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MineralMan

(150,526 posts) Thu Dec 11, 2025, 10:17 AM Dec 11

Bari Weiss/Erika Kirk "Town Hall" Promos on CBS [View all]

Around CBS news programming, they're running promo ads touting the "Town Hall" featuring Erika Kirk and hosted by new CBS Editor in Chief Bari Weiss.

Having watched the promo several times now, it's clear to me that this will not be any sort of unbiased event. The promos include teary-eyed acting by Kirk and sympathetic questioning by Weiss.

This bodes very badly for all of CBS News. Combined with the announcement of Tony Dokoupil's takeover of the CBS Evening News, it demonstrates a new, heavily conservative lean for CBS News that is pretty frightening.

Looks like I'm going to be switching to another network for my evening news half hour.

This is some ugly shit, my friends. See the teaser on YouTube:

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Bari Weiss/Erika Kirk "Town Hall" Promos on CBS [View all] MineralMan Dec 11 OP

Insane. live love laugh Dec 11 #1

Not ONE question will be asked about her husband's rhetoric while he was alive. NCDem47 Dec 11 #2

The ratings will speak for themselves. C_U_L8R Dec 11 #3

They are showing this on a Saturday night newdeal2 Dec 11 #6

They should be LAUGHED off the air bucolic_frolic Dec 11 #4

My god. Look I'm very sorry about what happened but if you constantly are breaking down underpants Dec 11 #5

Yes. They're leading with sympathy-getting crap. MineralMan Dec 11 #8

Absolutely. I wonder how many CBS viewers will ask out loud underpants Dec 11 #19

This is not breaking down grief. It is dry tear sniffling Polly Hennessey Dec 11 #9

The most common comparison on line is Tammy Faye Baker underpants Dec 11 #21

CBS News is dead to me. Mr. Katy Tur? Please. And now this nonsense, CBS is Trump propaganda now. dem4decades Dec 11 #7

What do you say to people I made up? Qutzupalotl Dec 11 #10

CBS--the most persistent of all the Project Mockingbird agents IMO librechik Dec 11 #11

I associate cross necklaces with the worst sort of human beings. USS_Dauntless Dec 11 #12

The lead in question was disingenuous. karynnj Dec 11 #13

Have also dumped CBS Evening News. I now switch back/forth w/ABC & NBC, until they start w/the fluff stuff RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Dec 11 #14

Might I suggest using an old media for news? Radio rurallib Dec 11 #15

I use a broad range of sources for my news. MineralMan Dec 11 #16

Fuck CBS progressoid Dec 11 #17

Joy Reid weighs in SocialDemocrat61 Dec 11 #18

Another conservative voice silenced by the liberal media! Takket Dec 11 #20

oh look she's gone back to mourning black for the interview....no males to grope to comfort her msongs Dec 11 #22

She's a performance artist, just like her late husband. MineralMan Dec 11 #23

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