Posted on 04/23/2025 7:33:53 PM PDT by Red Badger
CNN's Jake Tapper launched a scathing attack on CBS owner Shari Redstone for 'bending the knee' to Donald Trump on Tuesday, following the resignation of longtime 60 Minutes producer Bill Owens.
Owens, 58, had been the executive producer of the CBS news magazine since 2019, but told staff in a memo on Tuesday that he has come to realize he is no longer able 'to make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience' amid the president's $20 billion lawsuit against the network, the New York Times reports.
Trump has claimed the network deceptively edited an October 60 Minutes interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris by cutting down her 'word salad' answer to a question about the Israel-Hamas conflict. By doing so, he claims the network was helping the Democratic nominee secure the White House.
Employees at the network, though, have said they were simply trying to fit Harris' answer into their one-hour broadcast.
Still, network executives are said to be under intense pressure from Redstone to simply settle the suit - and not fight the allegations - as she tries to sell the company to Skydance Media, which is owned by Oracle founder Larry Ellison.
That multi-billion dollar merger would have to be approved by Trump's Federal Communications Commission.
Discussing the issue on his show Tuesday, Tapper sided with the 60 Minutes staff, calling the edits to the show 'editorial discretion' as he hit out at Redstone, who he said 'stands to make a fortune if this multi-billion dollar deal, this merger, goes through.
'And it seems as if Shari Redstone is likely to bend the knee to Trump and settle this allegedly frivolous lawsuit,' Tapper told his audience.
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Correct me if I am wrong; the network did not shorten Kamala’s answer to that question; they grabbed a splice from a different question. When Trump got hold of the whole transcript, it was time for CBS to pull out the big beautiful checkbook.
‘And it seems as if Shari Redstone is likely to bend the knee to Trump and settle this allegedly frivolous lawsuit,’ Tapper told his audience.
Shari Redstone had a long talk with the CBS lawyers and was advised to “Settle now under the best terms you can negotiate or go to court and lose your whole ass instead of just half your ass if you settle now. You will lose.”
The above two posts combined with another posters mention of discovery if the lawsuit went to court scared the hell out of their lawyers. CBS lawyers gave her good advice, “Lose half your ass today or all your ass tomorrow.”
I dont think Jake Tapper is capable of any kind of “brutal attack”. Intellectual, or otherwise.
DNCBS is blowing up like a Pinto gastank.
That and with USAID dollars no longer flowing and absent his CIA handler directing daily news operations. Sure he’s now having troubles alright.
I’d love to see Tapper’s marching orders pertaining to to the Biden debate catastrophe.
‘editorial discretion’
Notice how this discretion always goes against Trump. Still waiting for Leslie Stahl’s apology for denying the Hunter Biden laptop story to influence the 2020 election. We’re CBS!
Let’s look at a brief incomplete history of CBS 60 Minutes lies.
Over 20 years ago, we had the fake Bush National Guard memos. Famously debunked almost immediately starting right here on Free Republic, initiated by FReeper Buckhead. It took them weeks, months to finally admit their lies on this one. It should have taken about 15 minutes.
40 years ago we had the Audi unintended acceleration story which almost destroyed the brand in the USA. And that was a complete lie, this was confused drivers standing on the accelerator. The braking systems on those cars worked, and would more than stop those cars even at full throttle, if only someone were using the brake (instead of the accelerator). They never admitted to that one.
Well be waiting with no end in sight.
Sounds like Jakey wants to be FIRED!!
He works for CNN, not CBS..................
The new “fake but accurate”
60 Minuets producer is upset that Redstone is “bending a Knee to Trump”. Meanwhile knee pads are still issued and required to be worn by supposed journalist at 60 Minutes like Stahl so they can more easily service Democrats. Give me a break
I just posted this on metmom’s thread on being deaf to Truth.:
We see a lot of that deafness today. People don’t know good from evil. They live in moral relativism. They’ll often choose evil as a virtue out of ignorance.
What is spiritual blindness?
https://www.gotquestions.org/spiritual-blindness.html
Excerpt:
“Those who reject Christ and His Word are spiritually blind and cannot understand the truth of the Scriptures.”
...i.e. They believe in DECEPTION.
“told staff in a memo on Tuesday that he has come to realize he is no longer able ‘to make independent decisions based on what was right for... THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.”
thanks.
I heard elections have consequences - Who was it that said that? LOL
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