Scott Pelley recapped the Cabinet picks of President-elect Donald Trump in the “60 Minutes” opening Sunday, enraging MAGA supporters despite the segment’s recitation of facts. (Watch the video below.)
The summary “is exactly why no one respects the legacy media anymore,” one person complained on X, formerly Twitter.
“Pure Democratic propaganda,” griped another.
Pelley, a correspondent, began by noting “some nominees appear to have no compelling qualifications other than loyalty to Trump.”
He pointed out defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s lack of government experience and recent gig as a Fox News morning host; the investigation into attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz’s alleged sex with a minor; and the vaccine skepticism of health and human services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“It’s up to the new Republican majority in the Senate to decide whether these nominees are equipped to represent the American people,” Pelley concluded.
If facts make those Nazi flowers wither, shower them with facts.
Facts and evidence have a left wing bias don’cha know /s
The same people attacking Trump’s picks had no issue with Obama letting Citibank pick all of his people for him.
Yes, Trump’s picks are bad, but Democrats aren’t really in a position to be pointing fingers. Blue & Red MAGA have no self-awareness.
Other administrations being bad does not make this one better. Everyone is in a position to critique this administration because everyone has a stake.
It would be nice if journalism was this honest the last 8 FUCKING YEARS.
It’s convenient now. The news media isn’t so much biased in terms of left vs right, but rather they’re biased in favor of an explosive narrative. Trump provides so many explosive narratives just by his mere existence.
So no, they’re not suddenly finding honesty. They’re starting to feast on the buffet they cooked for themselves.
Did any of these MAGAs tweet a list of qualifications other than loyalty to Trump? Because that’s how facts would work.
Unless the facts don’t support another conclusion? How weird.
Their feelings don’t care about facts.
Why are we accepting reporting on tweets as a journalism?
Yeah MAGA reacted to the 60 minutes, but so what? One can find similar reactions on any topic, there’s nothing new that we learn by reading this. It just manufacturers outrage on the other side.
Whooo boy, let me introduce you to gaming and popular culture ‘journalism’, where these ‘journalists’ do almost nothing other than write op eds about the vibes they’re getting from Twitter in the past 48 hrs.
Why are we accepting reporting on tweets as a journalism?
Are we? It’s on huffpost.com. Since when is that journalism?
I want to agree, but there is something to be said about the influence of social media on an average person. One reason I was really anxious about the election was whenever I saw shitload of likes on tweets that were straight up lies.
The problem with this garbage type of reporting is that you can create any narrative you want. Social media is so big that it’s not hard to find a handful of posts, like what is being posted in their story, saying almost anything you need them to. Always going to be some insane person in some corner of the internet saying something completely batshit.
The article is really “we found some people on social media saying these things” and it’s being framed as “maga meltdown.” It’s fucking garbage.
I agree that social media has a large influence, but how does garbage journalism like this do anything other than add more fuel to the fire of “traditional media is now trash”?
Oooh, i misunderstood you at first. I 100% agree, I have unsubbed from some subreddits before because they kept posting tweets of “haters” as if that’s noteworthy in any way.
Twitter is the official mouthpiece of the trump administration though.
Seems to be the mouthpiece of anyone trying to argue anything nowadays. you can always find a tweet supporting any argument you wanna make.
That’s the whole point: Bread & Circuses, Part Duh©
For now. It will be state sponsored media shortly
This could very well be one of the first times a large swath of cable tv viewers and MAGA heard about Gaetz allegations of giving hardcore drugs to child prostitutes, so seeing their reaponse is interesting.
MAGA people avoid all mainstream media except 60 minutes on CBS?
A large number of Americans prefer to get news from Cable TV. Especially the elderly and poor.
The biggest cable news network by a huge margin is Fox News with more than double the second place, MSNBC, views.
CBS isn’t on Cable, it is a Broadcast TV network but it is among the highest rated broadcast channels, even higher than Fox News, due to CBS also covering sports.
So while CBS is less popular as a news network, 60 Minutes is the most popular News Program in the USA.
In 2013 Pew Research said “About one- quarter of American adults, (24%) watch only Fox News, 23% watch only CNN and 15% watch only MSNBC.”
And here’s some additional graphs for further enrichment of your contextual info
You’re welcome for the free sociology lesson.
So, my point was, the first time they would’ve heard about Matt Gaetz was 60 minutes, not the regular news?
Probably. Considering how little air time his sex trafficking has received and it being an almost non-existent topic on fox.
There is a high probability that 60 minutes was the first time many MAGA heard about the Gaetz Allegations. Because there is a high probability that they only watch Fox News and Social Media News as their primary news sources.
So, you’re saying they’re watching Fox News all day every day, but tune into 60 minutes every week, which is the only thing they watch on CBS, and this is the first time there’s a 60 minutes episode that clashes with their MAGA worldview?
You think this is more likely than this just being the classic manufactured right wing outrage machine that spins up every week about whatever the right wants their base to be angry about?
You saw the statistics dude idk what you’re confused about.
Right. Cherry-picking kool-aid enthusiasts spreading their knee-jerk reaction on social media isn’t journalism. These people are likely not valid representatives of public MAGA opinion, to say the least.
The anti-mainstream media comment in particular turns this whole post so many levels of irony that it’s actually challenging to unpack it in a succinct way.
Lol their feelings don’t care about your facts
They barely reacted. These maga types aren’t going to watch some video critical of their beliefs which are more akin to religious than political these days
Then stop upvoting this stuff! During election time every damn article upvoted here was about i.) horse race reporting or ii.) Trump outrage. We have to stop clicking these links and sharing the articles.
Huffington Post is has been clickbait trash for a while now.
4 years of crybaby MAGA people who don’t know what’s what and thinks everything is against them. Which is partially true.
4 years of this, people.
Thanks, Merrick Garland. Way to let a guy credibly accused of like 6 different Federal crimes (including a whole ass coup) just walk by slow walking investigations because you didn’t want to look political.
Don’t worry, it’s all gonna be fine. Joe Biden shook hands with Trump at White House last week.
4 more years of this. donvict’s bastardization of the slogan dates back to december 2011.
the far right whining about the ‘liberal’ media goes back a lot earlier than that
4 years of “you’ll never believe what we’ve found on twitter” journalism.
4 years… at least.
Only 4? God I wish I had your optimism
Four more years, with many more to come.
This part is actually kind of wild. For a people who idolize “strong men” to such a degree, the amount of crying they do is absurd.
Trump will adjourn the Senate and the House and get to appoint without confirmation.
The Constitution says the president can adjourn Congress only “in case of disagreement” between the House and the Senate on when the chambers should recess.
That is how Trump is going to do it.
When you’re an asshole, being called out seems like persecution
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Wake me up when they actually melt.
The glaciers are going to melt loooooooooong before the MAGA cult will.
Well, looks like it is already starting. I fully expected the donvict fans to get even angrier if he won. Just like last time.
I think part of it is that they are now also having conversations in their lives where normal Americans are just fucking done with them. Just because they are enthusiastic about donvict, and gleefully voted for him over the objections of those around them, doesn’t mean they are going to just roll with it, and still be friends, lovers, relatives, because “it’s just politics”. Some people are just getting cut off:
So?
I mean . . . this is nothing. This is just the kind of article you can expect for at least 3.7 years. You wanna dig your teeth into a second turd circus administration, feel free. It won’t change a motherfucking thing.
The corporate medai has failed so spectacularly they’re just staring up their own asshole at this point asking each other what they think.
Meh…no it didn’t. Maga people don’t watch 60 minutes. A bunch of X bots reposted a bunch of bot links.
More garbage “news” from the Twitter verse to flow back to the echo chamber and reverberate with righteous, impotent, indignation. I’m not gonna take the bait like I did 4 years ago.
Huffpost basically just platforming the worst opinions available. Thanks dumbasses.
everyone knows maga opinions are stupid and useless. that doesn’t take away from the enjoyment of watching them whine about everything under the sun
The resistance:
watching them whine
Not necessarily a bad thing.
If reporting on it makes moderate conservatives embarrassed to be associated with MAGA conservatives, they’re helping to create a divide and start infighting.
I’m probably never going to like fluff pieces or opinion-based news so let’s just leave it at that. Hope you’re right.
You’re right. Using Twitter quotes as a source of news is journalistic malpractice. They’re just lazily pushing out dumb articles that are only popular because they confirm your priors.
None of us have our hearts in our work these days, but I’d be fired for this level of faking it
