Sharyn Alfonsi represents the overweening pomposity of the hard-left partisans who have ruled CBS News. She responded to Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss with "resistance" lingo when her contract was not renewed.

"This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom," Alfonsi lectured in a statement. "CBS management is ... choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it."

Several of these bitter proclamations are unintentionally hilarious. She describes her own crusading jeremiads against Trump and the Republicans as "factually accurate," and anybody tapping the brakes and suggesting she include a word from Team Trump is "sanitizing" her righteous facts.

Then there's "choosing access journalism over accountability." Alfonsi's been working for "60 Minutes," which she insists is Exhibit A of Fearlessly Independent Reporting. It's like this lady has never........

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