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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/22
« Last post by SVPete on December 23, 2025, 02:08:24 PM »'60 Minutes' Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, Who Cried Foul Over Delayed Immigration Piece, Was Behind 'Intentionally False' Hit Piece on Ron DeSantis That Even Democrats Said Was Wrong
https://freebeacon.com/media/60-minutes-correspondent-sharyn-alfonsi-who-cried-foul-over-delayed-immigration-piece-was-behind-intentionally-false-hit-piece-on-ron-desantis-that-even-democrats-said-was-wrong/
Alfonsi and Granados need to be Dan-Rathered!
More about this:
Axios: 60 Minutes Lied About Trump Admin Response
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/12/23/axios-60-minutes-lied-about-trump-admin-response-n3810179
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Quelle surprise. Also unsurprising: Axios buries the lead here, although reporter Sara Fischer made sure to provide it on X/Twitter:
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Readers have to get to the bottom of the (Axios) story before they, er, get to the bottom of the conflict between Bari Weiss and 60 Minutes' Sharyn Alfonsi:QuoteBetween the lines: According to a source familiar with "60 Minutes" correspondence with the administration, the "60 Minutes" team reached out to press officials at the White House, State Department and DHS, all of which provided comment to CBS News.
None of those comments, which varied in length and substance, were included in the piece viewed by Axios.
That's not a "between the lines" issue. That directly reveals why Weiss pulled the segment in the US. For some reason, however, the Alfonsi segment aired in Canada, which Fischer viewed. ...
What is clear is that Weiss turned out to be correct in her assessment of the segment. Weiss first responded to Alfons's claim about political motives for spiking the story by saying it "wasn't ready" for air. Weiss then sent a more specific memo to CBS News personnel laying out the reasons for the decision, which included the need to get principals on the record to address the allegations:
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Money quote: "Tom Homan and Stephen Miller don't tend to be shy. I realized we've emailed the DHS spox, but we need to push much harder to get these principals on the record." Well, surprise again! According to Axios, Alfonsi did get principals to respond, including that same DHS spokesperson and more. Rather than include that input, Alfonsi not only lied in the segment about not getting a response, she or the producers of 60 Minutes misled CBS News management about it.
So Alfonsi, et al, lied in the 60 Minutes segment about not receiving responses from the WH, US State, and DHS, and repeated that lie to CBS management. Weiss yanking it from the US program saved CBS from at least some embarrassment (though airing it in Canada is at least odd ... there may be some unrevealed backstory to this). Alfonsi and Granados need to be Dan-Rathered for the lie in their segment and for lying to management!
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