[FoxGirl]

Hmmm...Brown is doing a good job, surprisingly.

[Route66]

Brown is telling him to please tell him a good story that they can use in his defense. Scott wouldn't (couldn't) even do that. Where's the fork.

[Bonaparte]

"Hmmm...Brown is doing a good job, surprisingly."

A guess -- CNN is so desperate to remedy its declining viewship, ratings and profits, that it made the decision to sacrifice Ritter rather than be left in the dust by Fox News yet again. They probably figure that their friends in the communist World Workers Party will dredge up another stooge to replace him.