Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱
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VP Resrch/Pubs @TheMRC & @NewsBusters editor. @WeeklyStandard's @FredBarnes dubbed me “scourge of liberal bias” @Capitals hockey fan. @WeStutter chapter leader.
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Scott Pelley fires back at President Trump during The New York Times podcast with Lulu NYT. Pelley: “I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country.” Citing his experience covering combat: “I’m not aware that the President of the United States has ever done any of those things for his country.” Pelley, getting emotional: “‘Stupid.’ I can take that. ‘Stiff,’ yeah, probably. ‘Don’t care about the country.’ I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in fox holes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the President of the United States has ever done any of those things for his country....You become a journalist because you love the country....There is no democracy without journalism. It can’t be done. And that is why I am a journalist.”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱1,337,096 views • 18 days ago
Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss needs to be removed from CBS News because she, not he and CBS News, are biased: “She brings an ideology into CBS News where that is just anathema.” And he equates running CBS News to flying a 747. Lulu NYT, The New York Times The Interview podcast host: “Do you think Barry Weiss needs to be removed?” Pelley: “Oh, gosh, yes. She’s a lovely person. And her Free Press organization that she founded has been very successful. She’s proven that, great for her. But television’s not her thing. She brings an ideology into CBS News where that is just anathema. And so it’s a terrible fit. It’s probably not her fault. But it’s just a terrible fit. She doesn’t know television. She doesn’t understand how it works. She doesn’t have management experience for a large organization like CBS News. So yes, I do think that we would be far better off without her. Maybe she goes back to the Free Press and has a sterling career. But this is like somebody walking up to me and saying, there’s a 747. There are 400 people on it. We need you to fly it to Paris. I’m going to decline because I don’t have a clue.”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱435,190 views • 18 days ago
Joy Reid at Sunday night's Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment: “Scott Pelley fired from CBS by the clack of far-right ideologues who bought it and handed it over to a zealot named Bari Weiss, who may soon also control CNN... “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert fired after more than 30 years that show was on the air because a certain orange asshole, whose name is no longer on the Kennedy Center, cannot take a joke!”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱178,890 views • 10 days ago
Don’t want Iran to lose if it means Trump wins. Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times really wants “to see Iran defeated militarily because this regime is a terrible regime for its people and the region,” but on CNN’s Michael Smerconish he fretted “the problem is I really don’t want to see Bibi Netanyahu or Donald Trump politically strengthened by this war because they are too awful human beings. They are both engaged in anti-democratic projects in their own countries. They’re both alleged crooks. They are terrible, terrible people doing terrible things to America’s standing in the world and Israel’s standing in the world.”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱1,162,005 views • 2 months ago
On #RTOvertime, bill mahar scoffed at calling Scott Pelley “a national treasure.” Maher: “I just don’t think being a 60 Minutes correspondent is that hard. I don’t feel like Scott Pelley was a national treasure. Companies change hands all the time. I never liked him. Sorry, I just never did. Companies change hands. People bring in their own people, their new ownership. Just because something changes doesn’t mean – I feel like we see everything through such a partisan lens. ‘Oh my God, 60 Minutes has a new cast.’ So does Saturday Night Live.”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱154,973 views • 19 days ago
Brian Williams is back. New Netflix show, We’re Back with Brian Williams, debuted today. Question to guest Tom Hanks: “Do you still recognize the core of America? There was a book written about the Rehnquist court, which is so quaint now, and the title was ‘The Center Holds,’ and that title’s always stayed with me. Do you think the center will hold?” (Long answer from Hanks, I'll sum up as yes)
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱36,303 views • 7 days ago
12:53 AM ET. The end. The final 90 seconds of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱179,796 views • 1 month ago
CBS’s Margaret Brennan delivered a very generous look back at opening of the Obama Presidential Center “to honor and celebrate the legacy of the nation’s first black President” where Barack Obama “spoke of America’s resilience and urged them to reject division and recommit to each other” and “was visibly moved by a speech from Michelle Obama.” After that clip of Michelle Obama praising her husband for “doing the people’s work” and “winning a peace prize,” Brennan ended by touting how “the Obama Presidential Center is somewhat of a departure from tradition. It was designed to be a place for the community to gather and includes a 19-acre park, a branch of the Chicago public library and an NBA-sized basketball court.”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱17,465 views • 4 days ago
On Face The Nation Jan Crawford Crawford scolded the press corps in naming her “under-reported” story of the year: “There is a narrative the Supreme Court is corrupt. We saw that emerge in the wake of the Dobbs decision...and now we see it that they’re in the tank for Trump. Not only is that narrative over-reported, it is patently false, and it is dangerous for the institution and the public’s faith and confidence in the rule of law.”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱601,520 views • 5 months ago
Good question from Brit Hume: “If we cannot as a nation decide not to continue a subsidy that was imposed, or was enacted, during a national health emergency and was designed to be temporary and that all the Democrats voted to have be temporary, if we can’t let that expire, what hope do we ever have of getting government spending under control?”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱723,352 views • 7 months ago
John Dickerson: “Make the case for PBS.” BS from Ken Burns on Face The Nation: “It is the Declaration of Independence applied to the communications world....It mainly serves rural areas in which the PBS signal may be the only signal they get. They have...homeland security, crop reports, weather, emergency information. That we’re going to take away? This seems foolhardy and seems misguided mainly because there is a perception among a handful of people that this is somehow a blue or a left wing thing when this is the place that for 32 years gave William F. Buckley a show.”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱897,692 views • 11 months ago
How President Trump abruptly ended his Meet the Press interview with Kristen Welker from Friday inside a barn in Wisconsin often hampered by loud noise of rain. Trump: “You’re one-sided crooked networks. Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.” Welker: “Mr. President, please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin.” Trump: “I sat in the rain with you for an hour, on and off in the rain, and I’ve given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press because you know what? Our country can never be great with a dishonest press.”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱45,970 views • 18 days ago
NBC’s Kristen Welker pressed Lindsey Graham to condemn Elon Musk: President Trump “has also blamed Charlie Kirk’s assassination on what he called ‘the radical left.’ Elon Musk though posted on X, quote ‘the left is the party of murder.’ We are hearing some of those same messages on Capitol Hill. Senator, do you believe this is the right message for this moment?”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱617,315 views • 9 months ago
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George Stephanopoulos opened This Week in high-dungeon over presidential corruption: “This unprecedented money making by a sitting President and his family summarized by critics like The Atlantic’s David Frum: ‘Nothing like this has been attempted or even imagined in the history of the American presidency,’ he writes. ‘Throw away the history books, discard feeble comparisons to scandals of the past....The brazenness resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House. This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a post-colonial African dictatorship.’”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱652,724 views • 1 year ago
“Barack Obama said that the most important words in the English language are ‘we.’ And I think that speaks volumes for who they are and what they represent, ‘we.’” MAGA-coded CBS News? Not so much. Gayle King enthused on CBS Mornings over Obama Presidential Center: “I want to go back. I took a tour on Wednesday, three hours and it still wasn’t enough time. A three hour tour because I wanted to see and hear everything.... “What got me yesterday were the performances, and Michelle Obama and Barack Obama’s speeches. We all know what great speakers they are, but I think it all came flooding back to so many people how much their words and how powerful they are. Barack Obama said that the most important words in the English language are ‘we.’ And I think that speaks volumes for who they are and what they represent, ‘we.’”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱13,492 views • 6 days ago
Kamala Harris received the Chairman’s Award at #NAACPImageAwards aired on CBS: “Some see the flames on the horizon, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy and ask, what do we do now?...This chapter will be written not simply by whoever occupies the Oval Office, nor by the wealthiest among us. The American story will be written by you, written by us, by we the people.”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱781,796 views • 1 year ago
#StartTheClock Megyn Kelly: “We had a four years of Trump. Trump did not go after his political enemies with the Dept of Justice. That was Biden and Harris.” Bill Maher: “We had Hitler in the 30s and things were okay and then we had Hitler in the 40s and they got way worse.”
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱917,221 views • 1 year ago