While most Americans continue to care about issues that affect their daily lives, the national press is doing its best to keep "Signal-gate" alive. Calls for resignations and even impeachment over the allegedly mistaken adding of left-wing journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a national security chat continue to ring out, and on Thursday night, Scott Jennings finally had enough. 

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Facing off against former Biden administration official Neera Tanden and other left-wingers, Jennings became all of us, laying out the rank absurdity of any of them calling for "accountability."

🚨 SCOTT JENNINGS DESTROYS CNN PANEL: "I think Republicans aren't interested in any lectures on accountability in the military after the Biden administration. The bar for getting rid of a secretary of defense is apparently pretty high: You can get 13 people k*lled and go AWOL and… pic.twitter.com/wXzaX2E7TT

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TANDEN: We believe in accountability

JENNINGS: I think Republicans aren't interested in any lectures on accountability in the military after the Biden administration. I mean, the bar for getting rid of a secretary of defense is apparently pretty high. You can get 13 people k*lled and go AWOL and not tell the commander in chief, and that's not a fireable offense.

(Break)

...He gives lectures about accountability and national security after letting 10 million people into the country who raped and murdered and committed violent acts and no remorse or accountability. No more lectures. No more lectures about natural security. 

Thank you. As I've said in prior write-ups on this issue, including Sen. Adam Schiff's laughable attempt at a dunk, it's one thing for people on the right to lament this flub. That should be expected since NSA Michael Waltz was always a controversial pick among Trump's most faithful supporters. But no one on the left, much less someone who served in the Biden administration, has any credibility to call for "accountability" of this, up to and including resignations. 

Jennings gives the most obvious example: The disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. Not only were 13 American service members murdered by a suicide bomber due to abject incompetence, but the Biden Administration then vaporized seven innocent children with a drone strike in a failed attempt to save face. Despite all that, not a single administration official or military leader resigned. And Neera Tanden, who defended all of that, wants to talk about accountability? Yeah, that's not how any of this works.

The discussion then shifted to several members of the panel fretting that President Donald Trump initially said he wasn't aware of the Signal chat incident. Jennings went on to demolish that talking point, leaving Tanden stammering.

JENNINGS: What's worse a president not having all the information he needs to make a legitimate comment so he holds back in the moment before being ready to make a comment or, I don't know, willfully lying to the American people about the condition of the President of the United States, which went on for four years in this country by you and your colleagues.

TANDEN: That is totally wrong. That is totally wrong. That is totally wrong.

Well, that settles it. Tanden said it is totally wrong. What an effective, well-thought-out rebuttal. What's hilarious is that CNN's own top anchor Jake Tapper just released a book detailing the cover-up of Biden's mental and physical failings while in office (though he gets no credit given how late to the party he was). Is Tanden calling him a liar? 

JENNINGS: And I'm gonna be lectured by the people who lied to the American people about the condition of the president? No way? 

TANDEN: Oh my God, oh my God. Nobody...

JENNINGS: I'm not going to take that. 

TANDEN: First of all, that's outrageous (crosstalk). Yes, it is. I did not lie.

JENNINGS: You think the truth was told? 

TANDEN: I look forward to this. I will look forward to this discussion. 

JENNINGS: Do you all believe the truth was told about Biden? 

WOOD: Scott, do you want government or do you want your lick back because even if all that happened in the past, we're in the present now. We need a president that's competent...

JENNINGS: And so what? He said I don't know. Did it hurt your life? 

WOOD: You can't keep using that Biden did it, Biden did it, Biden did it...You can't keep riding that...

JENNINGS: I absolutely can. I 100 percent can. Biden rode it for four years on Trump. Obama rode it for eights years on George W. Bush. You're **** dam right we will ride it.

What Wood is doing is a cop-out. It's an attempt to excuse the culpability of himself and others like him who misled the American people for years on end about far more serious issues, including those that got innocent people killed, while attempting to be the arbiters of accountability regarding Trump. To put it lightly, these people can go outside and pound sand. Hard.

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