Column: The ’60 Minutes’ Squad Was Tick-Tick-Tick Terrific for Biden

New York Times reporter James Stewart wrote a big article based on a series of interviews with CBS owner Shari Redstone, and buried deep in the piece was something wild that should have been obvious: CBS settled Donald Trump’s lawsuit to keep the public from seeing how they make “news” sausage.

Stewart said Redstone “worried that Mr. Trump’s lawyers could cherry-pick raw footage and internal communications and do more damage to CBS News’s reputation than any settlement would.” She wanted their sale of CBS and Paramount to Skydance Media to get federal approval, and the lawsuit complicated everything.

Redstone told The Times that CBS employees warned her that in October 2023, when Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes interviewed President Biden, he had seemed “drowsy and had to be prodded to answer.” She worried that CBS might be accused of “editing the interview to conceal Mr. Biden’s failings.”

Conservatives made the accusation in real time with what actually aired. At NewsBusters, we said “CBS Escorts Fumbling Biden.” The “RNC Research” account on Twitter highlighted this strange exchange:

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Pelley: “What is your message to Hezbollah and its backer, Iran?”

Biden: “Don’t. Don’t don’t don’t — ”

Pelley: “Don’t…come across the border, don’t escalate this war?”

Biden:  “That’s right.”