‘60 Minutes’ airs scathing segment on ‘first felon in the Oval Office’ despite pressure to avoid sensitive stories about Trump
‘60 Minutes’ airs scathing segment on ‘first felon in the Oval Office’ despite pressure to avoid sensitive stories about Trump
60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley reported on President Donald Trump’s efforts to strong-arm some of the country’s top law firms into doing his bidding
Veteran 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley reported on Donald Trump’s efforts to strong-arm some of the country’s top law firms into doing his bidding on Sunday night’s episode of the embattled CBS newsmagazine.
Pelley’s segment pulled no punches in describing Trump’s efforts and reminding viewers that Trump is the “first felon” ever to sit in the Oval Office.
Make no mistake, the only reason we're seeing this in the media now is because big business is getting hit. Mostly a shot in the foot with tariffs but let's keep those boycotts up!
I assume the big boys lost more money from the tariff insanity than they made from getting their next tax cut. Losing money is the only thing they do not tolerate because it hurts them in their inhouse pissing contest on who can be the biggest societal parasite.
Absolutely. This kind of media is owned (literally) by big business investors. I know it's obvious but it needs to be said plainly, mass media is the mouthpiece of the rich. It's no coincidence that Musk bought Xitter and Bezos bought Washington Post.
They will only cry alongside us when they're being hurt. They sure didn't care until now.
Only nine years too late.
Still, hope this marks the start of a trend.
I hate 60 minutes but watched that on YouTube. Anything to piss on trumps shallow ego.
This is what every journalist in America needs to be doing right now.
I would argue it's what every journalist in America should have been doing 8 FUCKING YEARS AGO, but no, they helped create this monster so they could report on it. They are a human/media centipede crossed with an Ouroboros eating it's own shit. Support independent media, not partisan sources in either direction, they're ALL compromised by capital.
OK, but this is also what every journalist needs to be doing right now.
Pretty terrifying honestly.
I'm kind of astonished that even republicans can't see anything wrong with everything happening. Like conservative ideals are one thing but dismantling the rule of law is a whole other thing.
I've lived in several countries and watched conservatives in all of them over half a century. Nothing I have seen has ever changed my view that conservatism is pathological selfishness disguised as a political philosophy. While other political movements agree on making life better for people in general but disagree on how to do it, conservatives indulge their personality disorder, call it politics, and demand to be taken as seriously as those who actually try.
And it’s so overwhelmingly male and (usually) white. Though that can sway depending on country. Seems they want to go back to owning slaves. And feel equality is oppression somehow.
Though there is a growing amount of white ladies now I want to see rot in prison.
The only reason why Trump’s approval rating has sunk a bit amongst conservatives is that tariffs are directly affecting them. As you said, they are selfishness incarnate.
Well said
Uh... What did you think conservatives stood for again? Conservatism has always been about putting wealth in the hands of the few and scapegoating vulnerable people to distract the masses; everything else is camouflage.
Capitalism is the entropy lottery, and the more you remove the graphite the more the reaction runs away toward total meltdown
Conservatism is the belief that we should ban pencils because how dare you limit my chances even a little before everything breaks
Yeah but you're upset about the country falling apart. They got what they wanted, they're "owning the libs" because we're "so mad about Trump winning." For a lot of them it's that simple, they just want to see people upset, it's fun to them.
A certain philosopher seems spot-on about the nature of our enemy.
JEAN PAUL SARTE
They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The antisemites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.
If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.
[The anti-Semite attributes] all or part of his own misfortunes and those of his country to the presence of Jewish elements in the community, ... proposes to remedy this state of affairs by depriving the Jews of certain of their rights, by keeping them out of certain economic and social activities, by expelling them from the country, by exterminating all of them ....
It is not unusual for people to elect to live a life of passion rather than of reason. But ordinarily they love the objects of passion: women, glory, power, money. Since the anti-Semite has chosen hate, we are forced to conclude that it is the state of passion that he loves.
[The anti-Semite] fears every kind of solitariness… however small his stature, he takes every precaution to make it smaller, lest he stand out from the herd and find himself face to face with himself. He has made himself an anti-Semite because that is something one cannot be alone.
[The anti-Semite is afraid] of himself, of his own consciousness, of his own liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and the world – of everything except the Jews. [He is] a coward who does not want to admit his cowardice to himself.
Anti-Semitism, in short, is fear of the human condition. The anti-Semite is a man who wishes to be a pitiless stone, a furious torrent, a devastating thunderbolt – anything except a man.
It's insane, because it's not some sassy or hyperbolic report. It's perfectly measured and...logical. A well made report.
Extortion of law firms. What the fucking hell scared these businesses so much? Just stopping federal contracts with them?
And with that threat looming overhead, how do they not have the motivation to quietly resist? You want to talk about respecting the law and fighting back - that's who needs to do it.
Except they bent the knee anyway. We know they're just as complicit in the Regimes acts now.
And that's just one issue.
A lot of cowards in powerful positions.
A lot of PAID cowards in powerful positions.
It’s a shit spot to be in, as basically all of them work cases in federal court. If your lawyers are physically prevented entry to federal property because some orange buffoon bans the entire firm by the stroke of a pen, that law firm is completely impotent and unable to argue in federal cases, even those that don’t end up in a courtroom. Judges chambers, pre-trial motions, informal meetings, etc all are impossible or vastly more difficult.
It was a very targeted and deliberate move to put these firms in a lose:lose scenario - give an absurd amount of pro-bono work to your abuser, or wither and die as your clients are forced to move to another firm:
The orders threatened to bar attorneys from where they work, courthouses and federal agencies and cancel the contracts of law firm clients. For example, an aerospace company could lose its federal contracts if it stayed with the firm. A senior partner at one firm told us the president's orders were, quote, "diabolical." "Intended to bankrupt [us]."
Man that's such a small detail I glossed over, that they can bar them from courthouses.
Lawyers and law firms lean very very heavily on relationships. Far too much honestly. Who your lawyer knows really shouldn't matter when it comes to legel matters, but often it means more than the law. So being in the sights of the leader of the republican party really reduces the image of a lawyer with connections. Thus it is very very bad for business.
I never realized until Trump came along how strong the urge to lick boots is in humanity - because if anyone is in exactly the right position with the capabilities and know how it these high-powered firms. And yet they'd rather supplicate themselves? Pathetic.
it's safer, and already successful people hate taking risks that threaten their status.
Jesus Christ. What subject, other than abject flattery, is Trump not sensitive about? No matter what they do, any story that's based remotely on fact is gonna piss that fragile little man off, so why not just have at him?
Good on Pelley.
Glad legacy media still has a few balls left
I love this. It's kind of a rule of the internet that if you tell it to stop doing something it'll just make everyone more determined. I want to see every group that interacts with the administration be so resolute to give them shit.
It’s called the Streisand effect
Nah thats not really the same thing. Streisand effect is when people learn about something they wouldnt have otherwise known about.
The almighty power of spite.
This is real journalism, which has become increasingly rare these days. Everything else is just PR.
With any luck this gives the fat orange duck a fatal heart attack.
Anyone have a link to th video?
I suspect it's this one. Looks like 60 minutes posts their show online on their website.
Edit-- turns out they also publish the show as a podcast (which I prefer)
60 Minutes
As I always say, that'll teach'm.
That pesky first amendment comes back to bite again!
Ah, so more compromised media sources creating hype and WWE theater spectacle out of a crisis they helped create.
I am done with the "nightly news segment" Uroboros of creating massive problems then reporting on the massive problems they made.
edit: keep whinging, this is just another "cut to YOUR fighter" segment that makes everything think "whoohoo we're winning!" and feeds this cycle of thinking someone is in control, that there's an actual "back and forth." There is no "back and forth." There is nobody coming. There is nobody in charge. This is all so much worse than even the best media reporting is letting on.
Shut the fuck up with that.
Networks and even shows aren't a giant monolith.
This is a good, ballsy move by actual journalists that is going to upset a lot of people and get a lot of pushbavk, even from within.
This should be getting acclaim, not...whatever lazy defeatest response this is.
Ah so more defeatist thinking then? Good job.
If moving to independent media or at least better sources like Ruiters, AP or even Ground or just triangulating multiple sources so you can get a better grasp of the truth before CBS helps create a situation they make money from while pretending to be "news" is considered "Defeatist" then yes, I am defeated and you should be too.
60 Minutes finally found their spine? They’ve been barely tolerable for a while now with poor reporting. Looks like getting attacked personally was what it took to hit back with actual accuracy.
My only hope at this point is that, by firing most of NOAA, they somehow miss or are otherwise unprepared for a freak hurricane that blows right through DC while congress is in session and Trump is doing a photo op while signing a new bullshit order.
Is there anywhere to download this before the taping goes missing
Assuming you use Linux here you go: https://flathub.org/apps/org.nickvision.tubeconverter
So i imagine there are lose window frames and a Boeing executor somewhere near by this bloke from now on