Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. And it goes without saying (although I will say it) good evening too to Ms. America and to all the pronouns that represent the gorgeous mosaic that is America in 2026.
I come to you tonight, not on the Sunday, 8pm 60 Minutes program where I belong but from my “man cave” in the basement of my home. I have followed various YouTube videos and purchased the hardware and materials to assemble my very own television studio. I will “upload” this video to YouTube, as the kids say, and get my story out to the world. You might think that the recent interview with the New York Times would have set the record straight about the outrageous, fascistic and catastrophic events going on at CBS but I sensed that just as at CBS, the New York Times is now also being censored by the Trump administration and I must get the word out before the thought police have a chance to shut down all dissent.
And because I was trained in the Socratic Method in journalism school, I will structure this podcast as an interview between me and myself. For the sake of clarity, whenever I am asking the questions as the interviewer, I will wear a hat with the letter J on it to show I am the journalist. And when I am answering the questions, I will wear a hat with the letter S that stands for “source” and also Snott since that is my name. Here we go.
J – Thank you, intrepid whistleblower for daring to blow the whistle on Donald Trump, The Ellisons and Bari Weiss while they lay waste to a once magnificent journalistic miracle, 60 Minutes.
S – Thank you for acknowledging my bravery and for building this state-of-the-art studio on such short notice.
J – What was the hardest part of speaking truth to power during your harrowing ordeal with those destroyers of free speech and haters of freedom of the press.
S – I would say that the worst of it was not being allowed to document my firing for an upcoming segment of 60 Minutes. I would say off the top of my head that truth dies in darkness and unless I’m allowed to produce a fourteen-part series that covers every facet of the coup currently being perpetrated against this land of liberty I can’t see the world surviving for more than a few more weeks.
J – Will you make this series available to the American public.
S – I’m glad you asked that question journalist. At the bottom of this video there will be a post office address. If you send me a check for $1,400, you will receive a full set of 14 DVDs (or VHS tapes). Or you can send $200 for each episode separately but that will be less economical.
J – That seems like a very fair price to pay.
S – Yes journalist, because what they will be paying for is freedom. And who can put a price on freedom. Although I guess that price is $1,400.
J – Thank you Mr. Whistleblower and good night, America and good luck.
Sounds like the last “60 Minutes” I watched, which was @ 2005. I think it was the “Fake but Accurate” “Rathergate/Documentgate” incident. That pretty much did it in for me.
Dan Rather and Scott Pelley are the bookends of the CBS crusading leftist journalism that started with Nixon and ended when Trump broke their narrative by winning the White House twice. Mockery is what they deserve.
60 Minutes has been irrelevant for over a quarter century now. So I stopped watching at that time. Strangely, but Saturday Night Live crapped out at about the same time. In fact, the big four (ABC CBS, NBC & PBS) all started hitting the skids about the same time. PBS kept it up longer with their science specials, but the rot that began with the once-beloved Sesame Street spread like melanoma and killed the rest of the body.
What I find important in the CBS/Paramount/CNN/Warner/Skydance buyouts is that the liberal media bankrupted themselves for the sake of leftwing ideological purity. And once market forces have reached equilibrium some new corporate entities will compete for whatever money people are willing to pay for news content. Reality is capitalistic.