60 Minutes can go straight to hell

[SHRED]

Letting that Marmalade Mussolini lie, steamroll, deflect, and mischaracterize.
What a weak and pathetic excuse for an interview.

Leslie Stahl failed and failed big-time.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Who do you think could do any better?

[SHRED]

2. I recall Steve Kroft interviewing Obama

Steve was tough on him.
Much tougher.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Obama was not an arrogant gishgalloping bullshitter who wouldn't...

answer questions and who constantly diverted.

Talk to any experienced interviewer and find out how difficult some subjects can be.

[SHRED]

7. Then they shouldn't have had him on

If they couldn't handle it.

[pangaia]

17. Nobody should ever have him on....anywhere.

[sprinkleeninow]

24. Word. 👍

[violetpastille]

27. Amirite? C'mon 4th Estate. Step up any time now. n/t

[Hortensis]

42. Just let the president be the most powerful man on the planet

but hide him from the electorate? I understand your frustration, but this was not a Fox & Friends interview. And the audience will turn out to have included many millions who mostly avoid the news. They need to see him.

Although he got to repeat his lies about "illegal" refugees, he also showed clearly that he is completely unrepentant and unfeeling about his extreme cruelty to children and parents, defended it, and admitted that he is "considering" how to continue it. And a lot women especially who haven't been keeping an eye on this will have been watching.

He doesn't know if the Saudis were involved in the murder of a Saudi dissident inside a Saudi consulate, but gave the strong impression that he doubts it.

Oh, yes, and right after Hurricane Michael and after millions had one day of autumn between summer and winter last week, Trump claimed climate change might be real but might just change right back again, man not involved in any case.

Btw, I was going to make an apricot upside-down cake, but there were no 28-oz cans in 2 supermarkets. There was a small can for $2-something. Looked it up at home, and California's apricot crop was approximately 25% of normal (!) due to global warming. The cherry crop is down 26%, not as bad as the 90% of 2012, but still. Climate reality is coming home to people, and having them connect their problems with Trump (and his party) and refusal to act is a good thing.

[ginnyinWI]

46. +1 . nt

[pangaia]

49. It's a tough issue. I 100% agree.....

I do not watch the teevee.
I pretty much get my info here and through a few other websites.

fox, msnbc and cnn are on all the time at the gym-- up on the wall- fortunately no sound- but with captions, that I can barely read.

What I see is trump constantly on one of the screens just blanket coverage, ALL THE TIME somewhere.. just as would be the case with a totalitarian dictator........ It doesn't appear there is any push back, about the best is 'intelligent discussion' Well, the time for intelligent discussion is past...

My feeling is that this is seriously psychologically and intellectually and emotionally unhealthy for human beings.

How many people who watch this shit actually see what is REALLY going on... without at least being told?? I don;t know... But I am not to confident about it...

I don't know the answer-- if there is one...

[Hortensis]

50. :) I heard his voice when my husband turned 60 Minutes

on, abruptly said no because Trump's become aversion therapy to me also, and went to bed and watched an old movie instead. Then read the short versions, including transcribed remarks, and saw a few clips this morning.

On the plus side of all this, as I'm reading, right-wing "populism is an old man's movement." A reaction against not economic problems but cultural changes. The alt-right movement is younger, but the numbers show it's an "electoral nonentity," in 2016 perhaps 0.02% of Americans. Scientists actually measuring these things say that every age cohort is more tolerant and liberal-thinking than the one before, and at the same time they've all continued to become more tolerant.

So we just have to get through this period of backlash without our government being taken over by right wing authoritarians. Maybe we could offer to buy any young guys around new Fortnite characters in exchange for their "I voted" stickers -- another type of incentive since so many apparently felt promises of nearly doubled minimum wage, affordable college, new good-paying jobs, and healthcare for sick relatives didn't have anything to do with them.

[ginnyinWI]

45. I know I couldn't do what she did!

Sit there in his face and argue his points to him--I have to admire that. We know he's too slippery to be pinned down, but at least she showed how he reacts to facts being put in front of him. She kept it moving along and didn't let him go off on a tangent about some minor thing to use up the time. It was probably one of her hardest subjects to interview.

[TreasonousBastard]

48. We don't know what was edited out, but we clearly see him trying to turn things his way.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

51. Anyone!! It was beyond awful... couldn't watch but a few minutes.

[RandySF]

3. Seems they let him make a fool of himself

[SHRED]

6. I saw it much different

I saw it as more media normalization of this fool.

[LenaBaby61]

32. I saw it as more media normalization of this fool.

I had the unfortunate pleasure of being over a friend's house this morning, and he had Meet The Press
on, and I hadn't seen that crap of a show since Todd took over.

Yeah, that show's a corporate mouthpiece for the GOP, but it's not like I could tell my friend to turn his television off or turn the channel. Anyway, all of the corporate news folks on there, Mrs. Greenspan of course, pretty much normalized toilet-paper-in-chief. They continue laughing off his ignorance, grifting, racism & pussy-grabbing et al. He's not held accountable for ANYTHING he does/says. Corporate Todd had that clown Hawley on whose challenging McKaskill for her senate seat, and he rambled on about how bad Obamacare IS, and he lied while rambling on and on and Todd never challenged him on any of his Obamacare lies. Never asked him WHAT thuglicans would replace Obamacare with. Yet he asked Stacey Abrams of Ga. on and asked her about the Holder reference about finally kicking thuglicans and fighting back, and Stacey stepped away from the trap he was trying to lay for her IE: A sound bite that the racist/Dem/AA voter-suppressing fool she was running against in Georgia could use against her/other Dems, but she didn't give him a sound bite, she only spoke to Hurricane Michael, voter-suppression by her unworthy opponent and the positivity/issues-oriented themes of HER campaign (He said she was on Michelle Obama's side, and she repeated again that she was talking about HER campaign education etc.).

McConnell and RANT Paul never address these torch-wielding, modern day KKK MOB assholes in Charlottesville 👇🏼👇🏼 who toilet-paper-in-chief called VERY FINE PEOPLE, and one of his VERY FINE PEOPLE--White Nationalist James Alex Fields-- who murdered Heather Heyer in his car:



Or, about these tRump-loving, homophobic Proud Boy assholes attacking folks in NY City:

Nope, the corporate media doubles down on and runs with Jeff Holder's comment about standing up/kicking back vs thuglicans

[Dorian Gray]

37. I only watched a handful of clips

including the exchange about Kim Jong Un. I think she did challenge him there, and he spoke and looked foolish.

But I say that as someone who admittedly thinks he always sounds dumb and looks foolish. There is little that he can say at this point to change my mind. I suspect his base feels the same.... that no matter how outrageous he is, it won't change their mind about their support.

So it comes down to the middle of the roaders (hard to believe they exist now) and how this appeals to them.

[UniteFightBack]

26. Agreed. nt

[Cha]

31. He also said "I'm not a baby" three times; so presidential

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[Cha]

35. P.S.

Link to tweet

[Hortensis]

40. Yes. Those who resent this exposure of Trump need to rethink.

The problem isn't that people are watching Trump too much but that too few have been taking a good look at him and what he's up to. 60 Minutes had him reveal that he intends more extreme cruelty to children via separations of families on a far larger scale. On climate change, something's changing but it'll change back, not man-made. And on and on. And, of course, he sounded like a fool, but a dangerous one.

All the media are reporting on this interview. We don't know the ratings yet, but they're going to be high, perhaps not as high as the 22 million who watched Stormy Daniels, but you can bet the Republican leadership are all popping antacids over this exposure 22 days before the midterms.

VOX: “I’m president, and you’re not,” President Donald Trump told CBS’s Lesley Stahl during an interview aired on 60 Minutes on Sunday — a bizarre moment in a wide-ranging and often combative interview, taped Thursday, in which Stahl pushed the president on his beliefs on climate change, North Korea, and more.

[DrDan]

41. I agree with you - hard to watch that interview and have ANY confidence in trump as the President

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he showed his true colors - "we won - nothing else matters" (to paraphrase him) and "I'm president and you're not" (to quote him).

[question everything]

5. Turned on and turned off the TV immediately

This is no longer the network of Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Dan Rather and others.

This is the network of Oprah and her “best friend” Gayle King. Fluff. But this is what today’s crowd want, I suppose.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Sad..you are right. No investigatory brilliance anymore. Geez

No one has even been able to ask him about his SO many lies...myriad but what about his lying about starting his "brilliant" career with only a million from his Daddy?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Didn't see it but trust you SHREAD. FU 60 Minutes! Nt

[thegoose]

10. They blew the mushroom?

As Gomer Pyle would say, "Surprise, surprise, surprise."

The media is still all in on the piece of shit.

[Initech]

11. Never, ever blow the mushroom!

[thegoose]

13. Zing! It's like an "Alice through the Looking Glass" story

But we're trapped. TRAPPED!

[MattP]

12. Mike Wallace even Chris Wallace wouldn't have taken those answers with no pushback

[dalton99a]

14. More normalization and glorification of the piece of shit

It was worse than useless - they let him use them

[SHRED]

18. For example

When Trump said, "We don't know what happened yet" regarding Jamal all Leslie had to do was point out to the buffoon, "You get daily top level security briefings. Are saying you haven't been briefed on these audio and video files the intel community has heard and seen?"...but she didn't.
So frustrating.

Here's another one, "Since you and Jared have strong financial ties to Saudi Arabia can you see how that makes people not trust your judgement regarding punishing that country? They think you may be looking out for your personal interests instead of our country's best interest."

[dalton99a]

19. Exactly. It seemed like she didn't bother to prepare

[SHRED]

20. It was lame

[mnmoderatedem]

36. problem is, trump does not attend daily security briefings

said so himself. He's too smart, does not need to subject himself to those meetings every day.

Exhibit # 236,357 of Imagine If Obama Had Said It.

[BlueTsunami2018]

15. The right is calling it disrespectful, hostile and obviously biased.

Saying she kept interrupting and pressing for answers to questions he’d already answered.

It’s amazing how contrasting the views are. The only constant is that everyone is pissed at Stahl.

[USALiberal]

16. Sometimes we are as biased as anyone. Nt

[SHRED]

21. Like Colbert says,

"The truth does have a liberal bias"

[uponit7771]

22. That's the normal when faced with a gish galloping person like Red Don

[diva77]

23. I hope you'll write to 60 Min & CBS to let them know about this

I didn't see the show

[Duppers]

25. Saw his face and immediately turned to PBS. nt

[iluvtennis]

28. I don't watch the orange shithole. Many in the M$M are the reason he is in the WH. Always trying

to normalize him

[elmac]

29. there are no real journalists in this country nt

[orleans]

30. when i saw he was going to be on

i thought: fuck that!

didn't watch it.

who gives a shit what he said? it's all bullshit--lies and bullshit pour out of his flapping mouth every time he opens it.

[Cha]

33. Well, he did say.. he's "..not a baby" three times.."

Link to tweet

P.S. I didn't watch.. wouldn't unless I were offered $10,000.. but I saw these tweets.

[Cha]

34. P.S.

Link to tweet

[Vinca]

38. I'm only seeing clips on "Morning Joe," but it looks like he made an ass of himself.

[peekaloo]

43. He did. She got under his skin more often than not.

Doesn't matter who interviews him, he's not going to answer truthfully so why would anyone expect a different outcome.

[DrDan]

44. she sure did! So telling when he responded "I'm president, and you're not"

He did not like being challenged by a woman. I thought she did a great job with him.

[maxrandb]

39. Stop saying the MSM and Leslie Stahl "Failed"!

The correct term is "colluded", or "provided aid and comfort"

It will be important when we finally get around to holding these propagandist accountable in court.

[Hortensis]

47. Every time Trump opens his mouth, he may satisfy his

debased base but he blasts the more sophisticated lies crafted and sold at great expense for more rational and less dependable conservative voters.

The 60 Minutes segment was not Fox & Friends. Its audience included many right-leaning independents who don't watch a lot of news, and his interview did not serve the Republican leadership and their controllers at all well.

[EffieBlack]

52. I think Leslie Stahl did an excellent job