringes of the Acela Media bubble:
BEHOLD: @Lawrence‘s extended whine over the presence of one @ScottJenningsKY at CNN, which begins with a lamentation for Abilio Acosta and goes south from there. pic.twitter.com/Xtrqz2fdoV
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 28, 2025
MSNBC THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL
10/27/25
10:15 PM
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: CNN is already owned by a right wing Trump supporter and has compromised itself accordingly. The firing started right away in that new regime. That’s why Jim Acosta is no longer there and others are no longer there. And everyone who remains has become much more careful in anything they might even think of saying about Donald Trump. And now CNN eagerly pays a Trump supporter to lie on CNN every day and night for Donald Trump. CNN did this during the first Trump presidential campaign and presidency. CNN regularly paid Trump supporters to lie about Trump on CNN. But the CNN regime then realized that was a mistake, and they stopped doing it. They stopped paying for lies. But then CNN got a new head, the head of CNN for the last three years, hired by the Trump-supporting owner and operator of CNN, is an Englishman who thinks paying Scott Jennings to lie about Donald Trump is money very well spent. 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 the more extreme Trump positions. But Scott Jennings figured out where the money is and how he could get his own podcast and decided to become the JD Vance of CNN. And here is the single goofiest thing ever said by anyone in charge of CNN in that network’s history. The-lost-in-America Englishman who heads CNN said, quote, “Scott’s like D’Artagnan. He’s got his sword out and he’s got about four Democrats against him, but he spiked them all off. That’s much more like it, I think. He’s a worthy opponent, as it were, for the Democrats in the room. And it makes not just good television, but also for in some ways, a slightly deeper testing of the ideas all the way around the table.” Good television. Here’s how bad that television is that they make over there. The show that Scott Jennings frequents the most is on opposite this program. 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 television that Scott Jennings is delivering on the absurdly degraded version of CNN, presided over by the man who thinks lying for Donald Trump on TV is an honorable pursuit and should be paid for by CNN. Scott’s like D’Artagnan, he says.
What, besides insecurity, possesses a man to talk about another man who isn’t even on every night, or even in the same time slot? What was it about Jennings that triggered O’Donnell into this gratuitous rant?
We don’t know for sure but will note the multiple misrepresentations regarding Jennings, in a rant complaining about Jennings’ LIEESSSSSS. Pretty rich for a spreader of the Russia Hoax, among others, to now complain about lies.
Perhaps it was just a matter of O’Donnell’s fear of hammers flaring up again- in this case the hammer from Kentucky:
Obligatory: STOP THE HAMMERING 🔨pic.twitter.com/wRhO1quMbo
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 28, 2025
Jennings took to the airwaves to respond to O’Donnell, and it was about what you would expect:
There’s this irrelevant lunatic on MSNBC named Lawrence O’Donnell. I actually forgot he existed.
But apparently, my existence caused him to have a mental breakdown live on the air.
I think I’ve figured out why he’s so upset 👇 pic.twitter.com/GyRmeyMW9X
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) October 29, 2025
Jennings flipped O’Donnell’s arguments on their head, especially as to actual ratings, and called out his weird bigotry against the “Englishman” heading CNN. As MSNBC turns into the much-derided and highly mocked MS NOW, one wonders whether O’Donnell will continue his obsession with Jennings. Does he want another round with “D’Artagnan?” Time will tell. That is, if he’s still there.
