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Bari Weiss Named a New CBS News Anchor, and the Response Is the Funniest News Ever

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--- Quote ---New CBS News chief Bari Weiss, whose center-left ideology is too far to the right for many of her employees, has done it again by naming a "mediocre straight white man" to anchor the division's flagship CBS Evening News.

A report late Tuesday in the UK Independent claims that "many staffers at CBS News are not thrilled" with Weiss picking CBS Mornings host Tony Dokoupil to sit in the anchor chair. “It’s an insult to the storied news giants who came before him,” one CBS News reporter told the paper.
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This is the same network that had to show Evening News anchor Dan Rather the door in 2005 for using laughable forgeries to "prove" that then-President George W. Bush repeatedly went AWOL during his service with the Texas Air National Guard as a fighter pilot.
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I don't mean to pick on Dan Rather [Yes, you do, Steve —Editor], but that CBS Evening News anchor chair has seated some seriously unworthy butts since Rather's walk of shame out the door two decades ago.

Longtime Sunday show talking head Bob Schieffer was supposed to be Rather's temporary replacement, but the news division's bench was so thin that they kept him on longer than planned, until finally settling on chirpy morning show host Katie Couric.

The less said about Couric, the better. But I would like to take a moment to remind you that as a "journalist," she's so unbiased that she appeared as herself on an episode of Will & Grace, long after the once-funny show had descended into partisan mockery.

Couric was a ratings disaster, but still stuck around for about five years before being replaced by Scott Pelley, who at least stanched the ratings losses. Jeff Glor and then Norah O'Donnell followed Pelley. None of the three managed to improve CBS's reputation for bias.
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I've not heard of Dokoupil, nor some others who have been in that position. Looking over his W'pedia bio, he's at least as experienced and talented as anyone else at SeeBS (not a high standard, admittedly). I suspect that the "mediocre straight white man" denigration simply means, "We are not sure he's Prog enough to faithfully parrot the Dem Party line straight out of the Fax machine."

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