Expanding to two hours after the departure of carnival barker Jim Acosta and before being joined next month by Wolf Blitzer to co-host The Situation Room, CNN’s Pamela Brown has kept up the usual partisan chicanery and Tuesday was no exception with a lengthy, 11-minutes-plus battle with Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN) that mostly consisted of Brown defending government workers and Burchett schooling her on CNN’s credibility.
Brown pivoted from the Russia-Ukraine war to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk with her concern not about the need to shrink government, but process, claims of concern for the privacy of taxpayers, and Musk doing business in China.
Burchett wasn’t having any of this nonsense, observing “[i]t’s amazing to me, though, that — that all of a sudden capitalism and — and making money in this country is…
