CBS News Further Beclowns Itself With Bari Weiss’ Hire

“What the fuck?” have long positioned Tony Dokupil as some sort of real journalist and not a discount Fox News hairpiece, so this is the direction CBS News was headed well before they decided to sell their soul to Trump.

Last week plotting a takeover of CNN next. The billionaires are here. They’re destroying the past to create a present dedicated to their world-historic fragile egos, and this is where Bari Weiss comes in.

Bari Weiss is actually very savvy. She is not the doofus who blindly publishes garbage like allegations that George Floyd’s murder—something we all witnessed—was actually due to his drug use and not Derek Chauvin kneeling on his back for nine minutes. Radley Balko did a great job detailing how this bullshit notion she helped spread on the right is bullshit, but the point of publishing something like that is to pretend to be interested in discourse. The details are secondary to the game at foot.

You see, you hate free speech if you say that something has no factual basis and is a lie entirely made up in service of a reactionary political agenda. You are a woke scold if you say that facts do not care about this portion of conservative media’s feelings, and you hate discourse if you reject their clear bad faith attempts as anything other than the purest form of the Socratic Method that even Socrates himself would be jealous of. You must accept Bari Weiss’ long career of telling rich and powerful men who are giving her money that they are very smart and savvy and handsome and that their 19th century gutter racism is actually high-level contrarianism us simple peons just can’t grasp.

And to her credit, it’s brought her all the way to being editor-in-chief of CBS “News.” She’s proven what works in America as much as anyone this century. She is what a successful media career looks like now. Being a professional liar in America is a gilded gig, because billionaires are easy marks for professional yes people. A woman who became famous for trying to cancel her professors convinced a bunch of wealthy people that she is the diametric opposite of cancel culture. It is supposedly us barbarians on the left documenting things she has said and done that one of them is disturbingly horny for AI characters, that is a very lucrative brand (in order: Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos then Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin).

The modern billionaire Axis of Evil is trying to trap us inside a right-wing propaganda media environment because their competitor filled with Ben Shapiro’s and Matt Walsh’s and Charlie Kirk’s failed to break through the conservative echo chamber. Ellison was handed Tik Tok by Trump and idiotic Democrats who can never think two steps ahead, and now we have to deal with the mess they’re all creating. Ellison is wiping out any shred of journalistic integrity left at CBS News and is coming for CNN next. If you go to YouTube, its content and algorithm is overwhelmingly right wing, all while Page and Brin leverage Google to do more to destroy actual journalism than anyone in the last few centuries has. Musk bought Twitter to turn it into MechaHitler, and Facebook isn’t much better while we’re very lucky that alleged human Mark Zuckerberg’s only demonstrated skill is keeping a too big to fail advertising business rolling while copying other people’s ideas.

There are widespread reports of CBS News staffers who are “apoplectic” over a blogger who has never worked a reporting job now holding the most powerful gig in one of America’s oldest journalistic institutions. David Ellison is clearly not interested in journalism, no one who hires Bari Weiss is, and her elevation to the top of American journalism is another step in America’s descent from a constitutional republic into being a fascist playground for six of the most widely reviled and powerful humans to ever exist.