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.
This article is fucked up. No one (likely) here saw the 60 minutes opening, we’re all reading about a huffpost article about the response from a bunch of people on Twitter, those might not even be Americans, they might have an IQ of 50, why are they driving the conversation? We’re not taking the time to watch the 60 minutes and we’re letting huffpost make money off of outrage culture. The content of the 60 minutes is the story and crucially important not the idiots/bots/propaganda responding to it. The shittiest type of journalism is based off Twitter replies and the best journalism is what 60 min is doing
Better get used to it, what someone says doesn’t matter anymore, what you can make people believe was said, and how outraged that will make them, is all that matters.
I’m not saying that I’m endorsing it, but I do think my statement is pretty precise… But also it tries to exploit the phenomenon, to outrage you dear reader into taking action.
If facts make those Nazi flowers wither, shower them with facts.
Pretty sure they are actually completely immune to facts.
It would be nice if journalism was this honest the last 8 FUCKING YEARS.
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.
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.
For now. It will be state sponsored media shortly
Why are we accepting reporting on tweets as a journalism?
Are we? It’s on huffpost.com. Since when is that journalism?
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.
Lol their feelings don’t care about your facts
Huffington Post is has been clickbait trash for a while now.
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.
This is that “liberal news media” that MAGAs keep yammering on about. The one that’s owned by six corporations.
When you’re an asshole, being called out seems like persecution
Oooh… I like this. Well said!
Wake me up when they actually melt.
The glaciers are going to melt loooooooooong before the MAGA cult will.
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.
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:
Meh…no it didn’t. Maga people don’t watch 60 minutes. A bunch of X bots reposted a bunch of bot links.
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.
Eh, get outta here troll baby. Go on git back to reddit.
Deep Cut whataboutism
The same people attacking Trump’s picks had no issue with Obama letting Citibank pick all of his people for him.
Really, you know that? Down to the last person? Pretty impressive.
Also - can you remind me when Obama was last in office?
Because it seems to me the time to complain about Obamas picks was when Obama was in office.
How about folks who weren’t even voting age then? Do they also need to STFU about Trump confirming what everyone already knew by making garbage choices for his cabinet based primarily on their likelihood to support his fascist goals? How does the 8 year old Obama whataboutism come into play in that scenario?
“Whataboutism” is trying to excuse one person’s actions because of another person’s actions.
I’m not excusing shit. They’re both crooks. I’m pointing out y’all don’t give a shit when a Dem does it.
I’m pointing out y’all don’t give a shit when a Dem does it.
And I’m pointing out (among other things) that you don’t know that to be true.
I’m not excusing shit.
OK.
Other administrations being bad does not make this one better. Everyone is in a position to critique this administration because everyone has a stake.
Everyone’s in a position to criticize every administration. But y’all only do it one way.
That’s like comparing a mean comment to a war crime. A very serious misunderstanding, or an attempt to mislead.
Funny you bring up war crimes. Red & Blue MAGA don’t hold their own accountable for those either.
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.
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
