The arrogant leftist die-hards at 60 Minutes are not careful about their facts. They’re too relentlessly pompous to respect facts. See the headline in The New York Times:
Scott Pelley Accuses CBS News Boss of ‘Murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’
In an interview with Status, Oliver Darcy’s website for shaming the press into being the most ardent leftist activists imaginable, former 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft used similar violent-death metaphors: “Since I retired, I often wondered what would happen to ‘60 Minutes,’” said Kroft, who concluded his run at the program in 2019 after 30 seasons. “But I never expected it would be executed by the president of the United States.”
The show hasn't been killed by CBS like that sitcom DMV or their medical drama Watson. They want to pretend the show is "executed" if it isn't 100 percent anti-Trump and anti-Republican all the time.
If anyone "murdered" the show's credibility, it was these two! Kroft conducted a plethora of softball interviews with Barack Obama, and Pelley pampered Failing Joe Biden twice while he was president.
Someone in the die-hard caucus recorded an internal staff meeting and released the audio to Status. Pelley was fighting with the new boss picked by Bari Weiss, Nick Bilton:
“Bari loves this institution,” Bilton told staffers at one point during the highly contentious meeting. “She loves 60 Minutes.”
“She’s murdering 60 Minutes,” Pelley countered. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it—and she’s doing exactly that.”
Pelley, who’s been at CBS News since 1989, clearly hates the new team, and questions all of their qualifications. He lectured Bilton:
“She has no qualifications for her job; you have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she’s made at the Evening News have been catastrophic, so why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?”
Team Pelley really thinks all this audio makes them look righteous (not self-righteous). You're supposed to paint Pelley throwing thunderbolts like he's News Anchor Hercules.
Charles Forelle, a top Weiss deputy and managing editor of CBS News, interjected, telling Pelley that he was being “rude.”
“This is not actually productive,” Forelle said. “This is not an interview.”
“It’s working for me,” Pelley replied.
“Anybody came into our house—this is 60 Minutes,” Pelley added. “I guess you wandered in expecting to read a statement off?”
Anyone can understand the 60 Team being upset at their colleagues being fired. Anyone can understand a meeting with new managers could be "tense." But acting like the Resistance and taping the meeting and leaking the audio is really something.
Pelley, who was applauded multiple times during the meeting by other staffers present, then refocused the conversation on the firings.
“Here’s a question: Were you aware of how Black Friday was going to play out?” he asked. “I find it odd that you would take this job knowing that you would never be welcomed here.”
This makes the word "territorial" sound incredibly inadequate. Bilton wasn't bending:
“I have no problem taking a job in a place that I am not welcome, OK? I don’t believe that will be the case,” Bilton replied. “I am not intimidated by—I have been a journalist for 25 years, Scott. I have sat and talked with incredibly powerful people like you have,” Bilton continued. “None of it intimidates me, OK? So you are not going to intimidate me in front of this group of people.”
“Does it show good judgment to take this job under those circumstances?” Pelley asked.
Somehow the Left doesn't believe that the new owners of CBS get to own it. Pelley gets to own it. Get out of "our house"!
