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Somewhere today in America, erstwhile CBS anchorman Scott Pelley is chewing the living hell out of the arm of his glasses in a bout of uncontained fury at the way his bosses are fixing 60 Minutes.<\/p>\n
Pelley, infamously the most anti-Trump anchor in television history (quite the accomplishment, considering George Stephanopoulos exists), went on a loud, unprofessional rant during a meeting<\/a>. This memorable moment, sure to be enshrined with a shiny plaque, was reported with glee by reporters at The New York Times, The Guardian, and Puck \u2013 who had to work hard to get audio Pelley clearly wanted leaked. Pelley\u2019s spittle-flecked invective against CBS boss Bari Weiss and new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton included referring to a list of recent firings as \u201cBlack Thursday,\u201d as if letting go a list of hacks on a show that survives only based on the fact that it follows the National Football League was a date to be noted in the annals of history.<\/p>\n “She\u2019s murdering 60 Minutes! \u2026 She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that,\u201d Pelley reportedly said, telling his new boss he \u201cwould never be welcomed\u201d at the show. \u201c[Weiss] has no qualifications for her job; you have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she\u2019s made at the \u2018Evening News\u2019 have been catastrophic, so why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?”<\/p>\n As a former CBS employee for several years, Pelley was infamous for asking the stupidest questions in production meetings, and now he clearly wants the award for \u201cbig loud speech that establishes exactly why you\u2019re not a newsman and hopefully gets you a severance package that can help stand up your new Substack.\u201d<\/p>\n What inquiring minds want to know is: Did Pelley walk in already twirling his glasses, or did he wait til he got rolling?<\/p>\n Scott Pelley rolling into that Bari meeting so hyped he drops his glasses pic.twitter.com\/jjkjLQHtBC<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Benjamin Domenech (@bdomenech) June 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Here\u2019s the real thing that bothers Scott Pelley: the era of the pompous Democrat television anchor is over. That role is filled by John Oliver and Jimmy Kimmel, and was formerly filled in his own house by Stephen Colbert. People don\u2019t want a newsreader who lectures them simply by virtue of their ability to read a prompter. And they certainly don\u2019t want that type of lecture from people who clearly hate half the country they\u2019re reporting on every night.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know if what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS is going to work. Television is hard \u2013 I\u2019ve been in it just as a commentator and contributor for a decade and a half, and I\u2019m still learning. But CBS is a network institution with a wealth of internal value if it can be brought out of the dusty corners of decrepit leftism into the present day, and not just because of Jane Pauley\u2019s CBS Sunday Morning segments on the history of the Erie Canal. The people that won\u2019t be part of it are the Scott Pelleys of the world \u2013 people who don\u2019t report, research, or find the news for themselves, but read it on a camera and feel like that gives them oracular authority<\/a> over the direction of the world behind the little red light.<\/p>\n Chew on that, Scott.<\/p>\n\n