Credit is merited when it’s due: CBS News’ newly-minted “60 Minutes” correspondent Ross Douthat landed a thoughtful, emotional interview with the person who may have elicited more speculation than anyone else this year.
\n\nPatrick Clancy is the grieving father of three children killed in January 2023 by his then-wife, Lindsay Clancy. (Lindsay testified to killing them, in the throes of post-partum psychosis, during her criminal trial, this year.) As the “60 Minutes” segment points out, he has been the subject of predictably intense scrutiny, with much of the TikTok commentariat convinced he did the deed.
\n\nWhether or not Patrick Clancy came off as credible is up for debate. To this viewer (someone who has literally never used TikTok and is generally skeptical of citizen journalism) he was the picture of bereavement; to others, it may be a judgment call. But he read to me like a person who’d been through, to say the very least, a horrible ordeal, doing the thing that he needed to do to silence the relentless commentary — if that could even be possible. And “60 Minutes” deserves credit for letting him share his side of things after social media has adjudicated his guilt.
\n\nDouthat, until…
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