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The Left Isn't Going to Like This: Bari
Weiss Explains Decision to Pull '60 Minutes'
Illegal Alien Story

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 12/23/2025 4:23:37 AM

As we reported, the head honcho at CBS News, editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, pulled a 60 Minutes story about illegal aliens Sunday night, and the folks on the left are losing their minds. The piece was supposed to be about the treatment of illegal aliens in the CECOT prison in El Salvador. 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi complained in an email that leaked out to the public that it was more of a "political call" than an editorial decision to kill the story. READ MORE: Meltdown at CBS News: But editor in chief Bari Weiss nuked the whining, saying the piece wasn't ready.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 12/23/2025 6:27:21 AM (No. 2044415)
Principles such as "get both sides of the story", used to be Reporting 101. But that gets in the way of propaganda reporting so it had to go, as well as most other journalistic standards. Weiss is essentially asking her people to do their jobs. That's not everything but it's something, and it WILL drive the Left nuts. That's a bonus and low hanging fruit since it is so easy to trigger the Left.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Bur Oak 12/23/2025 7:36:55 AM (No. 2044443)
When in the USA they are illegal aliens. When they are in El Salvador they are home.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: TruthFetish 12/23/2025 7:38:13 AM (No. 2044445)
Miss Weiss has always been a liberal, yet always a fair journalist, too. Her podcast reliably includes a conservative or two responding to her guests' liberal claims.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: billa57 12/23/2025 7:38:32 AM (No. 2044446)
Referring to these illegal immigrants as just plain old migrants is as disingenuous as you can get. But they are so used to getting away with at 60 Minutes that they cry like babies when they are not allowed to do it. Having to be truthful is a hard pill for propagandists to swallow.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: philsner 12/23/2025 7:54:57 AM (No. 2044451)
Journalists all mad because some glimmer of truth may be appearing on their Pravda networks. Cry more.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: mariboo72 12/23/2025 8:15:28 AM (No. 2044467)
I'm getting so sick of hearing about the left losing their minds over every little thing. Every day they're freaking out about something. When Obama was president he told us to chill out because "elections have consequences". We didn't like anything Biden did, but we didn't freak out every day and the MSM wasn't constantly talking about us "losing our minds".For the next 10 months the left and the press (sane thing) are going to keep everyone stirred up until the midterms, and if they win it's going to be more lawsuits, more impeachments, and more jail time for conservative Trump supporters.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: downnout 12/23/2025 8:36:45 AM (No. 2044476)
She should fire the staff and start over.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: bpl40 12/23/2025 10:20:11 AM (No. 2044542)
How about “a metal worker from Maryland”.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: janjan 12/23/2025 10:25:55 AM (No. 2044554)
Weiss didn’t pull this segment without the backing of her own management so it’s more than just her these fake journalists are head butting. This was meant to be a sympathy piece about some Tren de Aragua gang members with long rap sheets who got sent to El Salvador because no one else would take them. Calling them ‘migrants’ was the least of their problems. They don’t need any quotes from Trump or Steven Miller. A minimum amount of research would have exposed the truth. They weren’t interested in that.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: anniebc 12/23/2025 12:13:21 PM (No. 2044684)
Why are we supposed to care about how bad prisons are in El Salvador?
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