Bari Weiss’s Big Secret Is That She’s Boring
Bari Weiss says he wants to use his new position at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls within the 40 meters of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the goal is to push aside voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate… pic.twitter.com/hfbM4gOwcN
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It’s worth watching the four-minute clip mainly for one reason: the full video is somehow even more embarrassing than the text suggests. This is, without a doubt, one of the craziest things about media I have ever encountered.
For Weiss, the decline of American media is best illustrated by the rise of Nick Fuentes (a Nazi), Andrew Tate (a virulent misogynist), and Hasan Piker (a left-wing streamer who advocates universal health care while playing video games). For what it’s worth, she’s sitting next to Ben Shapiro while she says all of this. Not to be noted, none of these people appear regularly on CBS or any other mainstream network.
“These people don’t actually represent our values, and they don’t think they represent the values or the worldview of the vast majority of Americans,” Weiss says, increasingly passionately. “This is an opportunity to speak for the 75 percent, the center-left and center-right people who still believe in equality of opportunity, who still believe passionately in the American project, who still believe in everything that everyone in this room believes in: freedom, individual responsibility and, at a fundamental level, the right to know exactly what is happening in the world. Not the world as the propagandists and ideologues imagine it, but what is happening actually in the world.”
