The self-appointed enforcers of “progressive” media indoctrination are happy that CBS hasn’t but modified the tone of 60 Minutes, which they name a “crown jewel” of the Dan Somewhat Community. Tom Jones on the Poynter Institute was happy that Sunday’s present nonetheless featured two “honest and factual” tales that criticized President Trump.
That’s not even counting the 13-minute puff piece by Jon Wertheim on radical feminist writer Margaret Atwood, who the Left reveres for warning of right-wing Christian authoritarianism across the nook. The 60 Minutes X account gushed: “Margaret Atwood, writer of 64 books together with The Handmaid’s Story, has seen her work banned for content material deemed overly sexual, morally corrupt, and anti-Christian.”
A “ban” on this case is often in public faculty programs, not in wider society. Yow will discover Atwood’s craptastic books simply, and hand them to your children. A “ban” is just not all the time a ban, both. The American Library Affiliation admits most guide challenges fail to take away books from classroom or library cabinets fully. However any guide that’s challenged is taken into account a “banned” guide.
This terminology permits the Left to rejoice the “courageous” authors, as CBS did with its section title: “The Indomitable Margaret Atwood.” As in “she’s not possible to defeat.”
If there’s one factor I’ve seen over the past 10 years, it’s the dearth of “Handmaid’s Story” content material obtainable to us. https://t.co/eQrRpqQzkr
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) November 11, 2025
Wertheim started his interview section with a flourish: “You’re an 85-year-old titan of literature, have been for a half-century now. You’re Canada’s best-known writer, 64 books and counting. And more and more, you discover your work on lists of banned books, scrubbed from 135 American faculty districts.”
This statistic on faculties got here from PEN America, a leftist lobbying group preventing conservative “challenges” to books. Earlier this 12 months, they gave Atwood their “Eleanor Roosevelt Bravery in Literature Lifetime Achievement Award,” which CBS failed to say.
Right here’s the very first thing we learn about CBS. Nobody will probably be courageous sufficient to learn out loud the passages in Atwood’s books which might be too overtly sexual for 12-year-olds. E book “challengers” are all the time painted as foolish and uptight. In The Handmaid’s Story, there may be compelled intercourse, the place a “commander” has intercourse with a “handmaid” within the presence of the “commander’s” spouse, which is all about systematic misogyny.
Atwood attacked faculty authorities within the Canadian province of Alberta as dunces: “The federal government put out an edict to all faculty boards saying that they could not have any books within the library that had both direct or oblique intercourse. What’s oblique intercourse? I do not know.”
I couldn’t discover any doc that mentioned “oblique intercourse.” The federal government of Alberta did distinguish between “express” and “non-explicit” sexual references. This isn’t rocket science. Albertan officers singled out the graphic novel Gender Queer, which incorporates the transgender protagonist envisioning having her imaginary penis in mid-fellatio, in addition to speak of masturbation and blow jobs.
CBS was solely excited about utilizing the glamour of “guide bans” to advertise Atwood, and for the umpteenth time, discovering an authoritarian Christian conspiracy descending on America when abortion is not limitless. Wertheim oozed: “With the continuing rollback of reproductive rights and the eventual overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, The Handmaid’s Story started, for a lot of readers, to really feel eerily prescient.”
Apart from Atwood having a brand new memoir to promote, there was nothing right here that hasn’t been mentioned a whole bunch of instances in leftist media. CBS and Wertheim definitely acted like keen handmaids to this literary “titan.” However all of the viewers will get is one other recitation of how Donald Trump’s America will be “eerily” smeared as an authoritarian nightmare if girls cannot get a third-trimester abortion. When you contemplate that sort of tv a “crown jewel,” then you definately like propaganda, and never journalism.
