Wednesday's NewsNight With Abby Phillip on CNN may have set a new low, or come close to doing so, if we weren't talking about the world of liberal media, when CNN Analyst Bakari Sellers referred to Vice President JD Vance as, "an A-hole," while weighing in on remarks he made during a recent interview with The Daily Mail.
Vance refused to apologize for reposting a a post by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, which claimed that ICE shooting victim Alex Pretti was an "assassin." Sellers, who seemed overly interested in the race and sexuality of shooting victims, pulled no punches as he asserted "two people are murdered in the street."
SELLERS: ..And then you get to Alex Pretti and you have a straight white male who's a gun owner, who's gunned down in the street, street, shot ten times for our eyes to see. And then the tides change. What you saw from J.D. Vance was J.D. Vance being an A-hole. And that's emblematic of the White House.
But even more importantly, it's something that shows a bit of naivete from the Vice President in that he's not reading the same tea leaves that even Donald Trump is reading. The majority of white male evangelicals are fleeing away from this, you know, ICE in the middle of the streets, taking women and children out, shooting white people in the middle of the streets.
So let's review: Abby Phillip pounced on Shermichael Singleton as disrespectful for the sentence "I don't believe boys should play girl sports.” That was impolite, to call a boy a boy. But you can call the vice president an "A-hole." That's somehow not disrespectful.
The closest anyone came to confronting Sellers on his outrageous remark was Federalist Reporter Brianna Lyman.
LYMAN: I wanted to go back to something you said, Bakari. It seems that the topic of this conversation right now is whether J.D. Vance should have apologized or taken back labeling Pretti as an assassin, because, you know, some say that he jumped to conclusions. You just accuse ICE agents and Border Patrol of murder. Aren't you going to say like, why don't we wait for the investigation? Like don't you want to also wait for the investigation instead of prematurely.. a homicide doesn't mean murder...[Crosstalk]
SELLERS: ..You asked me a question I'm going to answer. And so, no, I'm not going to back away from the fact that what I saw with my own eyes were two people who were murdered in the street.
The reason I say that is based upon my lived experience. The reason I say that is because I'm in courtrooms around the country and I actually deal with people like the families of Renee Good, like the families of Alex Pretti.
His bizarre and senseless analysis continued.
SELLERS: ...If you get into a skirmish with an officer, many times, if they shoot you, that is a murder. You know why? Because in this country, in the United States of America, resisting arrest, you know what, that's not a death penalty crime.
LYMAN: No, trying to run someone over with your car is a crime.
SELLERS: Yes, but that's not..
LYMAN: That's what Renee Good did.
The back and forth between the two continued, and soon Scott Jennings questioned Sellers.
JENNINGS: You would advise a person or a client of yours to literally engage in the middle of an active law enforcement matter?
SELLERS: If they see something wrong, I would say yes. I would say, definitely..
JENNINGS: That's a crime...You're advising people to commit crimes.
Sensing his foot in his mouth, Sellers felt the need to clarify.
SELLERS: ..If my client came to me and said, Bakari, I was outside and I saw something going down and I saw somebody being abused and I went and tried to put myself in between them, or I raised the camera, do not hit officers, do not spit on officers. But, yes, by all means, if you see something wrong, videotape it...
Simply put, it was not a good night for Sellers, and one would think that as a "journalist", Phillip would have asked him to apologize for his vulgarity aimed at Vance. Oh, sorry, "This Is CNN."
