My dad used to commandeer the television to watch 60 Minutes back in the day. I’m talking late sixties, early seventies, when the thing was just getting started. I was just a kid, but I watched it too. Hailed as hardcore investigative journalism, it demonstrated that networks could make money on news as entertainment. The world hasn’t been the same since.
To be fair, 60 minutes did do some actual journalism in the early days, and accidentally, on a few occasions since, but the decline of its morals and values, along with the entirety of what was mainstream news, is its legacy.
Phil Donahue begot Jerry Springer and Oprah; 60 Minutes begot the newsertainment industrial complex. Entropy ate its core purpose to be replaced by partisan interests and big Pharma ad dollars.
But pendulums swing, and history is relentless. CBS News got this crazy idea. The newsertainment industrial complex had left a significant silo of opportunity untapped. Actual non-partisan news. Bari Weiss, who had made her fortune after her departure from the New York Times, for the world of freelance independent media. She’s not a conservative, but, like many born into the left-wing university system and a progressive media culture, when she tried to report things they preferred to hide or project onto political enemies, she fled to an awkward centrist/libertarianism.
His instincts and outstanding writing skills led to massive success, which CBS then purchased for big money while making her their news director. We know this was a meaningful hire and a risky shift because the liberal cranks at CBS lost their collective minds.
Remember rule number one. If Democrats hate it, it’s probably better for the thing you are looking to “improve.”
CBS News has shown signs of improving health, and I don’t mean adopting or carrying conservative water. An organization that has long lied about being non-partisan is dipping its toe in that very pool.
A teaser for an upcoming episode of 60 Minutes just big-footed a left-wing talking point.
“It’s believed Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to make at least 10 nuclear bombs. What would it take for the U.S. to secure it? Sunday, 60 Minutes reports on a past covert mission code-named Project Sapphire that could be a blueprint for a similar operation in Iran.”
It is believed. Neutral enough. And why not? Even Google’s AI agrees.
As of April 2026, U.N. inspectors and U.S. officials believe Iran holds approximately 440–460 kilograms (roughly 970–1,000 pounds) of uranium enriched to 60% purity, a level that can be quickly upgraded to weapons-grade. Iran disclosed this stockpile amount to U.S. negotiators amidst ongoing talks and following attacks on their nuclear facilities.
It is true that plenty of less objective news efforts have ignored this, dismissed it, or pointed to Iran claiming it was willing to downgrade the uranium, which is like saying, we will close a door that is as easily opened and wider. If you watched my myth-fisking episode of GrokTALK!, you’ll get why Iran would make that deal and try to demonstrate compliance.
Overmatch.
It has uranium. It has access to the technology to turn it into weapons-grade material and arm ballistic missiles with nuclear weapons. It has medium-range missiles and access to resources and technology to field long-range ballistic missiles. It has enough uranium to hold the world hostage and the capability to upgrade or downgrade it at will. What it didn’t have, not quite, was the ability to prevent anyone from preventing an uninterrupted escalation from conventional to nuclear warheads.
Any deal would focus global attention on its nuclear ambitions without any scrutiny of its other war-machining antics. Another treaty would let Iran complete the military build-up necessary to then break the treaty (lying is not just permitted but required to achieve the global ummah), weaponize its uranium stockpile, and that, as they say, would be that.
All of Europe would quickly become France and surrender. Regional neighbors would be hostages, and Israel and Iran would likely have to nuke each other, and that’ is the sort of war we have been trying to avoid for more than sixty years, give or take. The difference here is that Iran is run by religious zealots who think that the whole world burning works to their advantage. You don’t take chances with that.
Iran was close to achieving overmatch. It was building enough drones and missiles every month to secure its airspace and harass its neighbors long enough to get from non-weapons-grade to weapons-grade armed tactical devices. A new agreement, with inspections, would have only allowed them to achieve the necessary dominance.
The left has to dispute this because if it’s true, their entire approach was little more than Neville Chamberlain-like appeasement that ends in another global war, but one with much more clouds, fallout, and maybe even nuclear winter.
It is an excellent space for the media to talk about something other than how Trump is a dolt with no plan who is getting distracted by Iran when we should be focused on Asia.
I’d give the lefty industrial information complex credit for actually recognizing the threat from China, but they don’t mean it. Much like the Islamo-facists, they, too, are allowed to lie to advance their agenda, and as noted in the Iran Myth Debunking episode of GrokTALK!, it all points to China.
Panama, Venezuela, Iran, and now Malaysia, where Trump has made a significant trade and cooperation deal, show a very well-thought-out plan. Every one of those moves removes access to allies or resources from China and shifts them to the United States (or, in the case of Iran, removes it as a proxy for China).
60 Minutes isn’t covering all of that, or maybe not even much of it, but if you had to pick one topic, enriched Uranium is something undeclared independent voters can understand. They can do their own research and see that yes, it exists. The UN and US “inspectors” have confirmed it. So how do we get that from the crazy mullahs who have promised death to America and attack their own Arab Muslim neighbors?
They don’t have to love Israel or Jews and could even be Anti-Semitic and not like the idea of a theocracy promising conversion or death to have access to this sort of military power.
Even a few of those less radical lefties might pause MSNOW long enough to take stock of a story that attempts a non-partisan fisking of a problem much larger than trans rights or the climate change fantasy.
And maybe the headline isn’t entirely accurate, but would CBS News of 60 Minutes ask how we get that Uranium away from fundamentalist IRCG radicals if Weiss wasn’t changing the culture there?
