Lefties FREAK OUT Over ‘Right-Wing Religious Zealot’ Ross Douthat Joining ’60 Minutes’
31st July 2026
CBS announced a new spate of 60 Minutes correspondents – including Sebastian Junger, Gianna Toboni and Trevor Phillips – but the left-wingers obsessed over New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. The Daily Beast screeched: “Right-Wing Religious Zealot Unveiled as New Star of ‘60 Minutes’.”
I like him already.
That phrasing is comical — any tilt to the right is “desperate,” and the relentless leftist bias is “perfectly built.”
Just like Bari Weiss, the liberals throw “no real TV experience” — as if the newbie won’t be surrounded by veteran TV producers. Let’s guess if CBS recruited Trump-loathing columnist David French instead, they wouldn’t sweat the experience thing.
In the announcement, new executive producer Nick Bilton played up Douthat’s podcast at the Times: “A Ross interview—and he’s interviewed on camera Vice President Vance, Dario Amodei, Amy Coney Barrett, Hasan Piker and Ben Sasse among others—is a special conversation, expansive and probing and news-making.“
Then there’s the biggest Bari Weiss-haters on the internet, the team at Status.com. They turned to anonymous sources to trash the Douthat pick.