John Oliver Skewers Paramount for Hiring 'irresponsible' Bari Weiss to Run CBS News

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

'It is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading," John Oliver declared on Sunday night.

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Here's last night's story about Bari Weiss, CBS News, Paramount Skydance, and why the Upper West Side is a lot more than just "Seinfeld territory." youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ

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-- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (@lastweektonight.com) Oct 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM

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He makes a good case for why people shouldn't reflexively assume this is a bad thing and take and wait-and-see attitude.

But reacting reflexively is all that PARTISAN DRONES ever do.

#1 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-14 08:45 AM | Reply

chriscillizza.substack.com

#2 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-14 08:46 AM | Reply

---- off, you little Nazi ----.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-10-14 09:01 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Did she Eat the Jewish Babies with baking Powder?

IDF needs to kill her and her Entire family for saying that.

#4 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-14 09:25 AM | Reply

"IDF needs to kill her and her Entire family for saying that."

And there is. An explicit call for murder.

Is anyone even running this site anymore?

#5 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-14 10:55 AM | Reply

It's just a Retweet. Nobody's calling for Murder.

It's a "Joke" ha ha.

Why isn't it funny...Sentinel?

Bari made the same joke and got 5 innocent people killed.

And she Knew Full Well that it would happen.

IDF won't kill her. She's Tribe, and on the Payroll.

Also not in Israel.

#6 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-14 11:19 AM | Reply

But reacting reflexively is all that PARTISAN DRONES ever do.

#1 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

Recoiling reflexively from danger is a natural human reaction.

The more I learn about this snake in the grass the more I want to stomp on its head.

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-14 11:26 AM | Reply

How soon will Bill Maher invite her on his show, along with Ann Coulter, to do some more woke-punching?

Covid broke that guy. He's slow rolling his Dennis Miller trajectory.

#8 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-10-14 12:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"Bari made the same joke and got 5 innocent people killed."

You've been asked about 5 times to provide proof of this, but you can't. You're a liar. And a hypocrite.

#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-14 12:47 PM | Reply

"Covid broke that guy. He's slow rolling his Dennis Miller trajectory."

Maher still bashes Trump and the Republicans on a regular basis. Haven't seen anything like that from Miller in decades.

#10 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-14 12:52 PM | Reply

You've been asked about 5 times to provide proof of this, but you can't. You're a liar. And a hypocrite.

#9 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

He is referring to the story about a social media post by Bari Weiss that allegedly incited a wave of death threats that allegedly preceded the killing of Palestinian writer and academic Refaat Alareer by an Israeli airstrike.

On December 6, 2023, Alareer was killed by an Israeli "surgical" airstrike in Gaza. His sister and four of her children were also killed in the attack.

Interestingly Alareer supposedly said that if he was to be killed it would be because of Bari Weiss. Then he WAS killed.

So he is not lying. It's just you are too lazy to find out for yourself if the story is real before accusing him of lying. He was not lying. It's a real story.

What does that make you?

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-14 01:02 PM | Reply

#11 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY

It maybe a real story, but you haven't provided proof. Just some words in a post.

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-14 01:12 PM | Reply

Did she Eat the Jewish Babies with baking Powder?
IDF needs to kill her and her Entire family for saying that.
#4 | POSTED BY EFFETEPOSER

Words are violence! Or Words deserve violence?

#13 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-14 01:13 PM | Reply

Who cares a what John Oliver thinks, he's a talk show host?

I mean she might not be right, but John Oliver isn't one to listen to regarding her fitness to run CBS News.

#14 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-14 01:16 PM | Reply

That Bitch got four completely innocent kids killed because she made a stink about one tasteless tweet by a Great Man having a bad day.

---- Her and ---- You Too.

#15 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-14 01:50 PM | Reply

If she gets snuffed it's her own fault,just like it was Alareer's fault for being so dumb.

Words have consequences.

#16 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-14 01:52 PM | Reply

Muslims have Long Memories...

Sleep Tight Bari...

People remember you.

#17 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-14 01:56 PM | Reply

How soon will Bill Maher invite her on his show, along with Ann Coulter, to do some more woke-punching?

Covid broke that guy. He's slow rolling his Dennis Miller trajectory.

#8 | Posted by chuffy

Bill maher's life was all about going out to the playboy mansion and using his celebrity and wealth to bone young women.

Covid ended that lifestyle, so he blamed his sexual frustration on the liberals who were trying to save lives.

Plus I'm sure he's done some terrible stuff at the playboy mansion he's terrified will come out someday so he's cozying up to maga.

#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-14 02:55 PM | Reply

Whether it's Bari Weiss or someone else, the real issue is that the head honchos are demanding the CBS reporters treat delusional lying fascists equally with sane rational citizens.

It's considered PARTISAN to reject maga delusions and lies now.

#19 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-14 02:57 PM | Reply

"Sometimes two plus two makes five, Sometimes it makes three. Sometimes it makes both of them at once".

It's not easy to become Sane".

"O'Brian readjusted the glasses on his nose".

"Winston thought it was a curiously civilized gesture".

#20 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-14 03:17 PM | Reply

Josephine Goebbels is hard at work in her new sinecure for oligarch Larry Ellison and his son: www.thewrap.com

#21 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-14 03:19 PM | Reply

It's considered PARTISAN to reject maga delusions and lies now.

#19 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Actually it's considered terrorism now.

Kristi Noem praised for staring down' Antifa. It was a dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit
ca.news.yahoo.com

Trump has (unconstitutionally) declared antifa a terrorist organization.

J6ers are not the insurrectionists! They are to be rewarded! Protesting Trumpy is terrorism! Democrats are the insurrectionists and terrorists! That's goodthink. They the "enemy within" and are to be arrested! Especially that man in the chicken suit! How dare he appropriate our sacred chicken culture to make fun of Trumpy's Puppy Killer!

See how that works? It's "goodthink". It's doubleplusgood!

Only "duckspeak", from now on to be known as Trumpspeak, is to be tolerated in Trumplandia.

Now eat your eggs. But only if you can eat them correctly. And let us pee in your bathrooms!

Big Brother will be watching(soon).

#22 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-14 03:26 PM | Reply