Watching the latest CNN panel blowup, patriots should be furious at how quickly honest debate is derailed by manufactured outrage. Scott Jennings made a blunt point about the lack of hard evidence after a decade of scrutiny and called the question an “IQ test,” a clumsy phrase that he immediately defended as aimed at the argument, not the man. Yet within seconds a fellow panelist accused him of a racial slight, and the conversation shifted from facts to fury. That reflexive pivot from substance to identity politics is exactly the playbook the left uses to avoid answering the hard questions.
Jennings pushed back calmly and reminded the room that he knows the panelist in question and that there was no racial intent behind the remark, but the damage was done because the media loves spectacle more than truth. Host Abby Phillip leapt in to defend her guest, proving again that modern cable shows are less about honest inquiry and more about theater. The real story here is not whether someone stumbled with a phrase, it is that the left will weaponize any misstep to change the subject when inconvenient facts threaten their narrative.
Megyn Kelly’s reaction on her show was spot on and refreshingly unromantic: conservatives must stop behaving like they expect safe spaces on hostile networks. Kelly ridiculed the predictable race-card play and reminded listeners that standing down every time a leftist accuses you of something is how you lose the argument and the country. It’s the sort of straight talk too many in our own movement have been afraid to give, and it’s why her voice still matters to hardworking Americans who want plain answers, not performative indignation.
Let’s be blunt: if the Democrats or their media allies had concrete evidence tying powerful figures to Epstein, it would have surfaced years ago through relentless leftist investigation and prosecutorial zeal. Jennings’ point about the absence of prosecutions and public names after years of scrutiny is a reasonable one that deserves sober consideration, not theatrical condemnation. Conservatives should demand evidence and law, not smear campaigns and innuendo dressed up as moral outrage.
The broader lesson is painful but clear. The left’s culture of immediate accusation corrodes honest debate and rewards the loudest victimhood, not the most persuasive argument. Americans who cherish free speech and fair play should reject that dynamic and insist on a return to debating policies and proofs, not scoring points by manufacturing slights.
If conservatives want to win the country back, we need to stop apologizing for pushing back, stop letting the media dictate the frame, and start holding people accountable for their ideas instead of their identities. Stand with those willing to speak plainly, demand the documents and the facts, and refuse to let the race card be used as a shield against scrutiny. Our country is too important to lose to theatrics and phonied-up moralism.
