Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on view that United States should be a Christian nation
‘They call me antisemitic, which is not true,’ Greene said during a ‘60 Minutes’ interview
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Culture The Secret Jewish History Of ‘60 Minutes’
As of this month, the influential TV newsmagazine “60 Minutes” has brought investigative journalism, political commentary and celebrity interviews into American living rooms for half a century. If you ever detected something inherently Jewish about the program, its creator and longtime producer, Don Hewitt — whose Russian-born father changed his name from Hurwitz when he…
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Breaking News Barack Obama Downplays UN Resolution Spat With Israel on ‘60 Minutes’
President Barack Obama played down fallout from a U.S. abstention on a United Nations resolution last month demanding an end to Israeli settlements in occupied territory, saying it did not trigger a significant break in relations with Israel. Relations between the United States and Israel, which have soured during Obama’s eight years in office, reached…
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Breaking News Morley Safer, Iconic ‘60 Minutes’ Journalist, Dies at 84
Television journalist Morley Safer, the son of Jewish immigrants who made his reputation as a Vietnam War correspondent for CBS and then became a mainstay on the network’s “60 Minutes” show for 46 years, has died at age 84, a few days after his retirement, the network announced on Thursday. He retired from CBS last…
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Breaking News Bob Simon Dies in Car Crash — Award-Winner Stoked Israel Controversy on ’60 Minutes’
Veteran CBS News correspondent Bob Simon, whose decades-long career included covering major overseas conflicts and surviving Iraqi prison, was killed in a car accident on Wednesday in New York City, police and CBS said. He was 73. A longtime member of the network’s “60 Minutes” on-air team, Simon was a passenger in a hired car…
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The Schmooze Mandy Patinkin Loves Model Trains
Mandy Patinkin’s beard (and its owner, I guess) was the star of last night’s 60 Minutes profile with Bob Simon. The best part? When Mandy — sporting a pretty rockin’ purple bandana — showed off his massive toy train collection (Skip to 9:20). Shenanigans ensued, and apparently the production team ended up playing choo-choo well into…
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Opinion Tel Aviv = Titanic or Pompeii or Sodom?
How many clichés is it possible to stuff into one soft feature about Tel Aviv? That was my thought as I was watching Bob Simon’s 60 Minutes segment on the city, which included, in the first three minutes, these good, old chestnuts: “dancing on the Titanic,” “the last days of Pompeii,” and “later-day Sodom.” Were…
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Opinion CBS’s ‘Strategic Terror Attack’
A controversial report aired by CBS News has pitted Israel’s top envoy to the United States against the network’s flagship news show and now has the Jewish community up in arms. The report by senior “60 Minutes” correspondent Bob Simon, sought to explore the plight of Christian Palestinians, a dwindling population caught between the hardship…
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