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Bari Weiss CBS: New Boss Pulls 60 Minutes Trump Hit Piece, Signals Real Change

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Bari Weiss CBS leading a reset of 60 Minutes and legacy news standards

Bari Weiss CBS wasn’t supposed to matter this fast—but within weeks of taking over as editor-in-chief, the new boss yanked a 60 Minutes Trump deportation hit piece just hours before airtime and sent a shockwave through legacy media.

A segment built around sympathetic Venezuelan deportees inside El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison went from heavily promoted to “postponed” after Weiss ordered more reporting, more on-the-record Trump administration voices, and tougher scrutiny of a narrative that had all the fingerprints of activist television, not journalism.

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False Dilemmas and Russian Expansion: When MAGA Commenters Use Straw Man Arguments

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Medieval chronicler Niketas Choniates manuscript illustration with text 'Straw Man Arguments Create False Dilemmas' highlighting false dilemmas and Russian expansion commentary

Bottom Line Up Front:

False dilemmas and Russian expansion dominate MAGA commentary about Ukraine, creating dangerous straw man arguments that ignore both logical reasoning and historical reality. Commenters like Niketas Choniates at the New Neo blog twist Ukraine’s requests for military aid into extreme misrepresentations about “sending American boys to die” and “taking nukes” – classic false binary thinking that serves Russia’s interests while undermining America’s strategic position.

Many MAGA bloggers and commenters bash Ukraine while unknowingly supporting America’s longtime enemy, Russia, who has been responsible for countless American deaths since WWII by backing Communist countries and terrorist-supporting nations. These voices ignore Russia’s documented expansionist history and resent Ukraine for not delivering Trump’s political opponent Biden “on a silver platter” – while simultaneously blaming Ukraine for Trump’s 2020 loss.

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Presidential Debate – 9/10/2024

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Last night I called the debate a Tie. Harris lost me at her J6 comments, and lost the Win with her Climate Change comments. However, after a night sleeping on it, and upon reflection this morning – Harris was Presidential, sharp, knowledgeable, constantly on the offense, and this Pic sums up last nights Debate, IMHO:

The Pic is from the Daily Mail article: Body language expert reveals moment Kamala ‘took over’ the debate with Trump and vice president’s ‘coupe de grace’.

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Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle

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‘Secret Service director gives bizarre reason why an agent wasn’t on the roof where gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on Trump as she rejects calls to resign‘: ‘That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we … Read more

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