Doug Haddix

Retired investigative journalist, former exec director @ire_nicar, volunteer, traveler, Presbyterian

[Darrel Rowland @darreldrowland]

Frightening part of Scott Pelley's farewell:
"New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified"

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

In a world full of Jake Tappers, be a Scott Pelley.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

I know we offered you the job already, but now we need you to apply for it.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

A concentration camp is a facility where a gov detains large groups of civilians without normal criminal due process, typically based on their identity, ethnicity, nationality, political status, or perceived threat rather than individual criminal convictions.

The shoe fits

[Brett Meiselas @BMeiselas]

If any of us had predicted that Trump would demolish a third of the White House and build a UFC ring on the South Lawn, we would have been dismissed as the most unhinged conspiracy theorists to ever exist

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is what Trump's done to the people's house:

A third of it is rubble.

Another third is a cage match.

What a metaphor.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Beltway media has their panties in a bundle because @TheDemocrats dropped an F bomb but totally silent when Trump calls their female colleagues bitches and piggy. 🙄

[Plunderbund @plunderbund]

So is eating meat a requirement for holding office these days because I've got bad news for Republicans about Vivek Ramaswamy

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

💯 this.👇

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This Ebola outbreak has been a slow motion disaster - 900 cases and and now threatening the U.S..

We know how to stop outbreaks like this. But Trump chose not to stop it. He destroyed our global health team, deliberately exposing us.

1/ Here's the story of how this happened.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot.

He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud.

He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery.

He was impeached by his own party for corruption.

Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas.

Together we will stop him.

[USMC Lady Vet 🇺🇸 @Arkypatriot]

Permanent Daylight Saving Time sounds nice until winter shows up.

Across much of America, that means kids waiting for buses in the dark, people commuting in the dark, and millions starting their day before sunrise for weeks.

Your body needs morning light to regulate sleep, mood, alertness, and health.

We already tried year-round DST in 1974. People hated the dark winter mornings.

Extra evening daylight is nice.

But forcing the whole country to wake up in the dark all winter? That’s not healthy.

Be careful what you ask for

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Keep telling the truth.
Thank you to Stephen Colbert and everyone at The Late Show.

[Doug Haddix @DougHaddix]

Hilarious!

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Richard Stengel @stengel]

Colbert does a whole joyous final show without mentioning Trump's name even once. Trump posts a rant calling him a "total jerk" and plays a video of him throwing Colbert in the dumpster. Who is the strong man and who is the weak one? Who is the secure man and who is the insecure one? Which one do you want your kids to be like?

[Chidi Okereke @Chydee]

First they came for undocumenteds, you said nothing because you’re there legally.

Then they issued visa bans on multiple countries and set ICE on rampage. You stayed silent because it didn’t affect you.

Now they’re targeting those already in the legal green card pipeline: forcing H-1B and O-1 holders to leave the U.S. for consular processing.

Don’t speak up.

Green card holders are next. Then naturalized citizens. Then US born children of non-citizens. Then …

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Pure corruption from Donald Trump this week:

- weaseled his way out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for himself and his family
- created a $1.776 billion slush fund for lawbreaking Jan. 6 rioters
- likely engaged in insider trading worth nearly $1 billion

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump has endorsed Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate, who:

—Was impeached by his own party for corruption
—Paid $300,000 to settle his felony fraud charges
—Had multiple extramarital affairs
—Contested the 2020 election
—Was sued for firing whistleblowers
—Is under investigation for mortgage fraud
—Stole a $1,000 pen from another lawyer