CNN Pundit Gives A Head-Spinning Response To Racist Rhetoric At NYC Trump Rally

Scott Jennings weighed in on vile remarks comedian Tony Hinchcliffe and other speakers made at Madison Square Garden last week.

Scott Jennings, one of CNN’s go-to conservative commentators, gave an equivocating response on-air Monday night when asked to react to several racist and offensive remarks speakers spewed at a Donald Trump rally in New York City on Sunday.

During a segment on his “360” news panel show, host Anderson Cooper introduced footage of inflammatory moments from the Madison Square Garden rally, including a clip of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

Cooper asked Jennings to share his thoughts about the event: “You worked in the Bush/Cheney White House, your close ally [is] Sen. Mitch McConnell — none of them would come within 100 miles of this stuff. Does it make you sad that this is what a Republican rally sounds like a week before the election?”

“Yeah, I don’t like it. I don’t like it one bit,” Jennings responded. “I’m not going to sit here and pretend like it’s good or helpful.” He criticized the rally’s hate-filled rhetoric as “stupid,” “a distraction” and “offensive.”

But he then turned the issue on Vice President Kamala Harris, claiming the Democratic nominee also has supporters from the “entertainment industry” who’ve said “vile and offensive things in the context of politics.”