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Politics / Re: Bari-O-Meter, Pegged: Scott Pelley Has a Major 'Hold My Beer, Alfonsi' Moment
« Last post by SVPete on June 03, 2026, 11:31:31 AM »CBS Fires Professional Prevaricator Scott Pelley
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/06/02/professional-prevaricator-scott-pelley-fired-by-cbs-n4953522
Scott Pelley Is Ridiculous in All the Usual Ways
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/scott-pelley-is-ridiculous-in-all-the-usual-ways/
Yes, I am enjoying a schadenboner.
Pelley fancies himself some sort of martyr. In reality, Palley is salted-tail partisan throwing a tantrum over his long overdue demise. Maybe Dan Blather needs a ranchhand?
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/06/02/professional-prevaricator-scott-pelley-fired-by-cbs-n4953522
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Longtime readers of mine know that I don't often do news stories. I'm the verbal bomb-throwing opinion guy here at the PJ Media Ranch; my colleagues handle the heavy news stuff much better than I do. Once in a great while, however, I come across a story that just makes me happy. Also, this one broke around 11 p.m. EDT, which is prime time in my Morning Briefing work day.
The New York Times:QuoteCBS News fired Scott Pelley on Tuesday, jettisoning one of the network’s best-known journalists in a clash over the future of “60 Minutes,” the country’s top-rated news program.
Mr. Pelley, 68, a “60 Minutes” correspondent and a former anchor of “CBS Evening News,” joined the network in 1989. At a staff meeting on Monday, he accused the network’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss, of “murdering ‘60 Minutes,’” citing the ouster last week of the program’s leadership team and two on-air correspondents.
“We have parted ways with Scott Pelley,” Nick Bilton, the tech journalist who was hired last week as the new “60 Minutes” executive producer, wrote in a memo to the show’s staff on Tuesday night.
The only reason that I wish this story had hit during regular work hours is because the meltdown on the left over this is going to be epic. I mean, real popcorn time stuff. I only had to check X for a few seconds to get my schadenfreude really revved up:
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Any day that Ben Rhodes has his panties cranked up to "Extra Bunch" mode is a good one. For the record, sentences like that last one are also why I don't cover many news stories.
Scott Pelley Is Ridiculous in All the Usual Ways
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/scott-pelley-is-ridiculous-in-all-the-usual-ways/
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Is there a bigger chasm anywhere in American life than the one that separates the way in which mainstream journalists perceive themselves and the way in which mainstream journalists are perceived by everyone else?
Here’s Scott Pelley, formerly of CBS’s 60 Minutes, complaining about being fired for cause:Quote“I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast.”
Where to start? First off, if Pelley cared about his job that much, he probably shouldn’t have behaved as unprofessionally as he did when he met his new boss, Nick Bilton. As the Washington Post reports, “Pelley laid into Bilton during a Monday morning ‘60 Minutes’ meeting, when he questioned Bilton’s qualifications” in front of a host of other staff. During that meeting, Pelley also insisted that Bari Weiss, his other boss, “has no qualifications for her job,” and, later, when Bilton organized a private meeting, Pelley continued in the same vein. In his letter firing Pelley, Bilton wrote that Pelley hadQuoterejected that overture and chose ambush instead. Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt. Yesterday’s performative display of hostility — enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil, private conversation — demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show.
Which . . . well, yeah. There is simply no circumstance in which an employee can behave like this and expect to remain employed. A lot of journalists in this country seem to believe that they belong to an elect class to which the normal rules do not apply. They do not. Journalists are protected by the First Amendment, yes, but they are not more protected than anyone else, and nor do those protections afford them the right to behave like jerks in the workplace. CBS is a private company. It is not, at root, any different than Unilever or Ford or Home Depot. Scott Pelley attacked his boss in public and private. Scott Pelley was fired. Film at 11.
Yes, I am enjoying a schadenboner.
Pelley fancies himself some sort of martyr. In reality, Palley is salted-tail partisan throwing a tantrum over his long overdue demise. Maybe Dan Blather needs a ranchhand?
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