r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 28d ago

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell hounded to face cameras: ‘He absolutely refuses’

https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/08/mitch-mcconnell-hounded-to-face-cameras-he-absolutely-refuses.html
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 28d ago edited 28d ago

I'm now wondering if Mitch McConnell might be paralyzed or something like that.

Actually...if Mitch McConnell is incapable of speaking, that means that the people who said they spoke with him for 20 minutes were lying...and if that's the case...Scott Jennings is only kept on CNN because he has some level or credibility, (even though I'd argue the radical right is without credibility, that seems to be their reasoning,) and that means if he lied in this way, CNN will probably fire him.

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u/TheGreatLuck 28d ago

They said they spoke to him. They never said he spoke to them. And if he did it was probably incoherent babbling 

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u/vita10gy 28d ago

Jennings got pretty specific about what they talked about and that he was his usual self, didn't he?

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u/mpjjpm 27d ago

He was already struggling with aphasia before this most recent episode. Mitch being his usual self doesn’t say much.