CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux Goes After Orrin Hatch Over Health Care

Earlier today we wrote about CNN’s scoping out of new talent — perhaps in response to a dismal year in ratings. In fact, in an era of opinion media domination traditional journalism, spirited debate seems to have been missing from the CNN programming slate, at least judged by total viewers. Well not so today, when Suzanne Malveaux got into a heated exchange with Senator Orrin Hatch over the current health care debate going on in the Senate.

An example of the exchange:

Malveaux: You mentioned that, you said they bought the votes and they’re buying people off and they’re bribing them because of what they’ve gotten. But you, you actually had 50 million that was added to the bill an amendment for abstinence only education. How was that any different?

Hatch: I didn’t do that for me, I did it for children throughout our society.

Malveaux: Certainly, you have a cause that you believe in. There is a price tag with that.

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