Posted on 02/18/2025 9:56:23 AM PST by Starman417
Let's start with a premise. 60 Minutes is crap and has been for some time. Back in 2017 I said this about Scott Pelley:
The worst politically biased hack in the news todayLet's look at the garbage they posted today and broadcast yesterday and then we'll put it in perspective. They put Donald Trump in their crosshairs.
President Trump, back in the White House for less than a month, has closed agencies, frozen spending that Congress mandated by law, and challenged the breadth of rights guaranteed by the Constitution.Yesterday
President Trump says USAID is rife with fraud. But Andrew Natsios, a Republican former administrator of USAID, calls that “utter nonsense.” Natsios says USAID is “the most accountable aid agency in the world.”Really? From Donald Trump
That was just for starters on 60 Wasted Minutes.
JD Vance lamented the backsliding on free speech seen in Germany today and in trying to disprove it unwittingly validated his allegations.
60 Minutes trotted out two "victims of Trump" to whine about their plight of being fired from the USAID. But at least one wasn't even an employee of USAID
Fact check : Kristina Drye wasn’t even USAID employee. she worked for XLA and Jefferson Partners that providied speechwriting services for USAID Administrator Samantha Power. pic.twitter.com/dKOrC5Nnma
— Zaki Solja (@zakisolja) February 17, 2025
And it turns out she has some baggage
60 Minutes aired an interview of 2 USAID Contractors last night—one was Kristina Drye—the same woman ABC interviewed who confessed to taking “incriminating books” with her after @DOGE entered the USAID building. Strangely, Kristina Drye has deleted her X account. pic.twitter.com/rMBantPFMb
— Lindsay Penney (@TexasLindsay_) February 17, 2025
60 Minutes has never shown this kind of "empathy" for others who were sacrificed by Biden:
The 60,000 people who got cut loose when the Keystone XL pipeline extension was canceled after Biden took office know the feeling. Except they weren't bureaucrats. They were skilled construction workers and engineers.Nor for the people of North Carolina
60 Minutes has never done a special on the jobs lost from the floods in North Carolina and the devastation it caused those families but has the audacity to tell us to pity overpaid bureaucrats who got fired for doing the jobs taxpayers didn’t need them to do. People who produce… pic.twitter.com/E0sbMx3ff1
— Marina Medvin (@MarinaMedvin) February 17, 2025
But if wondered why Margaret Brennan disintegrated and 60 Minutes went total propaganda, it's because of this.
Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Thursday against CBS, demanding $10 billion in damages over the network’s “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. The suit was immediately ridiculed by First Amendment attorneys, who called it “frivolous and dangerous.”
In the complaint filed in US District Court in the Northern District of Texas, Trump’s legal counsel claimed CBS’ “60 Minutes” interview with Harris and the associated programming were “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference” intended to “mislead the public and attempt to tip the scales” of the presidential election in her favor.
The lawsuit also says Trump is seeking for the network to “publicly release the full, unedited transcript of the [interview].”
After the release of the transcript, Trump has them by the short hairs and has jacked up his demands:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Way, way back in the day there were three broadcast networks in the United States who were the sole dispensers of information in the new medium of television. It was obvious even at the time that this was the sort of absolute power that Lord Acton famously stated corrupted absolutely. Which it did. That power is fading fast and the corruption remains. What has changed is that we get to see it now.
::”””Margaret Brennan should be fired for her absurd comment””” I don’t think the dozens of people that watch CBS will care.
Bkmk
Now you know not many here know about taint
“I really don't care, Margaret.”
60 Minutes aired an interview of 2 USAID Contractors last night—one was Kristina Drye—the same woman ABC interviewed who confessed to taking “incriminating books” with her after @DOGE entered the USAID building. Strangely, Kristina Drye has deleted her X account. pic.twitter.com/rMBantPFMb
— Lindsay Penney (@TexasLindsay_) February 17, 20
Is CBS a front for the sexual weirdo community in the CIA?
Kristina Drye
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She was a speech writer for Samantha Power at USAID and not some low level lackey portrayed in the 60 minutes interview last Sunday.
Just turn it on and you See Bs.
It’s been fake but accurate for ages.
CBS will soon be following CNN and MSNBC into the dung heap of irrelevancy.
Lowest rated nightly news = fire NorDUH O'Donnell. The CBS Morning show is now called "CBS Mornings for Blacks" as Gayle King demands all stories are about Blacks - ratings are plummeting. Margaret Brennan on Sunday = nuff said.
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