Young people won&#8217;t know it, but there was a day — not too long ago, at least for me — when you just didn&#8217;t miss &#8220;60 Minutes.&#8221; On Monday morning, at the water cooler (I said I was old!), everyone was talking about the latest installment.
The news show was born in 1968, hosted by real newsmen Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner. Don Hewitt, who had been a producer of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, ran the show. Over the years, the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, the show featured a veritable who&#8217;s who of non-fake journalists.
But that was then. Nowadays, &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; stars highly partisan celebrity &#8220;journalists&#8221; like Anderson Cooper, Norah O&#8217;Donnell, Scott Pelley and the like.
Then there&#8217;s Leslie Stahl, 81, who has been with CBS for 52 years. It doesn&#8217;t get more partisan than Stahl.
In the show&#8217;s latest installment on Sunday, Stahl opened a biased piece on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) with this: &#8220;It&#8217;s rare for a member of the House of Representatives to become well known nationally, especially someone in only their second term. But Marjorie Taylor Greene, MTG, is as famous as they get. She&#8217;s gained her national celebrity, some say notoriety, with a sharp tongue and some pretty radical views.&#8221;
Well. That&#8217;s certainly not the intro you&#8217;d expect for another three-letter initialism: AOC, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). But it&#8217;s entirely OK for the media to call conservatives notorious and radical. Imagine the caterwauling you&#8217;d hear from the MSM if you called AOC that!
Oh, then Stahl dropped that MTG &#8220;has a history of believing in conspiracy theories.&#8221; Real journalism, there.
Stahl jumped right in during the interview proper, asking Greene why she &#8220;styled&#8221; herself &#8220;after Donald Trump.&#8221; Then, using the old &#8220;some say&#8221; trope, Stahl said, &#8220;many consider Marjorie Taylor Greene&#8217;s behavior outlandish, even thuggish.&#8221;
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For good measure, she threw in that &#8220;MAGA activists and right-wing media eat it up.&#8221;
Had enough &#8220;journalism&#8221; yet? Too bad, we&#8217;ve got more.
Stahl told the lawmaker that &#8220;economic and financial catastrophe&#8221; (yes, both economic and financial) could occur if Congress doesn&#8217;t raise the federal debt ceiling.
&#8220;You know, what is an economic catastrophe is, again, the people that have spent $31 trillion that forced this situation to happen,&#8221; Greene said, noting that both Republicans and Democrats are to blame.
Stahl mansplained a bit, then asked MTG if she&#8217;d be willing to &#8220;raise some taxes.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we have a revenue problem in Washington. We have a spending problem,&#8221; the congresswoman said.
Stahl literally rolled her eyes. With the disdain only achievable by Manhattan limousine liberals, Stahl said: &#8220;You know something, that&#8217;s glib. That&#8217;s glib. That&#8217;s &#8212; what does that mean?&#8221;
MTG explained but not to Stahl&#8217;s liking. The journalist then opined that there are things MTG says that are &#8220;over the top, like the Democrats are a party of pedophiles.&#8221;
&#8220;I would definitely say so. They support grooming children,&#8221; Greene said.
Stahl rolled her eyes again. Then she puffed out her cheeks and blew out a scornful breath. &#8220;They are not pedophiles. Why would you say that?&#8221; Stahl said.
&#8220;Democrats support, even Joe Biden the president himself, supports children being sexualized and having transgender surgeries, sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to children,&#8221; MTG said.
And less than a minute later, as Greene sought to explain further, the edited piece just drowns her out with Stahl talking over her.
Stahl dropped some more disdain about &#8220;flyover country&#8221; when she said of MTG that &#8220;most of her constituents in her conservative, largely white, working-class district agree with her on the issues and especially like the way she fights for her beliefs.&#8221; Imagine that, constituents agreeing with the representative they elected to Congress.
At the end of the segment, Stahl sought to paint MTG as the face of the GOP. &#8220;You want to bring the Republican Party closer to your views. You want to bring the country closer to your views,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;The question for her and the country is: Can she expand her brash MTG brand beyond the Right-wing populists base?&#8221;
There you have it, &#8220;journalism&#8221; in 2023. And yet another reason you don&#8217;t need to watch &#8220;60 Minutes.&#8221;
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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‘60 Minutes’ Does A Hatchet Job On MTG; Host Rolls Her Eyes At Congresswoman

'60 Minutes' Does A Hatchet Job On Marjorie Taylor Greene; Host Rolls Her Eyes At Congresswoman

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On Tuesday, after he was interviewed by Lesley Stahl of CBS News, President Trump took a new step in holding the mainstream media’s feet to the fire, tweeting that he was considering releasing the tape of the full interview prior to airtime so that the public could see it in full before the network selectively edited it.
President Trump tweeted: “I am pleased to inform you that, for the sake of accuracy in reporting, I am considering posting my interview with Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes, PRIOR TO AIRTIME! This will be done so that everybody can get a glimpse of what a FAKE and BIASED interview is all about. Everyone should compare this terrible Electoral Intrusion with the recent interviews of Sleepy Joe Biden!&#8221;
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&#8230;Everyone should compare this terrible Electoral Intrusion with the recent interviews of Sleepy Joe Biden!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1318675789248946176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Over the years, there have been numerous instances where the mainstream media has selectively edited or distorted what Trump has said, lending credence to his argument for releasing the full Stahl interview tape.
For example, the Media Research Council <a href="https://www.realclearpolicy.com/video/2019/01/25/did_cnn_selectively_edit_trump_clip.html">accused CNN</a> of deceptively editing what Trump said about protecting the LGBTQ community after the massacre at the Pulse nightclub.
As far back as September 2016, when Trump was still a presidential candidate, after he spoke to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly about terrorism and appropriate U.S. precautions, CNN <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/296753-cnn-falsely-adds-racial-to-trump-vetting-comments">blazed</a> across their chyron, &#8220;Trump Says &#8216;Racial Profiling&#8217; Will Stop Terror.”
But Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-doubles-down-its-lie-trump-suggested-racial-frank-camp">never spoke</a> of &#8220;racial profiling&#8221; during the exchange, only &#8220;profiling.&#8221; In fact, he hadn’t even used the phrase &#8220;racial profiling&#8221; and went after O’Reilly for singling out &#8220;Muslims&#8221; instead of behavior and geography. &#8220;You said Muslims, Bill, not me,&#8221; said Trump.
In November 2017, CNN, cherry-picking a Trump quote, headlined a story: &#8220;<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/06/news/economy/trump-japan-autos-fact-check/index.html">Trump asks Japan to build cars in the U.S. It already does</a>.&#8221; CNN wrote, &#8220;Japanese automakers have tried: The country&#8217;s big three car companies already have huge factories in the U.S., and their production in the country is at a record high.&#8221;
As The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-cherry-picks-trump-quote-claim-president-emily-zanotti">Daily Wire</a> noted:
<blockquote>In fact, Trump is aware — and a full reading of his speech indicates that he might actually be more aware than CNN. According to Trump&#8217;s full remarks, the President not only acknowledged a U.S.-Japanese partnership in auto manufacturing, he specifically praised several automakers present for their stateside production, He even thanks two automakers by name for their American production plans (emphasis ours).</blockquote>
Even <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/06/does-trump-not-know-japanese-cars-are-built-in-the-u-s-only-if-you-totally-cherrypick-his-quote/">The Washington Post</a> slammed CNN, writing, “[T]his is completely unfair to Trump. A look at this fuller remarks makes clear he did know that Japanese cars are built in the United States. He even talked about it at-length and praised the manufacturers for the amount of jobs they&#8217;ve created here.”
In April 2019, media members such as CNN&#8217;s Ana Navarro and MSNBC’s Joy Reid <a href="https://dw-site-dev.dailywire.com/news/far-left-activists-democrats-media-spread-ryan-saavedra">implied</a> that Trump had referred to illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers as “animals.” A deceptively-edited video clip claimed Trump had done so, when in fact he had referred to members of the notoriously hyper-violent MS-13 street gang.

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Trump: I Might Post Full Stahl Interview So You Can See How Biased It Was

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President Donald Trump released a video on Tuesday afternoon of &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; reporter Lesley Stahl — who had a serious case of the coronavirus that <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lesley-stahl-cbs-news-60-minutes-coronavirus-battle/">required</a> hospitalization earlier this year — not wearing a mask inside the White House and not social distancing.
&#8220;Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes not wearing a mask in the White House after her interview with me,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Much more to come.&#8221;
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Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes not wearing a mask in the White House after her interview with me. Much more to come. <a href="https://t.co/0plZG6a4fH">pic.twitter.com/0plZG6a4fH</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1318644698341408769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The video comes after there was apparently some sort of incident during the interview that caused Trump to end it early. &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; is a left-wing program and Stahl has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-trump-hilariously-informs-cbs-correspondent-hank-berrien">shown</a> bias against the president in the past.
&#8220;Apparently there was some drama while President Trump was taping his 60 Minutes interview today. He abruptly ended his solo interview after around 45 minutes &amp; did not return for a scheduled walk &amp; talk he was supposed to tape with Pence,&#8221; CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Biden and Harris were also interviewed by 60 Minutes &amp; all are scheduled to appear in the same program. While Biden and Harris taped their interviews separately, Trump and Pence were scheduled to appear on camera together. They ultimately did not and Pence taped his separately.&#8221;
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Biden and Harris were also interviewed by 60 Minutes &amp; all are scheduled to appear in the same program. While Biden and Harris taped their interviews separately, Trump and Pence were scheduled to appear on camera together. They ultimately did not and Pence taped his separately.
&mdash; Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1318647044664397825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Collins, who has <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=mask%20(no%20OR%20not)%20(from%3Akaitlancollins)&amp;src=typed_query">often</a> noted when members of the administration do not wear masks, was caught on camera earlier this year taking her mask off inside the White House after a press briefing ended.
Following Trump&#8217;s return to the White House after a short stay at Walter Reed Medical Center earlier this month, Collins bemoaned on television: “Yeah and let us remind viewers now that the president is on steroids and a drug that fewer than 10 people outside of clinical trials have gotten inside the United States to deal with coronavirus. He had a level of treatment and a level of care that most Americans would not get. That’s understandable, he is the president of the United States, obviously everyone expects that.”
“But what the president is portraying by taking his mask off when he gets back to the Truman balcony to give this grand return to the White House, is that everything is fine and, as he said, don’t let coronavirus control your life,” Collins continued. “But that is very much still a president who has coronavirus. Despite the lights and the flags and the staged entrance that the president wants to create, he still has coronavirus and he is only a few days into the diagnosis. And Erin today his doctor didn’t reveal a lot of information as he hasn’t for the past two days, but he did still say that he will not breathe a sigh of relief until Monday. That’s a full week from  today.”
The Trump campaign responded to Collins&#8217; rant by tweeting out a video of Collins taking her mask off when she, according to the campaign, thought that the cameras were turned off.
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CNN reporters like Kaitlin Collins obsess over masks when the cameras are on, but when they think they’re off, off comes their masks!<a href="https://t.co/IpPSvgDqhc">pic.twitter.com/IpPSvgDqhc</a>
&mdash; Trump War Room &#8211; Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1313264008800198668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump Releases Video Of Reporter Who Had Coronavirus Not Wearing Mask, Social Distancing In White House

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In an interview with Lesley Stahl for CBS&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes,&#8221; President Trump had one heck of a blunt response for Stahl when she attempted to sidetrack his effort to delineate how dishonest the mainstream media is. Stahl wanted to change the subject but Trump would not be dissuaded, nailing it down by stating, &#8220;In the meantime, I&#8217;m president and you&#8217;re not.&#8221;
Trump stated, &#8220;The thing I&#8217;ve really learned is I never knew how dishonest the media was and I really mean it. I&#8217;m not saying that as a soundbite. I never knew how dishonest the media was &#8211;&#8220;
Stahl, interrupted, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to change the subject again.&#8221;
Trump responded, &#8220;No. The way you asked me a question, like about separation.&#8221;
Stahl: &#8220;Yeah.&#8221;
Trump: &#8220;When I say Obama did it, you don&#8217;t want to talk about it.&#8221;
Stahl: &#8220;No.&#8221;
Trump: &#8220;When I say I did it, let&#8217;s make a big deal about it.&#8221;
Stahl: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to run your answer, but you did it four times.&#8221;
Trump: &#8220;I&#8217;m just telling you that you treated me much differently on the subject &#8212;&#8220;
Stahl, &#8220;I disagree but I don&#8217;t want to have that fight with you.&#8221;
Trump: &#8220;Hey, it&#8217;s okay. Leslie, it&#8217;s okay. In the meantime, I&#8217;m president and you&#8217;re not.&#8221;
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Video: <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>: &#8220;I never knew how dishonest the media was and I really mean it. I&#8217;m not saying that as a soundbite. I never knew how dishonest&#8211;&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/LesleyRStahl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LesleyRStahl</a>: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to change the subject again.&#8221;&#8230;. Trump: &#8220;In the meantime, I&#8217;m President and you&#8217;re not.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/60Minutes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#60Minutes</a> <a href="https://t.co/kssEc77zrr">pic.twitter.com/kssEc77zrr</a>
&#8212; Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentHBaker/status/1051626685722963968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Trump Hilariously Informs CBS Correspondent Just Who’s The Boss

Over the weekend, left-wing CBS News withheld condemnations made by President-elect Donald Trump on Friday during a 60 Minutes interview of alleged acts of bigotry claimed to be carried out by his supporters.

If CBS&#8217;s managing editors sincerely believed that Trump&#8217;s electoral victory has inspired a spate of violence and bigoted acts and that the president-elect could stifle its continuation, why did the network not rush to broadcast his condemnation of said acts?
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Over recent days, left-wing and Democrat-aligned news media outlets have claimed or implied that Trump&#8217;s supporters are carrying out racist and otherwise bigoted actions. Also stated or implied by the usual suspects is that Trump&#8217;s win amounted to an uncorking of &#8220;<a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/experts-say-white-supremacists-see-trump-last-stand/">white supremacy</a>,&#8221; <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/day-1-in-trumps-america-highlights-racist-acts-violent-threats-w449787">anti-black racism</a>, &#8220;<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/11/donald-trump-islamophobia-president-161109065355945.html">Islamophobia</a>,&#8221; anti-female <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/this-election-was-the-sexism-turning-point-that-wasnt?utm_term=.ryg8xVLZA#.gcp8xY9eW">sexism</a> and assorted bigotries.
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Assorted <a href="http://time.com/4569129/racist-anti-semitic-incidents-donald-trump/">left-wing</a> and <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/10752/tapper-trumps-election-inspiring-racism-all-over-robert-kraychik">Democrat</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/11/13/slate-s-jamelle-bouie-calls-trump-denounce-post-election-intimidation-and-violence-against/214415">news</a> <a href="http://fusion.net/story/368783/donald-trump-racist-incidents-attacks/">media</a> <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Array-of-Hate-Crimes-Reported-Day-After-Trumps-Election-400711591.html">outlets</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tavis-smiley-trump-election_us_5824012ae4b0d9ce6fc0d1ca">personalities</a> have placed the onus on Trump to assuage protesters opposing his victory. Anti-American foreign propaganda outlet <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/black-americans-fear-racism-police-violence-post-trump-161111113721530.html">Al-Jazeera</a> has also forwarded this narrative. They have also called on Trump to repudiate the aforementioned alleged acts of bigotry which they claim to be inspired by Trump&#8217;s election.
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Trump sat down with CBS&#8217;s Leslie Stahl on Friday for a long-form interview with 60 Minutes. Stahl pushed the narrative of Trump as an inciter of the aforestated bigotries, inviting the president-elect to condemn alleged acts she implied were inspired by his political rhetoric. 
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The interview in its entirety was broadcast on Sunday evening during the regularly scheduled 60 Minutes time slot. 

Ignored by Stahl and her ideologically similar counterparts was racially-motivated violence carried out by Hillary Clinton&#8217;s supporters. Also ignored was any examination of the professional organizational element of the protests as directed by neo-Marxist agitation groups connected to Clinton&#8217;s presidential campaign and the Democrat Party.
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Watch the relevant segment below.
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Watch the entire interview <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-donald-trump-family-melania-ivanka-lesley-stahl/">here</a>.
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