{"id":2605263,"date":"2026-05-20T19:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scott-jennings-delivers-reality-check-to-people-blaming-jews-for-thomas-massies-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:38:59","slug":"scott-jennings-delivers-reality-check-to-people-blaming-jews-for-thomas-massies-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scott-jennings-delivers-reality-check-to-people-blaming-jews-for-thomas-massies-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Jennings Delivers Reality Check to People Blaming Jews for Thomas Massie&#8217;s Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscott-jennings-delivers-reality-check-to-people-blaming-jews-for-thomas-massies-loss%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2605263&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The passage discusses commentary on Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas massie\u2019s loss in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-republican-leader-slams-marjorie-taylor-greene-a-cancer-for-the-republican-party\/\" title=\"Top Republican Leader Slams Marjorie Taylor Greene: A \u2018Cancer For The ...\u2019\">primary election<\/a> after his opponents had <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >largely blamed external actors-<\/a>such as pro-Israel organizations or Israel itself-for the outcome. It then focuses on CNN contributor Scott Jennings\u2019 interpretation: he suggests Massie was politically damaging to both Donald Trump and the Republican Party because he opposed major Trump-backed bills on issues like immigration and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under ..., Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">tax cuts<\/a>, so voters in a strongly conservative district preferred a candidate aligned with the president.<\/p>\n<p>The text also criticizes Massie\u2019s concession speech, claiming he made an anti-Semitic, \u201cTel aviv\u201d remark about his opponent, retired Navy SEAL ed Gallrein, and argues that an anti-Semitic undercurrent in Massie\u2019s past emerged again at the end of his campaign.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Election returns had barely been completed Tuesday, documenting incumbent Republican Rep. Thomas Massie\u2019s defeat in his primary race before leftists began blaming Jews for Massie\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n<p>Up-and-coming radical Hasan Piker, former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, and leftist podcaster Cenk Uygur were blatant about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leftists-spiraling-thomas-massies-loss-conservatives-take-good-sign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ascribing the results<\/a> to nefarious acts of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, a \u201cpro-Israel cult,\u201d or Israel itself.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Scott Jennings had a different take.<\/p>\n<p>The network\u2019s most prominent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-scott-jennings-leaves-race-baiting-journalist-sputtering-camera-reminder-dems-treat-blacks-defy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservative voice<\/a> boiled Massie\u2019s defeat down to the fact that the unconventional congressman had become a liability to both President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>And for a man representing a conservative constituency, that was the kiss of death.<\/p>\n<p>Massie \u201chad, frankly, become an opponent of the president inside of the party. He just can\u2019t do that,\u201d Jennings said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottJenningsKY?\">@ScottJenningsKY<\/a> doesn\u2019t hold back on Thomas Massie\u2019s way out the door: \u201cDespicable, anti-Semitic, nasty, gutter politics\u2026 it needs to be condemned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Trump didn\u2019t just beat Thomas Massie.<\/p>\n<p>He made an example out of him.<\/p>\n<p>Then Massie ends his career with this line\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lNmUo4tZAN\">pic.twitter.com\/lNmUo4tZAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/2056922510550331840?\">May 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The victory of retired Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein in Kentucky\u2019s 4th Congressional District Republican primary was just another example of the old dictum that \u201call politics is local,\u201d Jenning intimated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the most conservative districts in the country. It\u2019s certainly a conservative area of Kentucky. They gave Donald Trump a massive victory in 2024, and they expect the Republican congressman who represents them to be part of the team,\u201d Jennings said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two big issues in the race that were in most of the advertising had to do with tax cuts and immigration. And Massie was against Trump on both of his big border security and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-ohio-democrat-is-running-on-tax-cuts-her-record-indicates-tax-hikes-are-more-her-style\/\" title=\"This Ohio Democrat Is Running on .... Her Record Indicates Tax Hikes Are More Her Style.\">tax cut bills<\/a>. So they said, \u2018Look, we can get a Republican congressman that\u2019ll be part of the team and support the president.\u2019 That campaign worked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennings then moved on to a blistering critique of Massie\u2019s concession speech, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/massie-takes-parting-shot-trump-backed-opponent-called-concede-tel-aviv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">included a snide shot<\/a> suggesting Gallrein is a tool of the state of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv,\u201d Massie said as supporters laughed and cheered.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Massie doubles down on antisemitic tropes in his concession speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have come out sooner but I had to call my opponent and concede but it took a while to find [him] in Tel Aviv\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZsE7RpTIZy\">pic.twitter.com\/ZsE7RpTIZy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/2056898553100873894?\">May 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jennings\u2019 distaste was evident in his tone and in his words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to also add one other thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas Massie, tonight, in his concession speech, said something despicable, anti-Semitic, nasty, gutter politics right at the end. 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There\u2019s been an undercurrent of it in his career, unfortunately, and it really came out in an ugly way tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think it needs to be stated, acknowledged, and condemned, because it was pretty despicable.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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