Aloha, Namaste, everyone, and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck and

Odyssey Joint, featuring lively, in-depth conversations with the people who cruise the

corridors of power in America, sculpting and shaping the ebb and flow of our politics

and our culture.

By the time a lot of you listen to this episode of the show, a thing that, until recently,

would have been unthinkable, will not just have become thinkable, but will have become

cold, hard fact.

Barry Weiss, the 41-year-old former op-ed writer and book review editor

of the Wall Street Journal, then an op-ed staff editor, writer on culture and politics at the New York

Times. In more recently, a paragon of the crusade against wokeism, scourge of anti-Semitism in all

its forms, and unyielding champion of Israel, who founded one of the premier substack

empires of our age, the free press, that Barry Weiss, loved by some, disliked by others, but someone

who has fierce and unalloyed convictions about many things that made her very popular among

certain people in the media ecosystem. She will have been named the editor-in-chief of CBS News.

Yes, CBS News, the CBS News of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, the 60

minutes of Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner, Morley Safer, and Leslie Stahl.

That's 60 Minutes will now have its editor-in-chief,

someone who has no, repeat, no history or background in the television business or television

news whatsoever.

At the same time, over on the entertainment side of CBS, last week, Stephen Colbert, host of Late Night with Stephen Colbert,

hosted Jimmy Kimmel.

And vice versa.

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