CBS bosses ordered icon Scott Pelley to broadcast flat-out lies to please Trump. He refused, sacrificed his 37-year career, walked out, and exposed the censorship. Read his final words: 👇
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LITERALLY carved in stone (granite) at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (Room Two) on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
This is from President Roosevelt's January 9, 1940, greeting to the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born.
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Good god this is a crazy interview. Listen as Scott Pelley describes how Bari Weiss wanted journalists at CBS to cover the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota. This is why we can’t have oligarchs running our news outlets, this is absolutely devastating.
Trump LOSES, Putin LOSES, and the people of Ukraine WIN.
Kudos to the 18 Republicans who chose America's democratic friends over an authoritarian tyrant.
@st3vat@DumpChase21 Definitely has to be highly involved. Hope they use multiple players to mark the opposition’s best scoring threats.
Real Madrid used 3 to contain Doku in the CL. Alternate runs and overlaps as well out wide.
🚨BREAKING: In a HUGE blow to Donald Trump, the House has PASSED the War Powers Resolution - 215-208 - which will require Congress’ say over the Iran War.
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
By firing Scott Pelley, editor-in-chief of CBS News Bari Weiss has single-handedly destroyed the most brilliant investigative newsmagazine in network history, 60 Minutes. Weiss exemplifies everything MAGA is about: ego, incompetence, and blithering idiocy.
A message to all sane Republicans:
He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.
He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.
He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.
He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.
He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.
He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.
He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.
He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.
His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.
He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.
His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.
He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.
He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.
It’s time to start talking.
I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.
This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.
Tony Gilroy ending his speech with “fuck the empire” was so powerful and made me honestly emotional. His whole speech was so impactful and I’m forever grateful Kathleen Kennedy fought for Andor so he could make it the way he wanted. He didn’t just change Star Wars forever but he made something that will never stop being relevant to the world. Andor was so much more than a Star Wars story. It’s undoubtedly one of the best shows ever made. I’m glad it’s getting the praise that it deserves and I hope he makes more projects in the future that showcase the injustices of our world. There will never be something as meaningful in Star Wars as Andor. It is truly an anomaly.
#Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy's Peabody Award acceptance speech:
“We spent six years contemplating a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking about what happens to ordinary beings when an authoritarian, insane, unchecked regime comes into the deal, and the show is really kind of what we learned.
If you’re not willing to fight for the things that you love, your family, community, your culture, your planet, your truth, freedom, there’s an asshole ready to come in and take it away... We learned that bravery and sacrifice and resistance comes in all shapes and sizes, and we learned that courage is contagious.
There’s so much is happening, it’s a fire hose of crap that you just can’t get through... And here we are. There isn’t a new cycle that goes by right now that doesn’t contain a variety of outrages that in any other time in our history in America wouldn’t be grounds for treason.
Please do not stop. Please do not turn out the lights until we can kill this nightmare… and fuck the empire!”