It’s not often CNN delivers unintentional comedy, but viewers were treated to just that when Republican strategist Scott Jennings clashed with “CNN NewsNight” host Abby Phillip and her panel of liberal allies. The fiery exchange exposed the absurd lengths the media will go to defend “woke science”—even when it defies basic biology.
The argument began after the resignation of several Centers for Disease Control (CDC) officials in the wake of CDC Director Susan Monarez’s firing. One of those who resigned was Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, head of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. But rather than discussing the CDC’s credibility crisis, the panel descended into chaos after Jennings pointed out an inconvenient fact: Daskalakis regularly used the term “pregnant people,” suggesting that men can get pregnant.
Jennings didn’t mince words. “I just have to say he did use the term ‘pregnant people’ in his resignation. This guy’s not credible to me,” he said.
That’s when Abby Phillip jumped to the defense of woke semantics, sneering at Jennings for daring to question a scientist’s credibility. “Rather than you seriously answering a question about the real concerns that were raised… you decided the most important thing to you was their lack of credibility because they used the word ‘people?’”
But Jennings was quick to call out Phillip’s double standard. “You realize that you’re accepting some politicization of science, but not others, right?” he shot back.
Pressed on what he meant, Jennings zeroed in: “Can men get pregnant or not?”
That simple question sent Phillip and fellow liberal panelist Dr. Chris T. Parnell into a tailspin, insisting that the phrase “pregnant people” wasn’t political at all. Jennings wasn’t buying it. “It’s a question of whether your scientists are going to politicize or not. And you accept some and not others,” he said.
Phillip, visibly rattled, insisted that woke terminology has “nothing to do with the conversation,” only to have Jennings calmly remind her that credibility is central to science. “I disagree. It’s a credibility issue.”
The exchange spiraled further when S.E. Cupp, another liberal panelist, jumped in to complain that Jennings was “derailing” the conversation with what she dismissed as “political BS.” Jennings coolly countered that it was the scientists themselves who had politicized the issue by adopting activist language. “Because some scientists are allowed to politicize things and some aren’t,” he said, highlighting the hypocrisy.
The meltdown on CNN underscores a larger problem: the Left’s willingness to bend scientific truth to appease activists. Instead of focusing on real issues—like why the CDC has become a revolving door of scandal and resignations—Phillip and her allies tied themselves in knots defending the fantasy that men can get pregnant.
At the end of the day, Jennings exposed the heart of the issue: if scientists abandon objective truth in favor of woke talking points, their credibility collapses. And no amount of CNN spin can change that.
