Axios: Insubordinate CBS Liar Sharyn Alfonsi Told Viewers That Trump Officials Had Refused Comment On the Story. In Fact, They Provided Comment -- She Just Refused to Air Their Denials.

For those wondering "How can this insubordinate liar not get fired?," I've got great news: I think she will be fired. I thought she would probably be fired before this for insubordination. I'm pretty sure she wrote her "Bari is a Trump censor" email with the knowledge that a confederate would leak it for her (or she leaked it herself).

If I had to guess, I'd guess she already knew she was on the list of candidates for firing and decided on the Jimmy Kimmel strategy of raising a stink among her left-wing allies to create pressure on the network to keep her.

But this new report from Axios means that no amount of pressure from her left-wing allies can save her. The media still pretends that straight-up lying is a fireable offense. Of course it's not; lying is the soul of their soulless profession.

If you lie and the right people notice -- like your boss, who you just tried to #Cancel -- then the pretense that lying is a fireable offense becomes reality.

Axios:

The other side: The segment ends with Alfonsi saying the Department of Homeland Security "declined our request for an interview and referred all questions about CECOT to El Salvador. The government there did not respond to our request."

The segment included previous comments made by President Trump, who said El Salvador's prison system has "very strong facilities, and they don't play games."

It also includes a clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt previously saying, "These are heinous monsters, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sexual assaulters, predators who have no right to be in this country, and they must be held accountable."

Between the lines: According to a source familiar with "60 Minutes" correspondence with the administration, the "60 Minutes" team reached out to press officials at the White House, State Department and DHS, all of which provided comment to CBS News.

None of those comments, which varied in length and substance, were included in the piece viewed by Axios.

CBS declined to comment.

Axios was able to view it, of course, because despite the piece being held up by Bari Weiss, somehow it wound up airing in communist Canada.

Which is almost certainly another case of gross insubordination.

No, don't, stop.

Ian Jaeger @IanJaeger29

BREAKING: A significant amount of CBS News employees are considering quitting after they feel like the company has become Pro- Trump.

Most won't. As Chuck Ross noted yesterday, there are fewer and fewer jobs for unskilled, unethical media "reporters." These filthy degenerates will cling to their unearned checks until security drags them out the front doors.

But as for Alfonsi: I think she'll "separate" from CBS days after the New Year.

Ed Morrissey reminds us that Sharyn Alfonsi has played these games before. When she ran her lying hit piece on Ron DeSantis, which even DeSantis' Democrat opponents told her wasn't true and warned her not to run the false defamation, her package neatly clipped out DeSantis' detailed denial of the charges.

Whoops!

Whoopsie!

T. Becket Adams @BecketAdams Oh hey, Sharyn Alfonsi. I remember her.

From a failed 2021 "60 Minutes" hit job that went unanswered and unexplained:

"In the 60 Minutes segment that aired this weekend, CBS News's Sharyn Alfonsi tells DeSantis, 'Publix, as you know, donated $100,000 to your campaign, and then you rewarded them with the exclusive rights to distribute the vaccination in Palm Beach.'

The popular grocery store chain donated $25,000 to the Friends of DeSantis political committee on Nov. 13, 2019, and again on Jan. 28, 2020. Later, between Dec. 7-Dec. 31, 2020, it donated a total of $100,000 to the committee. Then, in January 2021, DeSantis announced the state had paired with Publix to make vaccines available to the public.

'How is that not pay for play?' Alfonsi asked the governor this weekend.

'What you're saying is wrong," DeSantis answered. "It's wrong. It's a fake narrative.'

That's all CBS showed of his response -- a straight denial with no substantive explanation.

However, there's more to the story. DeSantis actually offered a detailed explanation for Publix's involvement in vaccinating Floridians. These exculpatory remarks were left on the cutting room floor. Additional facts regarding Florida's vaccine program were likewise omitted from CBS's report, as were denials of this bogus conspiracy theory by even state Democrats."

Yes, she kept in five word denial -- but without allowing DeSantis to explain why her phony charges were so clearly fake. She denied the audience their right to hear from the Accused.

Even left-wing Politi"Fact" noted that this kind of edit, omitting someone's substantive defense of his actions so that the public may not hear it, can be considered "deceptive editing."

"Deceptive editing" means a clip "has been edited and rearranged," according to the Washington Post's guide to manipulated video. Deceptive editing can include omission ("editing out large portions from a video and presenting it as a complete narrative" to "skew reality") and splicing ("editing together disparate videos (that) fundamentally alters the story that is being told").

By omitting DeSantis' remarks on why the state partnered with Publix to distribute vaccines in Palm Beach County, the "60 Minutes" clip could fall into the former category.

So I don't think she'll be at CBS much longer. But she is attempting to make herself a Victim who is always owed a job at another left-wing media company.

Related: The Washington Post cuts more opinion columnists.

Yeah, none of the #ResistanceHeroes threatening to quit CBS will quit.

Not until they're actually told they're being fired. In which case, they'll hop on X to say "I just quit because I'm such a #ResistanceHero!!!"

posted by Ace at 04:40 PM

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