Kissing the Ring of POTUS

I'm not even remotely surprised by any of this. 

FOX "news" must be apoplectic that CBS and Paramount are now the front-runner for State run media. 

FOX did all the leg work and Paramount took it across the finish line - a few times. That's gotta hurt. 

First it was Colbert. Then it was a first botched 60 Minutes love fest on BLOTUS. Now it's the cancelling of a 60 Minutes piece that was vetted by Standards and Practices and the CBS legal squad. 

60 Minutes new head, ironically coming from the Free Press, 86'd a segment on Venezuelan prisons where the US is deporting folks. 

Bari Weiss (purpossefully?) did not watch the five times the segment was reviewed at CBS prior to the show being scheduled to air. Less than 48 hours before go-time, she cancelled it. Well, she 'postponed' it saying it needed more work. Saying "they" - the segment producers and talent - needed to get Stephen Miller's side of the story for it to air. 

With that logic, it has been pointed out, the White House could control any narrative on political stories if they opted not to comment at all. 

Of course, social media did it's job. 

The segment reporter Sharyn Alfonsi and 60 Minutes mainstay and former CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley were publicly vocal about their boss and their broadcaster's take on how this all went down. I expect neither of them to have jobs in the near future - for completely other made up reasons, of course. 

Actually, I can see 60 Minutes being closed down. Maybe another network can pick it up and add one minute and call it 61 Minutes just to get around any name infringement. 

Weiss, while riding a tsunami of criticism for her handling of this, shouldn't be affected. She's got the new fascist regime at Paramount behind her pulling her strings, so she's good. I'm sure she's got the backing of the White House too. 

Cory Booker on the other hand, I expect to be browbeaten by the Senate, the WH and Paramount. 

I'm not quite sure, but somehow he seemingly helped in getting that segment to Canadian broadcasters who did air it. 

While I didn't see it, but should, 710 did. If nothing else to add to the number of views it keeps tallying. I couldn't find the link (though I didn't look too hard) if you wanted to view the piece. 

I feel with this and the Epstein shit and the Kennedy Center, walls seem to be closing in on BLOTUS a little. But he's weathered worse before and come out unscathed. Just once I want to see him pay the price for something.....................anything. 

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