charles lustig

Live music lover, cinephile, UVA sports fanatic and proudly left-of- center political junky. Recently recovering attorney.

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@FOXSports The biggest heartbreak is that Fox is subjecting us to John Strong and Stu Holden for both semis. May have watch England on Peacock.

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@poddtadre He is so bad. Can’t believe we are stuck with him twice in the quarter finals. Ian Darke should be calling the England match.

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@IngrahamAngle ICE included!

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@SecretaryWright Such a self-inflicted wound to consciously damage our alternative energy supply. History will judge this Administration harshly for its hostility to wind and solar energy. But the earth is not round troglodytes have 2 more years to damage our country.

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@TVietor08 That red card never happens if Mbappe, Messi or Kane commit that foul. Yellow card was more than adequate for the unintentional behavior.

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@chefjoseandres @TelemundoSports @Telemundo If John Strong is on the call, I may have to watch on Telemundo. He’s insufferable. @FOXSports

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@alanfeuer @AaronBlake I can’t imagine there isn’t a provision in the DOJ manual that prohibits comments like these.

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@PhilipDBunn Henry James.

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@Timodc Did the announcers even mention it? Charles Barkley honed in on it in the postgame.

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@JakeSherman Has he ever not folded?

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@SenWhitehouse Susan Collins is Queen of the hall pass.

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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

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@shellenberger What’s Covid bias? Bias in favor of trying to keep a million people from dying?

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@DemocracyDocket This reactionary, antebellum court is coming for the Civil Rights Act next. Dred Scott will seem benign when they are done with their authoritarian project.

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@RonFilipkowski And why has nobody pointed out that if Biden or Obama said no one likes Israel or Netanyahu the legacy media would cover it non-stop for weeks. And right wing media would have lost their minds.

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@PhillipAKennedy She was a criminal who violently stormed the Capitol. Your attempts to re-write history will fail. We saw what happened on Jan. 6 and will not forget.

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@DOJRR47 They were prosecuted for violently assaulting the Capitol, given due process, and found guilty by judges or juries. Your attempt to re-write history by casting them as victims will fail.

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New video shows a message in chalk outside of Stephen Colbert's final show as CBS washes it away:

"Thank you Stephen, and fuck you CBS and Donald Trump."

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@Jaaavis @daveweigel Glad to see a Democratic legislator announce opposition to Justice Kelsey’s reappointment.

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@joshgerstein @RachelBitecofer Do they have standing?