By Steve Levy
60 Minutes was once the gold standard of hard-hitting, unbiased investigative journalism. You really couldn’t tell which political stripes they were wearing. But that hasn’t been the case for decades.
Scott Pelley is among the worst of their anti-Republican liberal crew.
The bias from 60 Minutes isn’t necessarily just about the slant of their segment. It’s also about which issues they choose to investigate and which they leave off the table.
Take, for instance, the shooting of the Minneapolis ICE protester a couple of weeks ago.
OK, they’re doing an analysis of the shooting. They could’ve picked anyone to interview. Maybe Tom Homan from ICE. Maybe an ICE proponent such as Sen. Mark Mullin from Oklahoma.
60 Minutes picked a Republican, all right, but they picked Rand Paul, who is one of the most anti-Trump Republicans in the Senate.
60 Minutes could have just as easily done an exposé on who’s funding all of these agitators. It’s been hinted that money is flowing from anti-American billionaire George Soros, and even from a billionaire with ties to communist China.
Maybe they could’ve done an exposé on how Don Lemon and a group of anarchists disrupted a church service. Oh, wait! They did mention Lemon, but as a victim, not as an agitator. Lemon conspired with the radicals who planned the church attack. He bought them doughnuts, kissed them on the cheek and distributed videos on how their raid would go after churchgoers, whom Lemon derided as white supremacists who needed to account. This was potentially a blatant hate crime, but no such investigation from Pelley.
Maybe they could’ve done an exposé on how Mayor Jacob Frey and Governor Tim Walz have allowed murderers and rapists to walk out on the street rather than cooperate with ICE to keep these people from going back into society.
In describing the violence in Minneapolis, Pelley astonishingly stated that ICE was attacking protestors, who, in turn, were forced to respond violently to ICE.
Pelley then interviews a former attorney in the Civil Rights division of the U.S Department of Justice, who gave him all the anti-law enforcement quotes he desired. I guess he couldn’t find anyone in the unit who might have had a pro-police perspective.
Then he interviewed Daniel Oldman from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bureau, who also criticizes ICE.
He claims they’re not following established protocols. Did he interview anyone on the other side? No
We had great hopes when Bari Weiss was appointed to head up CBS News. We thought this fair-minded liberal who has decried censorship of the right would create more balance at 60 Minutes. She’s making some waves, but we still haven’t seen any segments that slant to the right or at least give a balanced approach.
We will keep our fingers crossed that Weiss will stand up to the condescending leftists that percolate throughout CBS and stand up for fairness.