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The leftists on social media have hilariously caricatured CBS News under new Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss as “CBS Newsmax,” like it’s lurched dramatically to the right. But if you’re monitoring CBS in real life, there’s plenty of evidence that “classic CBS” is still operating. In recent days, CBS has proven to be worse than ABC and NBC in its tilt to the left. A new NewsBusters study of ten days of evening news coverage of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after the death of Renee Good found that CBS statements on ICE were 96 percent negative, compared to 91 percent on ABC and NBC. On CBS, 26 of the 27 sound bites were critical of (or, more often, outright hostile toward) ICE. Both ABC and NBC aired 21 such sound bites, versus each offering only two that were positive. CBS never explicitly admitted that Renee Good hit ICE agent Jonathan Ross with her car moments before he fired at her. ABC and NBC did so only once each. CBS reporter Nicole Sganga even described this event as the “murder” of Good, despite no charges being filed yet. When it came to Sunday’s invasive leftist protest at an evangelical church in Minneapolis, none of the networks wanted to pay much attention. But CBS only gave it 13 seconds (before any arrests), while NBC aired 99 seconds, in part because NBC’s Maggie Vespa offered a platform to protest leader Nekima Armstrong. On Sunday night, Sharyn Alfonsi’s crusading leftist 60 Minutes report against Trump deporting some illegal aliens to a “notorious” prison in El Salvador aired without a single edit – although there was window dressing offering some Trump comment surrounding the segment. The elitist media treated a delay of Alfonsi’s segment as Democracy Dying in Darkness, so maybe that’s why it was aired in its propagandistic entirety. There are some examples of a better CBS – Minnesota-based Jonah Kaplan is the only broadcast TV reporter explaining the massive Somali fraud in that state. New Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil’s interview in Detroit with President Trump was firm, but respectful. The “CBS Newsmax” scolds would prefer classic CBS, where Dan Rather yelled at George H.W. Bush about ruining America in the eyes of the world.  Later, Rather’s interviews would basically kiss the Clintons on both cheeks. Everyone knows the entrenched leftists at CBS mock Weiss for having no experience in TV news, and making some rookie mistakes. But none of these “CBS Newsmax” people objected when NPR hired Katherine Maher, a CEO with no newsroom experience and a pile of crazy anti-Trump tweets. The issue isn’t the experience on your resume – it’s the perceived ideological tilt. So there is a rash of panicky stories quoting anonymous leftists inside the network – the ones who don’t care about staying in third place for decades as long as they’re airing their rages – describing Weiss and Dokoupil’s arrival as a complete disaster. The Ringer literally cartooned Weiss’s CBS as “pancaked, Wile E. Coyote–style, against the side of the mountain.” Variety’s CBS sources described the network being on the verge of “a death spiral” that is “hard to reverse.” In real life, in 1980, Walter Cronkite’s CBS Evening News ruled the roost with 53 million viewers. In the fourth quarter of 2025, the same show under John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois drew 4 million viewers. A lot of that dramatic decline is the changing nature of media consumption. But don’t miss that in that fourth quarter, ABC’s World News Tonight drew 7.8 million viewers to CBS’s 4 million – almost two to one. Apparently, the classic CBS types aren’t unhappy with that in any way. 

A Texas social media influencer was arrested over a horrifying video that a woman found of him and her 2-year-old daughter on the man's phone, according to police.Victor L. Corey Paillet III, 40, was arrested Friday after a woman said she went through his phone and found the video. She said he had gotten drunk and fallen asleep.'He tortured her in that video,' she said. 'He literally tortured my daughter. How can you do this to a baby?'"I've never went through his phone before, never, but his phone was right there, and I'm like, I just feel something's not right," the woman said to KPRC-TV."I clicked on that first video right there," she added. "It was seven minutes and 53 seconds. ... And it said yesterday at 6:43 a.m."She provided KPRC with surveillance video from his arrest at her home in Porter."You raped my f**king daughter!" a woman screams on the video. "I hope you die!"The mother of the girl told KPRC that she had been dating Paillet but that she looked through his phone when he said something about being a "demon."She says she hasn't been to stop shaking or crying since seeing the video."He tortured her in that video," she said. "He literally tortured my daughter. How can you do this to a baby?"Court records say that investigators have discovered other evidence that leads them to believe Paillet had abused other victims. They are asking for help from the public in the investigation.Paillet is known as "Kandy Red Bread" on social media, where he posts about custom car modifications. He has over 62,000 followers and has been photographed with influential Houston figures.He has past criminal convictions that include drug possession and a weapons charge.RELATED: Disturbing image caught on video before remains of 5-year-old were found dumped at LA parking lot Paillet is charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault of a child and promotion of child pornography. He has also been placed on "modified safety watch" to prevent the possibility of him harming himself in custody.His TikTok profile reads, "Love yourself and don’t trust nobody."Paillet is being held without bond. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The co-hosts of "The View" were exhilarated by the presence of newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), but Whoopi Goldberg topped them all with her praise of his policies.Mamdani was swept into office on the promise of higher rent controls and redistribution of wealth, but he also benefited from opposition that included a scandal-plagued former governor and an unpopular incumbent mayor. Her comments were met with thunderous applause from the audience.At the end of the show that aired Monday, Goldberg expressed hope that his socialist policies could be extended to the rest of the nation."It's really nice to have you here. You make sense," she said to the mayor."Thank you!" he responded, laughing."Well, because it's important, you know," she responded. "I just want to say, listen, if you can do what you say you can do, you will not only remake the city, but you may help remake the nation."Her comments were met with thunderous applause from the audience."So my fingers [are] crossed for you!" she added.Video of Goldberg's comments were posted to social media, where they were widely condemned."He won't. He says all those things, but it'll all fail. Then, it'll be the prime example of what not to do to a city," said one commenter. "A lot of people will pay for his mistakes. The only good thing about it is when he ruins the city it's possible that New York will finally realize that they need a republican in office," said another critic. "We want him to go away!! We don’t want this 15 years old jihadist to touch anything!! Whoopi was a great actress some time ago! She is brain dead idiot now!" read another response. Mamdani said alleviating the housing crisis and lowering the cost of child care were the central objectives of his administration. RELATED: 'Completely out of your f**king mind': Eric Adams rips into Mamdani over white supremacy Critics of rent control say that state-ordered market interventions lead to fewer open housing units and ironically higher rents. The full episode of "The View" with the Mamdani interview is available on the show's YouTube channel.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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