CNN Anti-ICE Bias Prompts Scott Jennings To Say He Feels Like He's On 'Crazy Pills'
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CNN Anti-ICE Bias Prompts Scott Jennings To Say He Feels Like He's On 'Crazy Pills'

Since the Wednesday morning shooting involving an ICE Agent in Minneapolis, the liberal media has taken an active role in pushing those who seek to not only blame ICE for the incident, but whose goal is to portray ICE as a threat to citizens around the nation. Sometimes they do it through guests, and sometimes it's the hosts themselves.  It would be tough to find a better example of this, then what occurred on CNN last Friday night.  On OutFront with Erin Burnett, the host welcomed Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal. One day earlier, Bilal told a press conference that Ice Agents were, "fake wannabe law enforcement", and that she would "smoke" them. If you think for one moment that Burnett would press Bilal on exactly what she meant by smoke them, keep in mind that last Tuesday, the night before the shooting, Burnett allowed Minneapolis Mayor Frey to claim that both ICE and the Trump administration are racist, and offered no pushback. Friday night's exchange wasn't much different. She started the segment by playing a clip of the Sheriff's comments. BILAL: I called them (ICE) made up fake wannabe law enforcement because what they do is against not only legal law, but the moral law. If any of them want to come in this city and commit a crime, you will not be able to hide. Nobody will whisk you off. You don't want this smoke because we will bring it to you. The criminal in the White House would not be able to keep you from going to jail. Burnett could have asked, how is what ICE does against the law? What do you mean by we will bring you smoke? Nope, she gushed to the Sheriff: "Why did you feel the need to speak out as a law enforcement officer so passionately against ICE?" Her response made little sense. BILAL:.. ..What was stated was that the District Attorney said, if you're going to come and Philadelphia and commit a crime, that he would arrest you. The Sheriff's office, it deals with transportation. So basically, I said you would not be able to hide. Nobody would whisk you away. And if he charges you, then you can be arrested. What I was saying is that when I said, you come in this city to do a crime, we will bring the smoke to you. People are tired of these people coming into the city masked up, basically all masked up and pulling people out and causing havoc. This was supposed to be helping cities out. This was supposed to be eliminating crime. But yet, you are committing them here. You are putting people in fear. You are breaking up families. So many possible follow-ups, like, what crimes is ICE committing? But Burnett opted for, "Is it making your job harder?" Simply amazing. Fast forward three hours later to NewsNight with Abby Phillip, the panel discussion on the shooting in Minneapolis, turned into  battle between the host, who sees no fault in what the victim of the shooting and other "protesters" were doing, and Scott Jennings, who was full of it. -- common sense, that is. PHILLIP: ..I just wonder, is it not possible for regular Americans to decide that they disagree with ICE's tactics? They want to yell, shame at ICE, that's not a crime. Recording is not a crime. Blowing whistles is not a crime. Why does that make you.. A, a professional agitator, or, B, as they said earlier in this week, a domestic terrorist? JENNINGS: Well, protesting is perfectly fine in this country. That's not what was happening in this case. And as we saw from the reporting in the last 24 hours, there was a group of people who are being trained to use vehicles in convoys to disrupt ICE operations -- PHILLIP: To do what exactly, Scott? JENNINGS: Disrupt and impede ICE operations. PHILLIP: Hold on. I mean, I think this is important. What are you -- JENNINGS: Disrupt and impede... I read the article in the New York Post that went chapter and verse through all the trainings ... They're training is to impede and obstruct. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. So well said by Jennings, as he sits there on a panel surrounded. And he had more. PHILLIP: ..I can't speak to the crazy pills, but in the video -- JENNINGS: I mean, you're denying things that have been openly reported. PHILLIP: Scott, listen, I'm not going to treat the New York Post like the Bible, okay? .. JENNINGS: I didn't ask you to. I just asked you to be honest about what we...no one's disputing this. What's interesting to note here, is that while Phillip mocks the facts presented in the New York Post story, and Jennings for referencing them, showing that the shooting victim Renee Nicole Good was a member of ICE Watch in Minneapolis, trained to impede ICE, she herself accused video journalist Nick Shirley of having made anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim videos, and offered absolutely not a shred of proof. "Crazy pills" indeed!