The tragic plane crash in the Potomac River understandably sidelined coverage of Thursday’s congressional confirmation hearings on the major networks, but that evening’s PBS News Hour ran full stories on the hearings for Kash Patel to head the FBI, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (a former Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii) for Director of National Intelligence, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services.
All suffered bruising and sometimes bipartisan criticism, and the coverage was deeply unfavorable to all three nominees. Reporter Laura Barron-Lopez mocked Patel’s supposed conspiracy theory about a “deep state” in Washington out to get Donald Trump. Imagine that!
But Gabbard perhaps got the worst of it, with tough questioning about past comments on Syrian dictator Assad and especially her support of classified document leaker Edward…
