Yes...I truly miss Andy..I miss ALL of the Real Crew from 60 .minutes who are no longer with us...it was an entirely different species. I was privileged to be able to grow up with it and learn from them.
The cowardice and venality of corporate media is now legend. Look at the top talent -- journalists, political satirists, investigative reporters -- targeted and driven out of their jobs to appease a slowly dying madman. Our best minds (along with the worst) are saturating the broadcast field with podcasts.
Here’s a suggestion: Boycott everything distributed by CBS/Paramount/SkyDance. That means EVERYTHING. Other wise you’re putting money into Larry Ellison’s pockets and rewarding him for degrading journalism in this country. Everything includes CBS broadcast programs (especially the NFL and other sports) as well as paramount streaming services, and anything else associated with these bootlikers.
The ONLY thing companies care about is💵 After Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel, the company lost $4 BILLION in revenue and stock because of -- among other things -- millions of streaming cancelations. Disney decided profit was more important than doing as His Lordship wanted. It could happen with CBS: if enough people stop watching their network + cable channels and streaming service, if they stop reading the CBS News website (or anything CBS News-related), maybe the loss in ad and other revenue could be enough for Mr. Ellis and Ms. Weiss to see things differently.
'scuse me for jumping into this convo but the answer is that most of them are neither MAGA nor non-MAGA. They're capitalists. They follow the money but the route to the money leads straight to the kissing of Trump's ass, so they're MAGA by default. Some are MAGA like Bari Weiss, now head of CBS news. Kind of a distinction without a difference because the result is the same even if motivations vary.
Sorry to disappoint, but CBS’s entire revenue stream is barely an accounting error in the Ellison portfolio. Access to, and the approval of, the regime is likely infinitely more valuable to them.
We haven't watched network TV in ages. Already boycotting cuz the programming is lousy. I have to say, tho, that I used to work for Paramount, funded my retirement.
I’m nearing the dirt nap stage in my life, after watching Larry Ellison’s Paramount Global obsequious connections to a career criminal, with a drug addled mind, coupled with an IQ no greater than the number of presidents who served before him Ann!
“Don’t you just hate it when us deceased people spin in our graves, while you living people just sit there on your asses and don’t lift a finger to stop the madness in your midst?”
One of my absolute Favorite Memes is Show me your Genitals! 😂😂 Nancy is such an attention whore...my god. Her little explosion at the airport...gimme a break.
The fact that this is allowed to continue tells us all we're screwed. This country has lost its freaking mind. Except the people in this community, who continue to give me hope.
i certainly hope the body camera tapes of her airport breakdown are released, clearly showing her unfitness for gov office and oppo gold for her opponent's ad campaign. maybe she wouldn't receive so many death threats if she were a decent, honorable person instead of the toxic pos she truly is.
Canada is your best option, climate crisis wise. I suggest BC. My niece is a nurse practitioner on some island off Vancouver. Of course, an island might not be the best choice.
I have a trans friend who is now a heavyset, hairy, bearded male. He, of course has XX chromosomes. I wonder what Nancy Mace would say if he showed up in her restroom? She does want people to use restrooms corresponding to their DNA.
there was recently a story about a completely cis boy whose birth certificate erroneously marked him as female. And they are MAKING him use the girl's restrooms (or at least play on girl's teams). The birth certificate has been corrected, but that is not the "original." Going to be fun when he hits puberty.
I’m with you Susan, although the hegemony we see before us, isn’t going away anytime soon! If I could, I d have my feet on a sandy beach, with sunshine on my face, far away from this billionaire war on our republic!
PV was a beautiful place 40 years ago, I’ve stayed there a couple times long ago, when I photographed the Pacific Princess line…I’ve driven through nearly every city, town and jungle throughout Mexico, enjoy yourself Mary, have a golden margarita, while watching the sun fall from the sky at El Set it’s still there,,it was once a favorite of mine!
Well, if he didn't know he was pardoning this person, is it legal? (See how that works Republicans?) With Biden there was no indication to contradict that he knew what he was doing. With Trump he outright admits he has no idea.
It's not unrealistic to think Metamucilini's cabinet is now signing presidential pardons for corrupt oligarchs and other crooks without bothering to inform him. Miller could be his auto-Sharpie. Trump doesn't give two squirts.
I think he was given a list of those recommended for pardons. He was probably told about CZ and agreed to the pardon, but since Dumbo has memory loss, he forgot who CZ was within 15 seconds.
I think you're giving him too much credit for mental awareness. I really suspect he has little to no clue what's being done in his name. Of course, he wouldn't care if he did know.
There absolutely has to be confrontation on these matters, every single fucking one of them. It's a dereliction of job responsibility, & personal responsibility, to let this shit slide. And, I guess it's our responsibility to make these assholes remember who they work for. They can only be paid with the money comes from us.
I read somewhere on Substack today, but of course can’t find it now, that the original interview which was something like an hour and a half+ long was edited for length. Part of the reason they edit things is for length and because they take out all “rrrs” and “ummmm”s and “let me think about that” material). She *did* ask the hardball questions and then followed up the Orange Mush’s bizarre answers. But *that* was edited out. Gosh, I wonder why??….
Smoke & mirrors. Anyone that has worked with that knows how the objective can be to make things smoother & a better experience for users. Maybe even to guide to better optimality in some way, providing broad context. This is not doing that. It is deception in a very different way & the GD ends do not justify the means. We fucking know know why & are done with this shit. I know it's like, endless, well, they do this, don't do that, & we chase our tails in speculation & giving benefit of doubt...they have demonstrated they are not earnest & honest, acting in good faith. Trustworthiness is not subjective or relative. Fuck these bastards for taking advantage & betraying us. That is something to NEVER do.
Of course the lawsuit against CBS was not merited. They are not really lawsuits. They are Trump's legal way to demand a bribe. He sues everyone who has money to the tune of millions and they all "settle" and by "settle", I mean pay the bribe. Everyone knows that there is no substance to his lawsuits.
When corruption becomes content, journalism turns into liturgy for the lost. The prophets used to tear their clothes. Now they just get ratioed on social media.
Trump isn’t the story anymore. The story is how many people keep pretending it’s normal to worship decay wrapped in a flag.
“A week-long disappearance???” How about a “forever disappearance?!” Your run-on sentence is getting almost as long as the 2,043 days of ignorance by the media!!! (well…not quite…but I love that it continues!) lol. Thanks Jeff!!!
Gosharoonies - why isn't the Democratic Party suing CBS for that heavily edited interview on the basis that the network is purposely trying to make 47 look competent and mentally stable?
I am so fucking sick of his claims to he an expert on everything. He knows more about war than the generals. More about construction than the people doing the building. More about golf than the pros, More about courts than the lawyers (okay, that last one may be true, because he’s spent his entire life in court, either suing or being sued). But when you ask him about his bff, JeffEp he hardly knew him. He’d never heard of the proud boys. He barely knew who Michael Cohen was. He wasn’t aware that half the federal workers were being thrown out onto the streets. I want someone to commit a journalism and come up to him with a mic in their hands, and tears in their eyes and say, “Sir, there has never been anyone more full of shit than you are.”
That's exactly what happened. Between the Asian trip and the Great Gatsby hog wallow, he's all tuckered out, and they have to pump him full of whatever demon drug RFKJr.'s approved to keep him semi-upright and sort of talking. My guess is meth - Kristi Noem's slogan for South Dakota when she was governer, "Meth, we're on it!" and boy was that true.
He’s so tuckered out he’s doing TELE-RALLIES for the VA & NJ governors races.
Trump needs the energy from a rally like he needs oxygen. And he’s passing on it? Is it going to be AI or a body double? Because it’s obvious that his handlers can’t risk him being seen by the public.
Crone, some form of meth he’s been doing it for years. That drug the original was invented during the war it made Hitler jump out of bed everyday Nazi sez wow doc it’s a miracle! They made sure the Russian forces were feeling invincible yeah ‘We Bad’ let’s kick some ass meanwhile they froze to death and worse. We just found out by finding the doctor’s stash maybe 10 years ago.
And Ronny Jackson White House physician in Trump's first term, was handing out speed (of one form or another) to everyone in the White House like it was mints.
I didn’t watch 60 Minutes for the 1st time in ever but will no longer watch it just because of what happened last night & CBS folding under drumps stupidity & power now for CBS
Don Hewitt, Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace are spinning in their graves. Even Andy Rooney.
I would LOVE to hear Andy Rooney right now...his take on all this would be spectacular!!
Yes...I truly miss Andy..I miss ALL of the Real Crew from 60 .minutes who are no longer with us...it was an entirely different species. I was privileged to be able to grow up with it and learn from them.
"Ya' ever notice how half the country has gone completely batshit?"
Yes :-(
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Sadly they would probably cave too because the owners of the media are all raking in the dollars.
The cowardice and venality of corporate media is now legend. Look at the top talent -- journalists, political satirists, investigative reporters -- targeted and driven out of their jobs to appease a slowly dying madman. Our best minds (along with the worst) are saturating the broadcast field with podcasts.
I disagree. They would have quit in disgust and joined something like Substack.
Well, Dan Rather did....
But ARE they really "raking in the dollars" in anything but ancillary businesses?
Who's actually watching them anymore?
Some people watch TV non stop.
For them, it beats thinking.
So true. Non stop TV watching actually hinders a person's ability to reason.
Yes, but even my husband has given it up for watching Lev.
Totally agree!
Here’s a suggestion: Boycott everything distributed by CBS/Paramount/SkyDance. That means EVERYTHING. Other wise you’re putting money into Larry Ellison’s pockets and rewarding him for degrading journalism in this country. Everything includes CBS broadcast programs (especially the NFL and other sports) as well as paramount streaming services, and anything else associated with these bootlikers.
The ONLY thing companies care about is💵 After Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel, the company lost $4 BILLION in revenue and stock because of -- among other things -- millions of streaming cancelations. Disney decided profit was more important than doing as His Lordship wanted. It could happen with CBS: if enough people stop watching their network + cable channels and streaming service, if they stop reading the CBS News website (or anything CBS News-related), maybe the loss in ad and other revenue could be enough for Mr. Ellis and Ms. Weiss to see things differently.
Thanks for your comment Alexandra. I wonder if its more that money ... are the corporate media moguls MAGA's?
'scuse me for jumping into this convo but the answer is that most of them are neither MAGA nor non-MAGA. They're capitalists. They follow the money but the route to the money leads straight to the kissing of Trump's ass, so they're MAGA by default. Some are MAGA like Bari Weiss, now head of CBS news. Kind of a distinction without a difference because the result is the same even if motivations vary.
Thanks Ann, I think you are right - money talks.
In America, Money is King and Trump is the de facto King of shit.
Speaks volumes about capitalism, doesn't it, Ann?
They are oligarchs, who donate heavily to and are themselves, republicans.
Sorry to disappoint, but CBS’s entire revenue stream is barely an accounting error in the Ellison portfolio. Access to, and the approval of, the regime is likely infinitely more valuable to them.
I never watch any of it. I don't own a TV. I read and stream when and what I choose to see. Looking at him makes me sick.
Don’t you think Ellison is more in the regime?
We haven't watched network TV in ages. Already boycotting cuz the programming is lousy. I have to say, tho, that I used to work for Paramount, funded my retirement.
The ONLY news I watch is BBC News.
And for 5.00 a month, I read The Guardian.
The only thing I have left of CBS is football in Sunday through my HD Antenna. Cancelled cable. Too much to pay for lying.
As if the corporate media's inspirational cloaking of power, nostalgia, insularity, and world domination wasn't consolidated enough. Good point Kim!
CBS and ABC are dead to me. I do watch Colbert on YouTube afterwards, but don't turn to the CBS channel ever.
Done!
"You know what gets my goat? Spinning in my grave." – Andy Rooney
I’m nearing the dirt nap stage in my life, after watching Larry Ellison’s Paramount Global obsequious connections to a career criminal, with a drug addled mind, coupled with an IQ no greater than the number of presidents who served before him Ann!
I'm glad I'm old.
Old is a state of mind I don’t care to think much about, I’m always up for a change of scenery, just not in America these days Ann!
“Don’t you just hate it when us deceased people spin in our graves, while you living people just sit there on your asses and don’t lift a finger to stop the madness in your midst?”
- Dead Andy Rooney
And Walter Cronkite.
And Edward R. Murrow and William Shirer.
If only we could harness the energy !
There's no bottom. CBS is bought and paid for.
Quite literally
Larry Ellisons money trail is a fascinating study Sher’!
No longer watching. It’s no longer a source of anything credible. Just more yellow to go with the orange.
One of my absolute Favorite Memes is Show me your Genitals! 😂😂 Nancy is such an attention whore...my god. Her little explosion at the airport...gimme a break.
The fact that this is allowed to continue tells us all we're screwed. This country has lost its freaking mind. Except the people in this community, who continue to give me hope.
MAKE THE INSANITY STOP!
Nancy is a total whack job.😵💫🥴
I'm looking forward to her "Lose Your Shit" tour with Katie Porter.
I don’t get what happened to Porter. She did great work when in the House.
It all boils down to ego with these people.
i certainly hope the body camera tapes of her airport breakdown are released, clearly showing her unfitness for gov office and oppo gold for her opponent's ad campaign. maybe she wouldn't receive so many death threats if she were a decent, honorable person instead of the toxic pos she truly is.
Mace's meltdown would have absolutely gone into last week's 'this week in stupid' if there had been a recording of it.
At least it was reported, in full, in the local paper, here in Charleston (The Post & Courier).
Well, that's what you get for living in SC...
Can't help it... Though looking farther afield. (Even Canada!)
Canada is your best option, climate crisis wise. I suggest BC. My niece is a nurse practitioner on some island off Vancouver. Of course, an island might not be the best choice.
maybe post her video next to self inflicted nutcrusher, pete "i use lube for hair gel" this week??
😂😂😂
👏👏👏👏👏👏
I have a trans friend who is now a heavyset, hairy, bearded male. He, of course has XX chromosomes. I wonder what Nancy Mace would say if he showed up in her restroom? She does want people to use restrooms corresponding to their DNA.
there was recently a story about a completely cis boy whose birth certificate erroneously marked him as female. And they are MAKING him use the girl's restrooms (or at least play on girl's teams). The birth certificate has been corrected, but that is not the "original." Going to be fun when he hits puberty.
School administrators and board members are among the dimmest people in charge of any organization.
I keep waiting for the accidental mushroom cloud.
I’m with you Susan, although the hegemony we see before us, isn’t going away anytime soon! If I could, I d have my feet on a sandy beach, with sunshine on my face, far away from this billionaire war on our republic!
Hola from beautiful, kind, sane Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. 🇲🇽
PV was a beautiful place 40 years ago, I’ve stayed there a couple times long ago, when I photographed the Pacific Princess line…I’ve driven through nearly every city, town and jungle throughout Mexico, enjoy yourself Mary, have a golden margarita, while watching the sun fall from the sky at El Set it’s still there,,it was once a favorite of mine!
At least it was reported, in full, in the local paper, here in Charleston (The Post & Courier).
https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/nancy-mace-charleston-airport-police-tsa-report/article_0d2c5e5e-b1f0-452e-9a5c-1331761cfdb4.html
Good! So it was in another paper, too. Thanks!
She needs to Mace herself big-time.
Well, if he didn't know he was pardoning this person, is it legal? (See how that works Republicans?) With Biden there was no indication to contradict that he knew what he was doing. With Trump he outright admits he has no idea.
Remember his outcry about the autopen??? Self confession!
Great point, unfortunately it circles us right back to the beginning where no one has the balls to say something about it. 🤬
It's not unrealistic to think Metamucilini's cabinet is now signing presidential pardons for corrupt oligarchs and other crooks without bothering to inform him. Miller could be his auto-Sharpie. Trump doesn't give two squirts.
You said it before I could, Sharon. Of course Donny Demento knows nothing about Zhao. One of his many minions simply got paid for issuing the pardon.
I think he was given a list of those recommended for pardons. He was probably told about CZ and agreed to the pardon, but since Dumbo has memory loss, he forgot who CZ was within 15 seconds.
I think you're giving him too much credit for mental awareness. I really suspect he has little to no clue what's being done in his name. Of course, he wouldn't care if he did know.
There absolutely has to be confrontation on these matters, every single fucking one of them. It's a dereliction of job responsibility, & personal responsibility, to let this shit slide. And, I guess it's our responsibility to make these assholes remember who they work for. They can only be paid with the money comes from us.
I read somewhere on Substack today, but of course can’t find it now, that the original interview which was something like an hour and a half+ long was edited for length. Part of the reason they edit things is for length and because they take out all “rrrs” and “ummmm”s and “let me think about that” material). She *did* ask the hardball questions and then followed up the Orange Mush’s bizarre answers. But *that* was edited out. Gosh, I wonder why??….
Smoke & mirrors. Anyone that has worked with that knows how the objective can be to make things smoother & a better experience for users. Maybe even to guide to better optimality in some way, providing broad context. This is not doing that. It is deception in a very different way & the GD ends do not justify the means. We fucking know know why & are done with this shit. I know it's like, endless, well, they do this, don't do that, & we chase our tails in speculation & giving benefit of doubt...they have demonstrated they are not earnest & honest, acting in good faith. Trustworthiness is not subjective or relative. Fuck these bastards for taking advantage & betraying us. That is something to NEVER do.
Of course the lawsuit against CBS was not merited. They are not really lawsuits. They are Trump's legal way to demand a bribe. He sues everyone who has money to the tune of millions and they all "settle" and by "settle", I mean pay the bribe. Everyone knows that there is no substance to his lawsuits.
Yes, you write the truth
And the money goes right into his pocket
The correct word is extortion.
Epstein
When corruption becomes content, journalism turns into liturgy for the lost. The prophets used to tear their clothes. Now they just get ratioed on social media.
Trump isn’t the story anymore. The story is how many people keep pretending it’s normal to worship decay wrapped in a flag.
Right?! “Decay wrapped in the flag.” So icky. So true. 💔🇺🇸
“A week-long disappearance???” How about a “forever disappearance?!” Your run-on sentence is getting almost as long as the 2,043 days of ignorance by the media!!! (well…not quite…but I love that it continues!) lol. Thanks Jeff!!!
Forever works for me.
I am going to do the Every Lie he told in the interview tomorrow.
I focused on the "cognitive decline he displayed" today in our write up.
That was an awesome effort, Wendy. Well done.
Thank you Arne. Ive got another one coming tomorrow, same vein.
Can't wait, Wendy.
Forever? Starting now. Thats about right! 😂😂
fwiw, the Nobel Laureate for Literature this year wrote a 400 page book that is all one sentence...
And they roasted Gertrude Stein for that in "The Making of Americans!"
Here’s a disappearance I think we would all like: FUCKING DIE ALREADY ya Scumbag!
Gosharoonies - why isn't the Democratic Party suing CBS for that heavily edited interview on the basis that the network is purposely trying to make 47 look competent and mentally stable?
Fox described the interview as “wide ranging”. Sort of like diarrhea.
😂😂😂
Shoulda said, "All over the map ranging".
Something else is
“wide ranging” - herds of buffalo, who roamed this continent years ago… and what do herds of buffalo leave behind? tons of SHIT—get the
similarity ????
🤣🤣🤣
I am so fucking sick of his claims to he an expert on everything. He knows more about war than the generals. More about construction than the people doing the building. More about golf than the pros, More about courts than the lawyers (okay, that last one may be true, because he’s spent his entire life in court, either suing or being sued). But when you ask him about his bff, JeffEp he hardly knew him. He’d never heard of the proud boys. He barely knew who Michael Cohen was. He wasn’t aware that half the federal workers were being thrown out onto the streets. I want someone to commit a journalism and come up to him with a mic in their hands, and tears in their eyes and say, “Sir, there has never been anyone more full of shit than you are.”
followed by: “what the fuck is wrong with you?” per Jeff!
Of course! 😂
Wasn’t he at the Great Gatsby rich assholes party on Friday night? Maybe they had to return him to the med pod for a reboot
That's exactly what happened. Between the Asian trip and the Great Gatsby hog wallow, he's all tuckered out, and they have to pump him full of whatever demon drug RFKJr.'s approved to keep him semi-upright and sort of talking. My guess is meth - Kristi Noem's slogan for South Dakota when she was governer, "Meth, we're on it!" and boy was that true.
Worked for Hitler.
I was so thinking just this- thanks!!
He’s so tuckered out he’s doing TELE-RALLIES for the VA & NJ governors races.
Trump needs the energy from a rally like he needs oxygen. And he’s passing on it? Is it going to be AI or a body double? Because it’s obvious that his handlers can’t risk him being seen by the public.
Crone, some form of meth he’s been doing it for years. That drug the original was invented during the war it made Hitler jump out of bed everyday Nazi sez wow doc it’s a miracle! They made sure the Russian forces were feeling invincible yeah ‘We Bad’ let’s kick some ass meanwhile they froze to death and worse. We just found out by finding the doctor’s stash maybe 10 years ago.
And Ronny Jackson White House physician in Trump's first term, was handing out speed (of one form or another) to everyone in the White House like it was mints.
I didn’t watch 60 Minutes for the 1st time in ever but will no longer watch it just because of what happened last night & CBS folding under drumps stupidity & power now for CBS
I only watch COLBERT .
If that bastard isn't seen for another week, I hope it's because he died.
Yes, every day We The People don’t have to hear that gawdawful whiny voice of his and see his hideous orange visage is a win for us. Yay!
Must have been the auto pen that signed the Binance head’s pardon. This needs to be investigated by Comer. WTF ! ! !
Can We the People sue CBS for editing their interview with TRump? Asking for 300,000,000 people. Geezus.😞