Author Margaret Atwood’s take on partisan reception included a telling revelation about how the left responds to anyone who fails at “preaching their sermon.”
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Living at the height of modern convenience and comfort, the deleterious effects of feminism have brought many to mark themselves as members of the victim class on matters like laws against murdering unborn children. However, it is those same “hysterical childless women” donning red robes and prostrating themselves to their “patron Saint,” that Atwood offered up a “finger” while revealing they attack her as the right leaves her alone.
The claim was made on the latest installment of CBS News’ “60 Minutes” as correspondent Jon Wertheim appeared to suggest the Canadian bestseller’s politics were anything other than what they appear.
After Atwood suggested she sees the United States on the road to totalitarianism, Wertheim narrated, “Amid the warning lights, a series based on ‘The Testament,’ her sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ will begin streaming on Hulu next year. But just when you think you can predict on which side of the political divide Atwood falls, she confounds by saying something like this: “Just for the record, I’ve always been attacked more from the left than I have from the right.”
Asked why she believes that, she suggested, “Well, I think the right thinks I’m irrelevant. And the left thinks that I should have been preaching their sermon, whatever it may happen to be, and that I am therefore a traitor for not having done that which they themselves would do.”
Such a phenomenon has been widely covered on issues like opposing President Donald Trump on everything from gender ideologue absolutism and adherence to the whims of Hamas sympathizers. Wertheim’s inquiry about her response to such reactions found Atwood insisting, “It’s unprintable. It involves a finger. Do I see a little blush?”
Part of a promotional campaign for her memoir set to be released in late November titled, “Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts” the “60 Minutes” interview also found the author insisting that nothing makes it into her fiction if it hasn’t happened somewhere in the real world first at the same time she propped up the argument that school’s curating age-appropriate content was akin to book bans.
As for the Canadian’s case that America is heading toward totalitarianism, she told Wertheim, “There are certain things totalitarian coups always do.”
“One of them is trying to get control of the media. But the other thing is making the judicial arm part of the executive. In other words, judges just do what the chief guy tells them to,” she went on. “There are some warning lights flashing, for sure.”
Of course, even amid expectations that newly minted CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss would clear up the widely perceived biases of “60 Minutes,” there was a notable lack of pushback on the seeming slight against President Donald Trump’s administration, as one social media user responded amid other reactions, “Once again biased @60Minutes lets a biased guest trash @realDonaldTrump without historical context. She says, attempts to control the media are ‘concerning’ but doesn’t acknowledge that Biden did worse or FDR tried to stack the Supreme Court. Tell the whole story!”
Once again biased @60Minutes lets a biased guest trash @realDonaldTrump without historical context. She says, attempts to control the media are “concerning” but doesn’t acknowledge that Biden did worse or FDR tried to stack the Supreme Court. Tell the whole story!
— William Weber (@WWeber32708) November 10, 2025
What a nice puff piece on the patron Saint of hysterical childless women.
— Tomys Midwood (@TomysMidwood) November 10, 2025
She is irrelevant
— Mic Ward (@TboneWardo) November 10, 2025
Hoping the 60 Minutes puff piece on the tiresome hack Margaret Atwood leads Bari Weiss to fire more people.
— John Rabe (@johnrabeFL) November 10, 2025
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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