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It becomes increasingly clear, that most if all of these TDSers and DUers were not spanked enough as children.

In his posture against Bilton, Pelley portrayed himself as possessing the journalistic credibility his new boss lacked. This is a little like Jeffrey Epstein calling out the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit for their lack of caring about underage girls.

I make this claim based on personal experience.

Let me explain. Ten years ago I received a phone call out of the blue. It was from a genuinely distinguished journalist, Irish-American investigative reporter and filmmaker Phelim McAleer. Phelim was calling me to ask if I wanted to collaborate on a piece of documentary theater. The project was inspired by the true story of Steven Donziger and his legal fight with the oil giant Chevron.

Seven years before, Pelley had presented a laudatory profile of Donziger on 60 Minutes. ... Donziger, Pelley claimed, had exposed Chevron’s past wrongs and won an $18 billion judgment in the process. One-third of that was slated to go to Donziger and his financial backers. The rest was to go either to the downtrodden masses of Ecuador or to the restoration of its primeval landscape.

But in the following seven years another story was revealed. It turned out that Donziger had engaged in blackmail, pandering, fraud, conspiracy, and bribery. Moreover, it was shown that Chevron had reached prior agreements with the Ecuadorian government which absolved it of any responsibility for a future clean-up from the oil spills that were the subject of Donziger’s litigation.

In fact, the real story was that Chevron had tried to prevent the Ecuadorians from building a pipeline that caused most of the damage to their forests, and the government had then robbed the company of most of its investment in the country. ...

In short, everything about Donziger’s story was false. The "faceless" corporation had tried to behave honorably and had been abused. The radicals in charge of Ecuador had stolen from Chevron and then decided on policies that ruined large stretches of their own nation. Donziger was a crook, liar, and fraud.

Pelley’s reporting was botched for reasons that went beyond his gullibility. Anyone, of course, can be fooled by a skillful conman, but Pelley took things to a new level of deception. In order to make Chevron look bad, his 60 Minutes crew showed only the scarred oil pits that Chevron didn’t have control over and not the ones it did. The latter were sites it had worked diligently to repair.

Donziger’s deceptions were all eventually proven in federal court. For this reason, a federal judge arranged for his disbarment, and Donziger spent almost three years under house arrest, in jail, or in federal prison. Among the charges he was found guilty of was racketeering. ...
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Pelley is a classic talking-head—someone who started in television and whose whole career has been forged within it. This is the world that the movie Broadcast News depicts. Someone handsome and deep-voiced appears on camera. Others do most or all of the writing and the research.
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By contrast, Pelley’s new bosses are serious journalists. Both forged meaningful careers as writers and editors. Bari Weiss, who is Bilton’s boss and the editor in chief of CBS News, made a name for herself through her work as a writer and editor at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. After leaving the Times, she started and built up the Free Press, which has two million subscribers and top writers like Sir Niall Ferguson and Nellie Bowles. Bilton also wrote for the Times, and he has been a contributor to Vanity Fair and a documentary filmmaker for HBO. They are genuine writer-editors.

It started so simply, as these things do, with a barrage of Iran's patented Totally Ceasefire Missiles™ that Israel knocked out of the sky. It ended, if that's the right word, with Israeli airstrikes taking out Iran's top two leaders. That's a big win, even if one of them was already mostly dead.

The fun began on Sunday, when "Iran launched missiles into Israel, not just in the north by the Galilee, but all the way down to Caesarea," as reported by PJ Media's own Rabbi Michael Barclay. In all, Tehran launched a total of about 30 missiles in several waves. They were all either shot down by IDF antimissile systems like Iron Dome, or caused no notable damage.

 Israel responded with two air attacks that PJ Media's own Catherine Salgado reported on at Zero Dark Thirty last night, but only now are we learning just how effective those strikes really were.

Several outlets report today that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Ahmad Vahidi is among those dead in yesterday's Israeli Air Force (IAF) strikes.

Vahidi's death isn't confirmed yet, but fingers crossed. He's only been IRGC chief since March 1, when his predecessor was taken out in similar fashion.
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Just as pleasing, if perhaps not quite as consequential, is the reported death of the regime's so-called Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei — son and heir of the previous Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. The elder Khamenei, you'll recall with no small measure of schadenfreude, was killed in a similar IAF strike in the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury.

The younger Khamenei — long rumored to be homosexual and also believed to have been severely wounded during the air campaign — is (or was) at best a figurehead. He hasn't been seen or heard in public since before Ali's death, lending credence to the reports that he is (or was) barely alive.

Or living it up on Fire Island. Accounts differ.

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