FAMILY FEUD: '60 Minutes' Leftists Wage Internal War on Bari Weiss Applying Brakes

Tim Graham
December 22nd, 2025 11:12 AM

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The 60 Minutes team at CBS has suffered a setback in its anti-Trump crusade, and it furiously leaked that story right into the newspapers. Reporter Sharyn Alfonsi assembled what we could guess was a typical hit piece on the “notorious” CECOT prison in El Salvador that temporarily held illegal migrant cause celebre Kilmar Abrego-Garcia.

The Wall Street Journal reported a combative note from Alfonsi to fellow 60 Minutes staffers that quickly leaked to the media, where she said her segment was being held for political reasons, not editorial ones. Alfonsi said Weiss had "spiked" the story and not given her a chance to discuss it further.

"Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices," Alfonsi wrote. "It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one."

Every editorial decision at 60 Minutes looks like a political one. But it’s only “political” if anyone interferes with their hatchet jobs. Citing allegedly "rigorous" attorneys and "Standards and Practices" when they've approved all your previous attack segments doesn't mean those stories were chock full of facts and fairness. 

This was embarrassing because Scott Pelley just boasted at the Walter Cronkite Awards ceremony that there had been no hint of "corporate interference" from Weiss in their usual er, process.

CBS put out a report on its own internal feud on Monday morning. Nate Burleson strangely said the story focused on a "notorious prison in El Salvador and the Trump administration's decision to send Venezuelans and others who it says entered the U.S. illegally." They contest Team Trump's grasp on facts on everything.

Alfonsi could not abide Weiss wanting a Trump official to comment: "If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch' for any reporting they find inconvenient.... We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi wrote.

This statement's hilarious, considering Pelley put aside "investigative powerhouse" to "stenographer" in two puffball interviews with President Biden, not to mention Alfonsi's own puddle of goo over student activists like David Hogg at Parkland High School. 

If Alfonsi wants to trash Weiss for curtailing her speech, she could review her 60 Minutes piece hailing the Germans for cracking down on free speech on the internet. 

One of Alfonsi's most memorable hit pieces targeted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Covid, which even liberal media critics found to be a screwup. 

PS: Here's video of the teaser of the delayed segment: 

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