Trump's destruction of America hits 60 minutes... New statement from Scott Pelley: There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes. The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. “60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration. The waste is heartbreaking. Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos. For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well. I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return. Scott Pelley
There is zero reason for Trumpers or right wingers to hate 60 minutes. It is America's favorite news program because it has told the truth regardless of the story. It was respected. It was imitated and respected across the world. Before Trump came on the scene many right wingers loved it just as much as left wingers.
Now, because Trump has used his influence to dismantle CBS News, it causes the right wingers to fall in line. To celebrate the destruction of an American institution for no reason other than they exposed scandals and corruption and this administration will have none of that. We are witnessing precisely what happened in Hungary and Russia when the dictator needs to get media in line and become state approved media.
Hey Trumpers, what happened to you? Why did Trump corrupt you so easily to fall in line?
BREAKING: Dr. Oz reveals why President Trump gets so many medical check-ups from his team of doctors: REPORTER: "If the president is in such perfect health, why does he keep going back in for checkups?" DR. OZ: "I think he likes the results. He does really well. He aces the test every single day. I do actually believe that he is curious to make sure everything is going in the right direction." "He's a very meticulous person in so many ways that are often under appreciated. But for him to want to know all the numbers and keep on top of him, it's the same reason he calls people at you know, odd hours because something's on his mind. He wants to deal with it."
Simple answer is that the world is driving him crazy every day. Russia Russia Russia Israel Israel Israel Iran Iran Iran. He wants to know all the numbers he can be paid through the presidency. That’s why he called people at odd hours.
this is the question. The job clearly drives him crazy. Why did he sign up again, knowing this is what the job would do to him?
Was it to keep himself out of almost certain prison?
if so, that's a solid argument to not prosecute former presidents because if they win, they will try to kill the law enforcement system in order to stay free.
I say that because if/when he leaves again and his many crimes come to light, there will be considerable pressure to prosecute him again. Maybe we just tell him to go shut up and sit in a corner, using prosecution as a threat rather than actually do it.
There is zero reason for Trumpers or right wingers to hate 60 minutes.
hah
trump tells maga all the big media are just fake news and that lets maga ignore what is actually happening to their country. And provides maga with something to hate. And trumpers really really really like having things to hate. that's their oxygen. Keeps the movement together.
There is zero reason for Trumpers or right wingers to hate 60 minutes.
hah
trump tells maga all the big media are just fake news and that lets maga ignore what is actually happening to their country. And provides maga with something to hate. And trumpers really really really like having things to hate. that's their oxygen. Keeps the movement together.
The three on here only doom scroll and post rage bait. They have nothing else.
this is the question. The job clearly drives him crazy. Why did he sign up again, knowing this is what the job would do to him?
Was it to keep himself out of almost certain prison?
if so, that's a solid argument to not prosecute former presidents because if they win, they will try to kill the law enforcement system in order to stay free.
I say that because if/when he leaves again and his many crimes come to light, there will be considerable pressure to prosecute him again. Maybe we just tell him to go shut up and sit in a corner, using prosecution as a threat rather than actually do it.
Avoid jail, make America great again, and enrich himself. Does anyone even pretend otherwise?
It is very common for Wharton Business top graduates to be proud of their accomplishments!
Trump on his latest trip to Walter Reed: "I do physicals because I think I have an obligation to do it. I took a cognitive test and I got 100% on it. The doctors told me very, very few people can ace it. It's actually a tough test."
There is zero reason for Trumpers or right wingers to hate 60 minutes.
hah
trump tells maga all the big media are just fake news and that lets maga ignore what is actually happening to their country. And provides maga with something to hate. And trumpers really really really like having things to hate. that's their oxygen. Keeps the movement together.
Pelley quite 60 minutes after refused to play the role of Tokyo Rose.
It is very common for Wharton Business top graduates to be proud of their accomplishments!
Trump on his latest trip to Walter Reed: "I do physicals because I think I have an obligation to do it. I took a cognitive test and I got 100% on it. The doctors told me very, very few people can ace it. It's actually a tough test."
PSST: Trump did not make the cut for grad school at Wharton. Masters and PhDs are the top graduates at real universities.
It is very common for Wharton Business top graduates to be proud of their accomplishments!
Trump on his latest trip to Walter Reed: "I do physicals because I think I have an obligation to do it. I took a cognitive test and I got 100% on it. The doctors told me very, very few people can ace it. It's actually a tough test."
PSST: Trump did not make the cut for grad school at Wharton. Masters and PhDs are the top graduates at real universities.
Trump was graduated from Wharton in 1968. "“Donald J. Trump earned a B.S. in real estate, which was awarded on May 20, 1968,” says Ron Ozio, Penn’s director of media relations"
PSST: Trump did not make the cut for grad school at Wharton. Masters and PhDs are the top graduates at real universities.
Trump was graduated from Wharton in 1968. "“Donald J. Trump earned a B.S. in real estate, which was awarded on May 20, 1968,” says Ron Ozio, Penn’s director of media relations"
Trump was graduated from Wharton in 1968. "“Donald J. Trump earned a B.S. in real estate, which was awarded on May 20, 1968,” says Ron Ozio, Penn’s director of media relations"
Trump has NEVER shown anyone a copy of his diploma. Why isn't it mounted in a faux-gold frame in the oval office where he can point at it everyday? It should be enlarged to be the largest framed picture in that office.
Trump has NEVER shown anyone a copy of his diploma. Why isn't it mounted in a faux-gold frame in the oval office where he can point at it everyday? It should be enlarged to be the largest framed picture in that office.
It depends how you calculate it - just like drugs.
"Under my most-favored nation policy for drug prices, the cost of prescription drugs is coming down by up to 90%. Depending on the way you calculate, you could also say 5-6-7-800% – there are two ways of figuring that. But we have a favoured nations policy that every president wanted. No president was able to get. I got it"
And you believe he aced a cognitive test? He is right that there are two ways of figuring that: the right way and the Trump way. Dumbest goddamn student to ever attend Wharton.
(Just as note - when you try to defend instances where Trump is factually wrong, you lose whatever shred of credibility you have left.)
I believe that the real cognitive test – just like the real guilty verdict – took place on November 5th, 2024. He "aced" it.
