OpinionatedKyle

I have opinions because I care. Musician, sports fan, regular dude.

[DOJA CAT @DojaCat]

hey elon if u see this please put the audio post feature back on here. Thanks, u frog build looking bitch. Barrel chested ewok u look like u eat sand.

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

Just a whole lot I could say about this but I will leave it at being so, unbelievably disappointed

[Brian Beutler @brianbeutler]

Everyone defending Weiss et al here on Pelley insubordination grounds is putting themselves on the hook for the inevitable moment when Trump says, yes, they dismantled 60 minutes because they needed my help for mergers.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

pretty decent encapsulation of the last few years on here

[OpinionatedKyle @jazzmankyle]

@EWErickson My dude, a billionaire buying a media company and then immediately slanting its coverage to be more administration friendly so he can get more favorable government treatment of his business deals IS the decline of the American press

[OpinionatedKyle @jazzmankyle]

@continetti @PirateWires - They had tried to get comment from Trump admin, the admin didn't partake, so a BS excuse
- Who cares about rizz? Its a *highly rated* newscast already ffs
- The billionaire is a Trump-aligned billionaire who keeps making content decisions to curry favor for his business deals

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Scott Pelley just issued a statement on Bari's remarks this morning:

[OpinionatedKyle @jazzmankyle]

@mattyglesias The problem is people like you have attacked the people like Brian so much that the politicians with power are less likely to take actions like this for fear of seeming "too far left" or whatever bullshit, and then atrocities happen while we wonder how we got here.

[OpinionatedKyle @jazzmankyle]

@ChrisCillizza Um, they are murdering 60 Minutes and aren't qualified for their jobs, and seeing as how he had a resignation letter prepared, he was planning on getting fired or resigning, you obtuse jackass

[OpinionatedKyle @jazzmankyle]

@LindseyGrahamSC Make sure to come up for air once in a while and not just leave your head up Trump’s ass all the time

[Brian Beutler @brianbeutler]

Master class in missing the point. Pelley surely expected to be fired. The question is who is right and who is wrong. Chris won’t answer it because, in his bones, he’s perfectly happy to work for corrupt people like Bari and the Ellisons.

[OpinionatedKyle @jazzmankyle]

@ethanmwolf @mattyglesias @Tom_Suozzi @AdamGrayCA The reason “moderate” pols are so disliked and you have to write defenses of them is because in the Trump era they end up being weather vanes who vote for atrocities and then feel bad about it afterwards
https://t.co/49HPKLF6hq

[OpinionatedKyle @jazzmankyle]

@charlescwcooke @JohnJHarwood The biggest test would’ve been contributing to Trump’s impeachment and removal from office and providing testimony to the January 6 committee, which he refused to do on bullshit grounds. He did the bare minimum of upholding his oath

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

“Our conclusion: the Iran War is worse than a failure. It's a strategic calamity with no notable achievements and potentially trillions in direct and indirect costs to the US and global economy.”

[OpinionatedKyle @jazzmankyle]

@JohnCornyn @chucktodd @WSJopinion I hope it haunts you for the rest of your days that it took you a fucking decade to have a spine

[OpinionatedKyle @jazzmankyle]

@RepOgles Notice everyone that he didn’t actually apologize for or disclaim the content of the post.

[OpinionatedKyle @jazzmankyle]

@ChrisCillizza Tell me you’re trying to suck up to Bari Weiss for a job without telling me you’re trying to suck up to Bari Weiss for a job

[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

[Scott Nover @ScottNover]

"60 Minutes" staffers past and present are outraged about Scott Pelley's firing.

[Sean Grande @SeanGrandePBP]

They have so blatantly and embarrassingly tanked this last year, CBS News should get Dybantsa.