Bari Weiss Launches Jar Of Mayonnaise Into CBS Evening News Anchor Chair

[erronis]

https://www.wonkette.com/p/bari-weiss-launches-jar-of-mayonnaise
Gary 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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[Tim S]

1. Katy Tur's husband?

[rog]

4. Apparently this is causing a bit of 'trouble in paradise'.

CBS News Anchor’s Wife ‘Not Loving’ His Shift to the Right — Source

News anchor Tony Dokoupil has been promoted as the new lead for CBS Evening News, but his marriage with Katy Tur is allegedly being tested. The 44-year-old journalist married Tur, who is also an author and broadcast journalist, in 2017 and they have been supportive and open about their relationship since then. However, rumors are swirling that the political divide between them is growing, as Dokoupil reportedly had to shift his views to the right to land his new position, while his wife is the lead anchor for Katy Tur Reports on MS NOW.

Katy Tur is allegedly “not loving” her husband Tony Dokoupil’s on-air shift to the conservative side, according to several sources ...

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Another source referenced Tur’s long career with NBC News, saying “Katy is as liberal as they come. She built her whole career on it. So this new ‘centrist-to-right’ vibe Tony giving off? It’s throwing her.”

[niyad]

7. It will be interesting to see if Keith Olbermann has anything to say

about his former live-in's situation on his next podcast.

[roscoeroscoe]

2. I believe I saw a headline about how Dokoupil

was sent out to ask people on the street how they would pronounce his name? Cringe. :/

I tend to think new organizations need to grow up and claim the space of reporting from Earth 1, along side MS NOW

[erronis]

3. The link on Wonkette has that video - and quite a bit of zesty comments.

[underpants]

5. Bret Baier???

[bucolic_frolic]

6. This is not satire?? Send them emails filled with LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL's every night

This lame brain will be LAUGHED off the air.

[Auggie]

8. "Mayonnaise"