Bari Weiss to Host Erika Kirk Discussion for CBS News; Audience Will Include 'Young Evangelicals,' Religious and Politic
Source: Variety
By Todd Spangler
Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press who is now also editor-in-chief of CBS News, is hosting a "town hall" forum with Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk, for the news network.
"Three months after her husband was assassinated, Erika Kirk will open up about life, loss, the state of political discourse, and much more," CBS News said in announcing the special.
The one-hour "A Town Hall With Erika Kirk" moderated by Weiss will be broadcast Saturday, Dec. 13, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and will stream later on Paramount+ and CBS News 24/7. The special preempts the previously announced broadcast of the 28th annual Family Film and TV Awards, which will now air Saturday, Dec. 20 (8-9 p.m. ET/PT) on CBS and Paramount+.
The event, shot before an invitation-only studio audience in New York, will feature Kirk "fielding questions from young evangelicals, prominent religious leaders, and figures across the political spectrum," according to CBS News. The conversation will also "focus on our country's political divide -- and how we can find our way out."
Read more: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bari-weiss-erika-kirk-cbs-news-special-1236599868/
Full headline: Bari Weiss to Host Erika Kirk Discussion for CBS News; Audience Will Include 'Young Evangelicals,' Religious and Political Leaders
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Invitation only, huh?
bucolic_frolic
(54,053 posts)Docreed2003
(18,709 posts)This type of platforming is alarming, but sadly, not surprising
AZ8theist
(7,101 posts)eppur_se_muova
(40,989 posts)ificandream
(11,691 posts)CurtEastPoint
(19,852 posts)so hard to have his legacy destroyed by this Weiss woman.
Cheezoholic
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BidenRocks
(2,780 posts)Da Bears!
Deminpenn
(17,297 posts)Army-Navy game the 13th broadcast on CBS at 3PM.
CBS is probably hoping Army-Navy viewers will stay tuned to see this special, but I'd imagine they'll lose most of that audience.
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SamKnause
(14,695 posts)Christian Nationalists, fascists, and all other enemies of the U.S.
maxsolomon
(38,199 posts)All the way from White Evangelical Christian Nationalists to White Catholic Nationalists to Extremist Zionist Nationalists!
rurallib
(64,554 posts)guess they didn't fool anybody, did they?
Iggo
(49,654 posts)SunSeeker
(57,568 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(10,192 posts)Oh wait... he was killed along with her. Their dog was shot and had to be euthanized as well.
So, there won't be any such episode... will there?
Okay, what about the Hoffmans? Are they going to get a 'town hall' as well? No? Didn't think so.
Why doesn't CBS change their colors to orange and gold to commemorate the complete ability to kiss that gibbon's ass while also kissing his cronies asses to make sure they are safe?
Spineless animals.
3Hotdogs
(15,032 posts)It's been 50 years since I turned on CBS to watch Archie Bunker.
Haggard Celine
(17,680 posts)travelingthrulife
(4,463 posts)Midnight Writer
(25,146 posts)I don't think MAGA is interested in anything beyond her good looks.
rurallib
(64,554 posts)and he will probably fall asleep right after it starts.
Dr. T
(513 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 4, 2025, 08:41 PM - Edit history (1)
This does not belong on a public broadcast. Garbage like this belongs on a radical right wing fringe podcast. Once word gets out, I'm hoping for a groundswell of outrage that forces CBS/Paramount to reconsider the broadcast.
NBachers
(19,184 posts)Botany
(76,404 posts).. Fascist Bible thumpers of Kirk's world don't like lesbians like her. She is just about the money.
BidenRocks
(2,780 posts)We have YouTube!
czarjak
(13,437 posts)I'm here 4-U.
Grins
(9,245 posts)She had made CBS into another Fox.
Erika Kirk will open up about life, loss, the state of political discourse, and much more.
And what qualifies her to speak on any of that?
RedArkGuy
(873 posts)n/t
pfitz59
(12,321 posts)but, ick. CBS News is dead.
C_U_L8R
(48,880 posts)And sooner than later, Weiss may be shown the door.
Dulcinea
(9,672 posts)No one gives a crap about Erika Kirk. Most people didn't even know who Charlie Kirk was before he met his demise. And what happened to the shooter? That story died quickly.
NCDem47
(3,325 posts)Usually filled with reruns, college sports, and other assortment of odds-and-ends programming the network needs to burn. CBS will park this "special" there as first dibs---but its the clips and soundbites that will filter down to the socials where the real reach happens.
I'm sure there will be lots of commentary on all of it here on DU as much as we say we want to look away.
P.S. What the hell happened to Saturday night netwrok TV? Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Burnett, Love Boat, Golden Girls (I'm dating myself here). I guess viewers just stopped watching less and less and/or went elsewhere for entertainment.
Betty Boom
(382 posts)This is nauseating. Of course I remember when the networks showed Billy Graham Crusades in primetime. I guess thats what were going back to the christo fascist era.
Drum
(10,569 posts)Paladin
(32,291 posts)hatrack
(64,256 posts)Nobody beyond The Bubble will give a shit.
bronxiteforever
(11,097 posts)Farmer-Rick
(12,480 posts)Than a cooking show on YouTube.
That's a very specific and hate filled audience they are trying to grab at. They are trying to be Fox but without the spill over audience from the NFL games. Do they really think a lot of Americans want to see this Nazi BS with a hate filled Christian cruelty twist? They can go to their churches to see that.
chouchou
(2,807 posts)...that goes right with the idiots that hate "Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat on December 1, 1955"
Marthe48
(22,727 posts)GIGO
maxsolomon
(38,199 posts)So, yeah...
Marthe48
(22,727 posts)Around here, if you don't pay for a cable connection, you don't get any channels. Sometimes, I try to get on a network channel online, and the site asks me if I have cable. And that's that. I think the last time I tried, I was trying to watch the Preakness last summer.
Borogove
(525 posts)Hotler
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Kid Berwyn
(22,973 posts)As a journalist, she is phony to her core.
Dulcinea
(9,672 posts)She's an opportunistic charlatan. It baffles me that CBS thinks anyone gives a crap about Erika Kirk. I'd say her 15 minutes were up a while ago, but she wasn't & isn't anyone famous. Half the nation neither knew nor cared who her husband was before he was shot, so why would they watch this drivel?
mdbl
(8,116 posts)Katinfl
(641 posts)Actually, I have not watched a network show in years. I get my news from here and a few other sites. Only other TV is streaming. Forgot about MS Now .try to catch Nicolle, some of Lawrence. The bulk of my info is online. Would never watch CBS after all this crap.
Duncan Grant
(8,866 posts)A: We need a return to cultural normalcy.
twodogsbarking
(17,582 posts)A really bad Irish music, barbershop quartet that sings polka music; off key.
valleyrogue
(2,586 posts)from The Village of the Damned films.
RedArkGuy
(873 posts)Media figures from across the political spectrum?
And we may be sure that spectrum ranges from Newmax on the left to WorldnetDaily in the middle to Breitbart on the Right.
Americanme
(376 posts)The network of Walter Cronkite is now pandering to MAGA. I am disgusted.
Bengus81
(9,826 posts)They featured them on 60 minutes along with other fluff BS. I guess all of it to make the Fuhrer happy,now this crapola. My Paramount+ runs out in August of 2026 and that will be that after probably a DECADE of subscribing. Hell..it was so long ago it wasn't even called Paramount+ when I signed up.
The writing is on the wall.