Bari Weiss says he wants to use his new position at CBS News to “redraw the boundaries of what falls within the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the goal is to sideline voices like Hassan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes and elevate… pic.twitter.com/hfbM4gOwcN
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The four-minute video is worth watching mainly for one reason: the full video is somehow even more embarrassing than the text suggests. This is without a doubt one of the dumbest things in the media I have ever encountered.
According to Weiss, the decline of American media is best illustrated by the rise of Nick Fuentes (a Nazi), Andrew Tate (a virulent misogynist), and Hassan Piker (a left-wing streamer who promotes universal health care by playing video games). For what it's worth, she's sitting next to Ben Shapiro while she says all this. It should be noted that none of these people appear regularly on CBS or any other major network.
“These people don't really represent our values, and they don't think they represent the values or worldview of the vast majority of Americans,” Weiss says, growing increasingly passionate. “This is an opportunity to speak for the 75 percent, for the center-left and the center-right, who still believe in equality of opportunity, who still believe passionately in the American project, who still believe in everything that everyone in this room believes in: freedom, freedom and individual responsibility and, at a basic level, the right to know exactly what is going on in the world. Not the world as propagandists and ideologues make it out to be, but what is actually happening in the world.” world”.
