Posted on 12/22/2025 4:09:52 AM PST by SmokingJoe
We’ve reported extensively on the shenanigans at CBS News, the network that was forced to fork over $16 million in July to settle Trump’s lawsuit concerning their deceptive editing of a Kamala Harris interview a month before the 2024 presidential election. Much drama ensued at the outlet as veteran diehards continued to insist that resisting Trump and spewing anti-American rhetoric was part of their job description.
Give credit, however, to David Ellison, Chairman and CEO of Paramount (Skydance Corporation), who brought on independent journalist, former NY Times opinion editor, and nowadays free thinker Bari Weiss to oversee the hopelessly biased CBS team. This caused much consternation, of course, because the liberal media isn’t used to being called out on the carpet or having to justify their excesses.
Could it be her fingerprint on the latest drama engulfing the network? On Sunday, the venerable show 60 Minutes abruptly yanked a planned segment on illegal aliens.
information was scant:
CBS pulled a “60 Minutes” segment on Venezuelan migrants who were sent to El Salvador’s notorious maximum-security prison, CECOT, just hours before its scheduled Sunday broadcast time.
“The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated,” the program posted in an Editor’s Note on social media three hours before it was set to air.
“Our report ‘Inside CECOT’ will air in a future broadcast,” the post said. pic.twitter.com/JLbIdtUvY5 — 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) December 21, 2025 As RedState’s Rusty Weiss reported, the segment had been under fire even before it aired:
Bari Weiss said in a statement that more context was needed, which is code for “the story was hopelessly biased and leftist, and we’re trying to become something more trustworthy under my leadership.”
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
The Hollywood Rags (Variety, Hollywood Reporter, etc) are having conniption fits.
Perhaps CBS News was concerned that it might encourage more illegal with criminal offenses to self deport after they were reminded about what could be their future in the CECOT prison in El Salvador. CBS News clearly does not care about American victims of criminal behavior by illegals.
IOWs, their lawyers had a little chat with them about running with more Fake News
That, and how it could boomerang on them if the ‘Venezuela Gambit’ works as planned for DJT.
‘Future broadcast’ is the clue: They’re waiting to find out how things play.
I do not care about illegals sent to Cecot. They probably pulled this segment because people probably don’t care like me.
We are just glad they are not here. Sorry, but most sent there are foreign criminals that invaded our country.
Don’t care?
I VOTED for this!
Nobody watches the networks today. Even the NFL is gradually jumping ship.
I did too. I meant that I do not care about the plight of these criminals in Cecot!
I made this exact comment to my lovely wife a few days ago. Just about had enough.
“Nobody watches the networks today. ...”
I wouldn’t watch 60 minutes if they pried my eyes open like in clockwork orange. Beyond that, I just don’t watch the networks anymore. It happens rarely, but once in a while I see a program with an interesting concept advertised on network tv. Nope. I know as sure as I’m sitting here that the commies who run the networks will pack it with woke, anti conservative bs.
I stick to relatively safe stuff, like the car restoration shows, or world war II documentaries.
New mgmt at CBS obviously does care, which is why they pulled the segment.
Reporter Alfonsi insists it's factually correct, but Weiss reportedly wants some balance....a response from HHS, or histories of these violent criminals that don't glorify them but show the horrors of their crimes.
I'm giving the new CBS a chance, TFN.
Game simply ran overtime and CBS didn’t want to suffer the Heidi outrage. I wouldn’t bet on them changing course yet.
The problem we have there is all the AI crap that started spewing out this Summer. I look for stuff that’s at least a year old or from known safe content creators that have been around a while.
Is shenanigans a euphemism for serious conspiracy...?
Not so...change was made 3 hours before air--roughly when your "overtime" game kicked off.
Stalinists and Trotskyites unite in rage against CBS News 60’Minutes.
They did this to generate free publicity and more interest for when they actually do show it! This is so obvious that a blind man could see through it.
Haven’t watched “normal TV” for about 40 years. Even the commercials are political propaganda. The shows are full of liberal propaganda. It’s all just a vehicle for liberal propaganda. Watching it is handing money to destroyers of America.
Game simply ran overtime and CBS didn’t want to suffer the Heidi outrage. I wouldn’t bet on them changing course yet.
They push nightime programing out if a game goes late. The game seen by most of the American TV market on CBS was Steelers vs Lions which ended in regulation with a score of Lions 24, Steelers 29.
Sunday Dec 21, 2025
Start Time: 4:25pm
Stadium: Ford Field
Attendance: 63,798
Time of Game: 3:25
The game ended before 7:00 pm.
For the record, I did not use Grok or some other stupid AI to find this information. I went to a direct source.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/202512210det.htm
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