A MEDIOCRE BARI-TONE

And like CBS News, it used to be majestic.

 By now, the reputation of CBS News under the Ellison/Weiss regime can no longer be
compared to the Titanic. A better maritime choice would be the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, the German ship sunk by a Soviet U-boat in 1945. Of the 9,000-plus victims, most were innocent refugees who had done nothing to deserve their fate. 

Is it tasteless to compare the deaths of refugees to the firing of network employees? Aw hell, you don't know tasteless if you haven't been keeping up with the news CBS doesn't cover. The New York Times headline on the left says it all. 

If they were really interested in their much-vaunted "fairness", the new guard at CBS would have a party for AOC or Bernie Sanders. When even a half-wit pinhead jackass dumbbell like Ted Cruz says the FCC should keep out of the latest Jimmy Kimmel "controversy", you know the current administration is treating the Constitution as a doormat for its feces-stained shoes. (Too bad Ted doesn't include his and the GOP's responsibility in bringing us to where we are today.)

It became clear just how deep in the hole Weiss is for Trump during the
episode of 60 Minutes the day after the attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents Suck-Up Fest. 

You couldn't pay me to get even that close to
Trump.

The narcissist-in-chief replied to Norah O'Donnell's perfectly legitimate questions with personal insults, the kind one might expect from an ill-behaved teenager rather than the alleged leader of the free world (although today that honor belongs to the president of Ukraine). 

I understand why a pro like O'Donnell didn't call him out -- if asked, she'd have said she was "showing respect for the office", as if Trump were literally one of his buildings. But a good boss, especially one running a network's news division, might put out a press release. Something along the lines of, "Despite facing personal attacks, hostile responses, and a litany of obfuscation from the president, Norah O'Donnell pressed on, showing the kind of professionalism that has made CBS News a legend for almost a century." 

Instead... nothing. Weiss made time to "clap back" at George Clooney for a remark made about her ties to Trump. But anything about the verbal abuse hurled at one of the network's top reporters? Can't call out the guy who's really responsible for her new job! 

The staff must have missed the other part
of Trump's anatomy she kissed.

Every month since Weiss' hiring, the headline "CBS News Ratings Hit Historic Lows" has been seen as often as, well, "Trump's Polling Numbers Hit Historic Lows". How is it that the chairman of the FCC claims to be going after ABC for DEI hiring when Weiss is the most unqualified person in network television today?

Bari Weiss isn't the first person to sell-out for a cool job and jumbo salary, and she won't be the last. It's just funny that a smarty-pants graduate from Columbia University thinks that things would turn out differently for her. 

And after getting the heave-ho from Larry Ellison when she's no longer useful, maybe Weiss will recall a more important lesson that too few people have learned: Everything that Trump touches dies. All aboard the good ship Wilhelm Gustloff!

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