The Scott Pelley story to me is a lesson in how if you work hard enough in your career to get Fuck You Money, the real reward is the day you need to say it, you can
You want to declare Tucker Carlson as a domestic terrorist because his commentary and interviews hurt your feelings.
That’s what authoritarians and fascists do.
60 Mins made over $200M in 2024 for CBS, it is by far the highest rated, most prestigious news show on network TV. There is literally no evidence it “needs to change”, this is a dopey cliche used to justify ideologically shifting its output to please its new billionaire owners.
On one side, you have a seasoned journalist with decades of credibility and colleagues who can speak to his integrity, on the other, you have a lifelong bullshit artist who has failed upward by flattering the powerful. I just don’t know who to believe.
@jaketapper Dude.
1. Biden did step down.
2. This was YEARS ago.
3. We CURRENTLY have a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, accused pedophile, that has taken FOUR dementia tests in the last 18 months in office NOW.
WHERE ARE YOU, Jake, in 2024?
Are you ever going to find out what’s going on with the president’s hands? Why the continuous IVs? Why does he disappear for multiple days at the turn of the month?
Are you so scared of CNN’s billionaire owner that you won’t ask basic questions?
Former '60 Minutes' Executive Producer Bill Owens just derided Bari Weiss as "an opinion writer best known for being an ideologue" and ripped her over the recent firings.
"They were fired by people who don't even know what we do and don't actually care."
"Scott [Pelley] can smell a fraud from a mile away. He stood up the way I did a year ago and I couldn't be prouder of him," Owens continued. "And I know all of the people at '60 Minutes' couldn't be more proud of him."
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Scott Pelley could make 2-3 times that on a podcast tomorrow. He's an actual reporter with actual sources. He's also a brilliant storyteller. He'll be fine. Or he can go enjoy his money and not deal with the daily bullshit. Either way it's a win-win for him.
Bruce Wayne transforming into The Batman by Marshall Rogers, Terry Austin, and John Workman in Steve Englehart’s “The Dead Yet Live”, published in May 1977’s Detective Comics #471.🦇📚
Matt Brooks bragging that the Republican Jewish Coalition spent millions to buy a congressional seat in Kentucky… but if you observe the same thing, you’re antisemitic.
Soon:
“I’m Scott Baio.”
“I’m Patricia Heaton.”
“I’m Kevin Sorbo.”
“I’m Roseanne Barr.”
“I’m Andrew Tate. Those stories, plus Tony Hinchcliffe, tonight on 60 Minutes.”
Hunter Biden goes OFF:
"George Clooney is not a fucking an actor. He's a brand..... Fuck you, what do you have to do with anything"
"James Carville hasn't won a race in 40 fucking years."
"The Pod Save America guys were junior speech writers for Obama who have been dining out on that for years making millions."
"What influence does Jake Tapper have over anything? He has the smallest audience on cable news."
Pretty much all of the prominent voices who supported the Iran War assured us it would be over by now. None of them will admit they were wrong. Even less will they admit that their initial assurances were based on nothing but their own wishcasting. This whole shitshow has been an enormous waste of time and resources and our country has not benefited from it at all. Its advocates have moved the goal posts repeatedly and have even to this day refused to clearly articulate what constitutes a victory and how we’ll know that it’s been achieved.
Let me get this straight.
Howard Lutnick, Trump’s Commerce Secretary, got caught lying about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Democrats grilled him about it and finally got him to agree to testify before the House Oversight Committee.
Four weeks later, Lutnick wrote a $5 million check to the super PAC that funds House Republicans, including members who sit on that committee. Then he showed up for a closed-door interview where, despite pushback from Democrats, no cameras or recordings were allowed.
This is the most corrupt administration in American history and it’s not even close.
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MANDALORIAN & GROGU coming in around $24M in its 2nd wknd, facing a drop of around 70% for a 3rd place finish. That a big & beloved brand like Star Wars is getting crushed like this by 2 low-budget Gen Z horror movies speaks volumes about where the movie culture stands right now. And where Star Wars stands right now.