This is Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality—my attempt to make myself, and all of you out there in SubStackLand, smarter by writing where I have Value Above Replacement and shutting up where I do not… CROSSPOST: STEVE SCHMIDT: Bari Weiss killed CBS News in 76 daysLong story short: a 40-year-old woman named Bari with an Ivy League pedigree, who maintains a constant spotlight on her identity as a Jewish lesbian snuffed out a story about a concentration camp...
Long story short: a 40-year-old woman named Bari with an Ivy League pedigree, who maintains a constant spotlight on her identity as a Jewish lesbian snuffed out a story about a concentration camp on CBS News 80 years after Edward R. Murrow’s broadcast from Buchenwald. Time erases memories for individuals, but also collectively, within societies…<https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/bari-weiss-killed-cbs-news-in-76>  It would have astonished Americans living in 1885 that the most famous American in the world, Ulysses Grant, who saved the Union, would at best ring a vaguely familiar bell for some Americans just two lifetimes after his death. The same is true of another titan — the American broadcast journalist Edward Roscoe Murrow, who died in 1965. His news values at CBS were murdered in 2025 by a woman born in 1984 and a boy with a wealthy daddy born in 1983. Pity. Murrow was a truth-teller and a serious man in a world gone mad and consumed by lies. His was a voice that the American people could trust in a moment of enormous consequence — just like they can trust the voice of Sharyn Alfonsi today. The collapse of trust in the American media is a result of the business decisions that destroyed Murrow’s ethic by the corporate executives he warned about with tremendous prescience. Before then, when broadcast journalism was in its infancy, there was only possibility. Many people say that the following is the greatest news broadcast in history. There were no pictures that accompanied the report. Only Murrow’s words. Close your eyes and listen to them. You will quickly move past the scratchiness of the recording, and be transported back to a relatively recent moment at a profoundly evil place. Below is Murrow’s report from Buchenwald. This is where the fascist road led. The man describing the scene had chartered a plane to Vienna seven years earlier, as the Nazi Army rolled into Austria during the Anschluss of 1938. The justification for the Anschluss was a doctrine of racial purity that sought to unify Aryans and the Germanic people around a thousand-year Reich that promised freedom, prosperity and national greatness. It would protect them from the hordes of subhumans stepping on the master race and closing in from all sides. What Hitler said was needed was “living space.” Edward R. Murrow’s first live report was from Vienna on March 13, 1938. It was a multi-point broadcast of a live event over shortwave radio that reached seamlessly into millions of American homes, a modern miracle of technology, engineering and journalistic grit. Here are the words that began the greatest career in modern American journalism.
Murrow surely could not have predicted the journey that would take him from Vienna to Buchenwald, but the American people could count on him to explain what was happening as the crisis grew into human civilization’s greatest test and catastrophe. Murrow was trusted because he earned trust. Trust builds by drops, but is lost in buckets — a fact about which the majority of America’s media mandarins seem oblivious or wholly indifferent. “This is London” meant something because the man delivering the news could be counted on to explain it, as well as be trusted to deliver it. He built the greatest assemblage of broadcast journalists in world history. They illuminated the opaqueness, horror, truth and challenges of World War II. They looked over the edge of the abyss into the pit of tyranny, war, suffering and evil. Listen to Murrow tell the truth about fascism before we jump and talk about Bari Weiss, who is much closer to Leni Riefenstahl than Murrow: tahl than Murrow:  If you are unable to listen to his news report, you can read it here. When the Nazis needed to show the International Red Cross how good the Jews had it in the Reich, they needed a stage to impress the cynical, gullible and naive. The place to which the Nazis took their moral dupes was the fortress town of Terezin in conquered Czechoslovakia. There they built Theresienstadt, the show camp, and filled the store windows with bread that the Jews could not eat, and clothes they could not buy with money they were not allowed to possess. A key difference between the Nazis and MAGA is that, while both practiced cruelty, MAGA glorifies it. The Nazis downplayed their viciousness. They hid it from the world, themselves and their own citizens to the maximum degree possible. This was the purpose of places like Terezin. The camp was created to prove that the Nazis weren’t in fact cruel, but gracious keepers of their subhuman charges. MAGA has no such concerns. They practice cruelty expressly to celebrate it, and market it to inspire more cruelty. The old Nazis would have loved Silicon Valley’s algorithms, but only MAGA has gotten the chance to harness their innate and vicious power to bring out the worst in ordinary people. Look at this example of a message from an ICE public affairs team member from a Washington Post article about ICE’s “media machine,” as the story refers to it:
The last time I visited Terezin I sat on a bench outside of the school attended by the Jewish children that were mostly gassed at Auschwitz-Birkenau. They did not survive the monstrous lie of their imprisonment and the awful power of the state to decide who was human, and who was not. It turned out that Terezin was not what the Nazis said it was. In the end, it was a death camp. So is this:
The watch that Kristi Noem is wearing is a $50,000 Rolex. Democracy is what keeps you safe and protects your liberty. This does not. All over the world, wherever people are oppressed and downtrodden, trampled and abused, they must know that there is a place that rejects their oppression and tormentors in the name of freedom and the rights of each human being. They must know that in the darkest nights there is a place and a people who will not only stand with them, but see them. Freedom is the most powerful force in the world, but it is fueled by hope. Hope can be smothered and strangled by indifference, which is always seeded by cynicism and hypocrisy. America is that place in the world, and the American presidency is the office that must never become faithless towards the cause of human dignity and freedom. Bari Weiss is a cynical, corrupt and deeply unserious character who is partisan, frivolous and incompetent. There hasn’t been a ship’s captain with more water over their head since John Smith on the morning of April 15, 1912. She is an abysmal leader and a worse journalist, with the judgement of Donald Trump Jr. on an all-you-can-sniff night at the Cartagena Trump Hotel and Casino. This is what was published in The Free Press in April 2025 about the concentration camp covered by “60 Minutes” in the story spiked by Weiss…but not before it aired on Canadian TV. OOPS!
Ponder the indecency and immorality involved in publishing this. What does this say about Bari Weiss, and maybe more importantly, all of the billionaires like Bill Ackman, who share the Bari Weiss fetish, and think her repeating their delusions back to them in the language of millennial empowerment is evidence of both their clairvoyance and wisdom? Funny stuff. Hilarious. Now let’s put it through another filter: lter:
Does Bari Weiss understand these symbols? As someone who is Jewish and gay, does she appreciate who was made to wear them? Now, imagine going back in time 80 years. Imagine Murrow getting ready to report from Buchenwald, but being told that the story isn’t ready because there was no one from the SS or Himmler’s staff available. This is precisely what Bari Weiss just did. The decision by the administration to remain silent was their statement. Bari Weiss reached for Stephen Miller’s number like he was her preferred cat sitter, and demanded that his voice be included in a story for which he had already made the decision to include his voice by refusing to share it. The silence was the point, and the point was very simple. What Bari Weiss lacks is the common sense to interpret the message, which was perfectly clear. It was aimed at Sharyn Alfonsi, “60 Minutes,” CBS News and the American people. The message was, “F*#k you.” Bari Weiss responded like a true MAGA lady. Bari Weiss is a sinister force in America, who serves two sinister families. One is named Ellison, and the other is named Trump. They aren’t on the level. Bari Weiss isn’t on the level. Here’s the truth: CECOT is a concentration camp to which the American government shipped human beings with full knowledge that they would be tortured. Bari Weiss didn’t just kill the story for Trump. Bari Weiss laughed at the story with Trump and Stephen Miller. She’s in on it with them. She’s the cheering section, and she believes that the brown people sent there deserve it, just like the Nazis said of the Jews. What does that make her exactly? Bari Weiss, it is fair to say, is quite enamored with her origin story — even going so far as to describe her resignation letter from The New York Times as “the resignation letter heard around world,” which it wasn’t. Mostly, no one knew or cared outside the elite cliques she pals around with that have convinced themselves that they are victims of a woke conspiracy that only Bari can see. Very few people have the raw hustle skills to look the billionaire male in the eye and convince themselves they are omniscient, omnipotent, wiser than the gods and a bigger victim than the next billionaire. It is the type of skillset that leads to a giant security detail, a casting opportunity on “The Megyn Kelly Show,” an Erika Kirk town hall, an invite to the Bezos wedding and the corner office at CBS News. It has nothing to do with journalism, and everything to do with politics, which, of course, is Bari Weiss’s true passion. She is in the propaganda business. Bari Weiss doesn’t serve the public interest. She serves the Ellison family, and the Ellison family has a partnership with MAGA and Trump. The head of CBS News shouldn’t be the glue cementing the union. Should they? The story about CECOT is a story about evil. It is a story that cracks open massive government lying and abuse. It is a story that was dangerous for Donald Trump, so Bari Weiss killed it. I’ve seen the story. You need to watch it too if you haven’t yet. Here it is:  I know what Bari Weiss did. Long story short: a 40-year-old woman named Bari with an Ivy League pedigree, who maintains a constant spotlight on her identity as a Jewish lesbian snuffed out a story about a concentration camp on CBS News 80 years after Edward R. Murrow’s broadcast from Buchenwald. It was the most despicable act by an American media executive in the 21st century — and that is no small accomplishment. Even more amazing is that it took the unctuous millennial only 76 days to do it. If reading this gets you Value Above Replacement, then become a free subscriber to this newsletter. And forward it! And if your VAR from this newsletter is in the three digits or more each year, please become a paid subscriber! I am trying to make you readers—and myself—smarter. Please tell me if I succeed, or how I fail…#steve-schmidt |
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