https://thefederalist.com/2026/02/26/cbs...him-right/

"In the latest airing of 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper delivered what may be one of the most spectacular media self-owns in recent years. The segment was constructed around a single objective: dismantling President Trump’s claim that more than 1,000 white South African farmers were buried along a rural road marked by white crosses. Trump had shown footage of those crosses during the May 2025 White House visit of Cyril Ramaphosa, arguing that the scale of killings targeting white farmers was so severe that it warranted international attention and, in his view, amounted to genocide.

For the segment, Cooper traveled to South Africa intent on puncturing that image. He returned viewers to the same stretch of road where the crosses once stood and noted that they were no longer there. He tracked down the farmer who had erected them and established that the crosses were temporary memorials rather than literal burial sites. The report leans heavily on this distinction, presenting it as a decisive correction that rendered Trump’s claim false.


Yet as the segment unfolds, that conclusion quickly collapses under the weight of Cooper’s own reporting. The same farmer who explained that the crosses were memorials goes on to recount how his father was brutally attacked and how three of his closest friends were murdered on their farms. These were not distant acquaintances or abstract statistics — they were friends and fellow farmers whose loss he had experienced firsthand...."

TDS causes people to do stupid things like Anderson Cooper.

Reminded me of the Democratic woman lawyer who claimed Kavanaugh exposed himself in front of a crowd in college. She made herself look really bad. First she was talking about being almost passed out drunk playing spin the bottle. Then she harrassed friends and couldn't get anyone else who even remembered the incident. Finally, the idea that somebody did something stupid (but not harmful-it was done in a group of people) in college while drinking should disqualify him from the Supreme Court when by all accounts he had been a perfect Boy Scout since college, indicates just a total lack of perspective and critical thinking skills.

Quote:This video is incredible. 60 Minutes goes to South Africa, clearly looking to debunk narratives about white farmers being targeted and killed with impunity, talk to farmers who have countless stories of their family and friends being tortured and killed with no arrests.

Would this story even have aired before the Weiss era?

https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/02/...e-n2199516

Not surprised at all.

(02-26-2026 03:48 PM)bullet Wrote:  TDS causes people to do stupid things like Anderson Cooper.

Reminded me of the Democratic woman lawyer who claimed Kavanaugh exposed himself in front of a crowd in college. She made herself look really bad. First she was talking about being almost passed out drunk playing spin the bottle. Then she harrassed friends and couldn't get anyone else who even remembered the incident. Finally, the idea that somebody did something stupid (but not harmful-it was done in a group of people) in college while drinking should disqualify him from the Supreme Court when by all accounts he had been a perfect Boy Scout since college, indicates just a total lack of perspective and critical thinking skills.

Christine Blasey Ford was a professor of psychology at Stanford. That woman was batshit crazy.

Quote:Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her decades earlier at a high school party. Kavanaugh, 59, refuted her allegations by citing a detailed calendar of his activities in high school.

Several witnesses of the alleged incident could not recall Ford’s version of events. For example, her old high school pal Leland Keyser later said, “I don’t have any confidence in the story.” Her father also reportedly backed Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

Ford cited notes her therapist took during sessions in 2012 and 2013 in which she alleged she was assaulted by a student from another high school who went on to become one of the “highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington.”

Kavanaugh emphatically denied Ford’s allegations and delivered emotionally powerful testimony professing his innocence.

When pressed about why “no one can recall that night the way that you recall it,” Ford explained that there had been a lot of parties back in those days.

“There were so many parties in high school and this was a pretty unremarkable one and his friends not being able to recall that I guess just doesn’t surprise me,” she said.

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Yeah, not quite. But nice try. As usual, trump took something that he could have used as an actual issue but just couldn't stick to the facts...instead opting for made up hyperbole.

There was no genocide.

Here's what he incorrectly claimed:

Quote:When a reporter asked May 12 why he created an expedited path for Afrikaners, trump said, "Because they're being killed. And we don't want to see people be killed. But it's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about."

trump added, "White farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa."

The facts:

Quote:White farmers have been murdered in South Africa. But those murders account for less than 1% of more than 27,000 annual murders nationwide. Experts said the deaths do not amount to genocide, and trump misleads about land confiscation.

"The idea of a 'white genocide' taking place in South Africa is completely false," said

Gareth Newham, who heads a justice and violence prevention program at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa.

"As an independent Institute tracking violence and violent crime in South Africa, if there was any evidence of either a genocide or targeted violence taking place against any group based on their ethnicity this, we would be amongst the first to raise (the) alarm and provide the evidence to the world."

There was no confiscation of land.

Quote:Ramaphosa signed a bill in January that spells out procedures for the government to take land for a public purpose. The bill calls for compensating landowners, with some exceptions such as if the land isn't being used or the owner's main purpose is not to develop the land.

The circumstances when payment isn't required are "very limited," wrote Zsa-Zsa Temmers Boggenpoel, a Stellenbosch University professor who lectures about property law.

"In South Africa's colonial and apartheid past, land distribution was grossly unequal on the basis of race," Boggenpoel wrote. "The country is still suffering the effects of this. So expropriation of property is a potential tool to reduce land inequality. This has become a matter of increasing urgency. South Africans have expressed impatience with the slow pace of land reform."

The main objective of the new law is to allow the government to legally take abandoned or underused land — such as hundreds of buildings in Johannesburg that have been abandoned by their owners and taken over by slumlords and people involved in organized crime, Newham said.

Experts told us that no land seizures have taken place yet.

"There is no evidence of systematic land confiscation targeting white farmers or anyone else," Kaziboni said.

Fact-checking trump's claims of white farmer 'genocide' in South Africa

(02-26-2026 04:50 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

(02-26-2026 03:48 PM)bullet Wrote:  TDS causes people to do stupid things like Anderson Cooper.

Reminded me of the Democratic woman lawyer who claimed Kavanaugh exposed himself in front of a crowd in college. She made herself look really bad. First she was talking about being almost passed out drunk playing spin the bottle. Then she harrassed friends and couldn't get anyone else who even remembered the incident. Finally, the idea that somebody did something stupid (but not harmful-it was done in a group of people) in college while drinking should disqualify him from the Supreme Court when by all accounts he had been a perfect Boy Scout since college, indicates just a total lack of perspective and critical thinking skills.

Christine Blasey Ford was a professor of psychology at Stanford. That woman was batshit crazy.

Quote:Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her decades earlier at a high school party. Kavanaugh, 59, refuted her allegations by citing a detailed calendar of his activities in high school.

Several witnesses of the alleged incident could not recall Ford’s version of events. For example, her old high school pal Leland Keyser later said, “I don’t have any confidence in the story.” Her father also reportedly backed Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

Ford cited notes her therapist took during sessions in 2012 and 2013 in which she alleged she was assaulted by a student from another high school who went on to become one of the “highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington.”

Kavanaugh emphatically denied Ford’s allegations and delivered emotionally powerful testimony professing his innocence.

When pressed about why “no one can recall that night the way that you recall it,” Ford explained that there had been a lot of parties back in those days.

“There were so many parties in high school and this was a pretty unremarkable one and his friends not being able to recall that I guess just doesn’t surprise me,” she said.

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I was talking about one of the other claims against Kavanaugh, not that one. As for Ford, as I recall she told her therapist the incident occurred in college, not in HS. She also was caught in multiple lies about all sorts of things, fear of flying, the reasons for the door on her rental property, etc.

lol PBS.org

IMO, the report backfired because of inclusion of facts which would have never seen the light of day absent threat of lawsuits and regulatory pressure on CBS