On CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip, Scott Jennings was shouted down on Tuesday night as he tried to raise the allegations that Doug Emhoff brutally slapped a girlfriend at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. The CNN liberals rushed right into E. Jean Carroll claims of rape by Donald Trump.

While CNN touted Kamala Harris being endorsed by the rapper Eminem at an event with Barack Obama, Republican analyst David Urban recalled being a Philadelphia event for Hillary Clinton at the end of the 2016 campaign with the Obamas and Beyonce and Jay-Z and Jon Bon Jovi etc. Celebrities didn’t matter. Hillary lost. Jennings then tried to add to this argument, that Eminem is not anyone's moral arbiter: 

“I think this Eminem thing, I got to tell you. This campaign! So everything that’s said about Donald Trump and his treatment of women and the gender gap in this campaign, this rapper, who I fully admit sold a lot of records, if you’ve read some of the things he has said about the promotion of domestic violence against women,” Jennings said, spurring Democrat commentator Bakari Sellers to interrupt. “No, no, Bakari, I listened to your entire filibuster, if you could just give me 13 seconds.”'

Sellers shot back: "I'll give you twelve, because he said 'grab 'em by the mmm-mmm."

Eminem has rapped lyrics like “I’m the illest rapper to hold a cordless, patrolling corners / Looking for hookers to punch in the mouth with a roll of quarters.” But Sellers touted the rappers as great American poets (move over, Walt Whitman).

Jennings continued: “So when you think about the things [Eminem] has said in order to sell those records, and you also consider some of the questions that are swirling around Harris’s own husband in this regard,” Jennings said, before being interrupted again. Emhoff recently failed to deny the allegation in a supportive Joe Scarborough interview, instead calling it a "distraction."

“Oh my god,” Sellers said. “Okay, you don’t even get 12 seconds. I’m not gonna let you go into the far end of BS.” Sellers was a Kamala supporter during her first presidential campaign in 2019.

Phillip and her fellow Democrats just shut down the entire subject: 

PHILLIP: Scott, you can't --hey, hey.

SELLERS: I can't represent you in the defamation case.

PHILLIP: We're going to -- we're going to stop here for a second.

ASHLEY ALLISON: I just want to talk strategy.

SELLERS: Yes, I thought we were on a polling strategy.

PHILLLIP: I just have to say, I'll take those concerns seriously if you also express concerns about the allegations. He's been found liable for rape. [The civil suit by ]

URBAN: Sexual assault.

SELLERS: That's the same thing.

PHILLIP: Okay, so that's also true. So, we're not going to litigate those other things, but you can't - you can't just pick and choose which allies.

ALLISON: And I know we have to go. I'm just going to say, okay.

URBAN: All I'm saying is, celebrities don't move the needle much. That's all I'm saying.

SELLERS: Where are we on the panel right now? I'm just trying to figure out where we are.

PHILLIP: We're going to break. That's where we are.

ALLISON: You know why there's a gender gap? Because these guys talk too much and don't listen to women.

PHILLIP: That might be true, too. Everyone, stick around.

But these women aren't listening to Emhoff's accusers. Those women don't count. 

PS: This is how Abby's show began, with claims that Trump repeatedly praised Hitler. No one shouts that down. This....is CNN:

SHOW INTRO or HARRIS AD? The Tuesday night intro to CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip." pic.twitter.com/TtlPQFDuKp

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