Dead Media Talking: Scott Pelley Opens 60 Minutes With A TOTALLY Fair Review Of Trump's Cabinet

Posted • November 18, 2024: It's difficult to judge which dead legacy media outlet disgraced itself the most in the 2024 election. The examples are far too many and far too egregious to make a clear call. But we know that throughout that decathlon of rake-stepping dishonesty, CBS News and 60 Minutes is a strong contender for the title. Once a proud paragon of journalism that genuinely sought to speak truth to power, 60 Minutes has become a laughingstock of the Sunday news programs … and that's saying something. Twitchy readers will recall how they disgracefully edited a Kamala Harris interview to try to make her look better and then refused to release the transcript. At the end of October, they also deceptively edited an interview with Tom Homan, who would later be named Donald Trump's new border czar, and Homan blasted them for it.

These offenses to journalism alone would be grounds for a sane news outlet to fire everyone responsible (as they once did to Dan Rather), but 60 Minutes went the other way. The program has decided to slam its foot down on the gas pedal of its own demise. Last night, host Scott Pelley (who himself once chopped up an interview with Moms For Liberty to make them look bad) opened the program with a fair, honest, and objective look at Trump's Cabinet appointments. Just kidding. Pelley went totally BlueAnon with his monologue. LOL. The only thing that surprises us about this is that Pelley didn't gin up some fake tears when going through the list, a la Jimmy Kimmel. (…)

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