You know how much I LOVE the corporate media. After MSNBC, CNN is my favorite go-to when I need a daily dose of sanity after wading in the fever swamps of conservative media. 

Or not. 

However much I hate CNN, I have to say that they have a couple of stars whom I like quite a bit. Harry Enten, their stats guy, does exceptional poll analysis and explains what they say and why very well. 

And then there is Scott Jennings, who is a national treasure. 

The only content I see from CNN is clips I find on Twitter/X, although I occasionally read their stories when necessary. And every time I get a glimpse of Scott in the video I sit up and take notice. Not because I always agree with him, although I do. But there are lots of conservative commentators with whom I agree, and I glide past them in my feed because I know what they are going to say. 

Scott stands out. He can sit down with five liberals and outclass and outargue them on any topic. 

Scott is an experienced political advisor going back two decades, but such people are a dime a dozen and usually just mouth talking points, as is their wont. Scott actually brings insight and facts, which makes him stand head and shoulders over both his interlocutors on CNN and other conservative pundits on cable TV. There are some good ones out there, of course, but the run-of-the-mill Republicans on TV are meh. I don't even bother to watch cable news; I subscribe to those I like. 

Jennings appears on a panel, and I have never seen him flustered, wrong on the facts, or give an answer that doesn't go straight to the heart of the issue. As Dustin puts it, every appearance is a "Scott Jennings saves the world" moment. I wish that were true, but it often seems that way. 

A breath of sanity in a world drowning in madness. Who would have thought you could find such a thing on CNN?

What is particularly important about Scott is that he is on CNN. He might fit better at Fox in some ways, but we don't need another voice in the amen corner, but a rational person speaking to people who exist in a bubble where sanity and facts are hard to find. He stands out in a good way. He is neither a RINO nor an obvious MAGA Republican. By that, I don't mean he is a Trump critic, but rather he presents as a member of the same class as the viewers. 

Many people look at MAGA as a lower-class phenomenon and disparage it for that reason. Scott is a guy that any CNN viewer could meet in the office and like. That matters to a lot of people, even if they deceive themselves into believing they aren't bigoted against the car mechanic or the plumber. They are. 

This is the estrogen vs. testosterone election, but it is also the overeducated ideologues vs. ordinary Americans. Sex and social class matter more than race and economic class this time around. We see it in the move of college-educated people to the Democrats and working-class people to the Republicans. We also see it in the drift of minorities to Donald Trump and the Republicans. 

I'm not going to start tuning in to CNN, but I do follow Scott on Twitter/X and watch every clip. 

You should too.