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Welcome to the back of my porch or my back porch, back of my house, I guess.

You know, I think this is going to be the place that I kind of, this works out pretty good.

As long as the guy up the hills, dogs aren't barking all the time.

It's nice and quiet.

It's kind of relaxing.

It's actually not kind of relaxing, it's very relaxing.

So it's a pretty good place to do it.

You got a nice view behind me as the greenery starts to fill in.

Although I think you can see some of the fallen trees.

I got a million of the damn things.

I probably lost, I don't know, 10 trees over the winter or something like that.

No, I mean, you know, that's just the way it is.

There's a whole bunch of small trees growing all over the place.

So that's the way nature works.

But I have a lot of work to do.

I've knocked down a few.

I've got, I'd say, probably a good month of tree cutting because I just get too tired.

You know, there's one tree that I have to cut out near where I actually chop wood, oddly enough.

It's just in a really crazy spot.

And cutting that thing out was just a huge pain.

And you wind up spending three or four hours.

And you wind up,

I'm an old guy,

so I wind up moving muscles that I don't move on a normal basis.

So I'm just going to do it a little bit at a time.

But anyway, this isn't a show about tree chopping.

It's a show about something I saw on the Drudge Report.

And it's kind of funny.

I think, you know, I haven't looked at Drudge in a very long time.

It's just, it's mostly garbage.

But there's a picture of an old woman,

and it says underneath of it these slug lines,

woman who destroyed CBS News,

Redstone.

I guess her name is Redstone.

I think Sumner Redstone used to own Paramount and CBS,

and then he died,

and I guess it's his widow.

Because I think he married, like, a woman who was half his age.

Of course, he was 90 at the time, so...

But anyway, another line, greed ending a legacy.

And then in big red letters, 60 minutes, sacrifice for sale.

That's what got my attention.

I'm thinking, all right, they're going to put that terrible thing out of business.

So I clicked on it.

And of course, it goes to some obscure site.

That's something I've noticed that happens a lot with the Memo random people.

They regularly link to the empty head,

which is some really out there where the buses don't run left wing woman.

I mean, just a kooky Karen type.

Why they link to her, I think she used to work in the Washington Post or something.

They'll link to Jennifer Rubin's crackpot site.

They do that a lot.

And I think Drudge does this.

And my guess is there's some level of coordination.

Whether Drudge actually runs the site anymore, who knows.

But whoever is running it probably coordinates with these other site aggregators.

Nothing's on the level in this world.

Well, anyway, this site is called The Status.

And it has a headline, Inside the 60-Minute Storm.

And it's written by some guy named Oliver Darcy.

I imagine he pronounces it Darcy.

It would be pretty funny if he pronounced it Darcy,

though,

especially since he's not a white guy.

Anyway, here's a little bit of the text.

This is interesting.

Here goes.

Late Tuesday morning, chatter started spreading through the halls of CBS News.

A one o'clock meeting had suddenly been scheduled for the 60-minute staff.

It was short notice, and there was no stated agenda.

Alarm bells started to ring.

By early afternoon,

as producers and correspondents followed into the room on the 14th floor of the CBS

Broadcast Center on Manhattan's west side,

the tension was unmistakable.

Anderson Cooper appeared on Zoom from Rome, where he's covering the death of Pope Francis.

Inside the room was CBS News boss Wendy McMahon,

Leslie Stahl,

Scott Pelley,

and the rest of the show's top-tier staff,

many of whom had spent decades working with Bill Owens.

He stood at the front, visibly emotional, and delivered the news himself.

After 37 years at CBS News and six leading 60 Minutes as executive producer,

he would be stepping down in the coming weeks.

So an email is going to go out now that says, I'm leaving.

He said, adding, it's clear that I've become the problem.

I am the corporation's problem.

Now,

what's funny about this is he's relying on a,

according to him,

he had an audio of this meeting.

Now, most likely, it's the audio from a Zoom session.

And, you know, these guys are not rocket scientists.

Anderson Cooper and I think this guy Darkey used to work together at CNN.

I looked him up.

And so most likely, Anderson Cooper gave him the audio from the Zoom session.

And a lot of times, you know, Zoom doesn't have to have a video.

So you just use it for an audio call.

I've been on a lot of those.

In fact,

my normal day job,

I usually don't turn the camera on because people don't want to see my expression

when they're saying all the stupid things they say to me.

But, you know, so that's probably where he got it.

But he couldn't possibly know any of this stuff from that audio.

It is an impossibility.

He couldn't see any of these people, their emotions or any other stuff.

He's making all this up.

And this is really what you see has happened with our media,

is that they're not reporters anymore.

they think of themselves as storytellers.

They're shaping the narrative.

And when they think narrative, they think the mental framework in which all of us exist.

They're telling us what to think.

They're telling us how to understand the world.

One of the sites,

I think it's Politico or Axios,

one of them,

they actually have reports like that.

They're not reports.

They have these bullet points,

what you should know,

what you need to understand,

how you need to view this,

that kind of stuff.

That's how they put it together.

And back 100 years ago, this wouldn't have been written this way.

This simply would have been, well, these people were there, and this is what happened.

This guy said this, and that would be it.

In fact, they probably wouldn't even report on this.

Because if you go through the rest of this,

they're talking about 60 Minutes as if somehow or other the fate of the world rests

on this program.

And I'm pretty sure the average person watching 60 Minutes is well into their 70s.

I think the last time I looked, it was like 75 or something like that.

So it's probably still pretty old.

Yeah.

i haven't watched 60 minutes i don't know if i've ever really watched 60 minutes

with any any consistency you know someone had it on you know when i was a kid like

i remember used to come on but i don't think my parents watched it i know my

grandfather didn't watch it and have a television i mean yeah television it was

usually unplugged but you know over a friend's house maybe on a sunday evening or

something if it was on i don't know and but you know this is a show really that

really picked up the sort of baby boomer audience who are now all you know old

people

Nobody cares about 60 minutes.

I think even all their people are old.

I think, what the heck is this woman's name?

Leslie Stahl.

Leslie Stahl's got to be pushing 80 by now.

I mean,

at least,

I mean,

the last time I remember seeing her,

she looked like she was pushing 80,

and that was a long time ago.

But the rest of the story,

the way that they talk about it,

is if,

you know,

somehow or other,

you know,

what's going on here is immoral.

This is a great crime against the country.

And what's going on is that Trump sued CBS, and I think he sued the parent company, Paramount,

For, I think, defamation, not 100% sure.

But basically, he's going to win.

I forget what the details are, and it doesn't seem to say this in the show or in the story.

I don't know.

Well, we'll see.

But anyway.

But it's clear it's going to win.

And so the lawyers for CBS said, hey, we've got to make a deal here.

Let's cut a deal.

We're going to lose this thing.

And even if we don't, even if we litigate it, Trump's going to litigate.

He's the president of the United States.

Trump's not a quitter.

They understand what they're in for here.

So what they want to do is settle.

And the reason we want to settle is that they're involved in some sort of merger.

I think there's some other company that's buying Paramount or it's a merger between them.

I don't know exactly what the deals are.

There's some company that I guess is like a...

Paramount Global is the company that owns CBS,

and CBS owns 60 Minutes.

Then there's something called Skydance Media, and that's the deal that's being made.

Some guy named David Ellison,

I don't know,

a bunch of Jewish guys trading media properties,

but...

So that's the concern is that,

you know,

the liability that's hanging out there,

that has to be accounted for.

So what you want to do is settle with President Trump.

But President Trump is pretty smart.

He's demanding an apology.

He wants a video apology of whoever it was.

I think it's Leslie Stahl, which is great.

He's just obviously being an ass.

But the other thing is, is that he's president.

And for this deal to go through, I guess it has to be signed off on.

Who is it here?

Yeah, this guy's named Brendan Carr, who runs the Federal Communications Commission.

He's the chair.

And he's the guy who has to approve this.

Well, you know, that's not going to happen unless Trump is happy.

So basically,

Trump is just squeezing the crap out of these people,

just for spite,

just for fun,

probably.

But the best part is,

is that all they'd have to do is admit they were wrong,

but they refused to do it.

Not because they don't think they were wrong.

They're clearly wrong.

I mean, I forget what the details were.

But when I read this lawsuit back when it happened a couple of years ago,

it's been going on for a while.

I mean, it was just so egregious.

It was so obvious.

They just thought they could get away with murder.

And everyone in the media thinks this.

They all think they can just say whatever the hell they want.

And they're not entirely wrong about this.

You know, I've talked about the Sarah Palin case many times where she went into a New York court

a federal court in New York,

and had evidence that the New York Times actually planned to say things about her

that were untrue in order to hurt her.

I mean,

she had actual New York Times internal documents stating that they intended all

along to damage her reputation with these folks' fake stories,

and she still lost the judge because the judge said to the jury,

It doesn't matter what you decide.

If you decide in favor of Sarah Palin, I'm going to overrule you.

So if you want to go home early, do what I tell you.

And that's what happened.

And she appealed and lost again.

I mean, the Sullivan decision is egregious.

So they all think they can get away with it.

But Trump is trying to demonstrate that he just can't get away with it as much as you think.

All right.

I think that's enough.

I hope everyone enjoyed the video.

See you next time.