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Federal Worker: "I got this email Saturday afternoon...I felt absolutely infuriated getting this email with a demand within 48 hours to provide a response on what I did in the last week..." pic.twitter.com/fu9ATGhc7Y

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 24, 2025

Chaser:

‘A federal worker had time to go on CNN, but not send a 30 second email.'

🔥@ScottJenningsKY schools hostile CNN panel over “what did you get done this week” email:

“The amount of outrage melting down and sort of an outpouring of emotion over this ought to tell you everything… pic.twitter.com/7xaTHG3kF6

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 25, 2025

PHILLIP: Scott, how is Elon going to evaluate -- I mean, how is he going to evaluate the work of thousands of federal employees when he has no idea what he's doing?

JENNINGS: He is not. The test was, are you even paying attention to your email? Are you even at your terminal?

PHILLIP: Well, some federal workers -- he sent it on a weekend. Some federal workers do not have access to their emails on the weekends. They just don't.

JENNINGS: Well, did they go to work today? I mean, look, the amount of outrage melting down and sort of outpouring of emotion over this ought to tell you everything you need to know. We had a lady on CNN today, a supposed federal worker, who said she was infuriated by getting this email. She had time to go on CNN, but shouldn't have time to send a 30-second email saying, well, here's what I was working on last week.

This is what people in the private sector have come to hate about how they view the public sector. And I think there's a great many very dedicated public servants. But you said, you know, it's about control. Yes, it's about control and it's about finding out who is actually at their job working and who isn't. And do we need all these people?

PHILLIP: How does sending this email actually determine who's actually doing their job?

JENNINGS: Did you answer?

PHILLIP: No. But, seriously, okay, so let me say you're a lazy employee and you decide, oh, this is an easy way to make Elon think that I am doing work. Let me fire off five bullet points. Are you actually identifying who's doing work?

JOE BORELLI, FORMER REPUBLICAN LEADER, NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL: You're giving an example of the most lazy employee doing the basic minimum, which is you test.

The conversation continued for a significantly longer time, without anyone on the panel addressing Jennings' point. The federal worker in the first clip went on national TV to claim that receiving an e-mail from the home office asking for bullet points as to her work over the past week was too traumatic to contemplate. Anyone who has ever prepped for a remote segment with a cable TV news org would immediately grasp the absurdity of that claim. It takes much more effort and time to do a TV hit on CNN than it would have taken to just answer the e-mail. And the latter would have been far less disruptive to one's work day than the former, too. 

Furthermore, CNN and most of its on-air talent are too benighted to grasp that point, not to mention the mundane nature of such a request in the private sector. CNN's audience -- or what's left of it -- must have sat slack-jawed over the amount of outrage over a simple and easily handled e-mail request from the home office. Outside of government and the Protection Racket Media, most people in office jobs get such interrogatories on a regular basis. The idea that this is news or a traumatic crisis is utterly risible.

Did no one at CNN think for even a moment how this would come across to viewers who work in the private sector? Besides Jennings and Borelli, do they have any experience in actual private-sector work besides the mainstream media? 

We have heard a never-ending whine from 'journalists' decrying how little trust consumers put in their product. They love to claim that 'misinformation' caused their credibility to collapse. Nonsense; it's their elitist, agenda-driven narrative nonsense that has put them below used-car salesmen on the American trust scale. CNN must think that coming to the rescue of federal bureaucrats complaining about having to answer an e-mail will rebuild that credibility. If so, they are almost a satire of out-of-touch elitism.

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