Murph & Me

Chronicling the life and times of the world’s most handsome dog. 🏍

[Murph & Me @MurphMe2]

@1414Maple

[Murph & Me @MurphMe2]

@ProjectLincoln @marcorubio The United States of America is one big hot mess

[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

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

PM Carney on bitch-baby Trump’s 51st state that affects trade negotiations:

“The president is an exceptionally active user on social media. You probably can chart his usage of it. It’s only gone up in recent months and we’re not going to respond or react to everything that he posts.”

So grateful to have a leader who reached adulthood.

[Murph & Me @MurphMe2]

@TFel922 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Murph & Me @MurphMe2]

@NUCLRGOLF The Masters and The Open Championship

[Murph & Me @MurphMe2]

@tenaciouspita Thanks! 😊

[Murph & Me @MurphMe2]

Freedom

[Murph & Me @MurphMe2]

@Sandy_6971 It’s time for a southern Italy trip

[Murph & Me @MurphMe2]

@Sandy_6971 😮

[Uptown Schmuck @SchmuckOnAHorse]

"Irreconcilable Differences" is code for she squeezes the tube from the middle like a Neanderthal.

[Murph & Me @MurphMe2]

@Marlayna29 Tesla

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Taxpayers realizing they will pay $300 billion to reconstruct Iran after paying $70 billion to destroy it

[Jess 🌙🇨🇦🌱🏳️‍🌈 @highmoonjess]

Pride Month isn’t making anyone gay. It’s just making bigotry harder to hide. 🌈🏳️‍🌈💚 Happy Pride.

[Murph & Me @MurphMe2]

@ProjectLincoln 😂

[Rick Reilly @ReillyRick]

Here's Trump, the 36-time "club champion," with his yippy, flippy chipping move.
Good players never let the clubface get past the hands.
Trump lies like a Mafia accountant.
#CommanderInCheat

[Murph & Me @MurphMe2]

@MelissaLMRogers That hasn’t changed in over 20 years. Nice try though

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

So if these artists are “third rate” why did Fuckface ask them to perform?