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'60 Minutes' Opening Prompts MAGA Meltdown

www.huffpost.com '60 Minutes' Opening Prompts MAGA Meltdown

"Pure Democratic propaganda," one Trump-supporting critic wrote about the news show.

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.

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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
- 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?
- 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.
- 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
- Lol their feelings don't care about your facts
- 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"?
- 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.
- 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.

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.
- 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... at least.
- 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.
- Only 4? God I wish I had your optimism
- 4 years of "you'll never believe what we've found on twitter" journalism.
- 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.

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.
- Team sports.

Facts and evidence have a left wing bias don'cha know /s
- They do. Rightly so.

If facts make those Nazi flowers wither, shower them with facts.
- Pretty sure they are actually completely immune to facts.

Wake me up when they actually melt.
- The glaciers are going to melt loooooooooong before the MAGA cult will.

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
- Twitter slams 60 minutes over factual statements!
- 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.

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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recess_appointment
- The chambers will just not go to recess using pro forma sessions.
- Yea this shit is over. We are about to become on par with Russia. This fucking moron reality tv star con man ended our democracy … fucking ridiculous.

When you're an asshole, being called out seems like persecution

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:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/man-left-speechless-as-wife-files-for-divorce-after-he-voted-for-donald-trump/ar-AA1tX4kp

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.

This is that "liberal news media" that MAGAs keep yammering on about. The one that's owned by six corporations.

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

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.
  
  Everyone’s in a position to criticize every administration. But y’all only do it one way.
- 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.
- Eh, get outta here troll baby. Go on git back to reddit.
- 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.
- I guess we should never be critical of anything because one time we weren't. /s
  
  I’ve been through cycle enough times. You won’t care next time it’s a Dem either.

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