Merry Christmas from DUE SOUTH youtu.be/CCAPL1joxcw?...

As CBS News falls apart please admire this marble bust of Bari Weiss that is installed at the fake unaccredited university she co-founded with Joe Lonsdale. Their U. of Austin is reportedly also falling apart, with faculty leaving and enrollment crashing, so we shall see where the bust ends up.

I’m only half-joking when I say it wouldn’t shock me if we get “A Few Minutes with Ben Shapiro” on 60 Minutes by the end of 2026.

"When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Good on 60's Sharyn Alfonsi, who emailed the show's staff and correspondents to say Bari Weiss had "spiked" her story in what she says was a "political" call. With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Several of you were close, guessing that this was, indeed, a reference to the film. Most of you said Daryl Hannah, but in fact, as our celeb Art Metrano knew after three, it was actually….Debra Winger. Gonna give the win to @researchette.bsky.social, who guessed both names—but Debra first!

It’s 1980-something. Can you solve the Super Password with these three clues?

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

CBS has removed the video preview on social sites it controls, but at least for now, you can still see a very small bit of the pre-emoted story via Yahoo. www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...

By the way, 60 Minutes announced the CECOT decision on Occupied Twitter at the same time as it did here. While the post here has hundreds of reposts and comments, over there…two dozen as of a minute ago. But sure, non-fascists should hang out more there.

The press release from Friday. www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-news-and...

Cannot think of a segment that’s been yanked after a promo was cut and aired in recent years. Not saying it hasn’t happened but …

CBS has also very quickly taken down the video preview of tonight's report from YT, TikTok, Facebook and its own website. www.cbsnews.com/video/inside...

When I saw this listing earlier this week, I thought, "Well, at least one CBS News show still has a spine and is willing to antagonize its owners' political BFFs."

Something I didn't foresee in 2025, or ever. Seeing Rep. Thomas Massie (!!!) sound more reality-based, and unhindered by "both-sides-ism," than the current anchor of a CBS news show. This is genuinely pathetic by Brennan.

Imagine being a journalist and thinking that withholding evidence is "complying with the spirit if not the intent" of a law and not, say, a sign that criminals might be meddling with or destroying the evidence they're withholding.

In 1984, Martha O’Hayer won $25,000 on the Pyramid and told Dick she was lived in SF and was studying for her real estate license. Looks like she got it, and 40 years later, she still lives in the Bay Area.

Me yesterday, seeing WH desperately try to spin the Epstein doc dump into a story about Bill Clinton even as the Justice Dept fails to release all the files: “No way this will work, even with the horrible DC press.” Me, today, looking at these headlines: “Welp, I’m a dummy.”

Classic TV streaming update: It's obscurity season as Plex has added single season 70's variety show "Van Dyke & Company" as well as the single season sitcom "The Redd Foxx Show" from 1986 and 2 seasons of the HBO talk show "Dennis Miller Live"

This could be artistic homage, simple coincidence…or —and this is maybe a leap—perhaps support for the theory that Pluribus really is some sort of meditation on AI (which is adept at producing “new” images informed by past human creations)? Most likely it’s just Gilligan being is cool self

A few of you said Richard Kind, and that’s also who this guy looks like to me. Might need to track down his agent to figure this out!

@mousterpiece.bsky.social I clocked the Columbo homage on this week’s Elsbeth as well. And I agree re: the mayoral plot, but just chalk it up to CBS demanding some sort of continuing thread each season. Thankfully, unlike Matlock, it’s in no danger of overwhelming the show.

Happy Holidays from ABC Daytime! youtu.be/srTdw7b-Qus?...

Merry Christmas from LOVING youtu.be/rDPQ104kSQ0?...

Also, thank you for making DAYS OF OUR LIVES No. 1 youtu.be/ONkBvmMiI4I?...

Merry Christmas from DAYS OF OUR LIVES and SANTA BARBARA youtu.be/yFHxKqcqdMg?...

Merry Christmas from ALL MY CHILDREN, GENERAL HOSPITAL, GOOD MORNING AMERICA and MOONLIGHTING youtu.be/bCpdyRV7o7s?...

Christmas is coming a bit sooner for PLURIBUS watchers. youtu.be/VJzI7fD1gmg?...

Magnum, Podcast holiday episode is live. It's the thought that counts. www.theincomparable.com/magnum/113/

I have my own idea, but does the actor in this vintage Sunkist oranges ad look familiar to you?

This is such a time capsule: From June 2001, Rob Reiner, Norman Lear, Sally Struthers, Larry Hagman and Sherman Hemsley appear on Larry King to pay tribute to Carroll O’Connor after his passing. youtu.be/n2ttGzJdEOY?...

Google AI and Facebook doing all they can to convince fans of ELSBETH that there was no new episode tonight. Folks, there was a new episode tonight.

Here it is, your moment of zen: Aretha covering “What a a Fool Believes” in 1981 on The Tonight Show with guest host David Letterman. So good. youtu.be/F4JeT0zpgCo?...

Also the comments on this video are worth reading. One example: “This was the best format for the CBS Evening News since Cronkite. A curse on Bari Weiss, CBS and Paramount for screwing with objective news.”

Very sad to see Dickerson & DuBois sign off. I still had issues with a lot of the political reporting on their broadcast, but their incarnation of the Evening News was the best this show has been in well over a decade and it didn’t insult my intelligence. It’ll be missed. youtu.be/dyuf4OzUkq0?...

And now I'm turning this off because some bozo local reporter is yelling at the president of Brown over the fact that there wasn't a camera on campus that captured an image of the suspect. There are 1200 cameras on campus. We don't need a police state on campuses. We need gun control!

Wow: A reporter actually pushed back against the FBI & RI LEOs for allegedly spreading misinformation when so much of that info could only have come from law enforcement. The officials respond by saying the reporter's question was "uncalled for" and ignore his question.

Welp, I guess there's a good chance the Moron is going to close down immigration and/or tourism from Portugal now.

Sometime in the past quarter century all of these press conferences ( devastating crimes, terrorist attacks, natural disasters) have morphed into a series of Golden Globes acceptance speeches without any orchestra to get people to wrap it up.

Also, good for MSNOW for cutting away from the presser after the basic facts were out and doing their own analysis. Even better would be moving on to another story. What happened at Brown was tragic and should not happen as often as it does. But it does, and it doesn't warrant mega-coverage

And now they're blaming the press. Who do you think put out the misinformation?

I'm sorry: I'm glad the Brown shooter has been found, but watching law enforcement officials take a victory lap and praise each other feels kinda gross? Given how the FBI messed up by leaking the name of an innocent person and that a random 48-year-old guy avoided capture for days, no time to brag

Losing the Oscars to YouTube definitely underscores the passing of the linear TV age as we've known it. But for Disney and ABC, losing the Oscars to YouTube is not a disaster. And in some ways, there's an upside. My latest at @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

Lola Falana and Redd Foxx

It's been a long time coming. My new special Night Thoughts premieres tomorrow on @Hulu. If you can't join us for the watch party on IG live tomorrow just before 7pm PT (10pm ET), I still implore you to view it sometime in the next few days and share your own #NightThoughts with us.

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You don’t have to follow MAGA media. You can just watch the west coast editions of CBS and NBC’s evening newscasts. Both treated the speech as totally normal. Only ABC offered any real rebuttal to the lies or framed it as flying in the face of reality.

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. He was 91. n.pr/3KYPXvx

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