Insane Trump scandal erupts into national news - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

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BTC: The new head of CBS pulls a report about Trump's deportation program. To be fair, they vowed to air it as soon as the reporting is swapped out for compliments. This is just another day.

In life, there are certain things that everybody agrees don't belong together. Drinking and driving, toothpaste and orange juice, Lauren Boebert and musicals. But also on that list, political influence and news organizations. And here's a recent reason why.


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CBC Announcer: CBS is facing criticism for alleged political interference after a report on its flagship program 60 Minutes was pulled just hours before it was due to air last night. The segment was on a mega prison in El Salvador where the US has sent hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants without trial.


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BTC: Or as CBS News would say has sent them to a brightly lit, incredibly hands-on retreat center. Now, to be fair, news organizations make decisions all the time on which stories to run and which need further reporting. But to be even more fair, that ain't what happened here.


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CNN Announcer: Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi have been working on this segment for weeks. So, these interviews were in the can. They were edited. This segment was ready to go according to producers, editors, fact checkers, and even the lawyers who reviewed the segment. As of Friday, this was ready to go. And that's significant because on Thursday night, editor-in chief Bari Weiss was able to screen it for the first time.


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BTC: Huh? Bari Weiss. Where have I heard that name before?


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PBS Announcer: A former opinion editor at the New York Times, Weiss describes herself as a centrist politically and is known for pushing back against what she calls “woke orthodoxy” in mainstream media.

Bari Weiss: What does it mean for CBS News? It means a redoubled commitment to great journalism. It means building on a storied legacy and bringing that historic newsroom into 2025 and beyond. Most of all, it means working tirelessly to make sure CBS is the most trusted news organization in the world.


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BTC: I hate to be the one giving Bari her end-of-year review, but you whiffed on that one. Right now, CBS News's credibility ranks just above a tarot card reader on TikTok.

So, the totally nonpartisan Ellison family-owned Paramount Skydance, who are hoping for a multi-billion dollar Trump approved bid to take over Warner Brothers Discovery, put the free speech loving Bari Weiss at the helm of CBS News. And she just spiked a report critical of the White House's deportation program. I mean, I don't see anything corrupt going on here. But just out of curiosity, what was Bari Weiss's beef?


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CNN Announcer: She was especially concerned about the lack of a Trump administration response to the reporting. Now, {Sharyn} Alfonsi says in an internal memo that waiting for a response is unrealistic because it's clear the Trump administration did not want to respond to these allegations. She said, I want to pull up the quote here. “Their refusal to be interviewed was a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a kill switch for any reporting they find inconvenient.”


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BTC: Exactly. News organizations put stories out when they think they're ready, not when the White House does. He expects CBS News to wait for Steven Miller's go-ahead. The man takes years just to admit his hair is departing.

What's so insane about all of this is that this is not new ground for 60 Minutes. Back in the mid 90s, 60 Minutes was set to air a piece featuring a tobacco industry whistleblower and the producer of that piece had to fight like hell against his CBS bosses and the tobacco industry itself to get it on the air. It even became a fantastic movie {image of “The Insider” displayed}.

So maybe that's what's going on here. I know folks in this White House are so desperate to be movie stars and famous {image of Pete Hegseth and Karoline Leavitt displayed}. Maybe they're gunned for a role in The Insider, too. Too bad they don't realize they're the bad guys.

Bari Weiss's goal in spiking this 60 Minutes report was to show how unbiased she is, but all she's actually done is confirmed the opposite. Weiss loves to claim that she's some free speech warrior, which is clearly why she called her former media company The Free Press. But guess what? You can slap any name on anything, but that doesn't make it true. And I know from experience. Turns out my salmon smoothies were in fact not delicious.

Weiss is a hack journalist who is now taking part in the exact type of censorship she built a career off condemning. Despite what Weiss believes, the role of journalists is not to offer those in power a chance to water down the truth with bullshit. It is to seek the truth and to hold powerful people to account. An informed citizenry is not only expected, it is necessary. Because of tireless journalists our nation knows about Trump's use of campaign funds as hush money payments. We know about the Bush administration's rush to war in Iraq. And it's how we know about Nixon and the Watergate break-in. And by the way, if Bari Weiss was running the Washington Post back then, Woodward and Bernstein's reporting would have been rewritten into stories about how Nixon at any moment could break in to song.


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JD Vance at Turning Point USA: Donald Trump and his administration loved to push this narrative that they are crusaders for free speech. And I guess it's so that they're free to say more crazy like this. In the United States of America, you don't have to apologize for being white anymore.


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BTC: Uh, wow. Someone dreaming of a all-white Christmas inside the very not all-white Vance household. See, before that's what news organizations might refer to as a borderline Klan rally, but now our intrepid news chiefs like Bari Weiss get to call it a simple patriotic observation.

This administration does not care about transparency. If they did, they wouldn't be redacting every Trump-filled page of the Epstein files. If they valued fair journalism, they wouldn't launch an all-out assault on a reporter for printing exactly what Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was saying. All they want is journalism that kisses their ass. And that's been going on since the beginning of his first term.


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Sean Spicer: This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration. Period.


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BTC: And Mr. Trump's penis is the largest of any president in history. Double period. It's all bullshit. They gave the whole game away back in 2017 when Kellyanne Conway referred to lies as


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Kellyanne Conway: …alternative facts.


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BTC: But that's not a thing. In the same way that this isn't a thing just because the administration declares it to be.


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Karoline Leavitt: It is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America. And I'm not sure why news outlets don't want to call it that.


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BTC: Well, it's either because they're America-hating ANTIFA operatives disguised as reporters, or because they simply have something called journalistic ethics. Like everyone else before her, Bari Weiss is about to learn the sad fact that there is no amount of capitulation that will ever satisfy Trump. The news outlets and politicians, law firms, colleges, and tech companies think that caving to this president will somehow buy themselves goodwill. But it is never enough. Just ask the 24-hour Trump blowjob factory. otherwise known as Fox News.


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Trump: You know, Fox now puts on more Democrats just about than they do Republicans. They have certainly changed a lot. Fox has changed a lot.

Brett Baier: More independent voters watch Fox News than any other TV source.
Trump: A lot less than used to watch it.

Trump: And you know who else should be ashamed? Fox. Because I've seen Oprah on Fox about 50 times making the same statement. And I think it's a disgrace what Fox does.


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BTC: That's Fox News. I mean, can you think of people who profess their love more and still get shat on repeatedly besides Eric? All they're really buying is the chance to show the world that Donald Trump owns you. And if they're willing to buy that, well, then I've got a salmon smoothie that they've just got to try.

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1. This line made me lol.

"Right now, CBS News's credibility ranks just above a tarot card reader on TikTok."

I would say a tarot reader on tik tok right now has way more credibility than CBS news.

Weiss being at nyt goes a long way towards explaining part of the reason why it is also no longer good for anything except lining a bird cage.