Opinion: The Hyprocrisy Shows at 60 Minutes
Every time I think I have written my last article on the liberal bias in the media, particularly CBS and 60 Minutes, another thing pops up that forces me to pick up my pen once again.
In this case, it is the articles written by journalists in Newsday, who give accounts of the firing of 60 Minutes reporter Scott Pelley and the resignation of Cecilia Vega, both of whom complained that the new leadership at the program was injecting bias into their segments.
The articles were not framed as though these were the opinions of Pelly and Vega. Rather, it was presented as a fact that the new management was politicizing the program and injecting propaganda into the segments.
All this leads us back to the definition of “projecting.” It’s when you accuse others of doing what you yourself are doing. The liberal media’s ridiculous circling of the wagons around Pelley and Vega is the ultimate example of journalistic projecting.
60 Minutes lost its way decades ago. It hasn’t been the revered, hard-hitting news program of Mike Wallace and Morley Safer for quite some time. No, today it’s infested with liberal activists such as Pelley, Lesley Stahl, and Sharyn Alfonsi.
It’s a shame that the Newsday reporters couldn’t just say that the claims of overreach were merely the opinions of Pelley and Vega and then balance it with a few of the many glaring examples of liberal bias in the program.
Remember, this is the same Scott Pelley who issued a segment defaming the Moms for Liberty group as being anti-gay and hysterical conspiracy theorists simply because they objected to pornography and critical race theory being injected into the U.S. educational system.
This is the same Scott Pelley who went on a tirade in a commencement address about how the Trump administration was destroying journalism, yet had no comment as to how the Biden administration pressured the media to silence critics of the government‘s Covid policies or negativity against Biden, including the Hunter Biden laptop fiasco.
Here are just a few of the many other examples of bias from 60 Minutes that come to mind when preparing this article:
Propping up Kamala
In one of the most egregious examples of media bias in the last several decades, 60 Minutes was caught manipulating the word salad commentary by presidential candidate Kamala Harris to make it appear that her responses were far more coherent than they actually were. This was more than an edit due to time constraints, it completely changed the nature of her answer, obscuring the incoherent rambling response that she gave.
Denying Spying on Trump
Democratic shield and cheerleader Leslie Stahl did her utmost to try to debunk President Trump‘s accurate statement that he was spied upon by the Obama administration. When Trump brought up the issue, Stahl condescendingly and definitively claimed he was wrong, and that there was no evidence of any spying. This was despite the fact that it was clear to any objective observer that the Obama administration had engaged in surveillance of Trump‘s campaign team, including Carter Page.
Giving a Pass to Censorship
An awful segment allowed German censors to spout their horrific methods without any challenge.
The German bureaucrats who were policing the Internet were giddy over how many people they were arresting for posting things that were considered harmful or misinformation. Not a bit of pushback from the 60 Minutes reporter.
Favoring GOP’s Enemies
One segment promoted the claim that the Health Department was being gutted without saying that Trump just wanted to get a handle on the wasteful spending. They interviewed Frances Collins, the lying former head of the National Institute of Health, without referencing massive Medicaid fraud.
Highlighting the Radical Right, But Not the Left
A segment in May 2026 centered on one or two white supremacists as though the idiots are representative of the Republican establishment. However, there was no mention of the radical left from Antifa or the surge of antisemitism within the Democratic Party.
Repeating Debunked Claims
In a recent interview with the president, Nora O’Donnell read to Trump unverified statements from his would-be assassin that he’s a pedophile. There was no basis of fact to this ridiculous claim, but her repeating it underscores her bias.
Positive GOP Stories, Only When out of Power
60 Minutes did a glowing piece about Ben Sasse, but only after he was out of the Senate and about to die.
Misrepresenting the Facts
When doing a story on ICE in Minneapolis, the Republican they chose to put on air was Rand Paul, who opposes the administration. Pelley even had the audacity to claim that ICE was attacking protestors, who in turn were forced to respond violently to ICE. He then interviewed a former attorney in the civil rights division who is a Trump hater, but there was no interview from a Trump ally.
Failure to Get Balanced Opinions
Bari Weiss, a liberal former New York Times reporter who was recently hired to oversee CBS News, has been trashed by the 60 Minutes staff and the leftist media for having the audacity to demand that the liberal stories at least give the opposition the ability to get a quote in.
That was the case in the now-infamous segment from Sharyn Alfonsi that talked of supposed horrid conditions for detained illegal aliens. All Weiss was asking for was that the administration’s perspective be put on camera. This was hardly injecting bias into the story as Alfonsi and Pelley claim. Weiss was properly seeking to balance out an already leftist slant in the segment.