Don't Let The Door Hit Ya': Twitter Bids 'Good Riddance' As Norah O'Donnell Exits CBS Evening News

Posted • January 24, 2025: If we were handing out medals to television news anchors for the 'Most Disgraceful Performance in a Presidential Election Campaign,' we'd be hard-pressed to say which of them would take home the gold. CNN and MSNBC always send strong teams to the Faceplant Olympics. They're the China and the old Soviet Union of racking up Ls by the bushel. ABC News had some strong contenders after David Muir tried to rig a presidential debate, while George Stephanopoulos was so bad, he cost his network $15 million in a defamation settlement last year. But a major contender for the podium of shame in 2024 had to be CBS Evening News anchor Norah O'Donnell. Among her lowlights was cutting off vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance's microphone as he was schooling her on illegal immigration during the VP debate and leading off her nightly news program in October by repeating slanderously false stories about Donald Trump insulting a Latino military servicemember.

After the election, CBS (which had one of the worst years imaginable for a news network) made a programming change to CBS Evening News, abandoning its decades-long format of having a single anchor in favor of something resembling local news broadcasts with a panel of hosts. We're not sure why they think this adjustment will rescue them from their credibility hole but, regardless of the reasoning, the change meant that last night was the final broadcast of the program hosted by O'Donnell. Accordingly, they spent much of the half-hour making the 'news' all about her, including a farewell video package that included Oprah Winfrey (because, of course). Many people work at a job for five years. Most of them don't have paeans delivered to them from a billionaire when they leave. We're not sure why O'Donnell's five years made her more special than anyone else, especially given her track record.

Then, it was time for O'Donnell to deliver her farewell address which, thankfully, was relatively brief. LOL. 'Journalism matters.' Then why didn't you practice it? We particularly love the part where the crew had to come out at the end and pretend like they were going to miss her or that she even knew many of their names. That was some quality cringe right there. On Twitter, however, people were also saying goodbye to O'Donnell … but in a much more honest manner. If you think the captain of the Titanic did a ‘great job’ then you also think she did a great job as an anchor. HA. Hey, other than a little ice, it was a tremendously successful trip. Microphone cutter gets her own microphone cut. That seems appropriate, doesn't it? We're not sure which is funnier, the fact that O'Donnell was so bad that she necessitated a change in format for CBS Evening News for the first time since it began in 1963 or the delusion that she and her network thought anyone outside of fellow fake 'journalists' would miss her.

Only fitting that the 1st person to give a testimonial of Norah’s brand of “journalism” is Oprah, whose production co. received $1M from Kamala’s team to “interview” her. It was an overt cheerleading session, just like Norah’s broadcasts in the last 100 days of the campaign. Winfrey's brand was destroyed during the 2024 campaign almost as much as those of the dead legacy media networks. They deserve each other. (…)

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