Adam Mockler Gets Into It With Conservative, Again, And CNN's Abby Phillip Defends Him
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Adam Mockler Gets Into It With Conservative, Again, And CNN's Abby Phillip Defends Him

Last Thursday on CNN's NewsNight with Abby Phillip, AdamMockler of Meidas Touch Network disrespected CNN commentator Scott Jennings into losing his cool, big time. It wasn't pretty, but despite his performance that night, Mockler was invited back on Monday night, and even though Jennings wasn't there, he managed to exhibit many of the same unfortunate qualities from last week. Phillip began by displaying  numbers from various polls showing lack of support for the war, and focused on a Marquette Law School Survey showing that 80% of those 18-29, say there was no sufficient reasons to go to war. She then turned to 23-year-old Mockler who was full of it -- talking points, that is. MOCKLER: For my entire life, the United States has been at war with some country in the Middle East, and young people have constantly been told that this will make us safer and make us better off. But when we look around at the world today, we are less safe and we are worse off.... And now Gen Z-ers are going to the same thing with Iran....This war is failing.... And I'm sorry, I'm not buying this trust the process line. I don't trust the same people who got us into the prior wars, amassed trillions of dollars in debts, and are not putting America first on the global stage. Phillip then seemed to endorse what she had just heard as she addressed Noah Rothman, Senior Writer at National Review. PHILLIP: Is it fair for young people to have that level of distrust of the people, to Adam's point, who maybe defended the last war and were wrong and are defending this war too? ROTHMAN: I don't think so. I think honestly, Adam, that's immensely ungrateful to American service personnel and the people who keep us safe every day. After 9/11 it was by no means guaranteed that there would be no mass casualty terrorist attack on American soil....  And after the attack on Iraq and the elimination of Saddam Hussein's regime, we took a terrorist supporting enterprise off the map. We don't talk about Iraq anymore as a threat to national security, because it isn't. Rothman continued to attempt to educate young Mockler, while also taking him to task. ROTHMAN: And those who would pretend as though Iran is not a national security threat, are just frankly dismissive of the extent to which American service personnel get up every day to stop these people from executing the attacks on American and their allies that they plan every single day.... And I just think it's just ungrateful. MOCKLER: I feel less safe due to the actions of our leaders. I'm incredibly grateful for our servicemen here.  Later in the segment, Rothman went back to his original response to Mockler. ROTHMAN: To clarify what I had said previously, is that it is, in my view, ungrateful to American service personnel to say that they have not kept us safe when we do not measure- MOCKLER: That's not what I said. ROTHMAN: Allow me to finish my statement. At this point, Phillip felt the need to speak up for her Gen Z guest. PHILLIP: But but he didn't say that. ROTHMAN: He's saying that we can measure nonevents, which is to suggest that the attacks that have not happened, which none of us are aware of, we're not we're not avoidable because he's talking about because of the nature of these conflicts. And the conflicts themselves are what inspires the attacks. PHILLIP:  But that's not really the argument that he's making. The argument that he's making is that is that the people who made the arguments to go into these conflicts in the first place misled, which is a fact. And and secondly, that the conflicts ended up lasting a very long time, costing a lot of American treasure, and those are also facts. He didn't say it's because they didn't keep us safe. That's not actually what he said. Rothman then shot back, "Well it is actually what he said." It seems pretty obvious that Phillip didn't believe that Mockler was capable of presenting his point of view without her stepping in to protect him. His lack of respect and decorum has also proven problematic, and if he were a young Conservative, his days on CNN would have already have been over.