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Kelly predicts the resentful remaining CBS staff will continually leak against Weiss.

“They're like the CIA. They will be leaking on Barry now to the end of time”

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Kelly argued Bari Weiss is the wrong person to fix CBS News because she has no broadcast television experience.

“Barry Weiss knows nothing about broadcast journalism. She's never worked in television”

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Kelly suggested CBS cut Netanyahu's unflattering remarks because Bari Weiss, whom she described as focused on Israel, runs the network.

“Could it be the Ellisons and their hand-placed handmaiden, Barry Weiss, who runs CBS now, who's huge on Israel?”

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Kelly says CBS ratings have fallen since Weiss took over and predicts the Ellisons will have to reevaluate her.

“CBS has literally record low ratings across the board, the morning show, the evening show, they have fallen precipitously since she took over”

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Callahan argues Weiss knows how to oppose and destroy institutions rather than build them.

“I actually think that what's going on here is that Barry doesn't know how to create. She knows how to destroy”

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Callahan predicts Bari Weiss will not last more than a year in her CBS News role.

“She's not going to last more than a year in this job”

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Callahan says she has heard from a source that Bari Weiss is a poor manager, including at The Free Press.

“Barry's terrible at managing people. Terrible. She was terrible at the free press”

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Callahan argues Weiss lacks investigative and television experience and suggests the Ellisons have buyer's remorse.

“I don't think Barry Weiss has ever, ever worked as an investigative reporter. I don't think she's ever done a door knock”

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Dillon contends Bari Weiss was installed at CBS News to destroy it rather than fix it.

“She was put there to destroy it. She wasn't put there to make it work”

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Sedaris recounts that CBS's Board of Race and Culture accused him of punching down for calling a waitress an immigrant, a charge he found mystifying.

“the Board of Race and Culture at CBS said I was using my privilege to punch down and call someone an immigrant”

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Carolla argued CBS should have cleaned house entirely when Weiss arrived rather than fight internal battles with left-leaning staff.

“They probably should have just shaken the whole thing like an etch-a-sketch and just went, we're starting right now”

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Knowles questioned why CBS, which had positioned itself as fairer to conservatives, ran a hostile segment on Pratt.

“After CBS had been positioning itself as being the network most fair and favorable to conservatives, why would they go out and really smack down the most exciting local candidate?”

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Wagner says CBS has recorded its worst ratings of the century under Bari Weiss's leadership.

“It has had the worst ratings they've had this century, Don. Barry Weiss is shepherding the worst ratings in CBS's history this century”

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Jesse Kelly argues CBS conditioned its audience so thoroughly toward left-wing content that any move to the middle drives those viewers away.

“If you're straying an inch from that, the viewers you used to have, they're going to leave and they'll go find different commie propaganda”

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