A CNN commentator has asserted that the corporate media is giving Tim Walz a free pass on multiple lies because Democrat-aligned “journalists” simply accept that he’s “too dumb to tell the truth.”
CNN pundit Scott Jennings noted on Wednesday that Walz, the Democrat presidential nominee, has been explaining away lies by playing “dumb.”
As Slay News reported, at one point during Tuesday’s debate with Republican rival JD Vance, Walz described himself as a “knucklehead.”
Walz made the remark while dodging a question about why he lied about being in China during the infamous massacre at Tiananmen Square in the summer of 1989.
Corporate media outlets appear to be buying Walz’s claim, that he’s a “knucklehead” who “misspoke,” as a plausible explanation.
Jennings joined CNN anchor Abby Phillip and several other panelists on Tuesday’s broadcast of “Newsnight.”
During the segment, Jennings argued that the media should be raising more questions about Walz’s frequent “dishonesty,” especially considering that he’s running for vice president.
“So everybody seems to be worried about JD Vance and dishonesty or Donald Trump and dishonesty,” Jennings began.
He then quickly switched the shoe to the other foot.
“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,” he continued.
“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.’”
“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.”
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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
Jennings has previously taken the same approach to Walz.
When CNN anchor Dana Bash had pressed him about assertions regarding his military experience that appeared to be fabricated, Jennings noted the he had played dumb then as well.
“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.’”
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Tim Walz gets absolutely WRECKED by @ScottJenningsKY
"Me no understand words good"
🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/gA8jNrzoxF— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) September 29, 2024
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