Scott Pelley breaks down, compares ‘60 Minutes’ firings to ‘family’ being murder

[Ptarmigan]

Scott Pelley breaks down, compares ‘60 Minutes’ firings to ‘family’ being murdered in ludicrous new interview
https://nypost.com/2026/06/07/media/scott-pelley-compares-60-minutes-firings-to-family-being-murdered-in-new-interview/

Jobless news veteran Scott Pelley broke down in tears as he claimed the hysterical tirade that got him fired from “60 Minutes” was a response to the “murders” of his “family” in a “Black Thursday massacre” at the show.

Pelley, 68, broke down several times during an interview with the New York Times as he discussed for the first time being axed from CBS News after nearly four decades at the network.

He conceded that he had been hyperbolic to accuse new network boss Bari Weiss of murdering “60 Minutes” — just to go even further, claiming it was the staff themselves that she murdered.

Too bad Scott Pelley! 

[SVPete]

Pelley & Staff: You can't fire us all!

Bari Weiss: Hold my latte'.

Arrogance and entitlement proved to be a bad combination. CBS Skews generally and 60 minutes staff particularly refused to learn from their Rathergate failure.

[SVPete]

REDPELLEYED, THE HIMBO

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/06/redpelleyed-the-himbo.php

Scott Pelley is the pompous windbag of 60 Minutes. Ted Knight played a character like Pelley for laughs in days of old on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Pelley amped up the character and drained it of humor. He is beyond satire. An insufferable fool, he plays himself seriously.

... Jonthan Leaf explains why in the Washington Free Beacon column “Scott Pelley isn’t a serious journalist.” Leaf focuses on one fraudulent story retailed by Pelley on which Leaf himself has become an expert based on his own work. ... On my point, however, Leaf puts it this way:

Pelley is a classic talking-head—someone who started in television and whose whole career has been forged within it. This is the world that the movie Broadcast News depicts. Someone handsome and deep-voiced appears on camera. Others do most or all of the writing and the research….

In Britain, news anchors have traditionally been called “newsreaders.” That’s because this is what they are. Their job is to make sure that their hair is coiffed when they read from the teleprompter. Pelley was a male bimbo: a himbo.

Scott Pelley Mistook '60 Minutes' for His Personal Throne Room

https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/07/scott-pelley-mistook-60-minutes-for-his-personal-throne-room-n4953704

Scott Pelley spent 37 years at CBS News and became one of the familiar faces of 60 Minutes. He also anchored and managed CBS Evening News from 2011 to 2017.

Longevity can bring wisdom, but it also can convince a person who reads a script that the chair is his.

Pelley's exit from CBS looks a lot less like martyrdom and a lot more like Job 101 catching up with him late in life.

Pelley lost his job after a tense staff meeting with Bari Weiss, editor-in-chief of CBS News, and Nick Bilton, executive producer of 60 Minutes. The meeting was intended as an introduction of Bilton to the staff, but Pelley mounted his holy soapbox and used the moment to attack leadership, complain about the direction of the program, and question Bilton's qualifications.
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The man/boy was handed his walking papers shortly afterward.

Anybody who has ever held a job knows the rule; it's not complicated: don't torch your boss in front of the company and then act shocked, SHOCKED! when the company removes your badge. Pelley had every right to dislike the actions management made, and he also had every right to raise concerns through normal channels.

ManBoy Pelley also claimed, contrary to fact, that Bari Weiss is also unqualified.

[Ralph Wiggum]

[SVPete]

Consider this rhetorical challenge:

Name an R leader since Eisenhower on whom the MSM did not crap.

John McCain? While he was celebrated by the MSM for his Trump-Hatred, he was demonized as Hitlerian after he won the 2008 R Presidential nomination.

Mitt Romney? He was demonized as Hitlerian after he won the 2012 R Presidential nomination.

Even Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski get demonized during election cycles to remind them not to get too uppity-conservativy.

Everett Dirksen? Maybe, though I wasn't yet following politics and news.