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underpants is brown with fear that Trump might be succeeding in bringing Iran's Mullahcracy to an end, where OhBummer! and Otto Penn failed.
When 60 Minutes debuts its 59th season, the one thing we can be certain of is that the media will announce that it’s a disaster and blame Bari Weiss and clamor for government intervention.
The former New York Times columnist who had the temerity to not only leave the storied paper, but also start her own successful media venture, The Free Press, before getting hired to clean up CBS News, and to do all that while questioning wokeness and defending America and Israel, is more loathed than Trump in media circles. The media hates Trump, but it fears Bari Weiss.
Even before the first 60 Minutes episode of the season aired, the media was already running articles blasting Weiss for ‘destroying the journalistic legacy of CBS News’. The New York Times ran its preview by repeating the false claim that Weiss was “trying to insert political bias into the show”, which she did by asking for a comment from the White House about a 60 Minutes story.
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It would be awful indeed if Bari Weiss were to tamper with the journalistic legacy of CBS greats like Walter Cronkite, Les Moonves (accused of forcing a woman into oral sex), former 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager (accused of sexually harassing women), former 60 Minutes correspondent Charlie Rose (accused of sexually harassing women), former 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt (accused of sexually harassing women) making “accused of sexually harassing women” into an official requirement for CBS News legends.
At least there was Dan Rather, who broke the network’s curse of sexually harassing women by merely trying to pass off a Microsoft Word document as if it had come from the Vietnam War.
Obviously, Bari Weiss doesn’t belong at CBS News. She hasn’t even raped anyone yet.
(When Scott Pelley stomped off in a huff over Bari Weiss, the AP contacted Jeff Fager for a comment without mentioning he had been forced out over allegations of groping women. To the media, groping women is less of a sin than asking it to meet ethical standards.)
60 Minutes founder Don Hewitt had such an incredible legacy that one of his victims settled with CBS News in the 90s for $450,000 to keep quiet and then another $75,000 every year for the rest of her life so she would stay silent. This dirty deal, which paid $5 million to a woman to keep her quiet about what was going on at 60 Minutes, was only discovered in 2018. None of the intrepid 60 Minutes journalists busy targeting political opponents ever got around to it.
What is your damn point
A recent survey of Democrat voters reveals striking levels of support for unconventional and extraconstitutional methods of removing President Donald Trump from office before the end of his term, including a military takeover and, for a significant minority, assassination.
orangecrush (33,285 posts)
The Jack Smith hearing is backfiring spectacularly
Nothing new I know...
underpants (199,521 posts)
Revolution is in the air...on Fox News....in Iran
I check Fox’s website from time to time to see what’s going on in that world. Yesterday they had almost nothing on the Jack Smith hearing. You had to go to a separate tab to find a mention of it.
The main story was MOTORCYCLE GANGS IN TEHRAN with sub-stories about the same. This has been a common top story for a few weeks there. Openly taken photographs of people in motorcycles.
I flipped over to talk radio today. Kilmeade’s show - there go a few brain cells. He talked about it. The 3PM host on Fox News Martha McCallum was on, she talked about. There was an audio clip on Fox’s favorite Gen. Jack Keane - he says it’s pretty simple, a CIA operation to smuggle guns in. GUNS! That’s all it will take and the Iranians will do the rest. We just provide air cover.
It’s like they are running a Psy Ops on the viewers. Nothing new I know but they are all in on this.
https://democraticunderground.com/100221535234
Well...hello.QuoteCrude oil flows from the Middle East are returning toward pre-war levels despite continued risks to shipping, according to separate estimates from JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
“The Middle East’s oil export arteries are flowing again,” JPMorgan analysts including Natasha Kaneva said in a Sept. 29 note. That’s “a remarkable recovery for a region still at war,” although it’s been uneven, they said.
It sounds as if nearly every cylinder was firing and the Saudi repairs to drone-damaged pipelines were completed much more expeditiously than anticipated.Quote...The global oil market is zeroed in on the volumes of oil and products coming out of the region as the conflict between the US and Iran enters its eighth month. In addition to shipments going via the Strait of Hormuz, Saudi Arabia has managed to restore about half the flows on its East-West pipeline after damage earlier this month to the cross-country conduit, which feeds its Red Sea ports.
