Left Wing Loons Letterman and his ex-Producer Barbara Gaines attach Bari Weiss

The Curious Case of CBS’s Sudden Standards

So let me get this straight: Barbara Gaines and David Letterman—those stalwart defenders of meritocracy and women in leadership—are now weeping into their old CBS coffee mugs because Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press and former New York Times opinion editor, has taken the helm as Editor-in-Chief of CBS News.

Weiss, who built a multi-million dollar media company and earned her stripes at the Gray Lady, is somehow unqualified. Yet when she was safely ensconced in left-wing journalism, her credentials were impeccable. Funny how that works.

Here’s the delicious irony: Gaines herself is a Jewish, gay, married woman—precisely the demographic liberals claim to champion. Yet when another Jewish, gay, married woman achieves spectacular success outside the approved ideological boundaries, suddenly the sisterhood vanishes. Identity politics, it turns out, has fine print: terms and conditions apply only to those with correct opinions.

Letterman mourns the ghost of Edward R. Murrow while trashing a woman whose career has been dedicated to the kind of tough, independent journalism Murrow practiced—asking uncomfortable questions, challenging groupthink, refusing to genuflect before sacred cows.

But Weiss committed journalism’s unforgivable sin: she left the reservation. She questions prevailing orthodoxies. She thinks viewpoint diversity matters in newsrooms. She believes CBS News should cover stories all Americans care about, not just Manhattan-approved narratives.

When a woman succeeds by toeing the party line, she’s a hero. When she thinks independently, she’s an “idiot” destroying sacred institutions.

Weiss aims to restore CBS’s reputation for “fearless journalism.” Perhaps that’s what really terrifies them.

Weiss, who built a multi-million dollar media company and earned her stripes at the Gray Lady, a job which she nobly walked out of when her own colleagues started attacking her for not being woke enough. is somehow unqualified. Yet when she was safely ensconced in left-wing journalism, her credentials were impeccable. Funny how that works.

Letterman mourns the ghost of Edward R. Murrow while trashing a woman whose entire career has been dedicated to the kind of tough, independent journalism Murrow himself practiced—asking uncomfortable questions, challenging groupthink, refusing to genuflect before sacred cows.

But here’s the rub: Weiss committed journalism’s unforgivable sin. She left the reservation. She questions the prevailing orthodoxies. She thinks viewpoint diversity matters in newsrooms. She believes—radical notion—that CBS News should cover stories all Americans care about, not just those approved by the Manhattan intelligentsia.

The hypocrisy is rich enough to choke on. When a woman succeeds by toeing the party line, she’s a hero. When she dares to think independently, suddenly she’s an “idiot” destroying sacred institutions.

Weiss aims to restore CBS’s reputation for “fearless journalism.” Perhaps that’s what really terrifies them—a news operation that won’t automatically genuflect before their politics.