“The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back”

Bari Weiss, like many right-wing media figures, was discovered by a billionaire as a useful bigot during her college years. Her lucrative career is owed to her ability to tell wealthy men what they want to hear. She's Charlie Kirk, but with Ivy League, legacy media arrogance.

Bari Weiss's rationale for holding that 60 Minutes segment can't possibly be taken at face value

The 60 Minutes episode about CECOT was not only worth running, it was an exceptionally powerful work of journalism that made clear the US government has embraced torture. You can read the transcript here:

Come on, folks. SOMEONE needed to have a "Pro-sending-immigrants-to-for-profit-concentration-camps" voice in the piece. Next at 60 Minutes: Stephen Miller in the old Andy Rooney spot.

The statement from @bariweiss is complete BULLSHIT. If the story wasn't ready as you claim... WHY THE FUCK WERE YOU ADVERTISING IT? WHY THE FUCK DID IT HAVE AN AIR DATE ? WHY DID YOU WAIT TILL THE NIGHT BEFORE TO PULL IT? It's all BULLSHIT. I do not believe a word you say.

For those of us warning about democracy's potential disintegration, the decision by CBS to pull an exhaustively researched 60 Minutes piece, critical of Trump, is another red alert moment. When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.

Just because it never fails to amuse here’s Bari Weiss’ bust that she had installed in tribute to herself by the front doors of her fake university.

Bari Weiss is best understood as an anti-speech activist on behalf of power. This is through line from her start trying to get professors fired for critiquing Israel to running interference for Elon Musk to now working as regime censor for Trump at CBS

Bari Weiss is just Elise Stefanik without the winning personality.

Dear @CBS whoever you replace @bariweiss with, make sure this one knows more about TV than just how to turn the set on🤦🏼‍♂️

If you think Bari Weiss killed this segment because of journalistic integrity, and not because there's been a systematic takeover of news and social media by right-wing billionaires to push curated pro-Trump propaganda, then you're not paying attention. https://t.co/ti5XmdqYQR

Key point from a CBS staffer here re: Weiss saying employees should "assume the best intent" of colleagues, meaning her: “Lecturing us about trust when everything she does is secretive. She hasn’t done anything to earn our trust.”

NYT's @grynbaum suggests Weiss didn't pull the CECOT segment because of editorial issues -- it was about not angering Trump because David Ellison of Paramount needs his backing for his hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery https://t.co/YxAE6Z7Trw

I mainly come on twitter every few months or so just for the admittedly unpleasant fun of reposting this old thing https://t.co/IahG3PJD5e

Was journalistic malpractice for the U.S. Army to publicize what was going on at the Nazi concentration camps without getting some on the record quotes from Himmler

This aged perfectly

Occam's razor. DOJ hasn't released key documents, including the original 60-count draft indictment of Epstein and the victim statements. Why? DOJ really doesn't want us to read them. Why does DOJ care so much about these? Because they directly or indirectly implicate Trump.

“The problem isn’t some mistaken redactions and non-redactions. The problem is the administration has decided simply not to release key documents, like the victim statements and the 60-count draft indictment of Epstein. We’re in the midst of a coverup.” https://t.co/NhJd1FhFT5

Bari Weiss is pretty lucky the Dunning-Kruger effect already has a name