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Even before the meltdown inside CBS News, it\u2019s been a banner seven weeks for the most egotistical profession in America: national reporters. Prior to this Ebola-level outbreak of Main Character Syndrome, these wannabe superheroes have reminded us of their importance between White House Correspondents Dinner shooting, the Pulitzer Prizes, the News Emmys, and the Peabodys.<\/p>\n
Like Emperor Palpatine in \u201cRevenge of the Sith,\u201d the elite media in New York and Washington, D.C., want you to know that they alone are the First Amendment. We, the people, are an afterthought.<\/p>\n
When Americans exercise their First Amendment rights and criticize the national press as \u201cfake news\u201d or even misleading, these theater kids act as though we\u2019re threatening to murder them.<\/p>\n
At Sunday\u2019s Peabody Awards, ABC host Jimmy Kimmel kvetched, \u201cWe have the right guaranteed by the Constitution to criticize and satirize our leaders. This is a right that many of us take for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether it\u2019s Kimmel, CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter, or Jim Acosta, they seem to confuse a First Amendment right to a free and fair press with a God-given right to have a show and network that fits their worldview.<\/p>\n
Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has not turned CBS News into a competitor to the Fox News Channel or Newsmax. But like the media reporting class penning funhouse mirrors interpretations of Fox News, there\u2019s no time to analyze what CBS newscasts cover.<\/p>\n
Someone with \u201cwrong\u201d opinions has entered this leftist enclave and must be embarrassed. It sounds eerily similar to the anti-Semitism Weiss reportedly faced at the New York Times when she defended the placement of that infamous Tom Cotton op-ed.<\/p>\n
At 60 Minutes, the moral of Sharyn Alfonsi\u2019s firing last week could be slimmed down to the fact that mouthing off to your bosses with an \u201cI-Am-Spartacus\u201d e-mail will seldom work out for you.<\/p>\n
Longtime CBS host and reporter Scott Pelley must have seen himself as Iron Man taking on Thanos, except the latter is former New York Times tech journalist and documentary filmmaker Nick Bilton, who was recently hired to man the stern of the 58-year-old show.<\/p>\n
In other words, Bilton won\u2019t be gracing the pages of this site.<\/p>\n
But because he lacks TV news experience, he must be cast off as the staff he now oversees demands Americans open the floodgates for mass, Third World migration.<\/p>\n
Pelley sought to do that by declaring to Bilton\u2019s face he had \u201cslender qualifications for this job\u201d and was hired by Weiss, who is \u201cmurdering\u201d the show and had \u201cno qualifications for her job.\u201d<\/p>\n
The CBS mainstay even attacked Bilton for having the gall to show up at \u201cour house,\u201d even though \u201cyou would never be welcomed here.\u201d<\/p>\n
And that invective is without Bilton even explaining what he\u2019d do at the show.<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, Pelley\u2019s lobs were reportedly met with numerous instances of applause.<\/p>\n
The insubordination is stunning. There\u2019s one set of rules the news media impose on the country, and another set of rules for themselves, including how we speak to our superiors.<\/p>\n
Bill Owens \u2014 Pelley\u2019s former longtime boss at 60 Minutes<\/i> \u2014 accepted a highfalutin award called the Gabe Pressman Truth to Power Award from the New York Press Club last night and spoke of his former colleague as though he were the infamous man standing in front of the tanks at Tiananmen Square.<\/p>\n
Owens professed his admiration for Pelley, taking on Bilton and Weiss, \u201can opinion writer best known for being an ideologue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cScott can smell a fraud from a mile away. He stood up the way I did a year ago and I couldn’t be prouder of him,\u201d he boasted.<\/p>\n
He added that shows like \u201c60 Minutes\u201d are \u201cinstitutions, not places where partisans and ideologues should be employed.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s laughable. It\u2019d be interesting to see whether Owens finds stories such as celebrating cops visiting homes in Germany over social media posts or asking Israelis held hostage by Hamas if their captors were suffering from starvation alongside them.<\/p>\n
And whether it was Steve Kroft\u2019s years of pillow-talks with Barack Obama or Lesley Stahl decreeing the Hunter Biden laptop \u201ccan\u2019t be verified,\u201d the country\u2019s leading newsmagazine has been a doormat for liberal narratives.<\/p>\n
The arrogance and belligerence of these D-List Captain Americas and Black Widows are not to be believed.<\/p>\n
Pelley and his fellow petulant children aren\u2019t the only ones screaming for attention.<\/p>\n
Karen Attiah also wants you to feel bad for her. On Monday, she announced that her September 2025 firing from The Washington Post for justifying Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination would be going to arbitration on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Posting on \u2014 where else? \u2014 Substack, she said her message that day was merely \u201ccomment[ing] on America\u2019s racial double standards in public discourse when it comes to political violence.\u201d For that, she insisted, she \u201cwas fired…without so much as a conversation\u201d and would be carrying into her hearing the \u201cprinciple\u201d of \u201cnewsroom diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fact-check: False. Her definition of \u201cnewsroom diversity\u201d means being Joy Reid with a pen and a right to cockamamie claims, such as Queen Elizabeth II being the personification of \u201cwhite Christian supremacy\u201d or Trump\u2019s 2016 defeat of Hillary Clinton being akin to \u201cmen stalking us on the street.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am fighting for journalists\u2019 rights to do their jobs, to comment on matters of public concern without fear of censorship, retaliation, or political pressure. And this is a battle well worth having,\u201d she beamed, later concluding with \u201cthe stakes are high, but I\u2019m ready\u201d and then \u201clet\u2019s go\u201d in bold.<\/p>\n
Attiah even went as far as to pose outside The Washington Post\u2019s K Street headquarters at night, illuminated in a blue dress while holding a rolled-up print edition and a fake red rose in her mouth.<\/p>\n
Joan of Arc, she is not.<\/p>\n
Never let elite, national reporters ever tell you they don’t want to or like being \u201cthe story.\u201d It\u2019s one of the biggest lies in America.<\/p>\n
They are the heroes of their own tall tales and the captains of their own souls.<\/p>\n
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