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Bari Weiss Launches Jar Of Mayonnaise Into CBS Evening News Anchor Chair
https://www.wonkette.com/p/bari-weiss-launches-jar-of-mayonnaiseGary Legum
She's so good at this.
We are calling it now: Tony Dokoupil is going to fall so flat on his face as anchor of the CBS Evening News, he'll make Chevy Chase's talk show look successful. Hell make you long for Rush Limbaugh's stint as an ESPN commentator. Remember Megyn Kelly's run at NBC? Megyn Kelly will look like an Oprah-level talent by comparison.
Dokoupil takes over the anchor chair once occupied by Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid on Monday. His promotion from the desk of CBS Mornings is the first big, visible move by Bari Weiss since she was installed as editor-in-chief of the networks news division, and it couldn't have landed with a bigger thud when it was announced a few weeks ago. A generic mid-wit white guy does not seem like the sort of bold, unconventional choice that is going to get the CBS Evening News out of the third-place hole it has been stuck in for years and years now. Its a dying format and Weiss thought the way to help it was to dump more cement into the coffin and make it harder for the pallbearers to lift.
Weiss had reportedly chased some bigger names for the job. She allegedly approached Anderson Cooper and was turned down. She reportedly was big on Bret Baier for a while. Then she landed on the most generic white guy imaginable, a dude whose biggest career move previously was that time when he was a total dick to Ta-Nehisi Coates over the latter's criticism of Israel's repression of Palestinians.
That famous interview is probably what got Dokoupil the attention of new CBS News idiot-in-chief Bari Weiss, whose outlet The Free Press defended Dokoupil. And didnt even ask Coates or any Palestinians for their side of the story, which we thought was forbidden under Weisss journalistic standards.
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Dokoupil takes over the anchor chair once occupied by Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid on Monday. His promotion from the desk of CBS Mornings is the first big, visible move by Bari Weiss since she was installed as editor-in-chief of the networks news division, and it couldn't have landed with a bigger thud when it was announced a few weeks ago. A generic mid-wit white guy does not seem like the sort of bold, unconventional choice that is going to get the CBS Evening News out of the third-place hole it has been stuck in for years and years now. Its a dying format and Weiss thought the way to help it was to dump more cement into the coffin and make it harder for the pallbearers to lift.
Weiss had reportedly chased some bigger names for the job. She allegedly approached Anderson Cooper and was turned down. She reportedly was big on Bret Baier for a while. Then she landed on the most generic white guy imaginable, a dude whose biggest career move previously was that time when he was a total dick to Ta-Nehisi Coates over the latter's criticism of Israel's repression of Palestinians.
That famous interview is probably what got Dokoupil the attention of new CBS News idiot-in-chief Bari Weiss, whose outlet The Free Press defended Dokoupil. And didnt even ask Coates or any Palestinians for their side of the story, which we thought was forbidden under Weisss journalistic standards.
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“Its a dying format and Weiss thought the way to help it was to dump more cement into the coffin and make it harder for the pallbearers to lift”
Too rich. 
a Scotch Bonnet pepper compared to Tony Dokoupil. 
Weiss is determined in her efforts to morph CBS News into another "Drudge Report" without the sensationalism.
