đ¸ Toady Dokoupil
Bari Weissâs handpicked CBS puppet royally bungles an interview with Donald Trump, the DOJ faces a mass exodus, and thousands of protesters have been killed in Iran.
On this day in 1963, George Wallace was inaugurated as the governor of Alabama, promising an assembled crowd, âsegregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!â Hope youâre enjoying Hell, George!
Good morning! Peter here, reflecting on the fact that somehow, nearly a decade into this ever-waking nightmare we call âTrumpism,â the Bad Orange Man can still manage to truly shock me from time to time. Yesterday, at a Ford factory in Detroit, the president of the United States said to a (presumably) blue-collar, red-blooded American âfuck youâ â not once but twice â and then proceeded to flip him off. Granted, it wasnât quite as offensive as Barack Obamaâs tan suit⌠But it was really rather jarring!
In todayâs âFirst Draft,â CBS talking head Tony Dokoupil utterly fails to hold the president accountable for the chaos heâs unleashing, Bill and Hillary Clinton risk being held in contempt of Congress over the Epstein files, new data proves ICE is detaining far, far more people than just the so-called âbad hombres,â the White House unveils its latest, racist attack on Somalis, and Zeteo is hosting a Town Hall on Iran.
đ¨ Before we dive in, though, Mehdi has a message about Zeteo's LIVE in-person event in DC on Jan. 20 that you won't want to miss:
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Yesterday evening, on national television, Donald Trump told the heir to the chair of Walter Cronkite, a man whose courage and candor turned the country against the Vietnam War, that he owns him.
âTony, we have now the hottest country in the world. And a year and a half ago our country was dead. We had a dead country. You wouldnât have a job right now.â Trump told the anchor to his face. âIf [Kamala Harris] got in, you probably wouldnât have a job right now.â
Dokoupil did not immediately push back, did not immediately defend his honor, did not immediately prove his worth as a broadcast journalist and honest arbiter of truth by telling the most powerful man in the world to pound sand.
No, he proceeded to ask a question about the Ford factory assembly line nearby.
Dokoupil willingly allowed the commander in chief to reap from him, in one fell swoop, both his journalistic integrity and â arguably â his self-respect.
The pairâs tĂŞte-Ă -tĂŞte served as perhaps the single most disastrous, single most embarrassing (albeit entirely predictable) misfortune to yet befall Bari Weissâs MAGA billionaire-installed reign at CBS News.
Yes, technical snafus, heinous copywriting, and Dokoupilâs bizarre antics on social media have plagued previous broadcasts. Last nightâs Trump interview, however, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Americaâs âTiffany Networkâ is now state-controlled media.
Even using the word âinterviewâ to describe the taping feels wrong. Here is just a small sampling of the obvious, abject falsehoods Trump uttered that Dokoupil opted not to counter or even remotely address: