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UTUSN

(77,795 posts)
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 02:23 PM Feb 16

So Bari WEISS is keeping Peter ATTIA after all after EPSTEIN connections

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/14/cbs-peter-attia-jeffrey-epstein

Peter Attia appears to be staying at CBS News despite Epstein communications
Staffers believe network has decided to retain Attia, who issued apology after inappropriate Epstein emails, as on-air analyst

Two weeks after a trove of files revealed extensive – and inappropriate – communications between Jeffrey Epstein and a recently named CBS News contributor, the longevity expert Peter Attia, the network appears to have settled on keeping him. ....

Officially, CBS News has been silent about Attia, and declined to comment when asked on Friday. Attia is one of the 19 on-air contributors that editor-in-chief Bari Weiss said she was “so excited” to announce during an all-staff meeting on 27 January. ....

A search of Attia’s name in the justice department’s database returns 1,838 results. ....

(Jennifer Ashton, a one-time CBS News medical correspondent [said] : ) ... “The fact that CBS News hasn’t taken action is deeply troubling,” she wrote on Instagram. “People have been fired from network television for far less. Morality clauses exist for a reason. If documented language like this doesn’t cross that line, then the bar has fallen dangerously low.” ....

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Prairie Gates

(8,186 posts)
1. Recall that Attia mused about not knowing why women live past reproductive age in an email to Epstein
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 02:26 PM
Feb 16


That's who CBS News has decided to retain as a consultant on matters of health.

Prairie Gates

(8,186 posts)
3. We refuse to watch the second season of Kathy Bates' Matlock because of CBS News shenanigans
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 02:34 PM
Feb 16

Unfortunately, my Euro soccer addiction keeps me glued to Paramount + (Serie A, Champions League...)

UTUSN

(77,795 posts)
5. There was an article about a month ago speculating that the bottom line is what matters to ELLISON and
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 02:40 PM
Feb 16

that he's biding his time with his pick of WEISS, until she sinks herself. Cash matters to the fatcats even more (somewhat) than ideology.









Initech

(108,797 posts)
7. Seriously, if we ever get out of this, Paramount needs to be broken up.
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 02:41 PM
Feb 16

And Larry Ellison along with the rest of the billionaire criminals need to be arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit treason against the United States.

flvegan

(66,287 posts)
6. So Bari Weiss may be choosing to proctect a possible pedophile?
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 02:40 PM
Feb 16

Interesting choice to make with a network you recently took over and are currently running into pure shit. Probably get a hefty bonus for these fuckups.

Dumbasses.

Marie Marie

(11,322 posts)
9. Can't wait for her day of reckoning when her ass is introduced to the curb.
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 04:51 PM
Feb 16

Don't think she is long for that job.

Kid Berwyn

(24,432 posts)
10. "It isn't a crime to party with Mr. Epstein."
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 04:56 PM
Feb 16

Quoting Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

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