{"id":2321364,"date":"2026-03-10T13:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2321364"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:10:53","slug":"60-minutes-cbs-blasted-by-megyn-kelly-over-deceptive-editing-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/60-minutes-cbs-blasted-by-megyn-kelly-over-deceptive-editing-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201960 Minutes\u2019 &#038; CBS Blasted by Megyn Kelly Over \u2018Deceptive\u2019 Editing | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/megyn-kelly\/\">Megyn Kelly<\/a> has called out <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/60-minutes\/\"><em>60 Minutes<\/em><\/a> for what she called \u201cdeceptive\u201d editing in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1250300\/60-minutes-pete-hegseths-explosive-interview-with-major-garrett-sparks-backlash\/\">its interview<\/a> with Defense Secretary <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/pete-hegseth\/\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>, arguing that CBS News editor-in-chief <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/bari-weiss\/\">Bari Weiss<\/a> is pushing a \u201cPro-Israel\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u2019s (March 9) edition of SiriusXM\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MegynKelly\"><em>The Megyn Kelly Show<\/em><\/a>, the former Fox News host called the Hegseth interview \u201cf****** bull****.\u201d The part she took particular issue with was a voiceover that played before Hegseth gave an answer about the Trump administration putting America and the American people first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome normally enthusiastic supporters of the president have criticized him, suggesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled the U.S. into a war that, to their minds, did not put American interests first,\u201d the voiceover said, per <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/megyn-kelly-slams-60-minutes-193703294.html\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth was then shown, saying, \u201cAll I know is I\u2019m in the room every day and I see how President Trump operates and what he\u2019s putting first and it\u2019s America, Americans, and American interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: CBS Caught Making Key EDIT To 60 Minutes Interview with Hegseth Replacing the Question\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bd-EK6BUIII?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Kelly argued that <em>60 Minutes<\/em> made it seem as if Hegseth were answering a question about Israel, when that was not the question he was actually responding to. She then played footage of the actual question Major Garrett asked in the unedited interview, which was, \u201cYou mentioned America First, some who identify with that movement \u2014 Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene \u2014 have said from their perspective this isn\u2019t an America First campaign. Do you want to address that criticism?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was nothing, nothing about Netanyahu and nothing about Israel in the Q or the A. Only CBS decided to style it in that fashion,\u201d Kelly said on Monday\u2019s show. \u201cHere\u2019s the thing, they do not give a s*** about misleading you over at CBS \u2014 the old CBS or the new CBS, which has a brand new agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last October, Paramount Skydance CEO <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/david-ellison\/\">David Ellison<\/a> appointed The Free Press co-founder Weiss as CBS News\u2019 editor-in-chief. Since then, Weiss has been putting her stamp on the network, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1249070\/cnns-scott-jennings-accused-of-kissing-up-to-bari-weiss-amid-takeover-talks\/\">some critics accusing her<\/a> of taking the news organization in a more MAGA-friendly direction.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly disagreed with those critics, saying, \u201cThe left will tell you [CBS News\u2019] pro-MAGA \u2014 it\u2019s not pro-MAGA, trust me. Watch two minutes of the evening news or the morning news, it is not pro-MAGA at all. But it is Pro-Israel. Bari Weiss has finally achieved her dream of running a news network that will be entirely pro-Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The long-time news anchor previously criticized the U.S. attacks on Iran, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U0yoFSlVy8o\">saying<\/a>, \u201cNo one should have to die for a foreign country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rachaelbade.substack.com\/p\/exclusive-trump-hits-back-at-tucker\">Trump fired back<\/a> at those criticisms on Monday, telling journalist Rachael Bade of The Inner Circle that Kelly should \u201cstudy her history book a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-block\" data-skm-boomerang-el-2=\"processed\">\n<div class=\"post-block\" data-skm-boomerang-el-2=\"processed\">\n<div class=\"post-block\">\n<div class=\"post-block\">\n<div class=\"post-block\">\n<div class=\"post-block\">\n<p><strong><em>60 Minutes<\/em>, Sundays, 7\/6 c, CBS<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>More Headlines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yakimaherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megyn Kelly has called out 60 Minutes for what she called \u201cdeceptive\u201d editing in its interview with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, arguing that CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is pushing a \u201cPro-Israel\u201d agenda. On Monday\u2019s (March 9) edition of SiriusXM\u2019s The Megyn Kelly Show, the former Fox News host called the Hegseth interview \u201cf****** bull****.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2023055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741],"class_list":["post-2321364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Pitt-wins-Emmy-Award-for-best-drama-series.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321365,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321364\/revisions\/2321365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}