Bari Weiss Closes In on Major Role at CBS News

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Yuck. She's a vile, right-wing hag

This Substack piece by Jay Michaelson (Daily Beast, Rolling Stone etc) describes in detail who and what Bari Weiss really is.

WTF???

RIP their journalistic credibility

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I think everyone can agree that someone needs to clean house at CBS News. If not her, someone.

I never knew she supposedly presents as an aggrieved liberal. The right wing stench comes off her in waves

She’s a rightwing propagandist who has no real news experience.

We're rolling in our graves, and puking as we do it.

CBS is state media now.

[quote]We're rolling in our graves, and puking as we do it.

I ain't cleaning that up.

[quote]I think everyone can agree that someone needs to clean house at CBS News.

No, I can't agree. What are you talking about?

I assume r7 is trolling. But unfortunately there are real people who think that everyone's job both inside and outside government is to serve Trump and the Cult. Unfortunately, one of them is now the owner of CBS news.

She doesn’t strike me as MAGA at all. There’s a big difference. She seems more like a moderate Democrat, which too often gets unfairly conflated with MAGA these days. She appears to reject Democratic Socialism—which really isn’t “Democratic” in the traditional sense—so it’s more like comparing two things that only seem similar on the surface. People seem upset, but these days, simply not being woke is enough to trigger some.

MAGAt troll alert @R15.

You wouldn't know "Democratic" if it bit you in your fat, flabby ass, R15.

And just an FYI, R15: the most easily triggered snowflake in the entire universe is Donald Trump, who you refer to an "POTUS."

R15, she's not

She's a Trumper masquerading as a "moderate"

She also tries to get people fired if they criticize Israel

R11 Israeli State Media

I swear everything just keeps getting worse. If we even have real midterms next year, the redistricting schemes will mute any Democratic gains, and if an actual Presidential election happens in 2028 and somehow a Democrat wins, the entire news media -- not just owners, but the editorial chiefs like Weiss--will all be MAGAs. They'll never be able to accomplish anything thanks to Republicans who rigged the electoral maps, and the media will blame the Democrat for all of it.

I’m so happy for her. Really. I’m thrilled.

I see R15 is hitting the W&W button on himself, again.

Have you no shame, DeFucktardo?

Oh wait. Of course you don't. You're an internet trollerina.

How's the weather in Pittsburgh today?

If Bari Weiss ever reads these comments, she’ll probably lean back in her big corner office, cackling with laughter. She’s made it — and the rest of us are just here typing away on this platform.

True, r22, a happy whore who is getting a payoff from the people she pretends to oppose: the elite and feckless media.

She's subject to the whims of her corporate masters, R22. One misstep and the bitch is out on her ass onto the cold, cruel sidewalks of New York City.

Even uber MAGA cunt Kimberly Guilfoyle got her ass handed to her by no less than Faux News.

So let's see who has the last laugh here.

Re R24: David Ellison is Shari Lewis. Bari Weiss is Lamb Chop.

If you don't think CBS News is biased, watch their election night coverage 2024. It's on YouTube.

With Bari Weiss it will still be biased, but in another direction.

The days of Walter Cronkrite, Eric Sevareid, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley ended a looong time ago.

And none of the people you cited, R26, were neo-fascist nihilists hell bent on destroying American democracy, such as the present owners of CBS/Paramount.

Who is the audience for this?

Some see Bari Weiss as the next Hitler, others as a lost lamb. CBS only cares about ratings, so she’s gotta deliver—or she’s out.

Does she have a job for poor, homeless Brenda Dickson?

[quote] Some see Bari Weiss as the next Hitler, others as a lost lamb.

Lost lamb? The fuck you talking bout, bitch? But no, she's not Hitler either. Just another corrupt little whore in the cult who can be depended on to pretend that woke college kids are the real threat, and never fascists issuing directives from the White House, that Israel can at best be mildly criticized occasionally but never ever prevented from doing absolutely anything it feels like, and that despite being a little rough at times, Trump is of course the greatest president this here little country ever did see.

And in return, David Ellison and his corporation will be allowed to do whatever fuckery and nonsense that corporations are always trying to do, without any interference from any pesky agencies.

R39 most just see her as an agent for Israel.

Which is why CIA/Mossad loyalist Larry Ellison and his son bought Paramount with its CBS and CBS News divisions, and Paramount in turn bought the Free Press substack and its dozens of subscribers for $150 million, so that Zionist loyalist Bari Weiss could be slid into CBS News like a lubed Rabbi Shmuley dildo

Don't really know who she is, don't care who she is, and because I don't know or care who she is, I don't follow anything about her due to lack of interest. I also stopped reading or watching CBS news media ages ago. From the comments everywhere complaining about her appointment as editor, it appears she's merely another signal that legacy media is already dead, and the CEOs are trying to reanimate that corpse with people like Bari who will stoke division, conflict, anger, and rage-bait engagement. So why bother even paying attention? State media, you say? Again, who cares? Now that you know this about the media, how about you don't read, follow, absorb, or comment upon State (aka legacy) media any longer and let it just fade into further irrelevance. It's already more than halfway there.

Because I'm not about to let two rancid cunts like Bari Weiss and Larry Ellison shit all over my legacy, R33.

Pete Hegseth doesn't find her doable, tells you all you need to know about her.

These are people who think Stephen Miller is a wild fuck machine. Their judgement is, well, in question. (although they're right about Bari.)

The article calls David Ellison, Newpo baby of Trump-adjacent father Larry, a media scion. Right -- nepo baby. I swear these immensely powerful and rich people are trying to create a caste of übermenschen right in front of our eyes. No wonder CBS just handed Trump all those millions. They had to preserve the Paramount deal. We're so fucked.

Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and chairman of Oracle, is widely recognized as the largest individual private donor to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

lol let him eat CBS and Tik-Tok

Propaganda for the plebes

^^ "nepo" -- got it right the second time.

When campaigning for the Presidency comes around in 2028, the GOP will have the media in their pocket.

Democrats will have to do what Republicans have been doing, so successfully, for years: run against the media as much as against the other party.

R38, the fact that the IDF fundraises on top of all the other money it gets from us is amazing. Apparently individual divisions of the IDF do this too.

If Mossad, Israel and the IDF controls everything we see and read via CBS and Tik-Tok and many other news outlets which prohibit and bans everything Israel doesn't wan't us know about

Close your eyes it's good for Israel and America

Close your fucking eyes

[quote] Democrats will have to do what Republicans have been doing, so successfully, for years: run against the media as much as against the other party.

How many years have the Democrats already ran against Fox News and other conservative news sources? You’re late to the party.

[quote] If Mossad, Israel and the IDF controls everything we see and read via CBS and Tik-Tok and many other news outlets which prohibit and bans everything Israel doesn't wan't us know about

Is there anything in particular that it’s crossed your mind that we should know about, or are you gate-keeping too?

I said to myself, go ahead. Take a chance. Hire the smart, fat girl. I had hope. My God. I live on it.

A small group of fascists strategically placed who control the media and the military-we are just about there…

I have a feeling she and Bill Maher hooked up.

She's a lez.

When cbs employee's either quit or get fired they will obviously be replaced with trump loyalist’s. I never watch anyway but isn’t or wasn’t that Gale King part of the morning show?

I think she’s great.

If Fox gets to be “fair and balanced,” CBS should slap “From the River to the Sea” under its logo. Bari Weiss would probably call that intellectual balance—she did go to Columbia, after all.

[quote]She's a lez.

She's dated (and married) both men and women, though she's obviously more attracted to women. Cynically, I wonder if she'll suddenly embrace labels after decades spent rejecting them, so "She can't be *that* conservative if she's gay!" can become a talking point for every Republican who defends this disgusting CBS stunt.

I should've clarified that what I find disgusting are the machinations behind the Paramount/Skydance merger, not any one particular issue.

[quote]I think everyone can agree that someone needs to clean house at CBS News. If not her, someone.

I think everyone can agree, CBS needs strong, ethical leadership to recover its journalistic reputation. And that person is: SOMEONE OTHER THAN BARI FUCKING WEISS WHO WAS CHOSEN BECAUSE SHE IS A KNOWN AS A USEFUL IDIOT IN SERVICE OF THE FASCIST COUP UNDERWAY IN THE USA.

So, yeah, stealth defender of this bullshit, we do need someone at CBS news to clean house. SOMEONE FUCKING ELSE.

I think she’s great!

The Free Press averages in the four digits in views on YouTube. Even by far right charlatan standards she’s bottom of the barrel, gutter trash level in terms of success. By literally any metric you’d find millions of more qualified candidates for this job than this irrelevant Nazi cunt.

Talk about failing up.

What happened to that "university" she started?

She's not being hired for her journalistic integrity and accomplishments, R57.

She was hired to suck Larry Ellison's dick and kiss his ass.

R59 I mean yeah, no shit.

It's not about running against Fox News, obviously, r44, and actually Dems hardly ever do that or talk about the unfairness of it or any other conservative sources. It's just an accepted given that the wingnutsphere is there to lie for the Trump Cult and everyone should just accept that, and if anything go on their shows to do outreach. That's a very off comparison.

But what Dems need to start doing is putting the mainstream media on the defensive, treating their hostile questions as just that, and asking them back why they are always trying to appease the Right. The Media has really bought into the narrative that they are so biased against the right that they have to constantly look for ways to make the lunatics that dominate the right more palatable and more normal.

And when you've sat through a pack of lies by Mike Johnson or Lindsay Graham or really pretty much all Trump Cult politicos, mention that when it's time for your segment, and ask why there was so little pushback. They'll try to divert to some other question, but bring it back to that, and the relentless lying on the Right and the media's habit of not noticing the relentless lying.

[quote]If Bari Weiss ever reads these comments, she’ll probably lean back in her big corner office, cackling with laughter.

The only direction Bari Weiss will lean in her big corner office is where her masters tell her to lean. Right.. into the ditch

[quote] She’s made it — and the rest of us are just here typing away on this platform.

Low level Nazis said the equivalent about Joseph Goebbels.

R58, it's still there. It's in Texas (of course) and has ties to--wait for--Viktor Orban.

I can't believe Kate McKinnon dated her.

[quote]I think everyone can agree that someone needs to clean house at CBS News

What the fuck is this even referencing?

This is all about ISRAEL.

[quote]BARI FUCKING WEISS WHO WAS CHOSEN BECAUSE SHE IS A KNOWN AS A USEFUL IDIOT IN SERVICE OF THE FASCIST COUP UNDERWAY IN THE USA

How do you get through the day will all the things that your brain believes are existential crises?

I recall reading an article in the New Yorker about that FIRE crap she and a few fellow crypto right wingers started and, at one point, she kind of freaks out and tells the writer that they shouldn't reveal that Harlan Crow was one of their big donors. That told me everything I needed to know about her and who's really propping her up.

[quote] How do you get through the day will all the things that your brain believes are existential crises?

I'm good man, but thanks for checking in.

R68, wow, I didn't realize that Weiss was linked to Harlan Crow. The New Yorker article, it turns out, is hilarious: this "anti-woke" group partially funded by Crow quickly turns into a deranged NYC condo board. It's nothing but backstabbing, angry emails, hurt feelings and wasted money.

^^And, before anyone corrects me, it's co-op, not condo. Co-op apartment buildings have the most insane governance.