Religious Zealot Unveiled as New Star of ‘60 Minutes’

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty/Wikimedia Commons Conservative Catholic writer Ross Douthat has been hired as a 60 Minutes correspondent in the latest major shakeup from MAGA-curious CBS News boss Bari Weiss. Nick Bilton, the 49-year-old TV news virgin whom Weiss hired as the show’s executive producer, announced that Douthat will attempt to fill the shoes of fired correspondents Scott Pelley, Sharyn Alfonsi, and Cecilia Vega, as well as Anderson Cooper, who did not renew his…