THE MORNING RANT: We Should Cheer for Bari Weiss to Fail in Her Effort to Rehabilitate CBS’ Reputation

There is a civil war being fought at CBS News. The battle is being played out between Bari Weiss, its new left-of-center editor-in-chief, and the left-of-Trotsky journalists she inherited at the laughingstock news operation.

There are many conservatives cheering Ms. Weiss on in her battle against her hyper-partisan corps of journalists. I’m not one of them. In fact, I’m cheering for the insurgent “journalists” to prevail, and to maintain CBS News’ well-earned reputation for being unethical, dishonest, and openly hostile to impartial political coverage.

In fact, my worst fear is that Ms. Weiss might succeed in restoring CBS News to a level of respectability such that it might able to reassert its liberal influence on politics as it once did.

The recent imbroglio is due to Ms. Weiss yanking a typical 60 Minutes hit job just hours before it was to air. If you are reading this, you are almost certainly acquainted with the story. A 60 Minutes journalist, Sharyn Alfonsi, who has a history of dishonest hit jobs against Republicans*, produced a sob story about Venezuelan illegal immigrants being deported to “CECOT,” a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. (*In 2021, Ms. Alfonsi famously ran a hit piece against Ron DeSantis accusing him of prioritizing Publix as a provider of Covid shots in exchange for campaign contributions. The story was subsequently debunked and widely criticized by Florida politicians of both parties.)

Ms. Alfonsi’s story alleged that these Venezuelan deportees were being tortured at CECOT at the behest of the Trump administration, but she did not bother to provide any rebuttals from the Trump administration, which had been provided to CBS News, as acknowledged by left-wing outlet Axios:

• One of the main reasons Weiss cited for pulling the segment was that the "60 Minutes" team didn't include any of the three on-the-record statements from the White House, State Department and Department of Homeland Security that were provided to CBS News journalists.
• According to a source familiar with the "60 Minutes" team's correspondence with the administration, journalists reached out to press officials at the White House, State Department and DHS, all of which provided comment to CBS News ahead of the piece's anticipated run date.
• None of those comments, which varied in length and substance, were included in the piece.

We all know 60 Minutes as the show on which Dan Rather self-immolated his career by using forged military documents in an effort to harm George W. Bush’s 2004 presidential campaign. It’s also the show that spliced together various ramblings of Kamala Harris in 2024 to try to make it sound like she was making coherent answers to questions. And 60 Minutes is also the show that falsely claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop was not really his in the last weeks of the 2020 election, in an effort to push Joe Biden over the finish line.

CBS News has a well-earned reputation for being a place where journalistic malpractice is not considered a problem, it’s policy. I don’t want that to change. As Margot Cleveland joked about 60 Minutes ”At this point I wouldn't even trust CBS News division to tell me how many minutes were in an hour...”

How bad is the media’s disrepute?

“Trust in Media at New Low of 28% in US: Republicans' confidence in mass media to report news ‘fully, accurately and fairly’ now at 8%” [Gallup – 10/02/2025]

Americans’ confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This is down from 31% last year and 40% five years ago.
Meanwhile, seven in 10 U.S. adults now say they have “not very much” confidence (36%) or “none at all” (34%).

The legacy media is fully discredited, and that is a good thing. There is no “scandal” that network news divisions can promote at this point that will be taken as fact.

It’s important to remember that Bari Weiss does not dispute the general thesis of the 60 Minutes piece that was pulled, specifically that deportees are being subject to Trump-approved torture. She simply wants the story to come across as impartial journalism, not as another clumsy “we finally got him” hit job.

Therefore, I hope Ms. Weiss fails. The last thing we need is for the legacy media to have its reputation restored to a point that it can once again promote left-wing propaganda with a veneer of respectability. Instead, let CBS and the rest of the legacy news media proceed down the path to permanent irrelevance.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Daughter's cat is very annoying......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

3 I'm surprised that trust in the media is at that high of a number.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 11:03 AM (PFs9e)

4 Agreed.

She's a snake in frumpy middle aged lesbian clothing.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:04 AM (Fju+s)

5 CBS - they've been crap for over 50 years.

"And that's the way it is!"
-- Lying liar whom lies leftist Zombie Walter Cronkite

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 11:04 AM (cYBz/)

6 see BS.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 26, 2025 11:04 AM (vbXSk)

7 Gatekeepers lost control and are big mad about it

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at December 26, 2025 11:04 AM (jvxGE)

8 Success or failure may be a moot point, as the legacy media sees its audience shuffling off to the graveyard.

How many of you get the daily newspaper delivered anymore? And reading the single copy that is supplied to the dayroom at the senior center doesn't count.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 26, 2025 11:05 AM (GjEvj)

9 Weiss probably pulled the "story" because she was afraid of another lawsuit....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 26, 2025 11:05 AM (VE6XX)

10 succeed in restoring CBS News to a level of respectability "

Nah. The 20th century media was a result of big government (we must control the public airwaves for the public good)...

Now let's talk about the "fairness doctrine" and "net neutrality "...

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:06 AM (XuXeR)

11 Fake, but accurate...they say.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 11:06 AM (XeU6L)

12 CBS - they've been crap for over 50 years.

"And that's the way it is!"
-- Lying liar whom lies leftist Zombie Walter Cronkite
Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 11:04 AM (cYBz/)

I really don't know what to make of some of the photos that have shown up in the Epstein dump, but Cronkite showed up in at least one of them.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:06 AM (Fju+s)

13 My dad referred to CBS as "Compressed Bat Shit" in the 80's.

They've been an embarrassing joke for a LONG time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

14 Who are the 8%?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2025 11:07 AM (fd80v)

15 "It's OUR job to tell people what to think!!!"

- - - - - Joe Scarborough's Hat

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

16 How many of you get the daily newspaper delivered anymore"

This. There is no daily newspaper delivery in our entire neighborhood.

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:08 AM (XuXeR)

17 Discredited Commies include Walter Krankheit, Charles Kuralt, and Andy Rooney. Surprisingly, Rooney's eyebrows and nose and ear hair are still growing.

Posted by: Forest lawn at December 26, 2025 11:08 AM (oftw2)

18 Who are the 8%?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2025 11:07 AM (fd80v)

Prolly quite a lot of overlap with the folks who won't wear their hearing aids, as mentioned in the last thread.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:09 AM (Fju+s)

19 Illegal aliens. “Immigrants” proceed through US ports of entry and have authorization from a legal standpoint to be within the borders of the US.

Never use leftist nomenclature or euphemisms. Perverting the language is a big part of their scams, we tend to use them without even thinking about it, incorporating their talking points even when discussing things rationally.

Gov. DeSantis is a good exwmple of someone who really gets this when talking to the “press”. He’s not having any of it. Nor should anyone else.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 26, 2025 11:10 AM (2BdZb)

20 All of network and cable news is rearranging chairs on the titanic. The average cable news viewers is late 60s and network is late 50s. The entire industry has about 10 years left before their entire audience no longer exists.

It doesn’t really matter. By the time people are that age they’re already set politically. Nobody is changing their mind because of a 60 minute segment. They’re just reconfirming the biases.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 26, 2025 11:10 AM (MvI35)

21 How many of you get the daily newspaper delivered anymore? And reading the single copy that is supplied to the dayroom at the senior center doesn't count.

Correct. I canceled my "newspaper" years ago when they ran a large, local article about some Mammy that needed help at Christmas time for all her chirruns and to keep the heat on, blah blah blah. In the background of the picture accompanying the article, a large screen TV played in the background at Mammy's place.

Posted by: CBS Is Fake News at December 26, 2025 11:10 AM (R/m4+)

22 Discredited Commies include Walter Krankheit, Charles Kuralt, and Andy Rooney. Surprisingly, Rooney's eyebrows and nose and ear hair are still growing.
Posted by: Forest lawn at December 26, 2025 11:08 AM (oftw2)

Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:10 AM (Fju+s)

23 Surprisingly, Rooney's eyebrows and nose and ear hair are still growing. - Forest Lawn

Yes, I believe there's a shop near Albany that sells sweaters made from Rooney's hair.

Posted by: Paco at December 26, 2025 11:10 AM (2L+MU)

24 Better a chance to redeem CBS than the Propaganda that it is

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 11:11 AM (Ia/+0)

25 Smash that stopwatch with a ball peen hammer!

Posted by: Tic, Tic, Wham! at December 26, 2025 11:12 AM (oftw2)

26
Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:10 AM (Fju+s)

Matt Lauer had a rape button in his office. He physically assaulted women he worked with.

He's not in prison.

Membership has it's privileges.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

27 17 Discredited Commies include Walter Krankheit, Charles Kuralt, and Andy Rooney.

I'm right here.

Posted by: Dan Rather at December 26, 2025 11:12 AM (2L+MU)

28 Morning.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 26, 2025 11:12 AM (1Yy3c)

29 Posted by: Tic, Tic, Wham! at December 26, 2025 11:12 AM (oftw2)

Close enough.........

https://youtu.be/YfjTZLxekig

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

30 Dan Rather

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 11:13 AM (XeU6L)

31 Nobody watches TV news anymore.
Technology has moved on.
There are no more newspapers laying in suburban driveways before sun up anymore. They've gone the way of milk bottles on the stoop.
Like buggy whips, teletype, Morse code and AM radio the world has moved on.
It's just that so much money was invested for so many decades into the world of broadcasting that they can't let it go. Plus it held such sway over the culture, fed so many egos, and made l lot of people rich.
But when was the last time you sat in at breakfast in a Bob Evans with your newspaper spread out across the plates while you greedily consumed the editorial page, sports stories or comic strips.
When was the last time you sat at an airport gate and observed people reading magazines?
Broadcast media will die. Not tomorrow, but in due season. Like silent movies, it's had it's run.
But now it's time for something better.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2025 11:14 AM (2Ez/1)

32 I saw Discredited Commies open for...

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 26, 2025 11:14 AM (GjEvj)

33 Dan Rather"

Courage.... or what's the frequency, Kenneth

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:14 AM (XuXeR)

34 Bari Weiss is demonstrably a smug, know-nothing, low IQ person.
She must have a trunkfull of kompromat on everyone at CBS to have risen to her position.

Posted by: Zek at December 26, 2025 11:15 AM (5FPX4)

35 Matt Lauer had a rape button in his office. He physically assaulted women he worked with.
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I bet he raped them too. Or was it a “physical assault button” maybe?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 26, 2025 11:15 AM (2BdZb)

36 Matt Lauer had a rape button in his office. He physically assaulted women he worked with.
——-

I bet he raped them too. Or was it a “physical assault button” maybe?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 26, 2025 11:15 AM (2BdZb)

37 Which network was it that put pyrotechnic devices in GM pickup fuel tanks so they would explode in staged collisions?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 11:15 AM (npFr7)

38 >>> Discredited Commies include Walter Krankheit, Charles Kuralt, and Andy Rooney.

I'm right here.
Posted by: Dan Rather at December 26, 2025 11:12 AM (2L+MU)

Lettuce Roll

Posted by: Peter Jennings at December 26, 2025 11:15 AM (3uBP9)

39 Bari Weiss is a throwback to a far gone age, when journalists were left wing, but at least insisted on not lying. I am old enough to remember when people in the news industry were fired for putting editorial content in a news story. I admire her attempt to take lies out of news stories, but I am certain that her patient is beyond salvation.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2025 11:16 AM (0U5gm)

40 Matt Lauer had a rape button in his office. He physically assaulted women he worked with.

He's not in prison.

Membership has it's privileges.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

If I recall, around the same time they came for Chris Mathews, vague claims of him calling women in the office, "Babe," or "Sweetheart," and telling a few "off color" jokes.

So he basically told them to go F themselves, and quit.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:16 AM (Fju+s)

41 When was the last time you sat at an airport gate and observed people reading magazines?"

For that matter, when was the last time everyone at the gate was watching CNN Airport?

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:16 AM (XuXeR)

42 Completely OT but I was just thinking about that Zodiac Killer thing mentioned in the sidebar and it hit me that even if someone had rock solid evidence of the guy's identity there'd be a huge push to debunk it in any way possible.

There's no money in solving a mystery like that. Answers don't sell, mystery does. And people love hearing about murder mysteries.

Especially women.

Seriously, WTF ladies? You trying to get ideas or something?

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 26, 2025 11:16 AM (1Yy3c)

43 In a lot of small towns and cities, there is no daily paper. In my small college town the local daily newspaper is now a weekly.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 26, 2025 11:17 AM (gxRWI)

44 Charlie Gibson.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

45 Bari Weiss is a throwback to a far gone age, when journalists were left wing, but at least insisted on not lying. I am old enough to remember when people in the news industry were fired for putting editorial content in a news story. I admire her attempt to take lies out of news stories, but I am certain that her patient is beyond salvation.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2025 11:16 AM (0U5gm)

She was very instrumental in the push to get the lie about Tulsi Gabbard being a "toady" for Assad in Syria, because Tulsi had the audacity to question the narrative that was being pushed at the time, about Assad gassing his own people.

Joe Rogan had Bari on his show, and he asked her to define "toady," and journalist Bari couldn't do so.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:19 AM (Fju+s)

46 Bari Weiss is demonstrably a smug, know-nothing, low IQ person.
She must have a trunkfull of kompromat on everyone at CBS to have risen to her position.
Posted by: Zek at December 26, 2025 11:15 AM (5FPX4)

IIRC, she was brought in by one of the oligarchs who owns the conglomerate that includes CBS to try to pump up its value so he can sell it to another oligarch.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 26, 2025 11:19 AM (GjEvj)

47 Prolly quite a lot of overlap with the folks who won't wear their hearing aids, as mentioned in the last thread.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:09 AM (Fju+s)
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Ha! That was my mother, bless her heart. I couldn't cancel the DayTWAAAH News/Freep fast enough. Race/class/gender whining plus a crossword.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 26, 2025 11:19 AM (kpS4V)

48 With the likes of CBS or any other MSM outfit, where would the left be? I mean, who'd even listen to their ranting? They're basically a propaganda arm for the Democrats anyway.

The lot of them cannot DIAF fast enough.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2025 11:20 AM (NwnyJ)

49 Sad news, guys.

https://instapundit.com/764915/

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 26, 2025 11:20 AM (1Yy3c)

50 What's bad about gassing muslims?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 11:20 AM (npFr7)

51 NBC - home to the exploding Matt Lauer!

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:21 AM (XuXeR)

52 There's something like 6 conglomerates that own all news outlets on earth.

You're NEVER going to get truth from news.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

53 I guess I'm a Neanderthot because I miss good print media, especially magazines. There's a few left, but their impact is minimal.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 26, 2025 11:21 AM (kpS4V)

54 Pope Leo: Jesus Identified with Gaza Muslims and Illegal Aliens

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Where do they find these guys?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2025 11:22 AM (L/fGl)

55 Our local paper devolved into irrelevance over the course of this century and shrank. Then the family that had owned it for decades sold it to the local PBS affiliate for $1. Now the paper is becoming a non-profit so that it can (I presume) beg for Soros bucks to pump our propaganda. For years now it hasn't been able to explain major fires or crashes in the area (you have to go to a local TV affiliate's website for that). Instead, it just pumps out endless propaganda about the beloved Alphabet People being oppressed.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 26, 2025 11:22 AM (UdiE9)

56 You're NEVER going to get truth from news."

Pravda, Tovarish...

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:23 AM (XuXeR)

57 Where do they find these guys?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2025 11:22 AM (L/fGl)

Chicago

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:23 AM (Fju+s)

58 CBS should merge with CNN and MSNBC, turn into a giant gas cloud of suck, and then collapse upon itself into densely packed black hole of irrelevance, where no voices ever escape from.

One can dream...

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 26, 2025 11:24 AM (dVN87)

59 Pope Leo: Jesus Identified with Gaza Muslims and Illegal Aliens

muslhams didn't exist in the time of Jesus.

It's like the religious leadership has never read The Bible.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

60 It's almost like the only place to find out what's going on in the world is at a Smart Military Blog™.

Oh, wait...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2025 11:25 AM (2Ez/1)

61 There's something like 6 conglomerates that own all news outlets on earth.

You're NEVER going to get truth from news.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

When I moved to my just big enough to have its own daily paper town pre-Covid, I naively got a subscription to the local rag.

Essentially, it was all national/international wire feeds. With local ads.

Cancel.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:25 AM (Fju+s)

62 Pope Leo: Jesus Identified with Gaza Muslims and Illegal Aliens

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Where do they find these guys?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2025 11:22 AM (L/fGl)

David Bernstein was trying to make a point yesterday that if the J-Man was Palestinian does that mean we get to call the Palis Christ killers?

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 26, 2025 11:25 AM (1Yy3c)

63 Reading the morning paper used to be part of my daily routine. Sometimes we'd only subscribe to the Washington Times, sometimes to both the Times and the Post.

Stopped both subscriptions around the time Obummer got immaculated.

Then I just went to the Internet for my news. My morning paper-read has transformed into my morning Sefton read.

There's no way I woud ever go back to a dead-tree paper again. Especially since it would not have you delightful morons to interact with.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

64 My niece's speed-playing string quartet is attempting to set a Guinness record for number of minuets in an hour...

Posted by: muldoon at December 26, 2025 11:26 AM (/iMjX)

65 Which network was it that put pyrotechnic devices in GM pickup fuel tanks so they would explode in staged collisions?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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NBC, 60 Minutes. The same folk who engineered the 'Unintended Acceleration' Audi hoax.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 11:26 AM (XeU6L)

66 I will note that Western Union used to be a fabulously wealthy company, responsible for handling telegram messages all over. When the telegram became obsolete, Western Union moved to transferring remittances for illegal aliens to their countries of origin. Newspapers must find their niche in aiding criminality.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2025 11:26 AM (0U5gm)

67 I just woke up. I got nuthin'.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 26, 2025 11:26 AM (g8Ew8)

68 Crying Bitter Slander-merchants

Posted by: Samuel Whittemore at December 26, 2025 11:27 AM (7Q0e+)

69 The media losing credibility is like toothpaste coming out of the tube… you can’t get it back in. It is gone forever and I’m fine with that… my field of F’s to give lays fallow

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 11:28 AM (SSHra)

70 Pope Leo: Jesus Identified with Gaza Muslims and Illegal Aliens

Leo needs to put his ass where his mouth is...move to Gaza and enjoy his new life as an illegal alien.

Posted by: Put Up Or Shut Up Leo at December 26, 2025 11:28 AM (R/m4+)

71 "...record for number of minuets in an hour...
Posted by: muldoon at December 26, 2025 11:26 AM"

Hang on a second.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2025 11:28 AM (2Ez/1)

72
NBC, 60 Minutes. The same folk who engineered the 'Unintended Acceleration' Audi hoax.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 11:26 AM (XeU6L)

ABC and the Chevy pickup explosion. Or was that NBC too.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

73 I just woke up. I got nuthin'."

Not even coal? Bummer.

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:28 AM (XuXeR)

74 I just woke up. I got nuthin'.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 26, 2025 11:26 AM (g8Ew

Get coffee and report back here.

Be better.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 11:29 AM (dK+Kv)

75 Newspapers must find their niche in aiding criminality.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2025 11:26 AM (0U5gm)

They could print the dotted outlines of fish on each page, so that readers could the paper to its proper use.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 11:29 AM (npFr7)

76 muslhams didn't exist in the time of Jesus.

It's like the religious leadership has never read The Bible.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, but those are the people, living in the area, who had seven centuries to hear the Word, that Jesus is the Messiah, and they didn't believe it. But then some pedo on a horse says he flew to heaven, and they believed that.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:29 AM (Fju+s)

77 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 26, 2025 11:25 AM (MLLCi

Hey you! Fuck off!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 26, 2025 11:29 AM (g8Ew8)

78 The idea that somehow moving CBS News to "the middle" is gonna improve ratings is inherently flawed.
On top of the fact, as discussed prior, that the audience for both cable and network news in demographically dying off, the reality is that most Americans have firm views about politics and current events and tune into the outlets that already reflect their perspectives.
CBS "moving to the middle" isn't gonna draw any new conservative viewers, and most independents are LIV's that don;t pay attention to politics the way devoted progressives or conservatives do.
Therefore, all CBS is going to accomplish is LOSING a % of their current viewership that watch CBS to see their progressive perspectives reinforced.
So, this move, if it even happens, will hurt CBS ratings,not help.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 26, 2025 11:29 AM (MNCvZ)

79 When Islam provides a convenient scapegoat for all of life’s setbacks.
Utah Man Claims to Be a Woman and Murders His Parents, and Then the Story Gets Weird

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I thought they were Mormon in Utah.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2025 11:29 AM (L/fGl)

80 Pope Leo: Jesus Identified with Gaza Muslims and Illegal Aliens
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Where do they find these guys?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Like sponge, I am no longer catholic. I did start going to church weekly and volunteering after leaving the catholic church. I now go to a Bible Church that teaches the Bible, word for word, one book at a time. We spent last year in Revelation and we are starting Philippians in January. The church has more than doubled in size in the 8-9 years we have been going.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 26, 2025 11:29 AM (VCgbV)

81 I'll never understand the commie mindset.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 26, 2025 11:29 AM (dVN87)

82 My son gave me a new history of the Byzantine Empire for Christmas. It's amazing. Including the notes and bibliography (which I always read in addition to the main text), it's over 1100 pages.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 11:30 AM (77rzZ)

83 Instead, let CBS and the rest of the legacy news media proceed down the path to permanent irrelevance.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
+++
They reached that destination here many years ago. I can't remember the last time I watched a legacy newscast.
And the few snippets I have seen here and there have only reinforced that decision.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 26, 2025 11:30 AM (Lo97M)

84 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 26, 2025 11:25 AM (MLLCi)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 26, 2025 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

85 When I moved to my just big enough to have its own daily paper town pre-Covid, I naively got a subscription to the local rag.

Essentially, it was all national/international wire feeds. With local ads.

Cancel.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Probably had been acquired by Gannett, as were 100 other local papers, all were transitioned to USA Today lite. Just fluff now. No editorials, no local commentary. They sold our 100-year-old newspaper building/printing facility. The paper is now published out of state. No one has a clue who the publisher is.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 11:31 AM (XeU6L)

86 Get coffee and report back here.

Be better.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 11:29 AM (dK+Kv)

Isn't it past noon somewhere in the Atlantic?

Maybe something stronger.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:31 AM (Fju+s)

87 Don't forget about us! We NEED newspapers!

Posted by: Bird cages everywhere at December 26, 2025 11:31 AM (2Ez/1)

88 Why is cocaine called nose candy when it's obvious boogers are?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 26, 2025 11:31 AM (Kt19C)

89 Reading the morning paper used to be part of my daily routine. Sometimes we'd only subscribe to the Washington Times, sometimes to both the Times and the Post.

Stopped both subscriptions around the time Obummer got immaculated.

Then I just went to the Internet for my news. My morning paper-read has transformed into my morning Sefton read.

There's no way I woud ever go back to a dead-tree paper again. Especially since it would not have you delightful morons to interact with.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

Don't know who is behind it,* but ancipient.com is a Drudge of old like site with nothing but news links.

*You'll have to determine for yourself if site biases are trustworthy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 11:31 AM (dK+Kv)

90 I'll have you know that our numbers of subscribers has been on the upswing here, as new families move into our Fair Valley. People still appreciate the smell of fresh newsprint and the insightful articles about the County Government. People still need to know what was on tap at the Every-Other-Wednesday-Discussion-Club. Mrs. Ziffel is club president this year. I'm proud to be serving as publisher and Executive Editor for the last 70 years. Long may the Hooterville World Guardian prosper!

Posted by: Sam Drucker, Editor-In-Chief at December 26, 2025 11:32 AM (oftw2)

91 I wouldn't mind seeing Fox get some competition but I believe none of the MSM have the integrity to remake themselves into a competitor. In fact I doubt any of the so-called Skools of Communication at our glorious universities are capable of teaching how to be fair in their coverage.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2025 11:32 AM (2WIwB)

92 It's like the religious leadership has never read The Bible.
Posted by: Sponge

I am constantly astounded at the number of people who should know better that cannot grasp the fact that Joseph took Mary to Bethlehem specifically because he was a citizen returning for a census.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2025 11:32 AM (0U5gm)

93 My son gave me a new history of the Byzantine Empire for Christmas. It's amazing. Including the notes and bibliography (which I always read in addition to the main text), it's over 1100 pages.
Posted by: Bulg
------

If you start now, you may be finished by *next* Christmas.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 11:32 AM (XeU6L)

94 The truck deal was NBC dateline, pushed by a group trying to raise cash. The funny part was that they "forgot" to cover their tracks, and just left their prepped trucks at junkyard. Took GM about 2.5 seconds to figure out what happened.
GM "forced" NBC to read the mea culpa on air, but media types didn't care - the damage had been done, and the lie was firmly established.

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:33 AM (XuXeR)

95 California Booster Seat Law

California’s newly passed booster seat law set to take effect in 2027 is sparking growing backlash from families who see it as another case of government overreach driven by Democratic lawmakers. The measure expands booster seat requirements to include children and teens up to age 16, a move critics argue goes far beyond reasonable safety guidance and into the realm of intrusive regulation.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 11:33 AM (c115l)

96 Isn't it past noon somewhere in the Atlantic?

Maybe something stronger.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:31 AM (Fju+s)

It's a math trap!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 26, 2025 11:33 AM (dK+Kv)

97
Therefore, I hope Ms. Weiss fails.

That's what Rush Limbaugh said about Obama.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2025 11:33 AM (pkeXY)

98 Don't forget about us! We NEED newspapers!
Posted by: Bird cages everywhere at December 26, 2025 11:31 AM (2Ez/1)

Never did I think I'd see,
A constipated budg-ee!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 11:33 AM (npFr7)

99 Christmas decorations are packed and stored for another year! My house needs a good "spring" cleaning now but its gonna have to wait. The great room looks much bigger without the decorations.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 26, 2025 11:33 AM (2J/Lj)

100 It's like the religious leadership has never read The Bible.
Posted by: Sponge

I am constantly astounded at the number of people who should know better that cannot grasp the fact that Joseph took Mary to Bethlehem specifically because he was a citizen returning for a census.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

They know. They are hoping YOU don't know.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 11:34 AM (c115l)

101 Nayib Bukele seems like a genuine good guy and has accomplished the most important job of a prison system - protecting law abiding, peace-loving citizens from predators. The fact that he has accomplished this while we can't means El Salvador's criminal justice system is far better than ours. The next step is to stop trying to do things that don't work. Punishment beyond what is necessary to protect society is pointless and is damaging to those involved in running the prison system. El Salvador has done amazing things and there is every reason to believe they can improve even more, leaving the US system further behind.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 26, 2025 11:34 AM (2ap+5)

102 I still pick up the "NY. Post" because it has slightly more balanced stories than The NY Times. I also like to do the word searches. However, we only purchase the paper on M, W, and Sunday because we like a number a number of the columnists including Michael Goodwin who seems like one of those dinosaurs - a moderate Democrat and he writes on at least one of those days, as does Englishman Douglas Murray. I'm not sure if he lives in the U.S or not

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 11:34 AM (rZCVI)

103
The only thing Bari Weiss can do to make me hate CBS any less would be to liquidate the operation and hang all of its employees.

She and the rest of these media Communists want to handwave away all their world-historical treachery.

No.

You can't do the terrible things our vile press have done and just get to say "sorry about that, we'll try to do better."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 26, 2025 11:34 AM (Zhwz2)

104 The measure expands booster seat requirements to include children and teens up to age 16

WTF?????

So, they go straight from the booster seat to driver's ed???

California is a lunatic asylum.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 11:35 AM (77rzZ)

105 When the telegram became obsolete,

***********

Why am I just now hearing of this?

Posted by: muldoon at December 26, 2025 11:35 AM (/iMjX)

106 I read stories like this and think; "wow, it's like the entirety of the network broadcasters was nationalized into a leftist propaganda outfit."

Which is true.

Then the cable outfits joined in. Followed by nearly every online rag and podcast. Must be a fair amount of money to be made in selling horseshit to the masses.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2025 11:35 AM (NwnyJ)

107 sources than Trump's anus

Is it big and beautiful?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 26, 2025 11:35 AM (Kt19C)

108
California’s newly passed booster seat law set to take effect in 2027 is sparking growing backlash from families who see it as another case of government overreach driven by Democratic lawmakers. The measure expands booster seat requirements to include children and teens up to age 16, a move critics argue goes far beyond reasonable safety guidance and into the realm of intrusive regulation.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 11:33 AM (c115l)

It's California. The people vote for this.

Reap it, bishes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:35 AM (Zz0t1)

109 80
'Utah Man Claims to Be a Woman and Murders His Parents, and Then the Story Gets Weird

I thought they were Mormon in Utah.'

The sexual deviants seem to be pretty prevalent there.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2025 11:36 AM (fd80v)

110 I had to laugh at a report yesterday about that twit Katie Couric claiming that viewers didn't want just facts. They wanted intellectual giants like herself to tell them what was really going on.
What an idiot.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2025 11:37 AM (2WIwB)

111 California Booster Seat Law

California’s newly passed booster seat law set to take effect in 2027 is sparking growing backlash from families who see it as another case of government overreach driven by Democratic lawmakers. The measure expands booster seat requirements to include children and teens up to age 16, a move critics argue goes far beyond reasonable safety guidance and into the realm of intrusive regulation.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 11:33 AM (c115l)

16? The age that some democrats want to lower the voting age to? Dems need to be wiped off the planet. They are a cancer to humanity, progress, and the frigging planet.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 11:37 AM (snZF9)

112 When the telegram became obsolete,

***********

Why am I just now hearing of this?

Posted by: muldoon at December 26, 2025 11:35 AM (/iMjX)

You didn't get the telegram?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 11:37 AM (dK+Kv)

113 California is a lunatic asylum.
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 11:35 AM (77rzZ)

Have you heard of Scott Weiner? Though the word evil is probably more accurate than lunacy…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 11:37 AM (SSHra)

114 into the realm of intrusive regulation"

Woodrow Wilson and the 20th century progressives laugh..

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:37 AM (XuXeR)

115 The measure expands booster seat requirements to include children and teens up to age 16, a move critics argue goes far beyond reasonable safety guidance and into the realm of intrusive regulation.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 11:33 AM (c115l)

Good luck getting a six foot, two inch teenager into a booster seat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 11:37 AM (npFr7)

116 The fact that he has accomplished this while we can't means El Salvador's criminal justice system is far better than ours.

------

The American criminal justice system is so laughably corrupt that it doesn't bear comparison to anything remotely functional. Kafka himself couldn't dream up a legal system this absurd.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 26, 2025 11:37 AM (Zhwz2)

117 Wiki link, scroll all of the way down to 'List of Acqusitions'. All of those local papers destroyed as sources of local/independent news/opinion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Today_Co.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 11:38 AM (XeU6L)

118 The measure expands booster seat requirements to include children and teens up to age 16

WTF?????

So, they go straight from the booster seat to driver's ed???

California is a lunatic asylum.
Posted by: Bulg

LOL.
Something, something 4'9" height requirement.
So Peter Dinklage has to ride around in a booster seat. 😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 11:39 AM (c115l)

119 The measure expands booster seat requirements to include children and teens up to age 16

WTF?????

So, they go straight from the booster seat to driver's ed???

California is a lunatic asylum.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 11:35 AM (77rzZ)

It needs to be invaded, and their leaders enslaved.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 11:39 AM (snZF9)

120 There will be no rehabilitation of any of the MSN reputations.

Not unless they can figure out how to resurrect the Boomers.
They are the last group that still have/had a blind trust in the news.
The only consumers of mass media news left are those ... on the left.
Who don't want the news, they want the "news," the version that affirms and supports their existing worldview.

The future of actual news will be an AI agent you will pay for to not just get the stories and events you want for your feed, but more to scrub out the false, fake and doubtful.
There will be no "umpire" or "trusted name in news" anymore. (never was but ...)

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 26, 2025 11:39 AM (HXT0k)

121 When the telegram became obsolete,

***********

Why am I just now hearing of this?

Posted by: muldoon

Do you have an unlisted telegram number?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2025 11:40 AM (0U5gm)

122 The measure expands booster seat requirements to include children and teens up to age 16

-
If it saves one life . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2025 11:40 AM (L/fGl)

123 LOL.
Something, something 4'9" height requirement.
So Peter Dinklage has to ride around in a booster seat. 😂😂😂
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 11:39 AM (c115l)

Texas has the same requirement. First Lady was 1" in the clear. Her dad called and asked if he needed to buy her a booster seat when the law passed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

124 Mommy Doktor Jill still lets me subscribe to Highlights For Children, but my Weakly Reader subscription ran out.

Posted by: President Pantshitter Emeritus at December 26, 2025 11:40 AM (oftw2)

125 Pope Leo: Jesus Identified with Gaza Muslims and Illegal Aliens
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I'm not entirely sure that they don't take things out of context. Obviously the Pope knows that Islam wasn't around when Jesus was on earth. Maybe he should- or did phrase it -as "Jesus wants us to identify with Gaza Muslims and illegals. "I don't agree with it and don't like it phrased that way, but unless I read the actual written material or a press release from the Vatican I don't know what he actually said.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 11:40 AM (rZCVI)

126 'Utah Man Claims to Be a Woman and Murders His Parents, and Then the Story Gets Weird

Um, about that timeline...

Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 11:40 AM (c115l)

127 106 When the telegram became obsolete,

***********

Why am I just now hearing of this?
Posted by: muldoon at December 26, 2025 11:35 AM

---
I made it as far as Colorado, but then I was attacked by a pack of wolves!

Posted by: The carrier pigeon at December 26, 2025 11:40 AM (2Ez/1)

128 The measure expands booster seat requirements to include children and teens up to age 16"

It's actually stupider than that. There are, I think, 5 questions that must be answered "yes" before said chillins can ride in a regular seat...

And if anyone believes this will be enforced against non middle class whites, well...

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:40 AM (XuXeR)

129 It's a math trap!
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

You should've seen the Art Thread.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 11:40 AM (77rzZ)

130 It needs to be invaded, and their leaders enslaved.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 11:39 AM (snZF9)

They are too stupid and evil to be of any use as slaves. Possibly, "mulch" is attainable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 11:41 AM (npFr7)

131 Thx Buck.
Remember Ed Bradley of earring fame? He did the apples poisoned by Alar story. Didn't bother to say it would take eating 1000 apples a day to cause poisoning. TV news has always been inhabited by leftist scum

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 11:41 AM (2vrAX)

132 8% of Republicans trust the media? I'm astonished it's that high.

Posted by: Nemo at December 26, 2025 11:41 AM (4RPgu)

133 The measure expands booster seat requirements to include children and teens up to age 16

-
If it saves one life . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Same argument can be said about removing illegals. "If it saves just one life..."

Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 11:42 AM (c115l)

134
Same argument can be said about removing illegals. "If it saves just one life..."
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 11:42 AM (c115l)

It's legal if it removes just one Republican voter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

135 107 Must be a fair amount of money to be made in selling horseshit to the masses.
-----------------------------
Well, I think a more correct take would be that it's been extremely ruminative for SOME people to sell horseshit to the masses. Once a few people 'make bank', everyone else jumps on board.

This is how you end up with so many competing FM country music stations. One or two thrive, and then the others change ownership constantly because the market is already saturated.

Until the mid 1990s there was a commercial FM classical station in Philadelphia (WFLN) that had a huge reach (it was one of the first FM stations in the 1940s, so it is allowed to blast its signal more than most stations). The station had lots of classy advertisers. It can't have been doing badly. But the owners decided that since the most popular top 40 station in the market made X amount of money, if they switched from classical to top 40 they would make the same amount of money. The station went through numerous format changes and now is one of those stations with no human announcers (everything is programmed by corporate in FL or wherever).

Posted by: the lower depths at December 26, 2025 11:43 AM (UdiE9)

136 Come on California, go all the way. If booster seats are needed for a tiny 15 year old they are needed for the 60 year old Asian grandmother as well. Drop the age entirely and just set height and weight rules.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 26, 2025 11:43 AM (hhkIi)

137 Good luck getting a six foot, two inch teenager into a booster seat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 11:37 AM (npFr7)

You wouldn't. I think this is aimed at little people. Dwarf, or even just a really tiny girl. My daughter has finally reached 4'10". She will be 20 yrs old in January.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 26, 2025 11:43 AM (2J/Lj)

138 Buck, you nailed it.

The legacy media must be destroyed, because they cannot be reformed.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2025 11:43 AM (n9ltV)

139 I'd like to see Weiss in a struggle session with her staff and being forced to wear one of those funny dunce-like paper hats with gibberish scrawled on it.

Posted by: Roy at December 26, 2025 11:43 AM (BZF07)

140 Pope Leo spouts cliches like a product of US higher education.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 26, 2025 11:44 AM (rJ48h)

141 It needs to be invaded, and their leaders enslaved.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 11:39 AM (snZF9)

They are too stupid and evil to be of any use as slaves. Possibly, "mulch" is attainable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 11:41 AM (npFr7)

"Ye shall know the tree by the fruit it bears."

Do well just get communist trees.

I propose we use them as shark food. Sharks are honest, at least, and they gotta eat.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 26, 2025 11:44 AM (1Yy3c)

142 When the telegram became obsolete,

***********

Why am I just now hearing of this?
Posted by: muldoon

Sorry, I should have told you sooner. I'm re-Morseful that I did not.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

143 Matt Lauer had a rape button in his office. He physically assaulted women he worked with.
--
Katie Couric knew and/or enticed victims into his office.
She was his Maxwell.
Others at the network as well did same and knew.

The media finds the Epstein story so salacious (now that it can't hurt Dems) because all of them have their own Epstein and Maxwell in their office.
That's what they are really reporting on, not actually Epstein.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 26, 2025 11:45 AM (HXT0k)

144
You wouldn't. I think this is aimed at little people. Dwarf, or even just a really tiny girl. My daughter has finally reached 4'10". She will be 20 yrs old in January.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 26, 2025 11:43 AM (2J/Lj)

EVERYONE in the pediatric office knew when the First Daughter was taller than her mother.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

145 Texas has the same requirement. First Lady was 1" in the clear. Her dad called and asked if he needed to buy her a booster seat when the law passed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

I had a friend in college, crazy little monkey was about 3' tall.

He had a car, but ol' honkin' thing with a powerful engine. He had to strap on these wooden extenders on his shoes, so he was as close to a literal lead foot as I ever saw.

Little maniac. Drank like a sailor, horny as a... sailor.

I'm sure he's either in prison or dead by now. Or somewhere on the high seas.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:45 AM (KwCuT)

146 Meanwhile, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey threatens that continued ICE operations in the city will lead to ICE agents getting killed....

Actually he pretended to just be observing that sometimes people die while on the job.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 26, 2025 11:45 AM (/lPRQ)

147 You wouldn't. I think this is aimed at little people. Dwarf, or even just a really tiny girl. My daughter has finally reached 4'10". She will be 20 yrs old in January.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 26, 2025 11:43 AM (2J/Lj)

Get her a Crosley Hotshot to drive. It will make here look big.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 11:46 AM (npFr7)

148 What is FM radio?

Posted by: People under 30 at December 26, 2025 11:46 AM (2Ez/1)

149 It’s important to remember that Bari Weiss does not dispute the general thesis of the 60 Minutes piece that was pulled, specifically that deportees are being subject to Trump-approved torture. She simply wants the story to come across as impartial journalism, not as another clumsy “we finally got him” hit job.

Therefore, I hope Ms. Weiss fails. The last thing we need is for the legacy media to have its reputation restored to a point that it can once again promote left-wing propaganda with a veneer of respectability. Instead, let CBS and the rest of the legacy news media proceed down the path to permanent irrelevance.

"It's a pity they both can't lose". Oh wait. Maybe they can.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

150 apples poisoned by Alar"

That might have been the first break in the media wall... someone thought it was a good idea to have Meryl Streep testify... because she played a part on a farm or something.

Was widely mocked

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:46 AM (XuXeR)

151 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: MN Lt. Governor Flanagan puts on hijab, declares Somalis built Minnesota

https://is.gd/q311Ke

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I didn't know Flanagan was a Somali name.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2025 11:46 AM (L/fGl)

152 I had to laugh at a report yesterday about that twit Katie Couric ...
Posted by: Diogenes

************

Intestinegative News - a limerick

Once again we've been given a lecture
Void of facts, and full of conjecture
The deeply probing news
Gave some cinematic views
Of poor Katie Couric's splenic flexure!

(Oh, go look it up!)

Posted by: muldoon at December 26, 2025 11:46 AM (/iMjX)

153 8% of Republicans trust the media? I'm astonished it's that high.
Posted by: Nemo at December 26, 2025 11:41 AM (4RPgu)

May I introduce you to Fox Nooz?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:47 AM (KwCuT)

154 Katie Couric's splenic flexure!

*********

Tonight, on Inside Edition!

Posted by: muldoon at December 26, 2025 11:47 AM (/iMjX)

155 Pope Leo spouts cliches like a product of US higher education.
Posted by: mr tmz at December 26, 2025 11:44 AM (rJ48h)

What a coinky-dink!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 11:47 AM (npFr7)

156 @EndWokeness
BREAKING: MN Lt. Governor Flanagan puts on hijab, declares Somalis built Minnesota

https://is.gd/q311Ke

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I didn't know Flanagan was a Somali name.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2025 11:46 AM (L/fGl)

Somalis haven't even built Somalia yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

157 Meanwhile, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey threatens that continued ICE operations in the city will lead to ICE agents getting killed....

Actually he pretended to just be observing that sometimes people die while on the job.

Nice place you got here. Pity if something happened to it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 11:48 AM (Riz8t)

158 Sorry, I should have told you sooner. I'm re-Morseful that I did not"

Don't get keyed up...

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:48 AM (XuXeR)

159 When the telegram became obsolete,

***********

Why am I just now hearing of this?
Posted by: muldoon at December 26, 2025 11:35 AM

---
I made it as far as Colorado, but then I was attacked by a pack of wolves!
Posted by: The carrier pigeon

Made it as far as the Donner Pass.
-. --- .-- / ... . .- - .. -. --. / -.. --- -. -. . .-. / .--. .- .-. - -.--

Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 11:48 AM (c115l)

160 Made it as far as the Donner Pass."

Eat me.

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:49 AM (XuXeR)

161 I'll never understand the commie mindset.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 26, 2025 11:29 AM (dVN87)

You've got to start accepting, as I have, that a large portion of the population in the US don't want the responsibility of freedom. They want to be told what to do down to the minutiae of their daily lives.

The Wuflu debacle should have convinced everyone of that.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 26, 2025 11:49 AM (g8Ew8)

162 NYC, Boston, and other television stations are live streaming news to Texas. Not foolin’. Juneteenth all over again.

Posted by: Eromero at December 26, 2025 11:49 AM (Slgjz)

163 Texas has the same requirement. First Lady was 1" in the clear. Her dad called and asked if he needed to buy her a booster seat when the law passed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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The spawn is short too so I just ignored this law when she turned 8 or so. This almost applies to me too since I'm shrinking at an alarming rate!🤣

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 26, 2025 11:49 AM (VCgbV)

164 Never did I think I'd see,
A constipated budg-ee!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 11:33 AM (npFr7)

I thought you were going to be on the road today.

Or maybe you are. Steering with your knees, with your phone in one hand and a Molson in the other.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 26, 2025 11:49 AM (GjEvj)

165 Somalis haven't even built Somalia yet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

I can personally vouch for this. I have been there. It is a complete shithole.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2025 11:50 AM (2WIwB)

166 What is FM radio?
Posted by: People under 30

*No static at all*

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 11:50 AM (cYBz/)

167 Ask your doctor if Splenic Flexsure is right for you.

Posted by: Big Farma at December 26, 2025 11:50 AM (2Ez/1)

168 Eat me.
Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:49 AM (XuXeR)

Pass

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:50 AM (KwCuT)

169 Somalis haven't even built Somalia yet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
+++
Give them time. They've been really busy building Boston.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 26, 2025 11:50 AM (Lo97M)

170 @EndWokeness
BREAKING: MN Lt. Governor Flanagan puts on hijab, declares Somalis built Minnesota

https://is.gd/q311Ke

-
I didn't know Flanagan was a Somali name.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2025 11:46 AM (L/fGl)

Somalis haven't even built Somalia yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

Sometimes you just long for the end days of WWII when collaborator women walked the street with shaved heads and fat lips.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 11:50 AM (snZF9)

171 Somalis haven't even built Somalia yet.
Posted by: Sponge

There's actually a part of the country in the north, "Somaliland," the former British Somalia, that actually seems to have its act together, but isn't recognized by any other country.

Makes sense that it was the part of Somalia ruled by the Brits.

That the Italian-ruled part of Somalia is a basket case is not really a surprise.

Think of the French-ruled part of the Island of Hispaniola.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

172 Sometimes you just long for the end days of WWII when collaborator women walked the street with shaved heads and fat lips.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Hell Bers, now they do it to themselves with lip injections.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 11:51 AM (cYBz/)

173 With the likes of CBS or any other MSM outfit, where would the left be? I mean, who'd even listen to their ranting? They're basically a propaganda arm for the Democrats anyway.
--
A minimum of a 5-10% boost at the polls.
That's how much of a head start and advantage Democrats have in every election.

The other day, I heard someone going on about how "wait, Obama is a muslim?!"
And I was like, "yeah, this has all been known. The bit about the muzzie call to prayer being the most beautiful sound, the significant time in mulsim Indonesia (where he ate dog), the (near-impossible for non-muslims) trip to Pakistan, the bowing to all the Saudis, etc."
Not "officially" a muslim--just did and behave in all sorts of "I'm a muslim" ways.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 26, 2025 11:52 AM (HXT0k)

174 I thought you were going to be on the road today.

Or maybe you are. Steering with your knees, with your phone in one hand and a Molson in the other.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 26, 2025 11:49 AM (GjEvj)

Still at home, but not for much longer. My phone does not do Internet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 11:52 AM (npFr7)

175 BREAKING: MN Lt. Governor Flanagan puts on hijab, declares Somalis built Minnesota

I wonder how much was in the stuffed envelop?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2025 11:52 AM (2WIwB)

176 Sometimes you just long for the end days of WWII when collaborator women walked the street with shaved heads and fat lips.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

They already have the shaved heads. The lips are sometimes puffy so we should help that along.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2025 11:52 AM (7xrfc)

177 158 Sorry, I should have told you sooner. I'm re-Morseful that I did not"

Don't get keyed up..
+++
Didn't have time to dash off a message?

Posted by: It's like a code at December 26, 2025 11:52 AM (2Ez/1)

178 Get her a Crosley Hotshot to drive. It will make here look big.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

She wouldn't give up the Jeep. She got a warning for speeding last week. Highway 50 has a 60 mph limit. She was twelve over when the nice state police officer stopped her to suggest that she slow down a bit. That stretch of highway is boring as hell and real easy to blow out the speed limit. I would have been ticketed for twenty over on that road.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 26, 2025 11:52 AM (2J/Lj)

179 BREAKING: MN Lt. Governor Flanagan puts on hijab, declares Somalis built Minnesota

I wonder how much was in the stuffed envelop?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2025 11:52 AM (2WIwB)

***

I take that back. This woman is too stupid to take an honest bribe. She probably was a school chum of the Boston mayor.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2025 11:54 AM (2WIwB)

180 Somalis haven't even built Somalia yet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Oh yeah, Buster! You try building a 2 story dung hut!

Posted by: Warlord, Inc. at December 26, 2025 11:54 AM (oftw2)

181
California set mattress flamability standards 20 years ago that the worthless W's CPSU happily made national, causing the closure of over half of the countries mattress companies.

Uniparty republicans are in their own way worse than Marxists.

Posted by: Auspex at December 26, 2025 11:54 AM (YAFrp)

182 Not "officially" a muslim--just did and behave in all sorts of "I'm a muslim" ways.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

I don't think Obama was a believer in any religion except Obama worship.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

183 Silver is at $76.47. Dayum.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 11:55 AM (c115l)

184 145
'I had a friend in college, crazy little monkey was about 3' tall.
He had a car, but ol' honkin' thing with a powerful engine. He had to strap on these wooden extenders on his shoes, so he was as close to a literal lead foot as I ever saw.
Little maniac. Drank like a sailor, horny as a... sailor.'

Could other people see him?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2025 11:56 AM (fd80v)

185 175 BREAKING: MN Lt. Governor Flanagan puts on hijab, declares Somalis built Minnesota

I wonder how much was in the stuffed envelop?
Posted by: Diogenes
=======
Trying to pollute the jury pool is what the Dems are doing, trying to preserve their grift. And AWFLs are some of the worst people in the world likely to do that to virtue signal.

Posted by: whig at December 26, 2025 11:56 AM (WDjG6)

186 >>> 146 Meanwhile, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey threatens that continued ICE operations in the city will lead to ICE agents getting killed....

Actually he pretended to just be observing that sometimes people die while on the job.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 26, 2025 11:45 AM (/lPRQ)

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Says if Deportation Operations Continue Minnesota Residents Will Start Killing ICE Agents
December 26, 2025 | Sundance | 55 Comments

https://shorturl.at/kWyac
TCH

article includes an X post:

https://is.gd/2XOpdf
@Breaking911
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey warns that continued ICE operations in the city could lead to ICE agents getting killed.
[video of the little punk ass bitch talking trash]

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 26, 2025 11:56 AM (ULPxl)

187 3 8% of Republicans trust the media? I'm astonished it's that high.
Posted by: Nemo at December 26, 2025 11:41 AM (4RPgu)

May I introduce you to Fox Nooz?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 11:47 AM (KwCuT)

May I introduce you to "Republicans"?

Posted by: ... at December 26, 2025 11:57 AM (O42gO)

188 Oh, and little faggot timwalz is behind him to the left, red-faced and nodding his empty head.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 26, 2025 11:57 AM (ULPxl)

189 The measure expands booster seat requirements to include children and teens up to age 16
---
I bet good money there is no actual, peer-reviewed, repeatable studies that show booster seats reduce child injuries or death.

I'll bet it's right up there with those "everybody knows," like Head Start.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 26, 2025 11:57 AM (HXT0k)

190 Who the hell are the 8% of republicans that trust the democrat propagandists?

My guess is that is completely bogus number or those are completely bogus republicans.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 26, 2025 11:58 AM (xvV+O)

191 BREAKING: MN Lt. Governor Flanagan puts on hijab, declares Somalis built Minnesota

What an utter disgrace.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 11:58 AM (PFs9e)

192 183 Silver is at $76.47. Dayum.
Posted by: rickb223
=====
Take ye fair profits which ye made as it is said.

Dost not be a piggy and loseth all thy profit for the want of more.

Posted by: whig at December 26, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)

193 170
'Sometimes you just long for the end days of WWII when collaborator women walked the street with shaved heads and fat lips.'

If we win, it can happen again.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2025 11:59 AM (fd80v)

194 140 Pope Leo spouts cliches like a product of US higher education.
Posted by: mr tmz at December 26, 2025 11:44 AM (rJ48h

DePaul University is proud to count the pope among their alumni.

DePaul University is also in a minor panic over declining enrollment in their grievance studies programs. They are blaming this phenomenon on Trump's horrible economy and cuts to vital services.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 26, 2025 11:59 AM (FMtrg)

195 The NYT does the nursing home explosion.

https://is.gd/w1ZzKe

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2025 11:59 AM (L/fGl)

196 Somalis haven't even built Somalia yet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

I can personally vouch for this. I have been there. It is a complete shithole.

Somalia's principle exports are squalor and decay...and rot.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 11:59 AM (Riz8t)

197 Bari Weiss would be a nobody if the FNM weren't such zealots happy to purge each other over the slightest deviation. I went through a period where I listened to Ben Shapiro on my afternoon commute (it's a boring commute), but I stopped when she became some sort of mega hero to him just because she is pro-Israel. Hell, the 1972 Democratic Platform (the looney one written by McGovern and company) is pro-Israel. This is a ridiculously low bar to cross!

Posted by: the lower depths at December 26, 2025 12:00 PM (UdiE9)

198 I'll bet it's right up there with those "everybody knows," like Head Start.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Dear wife was the Executive Director of monster suburban school district in charge of Special Ed, Head Start and dozens of other programs.

All gains provided by Head Start programs disappear by the end of 2nd grade.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 12:00 PM (cYBz/)

199 May I introduce you to "Republicans"?
Posted by: ... at December 26, 2025 11:57 AM (O42gO)

2 shay.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 12:00 PM (KwCuT)

200 Therefore, all CBS is going to accomplish is LOSING a % of their current viewership that watch CBS to see their progressive perspectives reinforced.
So, this move, if it even happens, will hurt CBS ratings,not help.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 26, 2025 11:29 AM (MNCvZ)

Exactly - I've been waiting for someone to point that out. CNN fell into the same trap when they tried to "moderate" some, and even though we enjoy talking about them, they have no real audience anymore.

CBS doesn't want to face the fact that their news division is obselete, and needs to be shut down. There's no saving it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2025 12:00 PM (uWKK8)

201 And AWFLs are some of the worst people in the world likely to do that to virtue signal.
Posted by: whig

The guy who posts under the name HoeMath talks about things like that. To him, most women never grow mentally past the stage of "Kindergarten Teacher." It's why the AWFLs are so determined to act as if Somalians are crying children that need their owies kissed away.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2025 12:00 PM (7xrfc)

202 The photo of Lt Guv Flanagan I just looked at… wow, what a scary looking freak. She claims her surname is actually Gizhiiwewidamookwe and that she’s a member of White Earth Nation.. a Native American tribe I guess. Of course she went to the University of Minnesota and got her start in politics as a “community organizer” How’d she get elected? Never mind… stupid question

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 12:01 PM (SSHra)

203 Meanwhile, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey threatens that continued ICE operations in the city will lead to ICE agents getting killed....

Actually he pretended to just be observing that sometimes people die while on the job.

Nice place you got here. Pity if something happened to it.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 11:48 AM (Riz8t)

That they do.

Nevermind them Twinkie wrappers.

Posted by: Zombie Dan White at December 26, 2025 12:01 PM (wVcYX)

204 >>I have been there. It is a complete shithole.

Agreed. Awful place.

I made a flight from Diego Garcia into Berbera in the mid-80s with my crew. It was a show-the-flag mission. One over-night stay on the coast in a large Quonset Hut staffed by three U.S. government employees. One told me they were with the State Department. I laughed at him when he said it. He wasn't pleased that I didn't believe him.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 26, 2025 12:01 PM (Y1sOo)

205 Worst Rant monkey photo ever.

Posted by: mindful webworker - she's a good ape, yup yup at December 26, 2025 12:02 PM (uPdbI)

206 BREAKING: MN Lt. Governor Flanagan puts on hijab, declares Somalis built Minnesota
---------

LMAO

Posted by: ... at December 26, 2025 12:02 PM (O42gO)

207 I had heard the Lt Governor of Minnesota was an idiot, a bigger one than Walz. This stunt proves it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 12:02 PM (2vrAX)

208 BREAKING: MN Lt. Governor Flanagan puts on hijab, declares Somalis built Minnesota
---------

LMAO

I know they're Dems and all, but at some point, they HAVE to notice the complete disconnect with reality. Right?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

209 > Who the hell are the 8% of republicans that trust the democrat propagandists?
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Pretty much all of the GOP.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2025 12:03 PM (NwnyJ)

210 Now let's talk about the "fairness doctrine" and "net neutrality "...
Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 11:06 AM (XuXeR)

Can't. I'm dead because of net neutrality.

Posted by: Or from pulling out of the Paris Accords at December 26, 2025 12:03 PM (TbWk/)

211 CBS doesn't want to face the fact that their news division is obselete, and needs to be shut down. There's no saving it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2025 12:00 PM (uWKK

Nor does CBS want to face the nation with its myriad of news failures.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2025 12:03 PM (wVcYX)

212 Take ye fair profits which ye made as it is said.

Dost not be a piggy and loseth all thy profit for the want of more.
Posted by: whig

I'm livin' on a Chinese Rock,
All my best things are in hock.
I'm livin' on a Chinese Rock,
Everything is in the Pawn Shop...

Posted by: Dee Dee Ramone at December 26, 2025 12:03 PM (oftw2)

213
Pope Leo is the chief money changer for the Roman temple, just like his predecessor.

Posted by: Auspex at December 26, 2025 12:03 PM (YAFrp)

214 David Strom: European Parliament Member to United States: 'We Are the Free World Now"

https://tinyurl.com/2s39d262

The EU has really lost its damn mind, hasn't it?

But I guess 30 years ago they were talking about creating a "multi-polar" world and making the EU a "counter balance" to the United States. Welp! I guess this is what they meant.

Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 26, 2025 12:04 PM (1Yy3c)

215 She's doing CBS a favor. I'd wager that straight up majority of people would *approve* of these Satanic MS-13 monsters being tortured.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 26, 2025 12:04 PM (Zhwz2)

216 Have seen the Biden Family Christmas photo?

BWWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

217 Worst Rant monkey photo ever.
Posted by: mindful webworker - she's a good ape, yup yup at December 26, 2025 12:02 PM (uPdbI)

Heh. I forgot what was up there.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2025 12:04 PM (KwCuT)

218 The *entire* contingent of Somalis should have been ejected back to their shithole country the *first* time they rioted in Minneapolis (over who the fck knows or cares what).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 26, 2025 12:05 PM (ULPxl)

219 Katie Couric's splenic flexure!

*********

Tonight, on Inside Edition!
Posted by: muldoon at December 26, 2025 11:47 AM (/iMjX)

***

When asked if it is hard being a clown, Couric responded, "Well, it's no small feet."

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2025 12:05 PM (2WIwB)

220 Love is but a song we sing
Fear's the way we die
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry
Though the bird is on the wing
And you may not know why
C'mon people now
Smile on your brother
Ev'rybody get together
Try to love one another right now

City of Minneapolis
@CityMinneapolis
From a place of protest and mourning to a living memorial with global significance, plans for George Floyd Square are moving forward. Shaped by years of care, conversation and shared hope, the City advances a community-led vision.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2025 12:05 PM (L/fGl)

221 David Strom: European Parliament Member to United States: 'We Are the Free World Now"

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 12:05 PM (Riz8t)

222 215
' I'd wager that straight up majority of people would *approve* of these Satanic MS-13 monsters being tortured.'

As long as they're dead afterward, I'm on board.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2025 12:05 PM (fd80v)

223 Somalians built everything on earth! Except Somalia.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 26, 2025 12:05 PM (u73oe)

224
When the telegram became obsolete,
Why am I just now hearing of this?
Posted by: muldoon

Indians shot down the wires.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2025 12:06 PM (pkeXY)

225 Newspaper told me there was a White Elephant Sale down at the Grange. Much to my dismay, not a pachyderm to be seen.

Posted by: Just Some Old Used Crap! at December 26, 2025 12:06 PM (oftw2)

226 I agree. We should all pray Weiss fails catastrophically, which would be the death knell for CBS 'news'.

Nobody outside retirement home boomers and airports watches news shows at this point anyway. As an institution, news shows are dead and leftists are just accepting losing money in order to deliver propaganda to at least SOME people.

Just like print newspapers before them. People haven't sat down and reads a newspaper in decades. Only a tiny handful of them stay in business because they still provide propaganda value.

And just like print newspapers before them, they are starting to disappear not because they lose money (they've lost money for so long they don't even consider making money a factor), but because they are no longer providing value as propaganda. Propaganda is pointless unless its actually seen.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at December 26, 2025 12:06 PM (setIA)

227 Lying liar whom lies leftist Zombie Walter Cronkite
Posted by: Tonypete

Yes, thanks. I noticed Uncle Walter was missing from the post. How we trusted him most of all once upon a time.

Posted by: mindful webworker - christy brinkley > huntly brinkly at December 26, 2025 12:06 PM (uPdbI)

228 >>> 214 David Strom: European Parliament Member to United States: 'We Are the Free World Now"

https://tinyurl.com/2s39d262

The EU has really lost its damn mind, hasn't it?

But I guess 30 years ago they were talking about creating a "multi-polar" world and making the EU a "counter balance" to the United States. Welp! I guess this is what they meant.

Fuck 'em.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 26, 2025 12:04 PM (1Yy3c)

Well if he insists.

Dear OrangeManBad, can we haz "US out of NATO" for 2026 plz?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 26, 2025 12:07 PM (ULPxl)

229 Flanagan would be a proper Muslim if she covered her face. It would do everyone else a favor

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 12:07 PM (2vrAX)

230 A minimum of a 5-10% boost at the polls.
That's how much of a head start and advantage Democrats have in every election.

The other day, I heard someone going on about how "wait, Obama is a muslim?!"
And I was like, "yeah, this has all been known. The bit about the muzzie call to prayer being the most beautiful sound, the significant time in mulsim Indonesia (where he ate dog), the (near-impossible for non-muslims) trip to Pakistan, the bowing to all the Saudis, etc."
Not "officially" a muslim--just did and behave in all sorts of "I'm a muslim" ways.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
=======
A guy named Tim Groseclose (formerly at UCLA) put a number on how news reporting bias affected elections and you are spot on with 8-10 percent bias effect on voting toward the left. He estimated that in his "Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind" book in 2012. Very savvy guy on economics and that book made him a target for every lefty academic in poli sci. Now at George Mason in the Mercantus center.

Media has changed since then but the legacy media still has a hold on older Americans that can't seem to change their habits.

Posted by: whig at December 26, 2025 12:07 PM (WDjG6)

231 European Parliament Member to United States: 'We Are the Free World Now"

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

232 "The battle is being played out between Bari Weiss, its new left-of-center editor-in-chief, and the left-of-Trotsky journalists she inherited at the laughingstock news operation."

Here's hoping for blood. Much blood from both sides.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 26, 2025 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

233 A guy named Tim Groseclose (formerly at UCLA) put a number on how news reporting bias affected elections and you are spot on with 8-10 percent bias effect on voting toward the left. He estimated that in his "Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind" book in 2012. Very savvy guy on economics and that book made him a target for every lefty academic in poli sci. Now at George Mason in the Mercantus center.

Media has changed since then but the legacy media still has a hold on older Americans that can't seem to change their habits.

A long time ago (30-40 years?), Evan Thomas said on a talk show that media bias was worth roughly 15%. I'd like to know where he puts it now.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 12:10 PM (Riz8t)

234 >>> 230 A minimum of a 5-10% boost at the polls.
That's how much of a head start and advantage Democrats have in every election.
==
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

=======
A guy named Tim Groseclose (formerly at UCLA) put a number on how news reporting bias affected elections and you are spot on with 8-10 percent bias effect on voting toward the left. He estimated that in his "Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind" book in 2012. Very savvy guy on economics and that book made him a target for every lefty academic in poli sci. Now at George Mason in the Mercantus center.

Media has changed since then but the legacy media still has a hold on older Americans that can't seem to change their habits.
Posted by: whig at December 26, 2025 12:07 PM (WDjG6)

*preens*

Posted by: Operation Mockingbird at December 26, 2025 12:10 PM (ULPxl)

235 Good news, everyone!

UPDATE: African "Noah" purchases Mercedes, says God won't flood the earth after all (his followers are angry)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2025 12:10 PM (L/fGl)

236 228 >>> 214 David Strom: European Parliament Member to United States: 'We Are the Free World Now"

https://tinyurl.com/2s39d262

The EU has really lost its damn mind, hasn't it?

But I guess 30 years ago they were talking about creating a "multi-polar" world and making the EU a "counter balance" to the United States. Welp! I guess this is what they meant.

Fuck 'em.
Posted by: Robert
======
They are trying to stave off the ensuing peasant rebellions in places like France, Germany, etc. by elections. This response is likely to put paid to the EU which is a near copy of the old USSR including its incompetence and bankruptcy toward the end.

Posted by: whig at December 26, 2025 12:10 PM (WDjG6)

237 Media has changed since then but the legacy media still has a hold on older Americans that can't seem to change their habits.

Oh, it'll change...eventually.

Posted by: The Grim Reaper at December 26, 2025 12:11 PM (Riz8t)

238 88 Why is cocaine called nose candy when it's obvious boogers are?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 26, 2025 11:31 AM (Kt19C)

******************

Candy? Boogers aren't sweet-tasting - they're savory!

Posted by: Spaulding Smails, Gourmand at December 26, 2025 12:11 PM (bJ21T)

239 Carpet Muncher Ms. Weiss has a significant SSRI Fivehead. No wonder she needs and arm to hold her head up.

Posted by: Bari Me Not On The Lone Prai-ree at December 26, 2025 12:11 PM (oftw2)

240 New open thread

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 12:11 PM (Riz8t)

241 63 Stopped both subscriptions around the time Obummer got immaculated. - Bulg

"Immaculated". Oh, yeah, I'm stealing that.

Posted by: Dan Rather at December 26, 2025 12:12 PM (2L+MU)

242 Have seen the Biden Family Christmas photo?
-------

Hunter has a 'WTF am I doing here?' look about him.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 12:12 PM (XeU6L)

243 241 Dang! Off, sock!

Posted by: Paco at December 26, 2025 12:12 PM (2L+MU)

244 231 European Parliament Member to United States: 'We Are the Free World Now"

I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

Well, in a certain "work makes free" kind of way...

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 26, 2025 12:12 PM (pIfcn)

245 >>> 240 New open thread
Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 12:11 PM (Riz8t)

Archimedes Johnson is right!

there is a NOOD!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 26, 2025 12:13 PM (ULPxl)

246 231 European Parliament Member to United States: 'We Are the Free World Now"

I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

Posted by: Orwellianism in action at December 26, 2025 12:13 PM (TbWk/)

247 Ban Barnes and Noble!

Antonio Moore is a repeat offender who, according to police and eyewitnesses, entered a Palm Beach Barnes & Noble on Tuesday night just before 8 p.m. and stabbed 65-year-old Loncharich in the back before fleeing and hiding in a nearby patch of woods.

Moore told police that he stabbed her because he had an "internal buildup that led to his fight-or-flight response kicking in," AKA he had a psychotic episode and stabbed the nearest person to him.

https://is.gd/Y0YySL

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2025 12:13 PM (L/fGl)

248 Nood Ace.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 26, 2025 12:13 PM (GjEvj)

249 Have seen the Biden Family Christmas photo?
-------

Hunter has a 'WTF am I doing here?' look about him.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 12:12 PM (XeU6L)

pairs well with the husk's "where the fuck am I" look.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 12:14 PM (snZF9)

250 When i was young i wanted to burn tv stations down.

Now, i am older and wiser. Now i think, i like firemen.

Sooo in the middle of the night, fire alarm. Minute later paint bomb goes off insides.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 26, 2025 12:14 PM (EyfuW)

251 Flanagan would be a proper Muslim if she covered her face. It would do everyone else a favor
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 12:07 PM (2vrAX)

Needs to shut her mouth when men are speaking too.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2025 12:15 PM (2WIwB)

252 Hunter has a 'WTF am I doing here?' look about him.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

-
Well, he is a creep.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2025 12:15 PM (L/fGl)

253 A long time ago (30-40 years?), Evan Thomas said on a talk show that media bias was worth roughly 15%. I'd like to know where he puts it now.
Posted by: Archimedes

Groseclose's work relies on econometrics to a high degree which makes it inaccessible to some. Tim was a Stanford Business School PhD in the 90's.

Where the key nexus for the future is social media and the Internet which is why the Euros are so frantic as is the left in this country. The amount of fake and gay propaganda even spewed by bots and paid per post shills is simply astonishing in its magnitude. And with algorithms, etc. for repressing some people's voices while amplifying others, is something that propagandists have dreamed about for decades.

But, in decentralization and breakup of the mass media, the left is trying to get the band back together by censorship and Big Tech control. Musk buying Twitter is one of those situations where the left and censors simply cannot abide so you get the Eurocoms going after him.

Posted by: whig at December 26, 2025 12:15 PM (WDjG6)

254 NBC, 60 Minutes. The same folk who engineered the 'Unintended Acceleration' Audi hoax.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 11:26 AM (XeU6L)

60 Minutes is CBS. Dateline is NBC.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 26, 2025 12:21 PM (5xuJ/)

255 237 Media has changed since then but the legacy media still has a hold on older Americans that can't seem to change their habits.
Oh, it'll change...eventually.

That's what NY's/MADMANI is for -- and the countdown has started, to turn NY in to the safe harbor for this 'base'/the-base to make the world safe for Socialism.

Every time he mentions FREE GAZA, know what his base really understands and intends -- REMAIN KLINGON!

Be the very fictional people who's very civilization and existance is predicated upon conquest, Slaughter and WAR.

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RemainKLINGON
Senior Hamas Official Vows Terror Group Will Never Disarm, Rejects Foreign Pressure

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell
There will be no Peace as long as Kirk (charlie) is remembered.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 26, 2025 12:22 PM (uiSNM)

256 I hope this Boxing Day is happier than the one I had last week.

Posted by: Jake Paul at December 26, 2025 12:32 PM (Ya9O6)

257 Logan Paul (or wasth it Jake) had a plan fo' Boxthing Day until he got punched in the mouth.

Posted by: Mike Tyson, Philothofer at December 26, 2025 12:36 PM (Ya9O6)

258 She'll fail. She hasn't the mettle for the purge required.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 26, 2025 12:51 PM (VnsnO)

259 Agreed

Burn faster assholes

Posted by: melodicmetal at December 26, 2025 01:11 PM (61TgR)

260 241 63 Stopped both subscriptions around the time Obummer got immaculated. - Bulg

"Immaculated". Oh, yeah, I'm stealing that.
Posted by: Dan Rather at December 26, 2025 12:12 PM (2L+MU)

Lately, Dan Rather has been interviewing just rock musicians and letting them tell their stories. I think he has finally found his calling. He seems to enjoy himself and so do they.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 26, 2025 01:55 PM (YN34E)

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