CBS Decides That NOT Airing Associates Of Sex-Trafficking Pedophiles Would Be Woke
from the Walter-Cronkite-Is-Rolling-Over-In-His-Grave dept
We’ve noted how Bari Weiss’ tenure at CBS (or what’s left of it) isn’t really going very well. Hired by Trump-allied billionaire Larry Ellison to turn what’s left of CBS into a right wing extraction class-friendly agitprop mill, Weiss has been accosted on all sides for her clumsy mismanagement, ham-fisted enabling of government censorship, uninteresting propaganda, and just general incompetence.
But wait, there’s more!
Not that long ago, Weiss hired a whole bunch of new contributors to the CBS News masthead. Two of them were purported medical and science experts. One was Andrew Huberman, a wellness influencer derided for inconsistent principles not even three years removed from a scandal revealing that he’d overstated his scholarly work and lied to a half dozen of his sexual partners simultaneously.
The other new contributor, Dr. Peter Attia, is another health and wellness influencer whose advice has been utterly unavoidable online in recent years. Unfortunately for Attia, shortly after being picked up as a regular new contributor to CBS, the news broke that he was very heavily present in the Jeffrey Epstein files, with more than 1,800 references to his enthusiastic interactions with the sex-trafficking pedophile.
The revelations created a short-lived scandal featuring some fleeting introspection into the fact that modern U.S. media keeps elevating people with a giant sucking sound where ethics should be, followed by some short-lived hand wringing about how his qualifications aren’t commensurate with his fame:
“Many doctors have also criticized Dr. Attia’s credentials: He completed medical school and spent several years as a resident in general surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, but dropped out before the residency was over, then left the medical field to work at McKinsey & Company and an energy company before opening his health care practice. He is not board certified in any specialty.”
It’s been a pretty heated news cycle and it hasn’t really died down yet. Enter Bari Weiss, who appears to have personally ensured that Attia won’t be losing his job at the “new” CBS.
CBS is refusing to comment publicly, but reporting from inside the dying outlet indicates that Bari Weiss didn’t like the idea of “cancelling” Attia because that’s the sort of thing “the wokes” would do:
“Everyone internally unofficially concluded he was staying as of about a week ago,” one CBS News staffer told the outlet, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Another added: “We’re pissed off about it.”
However much Weiss tries to pretend that she’s trying to shift CBS’ focus back to “truth telling journalism” and speaking to “real Americans,” every single action she makes operates in obvious service to the extraction class that hired her, from peddling Erika Kirk as a person of importance, to trying to block stories about Trump’s concentration camps, to running cover for the buddy of a pedophile sex pest.
Weiss knows it’s unethical to retain Attia, based on the network’s refusal to air a rerun of his recent 60 minutes appearance. She just doesn’t care. And like the kind of folks who hired her, she’s eager to perpetuate the idea that meaningful accountability shouldn’t exist for the rich people she associates with.
Filed Under: accountability, agitprop, bari weiss, cbs news, epstein files, jeffrey epstein, journalism, news, peter attia
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Comments on “CBS Decides That NOT Airing Associates Of Sex-Trafficking Pedophiles Would Be Woke”
Well, yes. If being tied to Epstein could keep you off TV, they’d have to stop doing puff pieces with members of the Trump admin and ‘Maga curious’ Bari could never allow that.
I’m not seeing evidence that Weiss thinks it would be woke to fire Attia(and therefore won’t do it) in any of the links, but it’s still pretty damn insane that she doesn’t care about his association with a known sex trafficker.
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Is she trying to channel ms. g. maxwell?
Lower case intentional, that ilk doesn’t deserve to have names in caps.
Re: You can be one OR the other, not both
It’s not possible to be MAGAt and have ‘Being associated with a known sex trafficker’ be a deal-breaker at this point.
The irony that these bigots and failsons were the same people who believed in QAnon and Pizzagate, while also crying “protect the children”. Turns out all their fears of pedophilia and obsession with child protection was a distraction to protect their own thirsts to not protect children.
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They never believed, they knew about Epstein and Trump, qAnon was only ever about muddying the water, distracting from Trump’s behaviour and directing the angry mobs who already had heads full of Satanic Panic bullpoop towards people they already hated. The whole thing originated on forums the likes of Epstein and Bannon were already using for personal gain, that says it all.
But they’ll be happy to fire anyone who accurately describes Charlie Kirk as a scummy hatemonger.
“Extraction class” or “Epstein class”?
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They’re the same picture.
MAGA is pedophiles all the way down. Never underestimate the power of highly-motivated pedophilic losers.
I’m just going to assume that leadership of CBS are also pedophiles. Along with any of the companies that give in without a fight. Seems to have accurately applied to a few so far.
How can you be considered a medical doctor if you don’t finish your residency?
Lucky for CBS they have Colbert. Otherwise I wouldn’t watch it at all.
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Uh, about that…
Not that I agree with the right wing much, but guilt by association is something else fascist do. (and communists, and a myriad of religion based legal systems also)
My Dad’s family circled the wagons around my uncle who started abusing his toddler siblings when he was fourteen (my dad is one of eleven kids). We also know he went on to do the same to his own grandson. My immediate family washed our hands of him, but now we are the pariahs for calling my uncle what he is. It’s easy to condemn sexual abuse when you have zero stakes in it (social, familial, and yes, even professional). It’s why after decades of knowing otherwise, we still have to educate people that sexual assault is rarely a stranger in a dark alley. It’s usually someone you know/respect/love, etc. My dad did everything his brother asked of him for years (despite being one of his victims), and it was only after finding out about his great nephew that he completely walked away from him and all the family apologists. Bari Weiss is a tool, and I’m sure she’s hiding behind the thin ideological cover of anti wokeness to justify her behavior, but when you stand to lose everything, even sexual abuse becomes easy to explain away. It’s true for everyone. Not just the Epstein class.