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SCOTT JENNINGS Talks Bush Presidency, Debates, CNN

Abby, I mean what we're doing is, there's no other cable show that has debates.
Yeah.
Every other cable show is six people sitting around in green.
I'm going on next month.
You're coming?
Yeah.
Okay, that's great.
Why do you laugh at me like this?
I think it's great.
Because I'm a minor leaguer?
I mean...
Oh, I'll see you on the battlefield, my friend.
They told me...
I'm gonna...
You don't even know what I'm gonna do to you.
They told me they were having trouble booking people.
I get it now.
So rude.
Just because you did the Iraq War, you think you're gonna do...
You don't even know what you're doing.
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Why am I screaming?
My guess this week is CNN political contributor Scott Jennings.
Scott made a name for himself early on in life as a successful campaign operative.
They called him the master of attack.
His senseis were Mitch McConnell and George W. Bush.
In recent years, Scott has become a social media sensation as a conservative
commentator
on the Communist News Network, otherwise known as CNN.
To put it simply, folks, Scott is one of the most famous arguers in America
today.
Now, I'll be honest.
One of my biggest fears is having an argument.
I've avoided them my whole life.
I've been ripped off numerous times and I've never had the guts to call
customer service.
I once had what was deemed an open and shut case against a lifeguard, rude lifeguard,
mind
you, very attractive on the other.
It was a girl, a hot girl lifeguard on the grounds of pain and suffering.
But I buckled during cross-examination.
It felt like an argument to me.
Throughout human history, we have seen wars waged between human beings and
human beings.
Where we saw young men die on the battlefield.
They were ripped from the cornfields of Iowa, the stickball, blacktops of
Brooklyn.
They were just boys.
And every last one of those wars started with an argument.
So this week presented a new challenge as an interviewer to keep Jennings, a
man who's
used on a hair trigger from unleashing the monster inside of him.
And that's Scott.
Give it up.
Scott, guys.
Our next guest is a token conservative.
No, I'm just kidding.
Our next guest is author of the new book, Revolution of Common Sense.
He's a contributor, a political contributor to CNN.
Everyone give it up for Scott Jennings, everyone.
Get this, make some noise.
This is one of the worst ones I've heard yet.
That's one of the most pathetic claps ever.
I'm one man.
Just big.
Woo, woo, woo.
Woo, woo, woo.
Thank you.
Do it like in Married with Children when Kelly Bundy comes out.
Do you remember that?
I do remember that.
Everyone got so horny when Kelly came out.
It was a little bit inappropriate.
A lot of folks.
I was a teenager when that show was out.
I recall those vibrations, yeah.
You're 10 years older than me, I believe.
How old are you?
You're 48.
I'm 38.
Okay.
Okay.
So you're 10 years wiser than me.
Kelly Bundy was a thing.
So it was Peggy.
She was unreal.
She was unreal.
My first crush was my cousin Vinny.
Oh, yeah.
Marissa.
Mona Lisa Vito.
She's something else.
She's like 60 today and she's still outrageous.
Perfect.
She really hasn't aged at all.
She's amazing.
So you love Hollywood.
It's your favorite place?
I do love Hollywood.
Do you consider yourself like in showbiz though?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
What I do is a mixture of showbiz and WWE.
Yeah.
You're a heel.
I'm a lovable rascal, but if you want to call it a heel.
You're like the Eddie Guerrero of CNN.
Eddie Guerrero.
Yeah, yeah.
That's like a B or C tier wrestler.
You've got to come up with somebody better than that.
You're the gold dust.
I'm like...
Do you remember gold dust?
He would be gay to the other guy?
And it was like really scary.
He wore a strange...
But he had a hot girl with him.
Yeah.
It was very confusing as a child.
He was.
I'd be like, why is he kissing the guy but he's got a...
You know, he had a very alpha father.
The American dream.
Dusty Rhodes.
Dusty Rhodes, yeah.
Who was an amazing wrestler.
Yeah, who's a legend.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, I mean, that was...
Do you think that that's what the Democrats kind of want?
Is it kind of gold?
That's like...
Yes, I think they would all dress that way if they could.
Well, they want like just to be confusing.
They want gold dust to reach...
A nation of gold dust.
I want a nation of Hulk Hogan, John Cena and The Undertaker.
They want a nation of gold dust.
Dude, the Hulks are RIP, dude.
I know.
I finally met him last year.
Yeah.
He's like my childhood hero.
At the RNC?
I met him at the RNC.
Oh my God.
I got to say, I'm a pinko.
Like I'm a New York style Jewish pinko.
But when he ripped that shirt, I was ready to go.
You want to hear about it?
Yeah.
I've been trying to meet this guy for like 40 years.
Really?
And they finally let me...
And I took David Axelrod down there to meet him.
Amazing.
And so we go down to the bowels of the arena and we could hear him rehearsing
in his dressing room.
And he's in there hulking up, you know.
So they open the door and the guy says, you know Hulkster, this is Scott Jennings
and David Axelrod from CNN.
And he comes out and he's, you know, he's a little nervous and his hand is
shaking.
And I said, Hulkster, are you nervous?
And he said, I've never done politics, brother.
Yeah.
And I said, well, you body slammed Andre the Giant in front of 90,000 people.
I think it'll be okay.
And you know what?
That was politics.
He then went out and delivered the greatest convention speech in the history of
political conventions.
Yeah, yeah.
And ripped his shirt off.
I agree.
I've been at every convention since 2000.
I've never heard anybody bring the house down.
Obama '04 was pretty big.
Meh.
Yeah, yeah, no.
Meh.
He didn't rip his shirt off.
I'm not saying you agree with what he said.
You probably like that.
Obama, first of all, definitely, definitely, he left us wondering what was
under the shirt.
You know, he was being a little bit more coy, but no.
Yeah, yeah.
That speech, I remember, was big.
Yeah.
It was so good that George W. Bush won the national popular vote.
I mean, he wasn't running for president.
Yeah.
John Kerry was good.
I know.
Kerry, that was a fun campaign to work on because we won, but Kerry was a
disaster.
Well, you got two extra states over in 2000.
You were on both campaigns.
I want to get to you because you're kind of like the Benson Boone of campaigns.
You're the flipper.
You flipped so many.
You're a flip boy.
Do you know who Benson Boone is?
I have no idea what you're talking about.
He's this guy that sings and flips.
You know that song, "These beautiful days that I've got."
Okay, first off, we're going to watch a Benson Boone video.
It's crazy.
There are people in campaigns and elections that have lost every time and
gotten a promotion each time.
It happens a lot.
Yeah, and you're like a guy that you win every time.
Not every time.
We won a lot, though.
What's the loss that you've had?
Oh, gosh.
Oh, back home in Kentucky.
We lost the 2011 governor's race.
That was an ass-kicking.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
That was not a great campaign.
I wasn't aware until I was doing research for this that Kentucky was a blue
state.
It was.
When I started Kentucky in 2000, my first campaign, Bill Clinton had won it
twice.
Yeah.
He won it both times.
And Kentucky was an overwhelmingly registered Democrat.
Was it because of unions?
Unions.
You know, it was traditionally, a lot of Southern states were traditionally
Democratic.
They were New Deal Democrats.
Uh-huh.
And I thought after Civil Rights Act, they went red.
It was very Democratic, and we had Democratic governors most of the time.
McConnell winning in '84 was kind of the beginning of it changing.
Uh-huh.
And then up until the '90s, it was still, you know, Clinton won it twice.
And so when Bush won it in 2000, that's when the real movement started.
And then when Obama won in '08 and during the Obama years, Kentucky, like a lot
of really
rural states, really, really went away from that.
That had to hurt.
Yeah.
2008.
So, it hurt who?
You.
Me?
Yeah.
Uh, well, it hurt the country, since I live in the country.
Yeah.
You gotta see this guy bend some dude.
All right, dude.
So, he's like, sings, wait, and look how, then he rips his things off, and then
look,
look at this.
Whoa!
Yeah.
That's what I said you are.
Yeah.
I'm...
You're the Benson Boot of campaigns and elections.
I get it now.
Yeah, yeah.
It's an even better compliment than it was.
It was a great compliment, because you're a good flipper.
All right, let's get in.
Okay, so for our audience that don't know who you are, how would you describe
someone you
meet in the Hudson News?
They say, "What do you do?"
You're in the airport.
They say, "What do you do for a living, sir?"
Yeah.
What do you say?
Well, I'm senior political commentator for CNN.
Sounds good.
So, they bring me on the news on CNN to analyze and debate the news with other
people.
And you are, like, you're the conservative on the panel, typically.
Yes.
Are you typically the only conservative on the panel?
Sometimes, but not always.
Sometimes, they bring on a second person.
But, in many cases, I'm the principal conservative arguer.
Do you like the one-on-fifty kind of dynamic?
Yeah.
I do.
Because you get way more lines.
Yeah.
You get way more action.
I love the dynamic.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's fun to be that guy in the lion's den, you know?
Yeah.
I feel like after you're done recording, half the people are like, "Fuck you,
Scott."
And half the people are like, "That's my boy over there.
You dropped a crazy one today, Scott."
Yeah.
Yeah.
The professionals at this are the ones who love it.
Because they know it's good.
Debates are good TV.
Yeah, yeah.
I go all over the country.
I hear two things.
I love you, and I love the debates.
I hate you, but I love the debates.
Everybody loves debates.
The country was founded on debates.
And so, CNN is smart to do it.
What was your favorite debate of all time?
Oh, gosh.
I mean, back in, oh, just generally?
Yeah.
Oh, gosh.
You know, I'll tell you one.
It's kind of obscure, but when Dick Cheney took John Edwards to the woodshed in
the...
They went hunting together?
2004.
No.
In the 2004 election.
Yeah.
That was a gr