If we were going strictly by journalism chops, Bari Weiss's career apex would be as the editor of a right-wing counterpart to The Stranger. Bari Weiss has about as much comprehension of journalism standards as Donald Trump does of human decency. "60 Minutes" has been this unassailable journalistic institution for something like 58 years, and apparently it has met its match in Bari Weiss. I'm sure she's proud to go down in history as the individual who eviscerated "60 Minutes". As one could just as well say about Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and the execrable Stephen Miller, Weiss is "a shanda fur di goyim."

Noisy Creek Publishing spills ink (or pixels) when the mass killed are from largely white countries like the U.S. and Australia, but not so much when the victims are Taiwanese.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/taiwans-subway-stabber-planned-his-deadly-spree-police-say/

BTW, the subway stabber killed and wounded more people with a knife, than the Brown University shooter got with a firearm. So much for firearms control as a means of preventing mass murder.

The common link between Brown, Bondi, and Taiwan mass murders? Meticulous planning and lawful acquisition of their weapon of choice by the killers. The perps were single males drawing attention to a their grievance.

Apparently Noisy Creek only cares about mass murder victims in white places, when firearms are the means.

Not sure if it's paywalled or not (I thought they allowed a couple free reads per month, though not sure) but defector's got a great write-up on that Bari Weiss idiocy.

https://defector.com/bari-weiss-keeps-cbs-news-groveling-at-the-feet-of-donald-trump

From that piece, "Weiss, an empty-suit nullity whose very raison d'être is to speak comfort to power...."

I thought that was pretty great.

Pennies are dumb. But even dumber is the argument that they should be discontinued because they're worth less than they cost to mint. A penny used a hundred times is worth a dollar, not a penny.

@1: Calm down. A more charitable interpretation is that 60 minutes will schedule the segment with a cringing Steven Miller q&a at the end.

60 minutes is already so drenched in left wing lunacy (e.g. Scott Pelley) that it's laughable that a mere schedule change is seen as as threat to "unassailable journalistic institution".

I can honestly only imagine how sad and pathetic one must be to have no better or more fulfilling way to spend some personal idle time than going online to search for instances of mass murder to celebrate and wave in the face of their political adversaries.

Oh, did I mention that Bari Weiss is LGBTQ+!

Watching Bari weiss faceplant after years of failing upwards has been a delight. Incredible to think she actually believes she is capable of running one of the biggest newsrooms in the country after being an opinion columnist for her entire career. I guess she think she’s been a reporter this whole time.

She got where she is by kissing the asses of billionaires and I’m assuming her land baron wife opened those doors for her. She’s an awful writer with all the charisma of a wet sock so you know it wasn’t on her merits.

@8 for all the bitching you people do about identity politics, you lean into it like it’s a get out of being a shitty person free card the instant the opportunity strikes

Really because it sounds like you think people should be surprised that a lesbian can be an enabler of authoritarianism with no journalistic ethics

@9 - Nathalie, or best AM writer, gets hers done early. The others do at their convenience. It used to be 8:30 or always by 9am when Eli Sanders was the editor. However, we'd rather see it a little later and more comprehensive job than a quick "get it over with".

My extensive collection of wheat pennies will soon be worth millions! Any day now...

Hannah's take on the TPUSA event, and Ben's declaration of war on the tin hats in particular, is of course glib. What Ben Shapiro has initiated is in short hand is a "Sister Soulja" broadside. It is an attempt to reverse the atomizing effects in our current media landscape that has eroded the clout of institutions as gatekeepers in the idea space. He is acting on Martin Gurri's warnings about our time, rejecting both the "no enemies to my right" habit, nor a simple Laissez-faire complacency. You can strongly disagree with his politics, but this particular effort of his should be applauded by everyone. This is principled house cleaning within the right.

Now, can we find prominent people on the left side of the net attempting to do the same - that is, call out the extremists and tin hats in Leftyland? We certainly do! Bill Maher, Bari Weiss, Sam Harris, Jonathan Rauch. I could name more. Do a gut check with that. You will find such names routinely denounced here at TS, sometimes with a special vitriol. These are the house cleaners of the left. They ought to be honored. But TS is vested in unbridled lefty lunacy, as is many of its readers. For them, there is no enemy to their left.

Or are there? Anyone out there want to call out prominent leftist voices that they believe are too extreme, engage in conspiracy theories, are charlatans or grifters? Right wingers, please let our lefties respond. I'm very curious to see if this muscle exists.

@5:

Tell us you're bad at maths without telling us you're bad at maths. A penny used 100 times is still only worth $0.01. If a penny increased in value in the way you stated, most of us would be able to purchase a Bezos-sized super-yacht with what we have right now in our coffee mugs and Mason jars.

@17 The same penny can be used multiple times, dummy. It's worth a penny for every transaction. Its buying power is infinite, so the fact that it costs four cents to mind is irrelevant to its value.

@8: “Oh, did I mention that Bari Weiss is LGBTQ+!”

The whole point of LGBTQ+ equality was (and is) that such persons were no better or worse than us boring cis-het types. Why would anyone expect otherwise?

@17 - @18 is correct. If it's shown that it costs more than $1.00 to create a dollar bill, do we stop printing dollar bills?

Deep Sea Diver is excellent, "What Do I Know" was a great video, proving you don't need a massive production budget to be entertaining.

@15... For the past 50 years I have always checked my change for wheat pennies, buffalo nickels and quarters older than 1962. The last 20+ years, I have been saving Bi-Centennial quarters and $2 bills for my buddy to give to his daughter. He's been dead five years now, but I still save them.

@16... Holy shit! Nice word salad you gots there... where to start?

"Principled housecleaning on the right". That is a huge stretch for two of those five words.
You consider Bill Maher, Bari Weiss and Sam Harris to be on the left? (I'm not familiar with Jonathon Rauch, heard the name before), but hard no on that bullshit.

Coolie upthread said Bari Weiss is LGBTQ+. So what. People vote against their own interests all the time (Log Cabin Republicans). That is a huge reason our country is where we are at now. Do you remember a dumbass named Milo Yanna-yabba-a-dabba-doo? Perfect example. Where is he now?

Could you give some examples of actual leftists? You are just throwing out Libertarian names.

3/10

Bari Weiss = 'left wing'?

tosses 60 Minutes'
Sixty YEARS of Actual
Journalism to Protect a
fascist's Unconstitutional af

Extraordinary Rendition campaign
of Unidentifiable Armed Thugs whisking
Away AMERICAN FUCKING CITIZENS AND

SHE'S a Fucking LEFTIST? it's Nice
when one can just make it Up
as one goes. kinda like fake
'prez' who Is, very fucking
Influential. Apparently.

Bernie Sanders
and Chris Hedges
and Noam Chomsky're
Three Confirmed ACTUAL Leftists

in My book. anyway, shouldn't we let
:Leftists Decide Who Speaks
FOR THEM? Great com-
ment drew12.

Chomsky made early efforts to critically analyze globalization.

He summarized the process with the phrase "old wine, new bottles," maintaining that the motive of the elites is the same as always: they seek to isolate the general population from important decision-making processes, the difference being that the centers of power are now transnational corporations and supranational banks.

Chomsky argues that transnational corporate power is
"developing its own governing institutions"
reflective of their global reach.

According to Chomsky, a primary ploy has been the co-opting of the global economic institutions established at the end of World War II, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, which have increasingly adhered to the "Washington Consensus,"

requiring developing countries
to adhere to limits on spending and
make structural adjustments that often in-
volve cutbacks in social and welfare programs.

NO SCHOOLS FOR YOU!
NO HEALTHCARE TOO!

YOU ]'cannot Afford it!''

IMF aid and
loans are normally
contingent upon such reforms.

Chomsky claims that the construction of global institutions and agreements such as the World Trade Organization, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the Multilateral Agreement on Investment constitute new ways of securing elite privileges while undermining democracy.

Chomsky believes that these austere and neoliberal measures ensure that poorer countries merely fulfill a service role by providing cheap labor, raw materials and investment opportunities for the developed world.

This means that corporations can threaten
to relocate to poorer countries, and Chomsky sees
this as a powerful weapon to keep workers in richer countries in line.

--the Wiki

oh and 'if we Tax
the Rich, won't they just
Leave?' don't let the door
hit your ass on the way OUT.

"new ways of securing elite privileges while undermining democracy."

sounds like a real Beri Weiss move.

Speaking of Noam Chomsky, he's in the Epstein files! Here he is with Jeffrey on the Lotita Express:

https://x.com/ShivAroor/status/2001901221079322839?s=20

Aww, rats! I misinterpreted the wave and was hoping the Home Depot Santa-in-the-Box was flipping off Felon Mu$k's Mein Trumpf.
If set on ejection springs and a Santorum cream pie and overnight shipped off to Mal-a-Turdo, Santa could arrive just in time to aptly splatter all over DJT's Shitmas, just begging to go viral.

@25 kristofarian: +1 Yes! Let's finally tax the rich already. And when they threaten to leave, don't let the door hit 'em in their sorry asses on the way out. All the get-rich-quick billionaires did here in the PNW was ruin our economy. Good riddance.

@26~agreed -- tragic af!
negating Zero from @25, but:
contain your Glee for your Corporate
Masters, when they rendition your reich-
wing arse extraordinarily to Gitmo or one of
our famous Workcamps -- not Yet Deathcamps,

but, Who knows? btw, they Appreciate you!

@29 - what a spin out!

'local faves Deep Sea Diver made Number Two'

well
I'VE made
Number Two
more than Once
and it NEVER SOUNDED
like That Nor so fucking GOOD.

but -- wtf do I know?

https://youtu.be/hokGuFIw1PQ

Fucking Bravissima/o.

@3O -- thank you.

@6 -- your 'deep dive' into
our once-Vaunted Fourth
Estate is, Unsurprisingly
Sorely Lacking, Heavily
favoring your Corpor-
atist Masters:

This week, we learned another lesson about how corporate media consolidation corrupts democracy . . . The segment was spiked by CBS’ newly-installed Editor-in Chief Bari Weiss. This censorship exposes a web of conflicts of interest, and demonstrates, yet again, that democracy depends on a strong, independent media that is a true fourth estate, not “for the state.”

So why did Bari Weiss kill the story? She reportedly claimed the story needed more voices from the Trump administration, yet Alfonsi and her colleagues had already requested comment from the White House, the State Department and Homeland Security.

In an internal email, Alfonsi wrote, “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch' for any reporting they find inconvenient.”

Recall, Trump sued CBS over a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris, which he claimed was selectively edited to help her campaign. While legal experts say CBS would have easily won that case, CBS’s parent company, Paramount, was hoping to be bought by Skydance Media, owned by the son of billionaire Trump ally Larry Ellison.

So Paramount settled with Trump for $15 million.
The merger was then approved by the Trump administration.

Shortly thereafter, the Ellisons bought Bari Weiss’ rightwing news website for $150 million, then installed her as Editor-in-Chief of CBS News.

Larry Ellison and his son David now want to add to their media empire, attempting to acquire Warner Brothers/Discovery in a hostile takeover. Warner Brothers/Discovery, which owns HBO and CNN among other media properties, rebuffed the Ellisons’ bid in favor of a competing offer from Netflix (that bid does not include HBO or CNN).

Neither merger is in the public interest, as fewer and fewer media giants gobble up more and more, restricting consumer choice and the power of creators – writers, actors, directors, etc. – to demand fair treatment. Trump has said he intends to intervene, and could wield the government’s regulatory authority – corruptly – to favor one buyer over the other.

So, both Netflix and the Ellisons’ Paramount/Skydance have an interest in currying favor with Trump.And therein lies the reason why CBS, owned by Paramount/Skydance, spiked an important “60 Minutes” story of the US deporting innocent men to a foreign black site, to be tortured.“

One of the first tenets of ethics in journalism is to seek truth and report it,” Alexa Koenig of the Human Rights Center at University of California, Berkeley, said on the Democracy Now! news hour. She was interviewed by “60 Minutes” about the center’s research on torture and other abuses at CECOT.

“This is a big moment for American politics, for getting facts and truth out to the public about what has been done in their name, what is being done with taxpayer dollars.”

News organizations
cannot function under corrupt
corporate control, answering to billionaire bosses
and politicians. When that happens, democracy dies, and dictators rise.

We need, and the public must demand, a truly independent media.

--by Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan; Christmas Eve, 2025

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/24/cbs_60_minutes_censorship_rings_another

'News organizations
cannot function under corrupt
corporate control, answering to billionaire bosses
and politicians. When that happens, democracy dies, and dictators rise.'

so, is That the Outcome
you're Pulling For,
KkKoolie?

@33 kristofarian: At this point I have little hope for KKKoolie pulling his head out of his ass, however grim the outcome of 2016 & 2024.
I can just hear KKKoolie's muffled cry upon getting seized by Trumpfreich:
"Thank you, sir! May I have another?"
Ohhh, the butthurt!---and yet MAGAs just keep going back for more.

Mal-a-Turdo Headquarter$ needs a golden shower before sinking into the Atlantic.
Channeling Wally Gator and the rest of the swamp----SIC 'EM!!