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Havana syndrome, an alleged malady that purportedly affects U.S. intelligence and military officials, is back in the news thanks to an investigative report by 60 Minutes. The report was accompanied by a big, splashy headline: "Russian nexus revealed during 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome investigation into potential attacks on U.S. officials." That's right: CBS has decided that the mysterious ailments—headaches, earaches, etc.—afflicting some American service personnel are perhaps explained by a secretive Russian program to create energy weapons. The 60 Minutes report begins by interviewing "Carrie," an FBI agent who claims that she was struck by just such an energy weapon...

Let's start here with the bad news. The legacy media is every bit as manipulative and deceptive as you know they are. We already were aware of that, but Sunday night's 60 Minutes segment about 'banning books' in America put the problem in stark relief once again. But here's the good news. Conservatives are onto the game, and they know the corporate media cannot be trusted as far as you could kick them. So, when Moms For Liberty founders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich agreed to appear on 60 Minutes to talk about the problem of gender ideology in schools,...

60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reported Sunday night on a tiny gap in the border wall in southern California near the town of Jacumba located about sixty miles east of San Diego where thousands of Chinese migrants illegally enter the United States every week, are processed by Border Patrol and then shipped off to San Diego where a well-funded NGO helps the migrants make connections to move further into the U.S. The gap is promoted on TikTok with ‘step-by-step’ instructions on how to get there. Migrants showed Alfonsi the TikTok videos on their smartphones. The timing of the stunning report...

You know it's getting bad for Joe Biden when 60 Minutes has to admit the guy can't even really finish an interview filled with SOFTBALLS from them; the damage control they did before, during, and after this disastrous interview is so telling.

A bombshell lawsuit claims that CBS’ “60 Minutes” has long been a cesspool of sex harassment — including allegations that star correspondent Lesley Stahl once asked a female job applicant whether she would be willing to “use her body to secure stories.” Alexandra Poolos, who worked as a producer for more than 10 years at the prestigious TV news program before she was fired in February last year, filed suit against CBS and its corporate parent, Paramount, in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging rampant “misogyny” at the Tiffany Network. Among her explosive claims: In 2011, Poolos was interviewed for...

President Biden just completed a whirlwind tour in Israel, meeting PM Netanyahu and his war cabinet – as did U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. According to crack reporter Carolyn Glick, at this meeting the Israelis were told directly that military aid to Israel would be lessened or withheld unless Israel allowed Gaza and Hamas to be supplied with humanitarian aid – but with no preconditions. The 200+ Israeli hostages (including babies, children, rape victims and soldiers) were to be left as prisoners in Hamas’ jails and torture chambers. It is well understood in Israel and in the U.S.A. that...

RNC Research I wrote earlier about a couple of the teaser clips from the "60 Minutes" interview with Joe Biden.Those were bad, but the complete interview was even worse. First, we should note that there was a little bit of water-carrying for Joe Biden with host Scott Pelley saying that the president was fitting them into his busy schedule on Thursday. Can't make it up.@60Minutes's @ScottPelley carrying water for Biden before the interview even airs.Pelley claims Biden had to "wedge" the interview into his busy schedule.He had a 10am briefing and a 4:30 meeting that day. That's it. pic.twitter.com/i7Fb26TmpN— Mark...

The show “60 Minutes” should be ashamed of themselves. They just interviewed Crooked Joe Biden, and led him along like a lost child. Each question contained the answer, and was so weakly and apologetically asked that it was a JOKE which should be considered a campaign contribution to the Democrat Party. Why should CBS get free public airwaves for this highly partisan “show,” which never apologized to me for the mistakes they made on the “Laptop from Hell?” They are protecting Biden even though he is the most corrupt and incompetent President in the history of the United States. The...

President Biden said in an interview aired Sunday night that Israel should not occupy Gaza following a devastating terror attack by Hamas, claiming the move would be a “big mistake.” Biden was speaking to CBS’s “60 Minutes” in an interview that was filmed Thursday when he was asked about the expected military action on the Gaza Strip by Israeli Defense Forces. “I think it’d be a big mistake,” Biden said when asked if he would support an Israeli occupation of Gaza. ... I think that it would be a mistake for Israel to occupy Gaza again.” The Israeli government gave...

To even the casually trained observer, it’s easy to see the causal link between a weak, addled, far left President of the United States and Russia’s decision to escalate its aggression against Ukraine, as well as Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel. To anyone who is being honest with themselves, the last thing that a violence-weary world needs right now is more Joe Biden.The dutiful Democrat lapdogs in the Mainstream Media don’t see things that way, however. Along with his puppet masters, they insist on trotting this mentally vacant old fool in front of cameras so he can engage in a...

Alexandra Poolos, who was let go from the network last year, alleges the news outlet has a work culture defined by "sexism and misogyny" in which sexual misconduct and harassment by male colleagues went unaddressed.A producer on CBS’s 60 Minutes is suing the network for firing her after she was accused of harassment while turning a blind eye to “far more egregious misconduct” by male employees. The producer, Alexandra Poolos, says in a gender discrimination lawsuit filed against CBS on Tuesday in New York federal court that the company terminated her in violation of civil rights laws after she was...

VIDEOMerrick Garland appeared on 60 Minutes to shed crocodile tears over what he claims is political violence. However, as we have seen, "political violence" for Garland means expressing political opinions that he does not agree with which justifies the DOJ and FBI using over the top thuggery to suppress such "violence." Meanwhile he has refused to use the DOJ to prosecute REAL violence by the left such as the violent protests threatening Supreme Court Justices and their families.

A “60 Minutes” segment broadcast on Sunday caused an uproar after the show reported that American taxpayers are “subsidizing” Ukraine’s economy and paying for all of Ukraine’s first responders.The news comes as a recent Fox News poll found that 56% of Republicans say the U.S. should be sending less support to Ukraine. A recent CNN poll found that 55% of Americans say Congress should not authorize additional funding to support Ukraine.“American taxpayers are financing more than just weapons. We discovered the U.S. government’s buying seeds and fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers… and covering the salaries of Ukraine’s first responders – all...

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday suggested that neither President Joe Biden nor former President Donald Trump were of an appropriate age to lead the nation. Appearing on CBS News, the governor fielded a question as to the ages of Biden, 80, and Trump, 77. Biden is the oldest president in U.S. history while Trump previously held that title. "I think that's absolutely a legitimate concern," the governor said. "The presidency's not a job for someone that's 80 years old, and there's nothing wrong with being 80 obviously. I'm the governor of Florida. I know a lot of people...

VIDEOWhile watching 60 Minutes laughably attempting to "debunk" the idea that Ray Epps was a J6 Fed, I figured that no rational person would swallow their weak Kool-Aid. I was wrong. The Hill Rising's self-styled libertarian Robbie Soave despite being suspicious of the government somehow managed to make himself believe the 60 Minutes report as you can see. He does point out all the many feds involved in the Gretchen Whitmer "kidnapping" case yet somehow talks himself into believing that the feds wouldn't do what they often do on J6, namely to insert feds into a situation to help create...

"60 Minutes" ran a sympathetic segment about the infamous Ray Epps and his role during the riot at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 on Sunday, painting those who question his true motivations and actions that day as conspiracy theorists. Epps was caught on camera on January 5 and 6 attempting to get protesters to go to the Capitol building, even being among the first to breach the barricades around the complex as people started to storm the grounds. Fox News host Tucker Carlson showed he lied to Congress when he said he left at an earlier time than...

VIDEOThe laughable attempt by 60 Minutes to defend Ray Epps (the ONLY J6 protestor defended by the media and Democrats) and to debunk "conspiracy theories" about him has backfired to such an extent that it has only increased curiosity about Epps. Expect more information about Ray Epps to start coming out. One such piece of information is this interview with the daughter of Ray Epps, Tiffany Jones, in which she suggests that Ray Epps might have been "compromised" into becoming a J6 Fedsurrectionist. There is also a lot more revealing background information on Epps provided by her in text messages.

"The View" co-hosts fumed over CBS' Lesley Stahl and said she didn't push back enough during her interview with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday. "I don't think it legitimizes her any more than her words embarrassed her but I actually in this instance think it was a bad move for ‘60 Minutes,’" co-host Sara Haines said. Co-host Ana Navarro claimed people were upset over the interview because many hold "60 Minutes" and Lesley Stahl to a "high level" and that the interview was unexpected. Haines argued CBS was giving her a "louder microphone than she deserved or has earned"...

CBS took a page out of the movie script from Ron Howard’s Inferno (2016) and gave airtime to the widely-debunked, overpopulation-obsessed Paul Ehrlich to stoke new conniptions over extinction. Ehrlich decried population “growth mania” during the New Year’s Day edition of CBS’s 60 Minutes. CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley arbitrarily praised Ehrlich’s doomsday-predicting chops: “At the age of 90, biologist Paul Ehrlich may have lived long enough to see some of his dire prophecies come true.” In his 1968 book Population Bomb, Ehrlich predicted a population-led climate oblivion in the 1970s that never materialized, an Armageddon scenario that he still...

Earth is headed for a sixth extinction, warned biologist Paul Ehrlich on “60 Minutes” this Sunday. And since Ehrlich has predicted about 20 extinctions over the past 60 years, he’s a leading expert on the issue. Why didn’t “60 Minutes” have the decency to find a fresh-faced, yet-to-be-discredited neo-Malthusian to hyperventilate about the end of the world? Why didn’t producers invite a single guest to push back against theories that have been reliably debunked by reality? Because the media is staffed by environmental pessimists and doomsayers who need to believe the world is in constant peril due to the excesses...