🚨🚨60 Minutes pulled in 2 comms consultants who were never actual employees of USAID and presented them as though they were longtime employees who were fired for lack of "loyalty." 🚨🚨
“Twelve days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were going to pay for their kids' daycare, their medical bills. And then, all gone overnight,” says Kristina Drye, who was fired in the USAID shutdown. https://t.co/cysOqteb8p pic.twitter.com/bUcOAnhMjs
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 17, 2025
Between this and Brennan asserting the Holocaust happened because of free speech, CBS had a heckuva day.
https://t.co/Ccqx1zjUhc
The state of the political media is such that denying a reporter special Oval Office access is an attack on the First Amendment, but outright censorship is just responsible governance—because, after all, "free speech was weaponized by the Nazis.”
— Eli Steinberg (@HaMeturgeman) February 16, 2025