Posted on 12/31/2025 7:15:09 AM PST by Red Badger
Since taking the helm at CBS News, Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has shown no fear, and her response to Hollywood leftist darling George Clooney's attack on her is truly...magnifique.
It all started after the 64-year-old actor took a swipe at Weiss' leadership, of course, using broad claims, lacking any detail, about Weiss. The comments came after she pulled a 60 Minutes piece about the alleged treatment of illegal aliens in a CECOT prison in El Salvador.
She later explained the reason was that it wasn’t ready, RedState reported.
Statement from CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss:
"My job is to make sure that all stories we publish are the best they can be. Holding stories that aren’t ready for whatever reason — that they lack sufficient context, say, or that they are missing critical voices — happens… https://t.co/hTqRkM2X04— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) December 22, 2025
"My job is to make sure that all stories we publish are the best they can be. Holding stories that aren’t ready for whatever reason — that they lack sufficient context, say, or that they are missing critical voices — happens every day in every newsroom,” Weiss' statement read. “I look forward to airing this important piece when it’s ready."
In a recent Variety interview, Clooney claimed that Weiss was “dismantling CBS” amid his wider critique of the network's settlement with President Donald Trump over its deceptively edited 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.
Weiss responded to Clooney’s attack in a statement to The New York Post, inviting him to come to her place of work for a tour to learn about the news business. Ouch.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/30/media/bari-weiss-invites-george-clooney-to-visit-cbs-newsroom-after-star-says-shes-wrecking-network/
“Bonjour, Mr. Clooney! Big fan of your work,” Weiss statement shared by the CBS parent company Skydance read. “It sounds like you’d like to learn more about ours.”
“This is an open invitation to visit the CBS Broadcast Center, where I’m spending the holidays working to relaunch the Evening News with my colleagues,” the statement added. “Tune in January 5.”
In the Variety piece, Clooney also blasted networks that settled their lawsuits, claiming CBS did so that Trump "would approve Paramount’s sale to Skydance,” without any evidence. The deal went through in August, with Paramount’s new owner, Skydance Media, led by David Ellison, bringing on Weiss.
“If CBS and ABC had challenged those lawsuits and said, ‘Go, [..] yourself, we wouldn’t be where we are in the country,” Clooney said. “That’s simply the truth.”
The troll by Weiss of the Ocean's Eleven star, who recently officially became a French citizen, was layered given Clooney's recent role on Broadway playing legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow.
This is exactly how you crush lies and accusations from the left, with daylight. Well done.
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Clooney directs that insufferable liberal morality tale, Good Night and Good Luck, and so now he fancies himself an expert on the news media and its fight against alleged conservative fascism. Stay in France, George, and stop commenting on the US now that you are a French citizen.
It sounds to me that Clooney libeled CBS.
Clooney is now a French citizen.
He can STFU, S’il vous plaît.
He trashed his American citizenship for French.
As far as it goes, he has no voice now.
Ah yes... George Clooney... the guy Obama sent out to launch the whisper campaign against Biden and who admitted to being the fall guy for that.
Looks like he’s still playing the part.
Cheese eating surrender monkey!
And don’t let this betrayer back in to the United States!!
Just remember Paramount has English and Australian channels so Weiss can screw Clooney further.
Illegal aliens in an El Salvadoran prison. Why the flock are sexually disoriented, mentally retarded, DemonRAT politicians involved in this? This is not any of their business. They all need the goat smellin' keisters removed from Congress.
Did clooney renounce his US citizenship?
I fart in his general direction.......................
“He trashed his American citizenship for French.”
He probably has both at this time.
My understanding is that, per basic International Law, a country cannot make a person “stateless” meaning a non-citizen of any country in the world. So, for us normal people with single-country citizenship, our government cannot revoke our citizenship.
But if we did have dual citizenship, then, well, George, you might need a visa to visit the US, and with that visa your ENTIRE history, particularly in social media, might get a full-up *^&@ exam...and if we don’t like it, you could try slipping-in from Mexico (but you’ll get caught now).
Since he’s now French, I guess he’ll convert to islam.
Wait until this dummy gets his first tax statement. Taxes in France are burdensome. Just ask Gerard Depardieu. He left France for Russia because of the tax rates in France. LOL!
The US needs to de-naturalize him.
Of course his agent will call and set it up but only if CBS will give him air time to voice his ignorant, metro sexual opinions.
“Wait until this dummy gets his first tax statement.”
Fools and their money are soon parted.
Lol.
Because they aspire to run the whole planet. The existence of foreign governments is for the sole purpose of absolving them of any accountability.
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