Lesley Stahl

POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Take of the Week Winner!

POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week? 

While the popular and successful Ronald Reagan and his legacy were denigrated by the media during his retirement, liberal journalists spent decades lavishing praise on Jimmy Carter.

Longtime CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl engaged in conversation at the 92^nd Street Y in New York City with columnist Peggy Noonan, and they both agreed the legacy media are "fraying" – for 20 years, Noonan insisted. "I'm extremely worried about the press," Stahl said, as she dragged out her usual story about Trump criticizing the press.

Democratic presidential nominees have never had a problem finding friendly journalists who will toss easy softballs, inviting the nominee to bash their Republican opponent while showcasing their own warm wonderfulness.

Lesley Stahl can’t just embarrass herself with fawning Democrat interviews on 60 Minutes. Now they’ve put her on Sunday Morning with her hero Nancy Pelosi, letting Pelosi put Joe Biden on Mount Rushmore. Substitute host Tracy Smith introduced the gush with gush: Pelosi "has a new book out, The Art of Power, an art which Nancy Pelosi is something of a master.”

In the 20 years since his death, journalists have praised Ronald Reagan as a way to disparage today's conservatives. But a look at the record shows the media routinely derided both Reagan and his policies.

On Sunday night, the hatchet-job specialists at 60 Minutes were back on the attack against conservatives. It was a 13-minute segment provocatively titled “The Right to Be Wrong.” This could describe Lesley Stahl in 2020, claiming you couldn't verify Hunter Biden's laptop. She was wrong. 

Instead of making government over-spending an issue, the news media have relentlessly pushed for even more of the nation’s wealth to be handed over to the federal government to spend.

CBS News offered a perfectly awful contrast on its Palm Sunday news shows. On Sunday Morning, Jane Pauley puffed and polished Democrat Sen. John Fetterman. In the evening on 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl assaulted Trump-adoring Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

On CBS’s 60 Minutes, anchor Lesley Stahl wore her bias on her sleeve when she conducted her sitdown interview with Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. In stark contrast to the foot massage that was given to Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman earlier in the day on CBS Sunday Morning, this interview was more of a brawl between Greene & Stahl. 

In response to a comment about President Biden made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in a 60 Minutes segment on Sunday night, Mike Barnicle of Morning Joe calls him "One of the most normal, honorable human beings you will ever meet."

Playing second fiddle to Scott Pelley’s gag-inducing interview with President Biden on Sunday’s 60 Minutes, CBS journalist Lesley Stahl sat down with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and treated him with more respect and reverence than the show usually affords to American Republicans. Stahl willingly subjected herself to Iran’s oppressive customs for women and had the gall to suggest…

On Friday’s CBS Mornings, they promoted a two-hour documentary on Friday night hyping Watergate: High Crimes in the White House. They tied it into the new anti-Trump hearings. They brought on Lesley Stahl, who started 50 years ago at CBS News, to connect the Watergate hearings to the January 6 hearings.