Having cheered the dismissal of Sharyn Alfonsi from “60 Minutes,” the Media Research Center soon had a bigger target on the show to go after. Tim Graham huffed in a June 1 post that also included a little Darcy Derangement Syndrome:
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.
[…]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.
Graham didn’t actually rebut anything Pelley said — he just ranted about “60 Minutes” not sharing has preferred right-wing bias. His crew, however, made sure to make it look like it was Pelley who couldn’t handle things, and when he was fired the next day, Jorge Bonilla gleefully wrote:
Yesterday, Scott Pelley lectured his new 60 Minutes boss on how the network was “MURDERING” the Elitist Media’s most hallowed news magazine. In the process, he ended up committing career seppuku and has just been shown the door by CBS News.
Puck’s Dylan Byers reports that Pelley was called into the office to meet with top brass after yesterday’s pompous flameout:
[…]After those several hours, Pelley was fired for cause.
Bonilla continued in full froth:
The media hall monitors will likely go into a Chernobyl-level meltdown and go on a multi-day rampage about how the Pelley firing is but the latest attack on free speech. The “for-cause” mid-contract firing certainly anticipates a lawsuit which will draw additional coverage and provide Pelley with a Resistance™ Supernova exit. Likely to Substack.
But make no mistake. After pulling that stunt and putting on that much of a show, Pelley’s firing was not a matter of “if” but “when”.
Curtis Houck made his contribution in a June 3 post:
Wednesday’s CBS Mornings opened with a surprising yet short acknowledgment of the drama surrounding the network with Tuesday night’s firing of longtime host and correspondent Scott Pelley for rancorous insubordination and preposterous martyrdom a day earlier, berating new 60 Minutes boss Nick Bilton to his face and accusing editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of murdering the uppity newsmagazine.
Following its “Eye Opener” video, featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers took on the task of solemnly telling viewers: “All right, before we get to the news this morning, we want to share with you some news about ourselves and long-time 60 Minutes correspondent, Scott Pelley.”
[…]He followed with two snippets from Pelley’s goodbye message to colleagues, doling out “gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work very often at the risk of their own lives” and that he “pray[s] for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again, a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.”
Someone tell Scott Pelley that (a) 60 Minutes isn’t a person, and (b) arrogant narcissists are not given some holy right to determine what makes or breaks journalism.
And Houck is somehow not the arrogant narcissist here? After covering NBC’s reaction to the firing, he continued to huff:
The NBC reporter wrapped by conceding “questions swirl about the future of the beloved show” and that CBS News PR had yet to return their requests for comment about allegations from Pelley and fellow now-ex-60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega about political bias, which was amusing to hear considering liberal bias is about all the 58-year-old show has been good for.
IF Houck thinks that ” liberal bias is about all the 58-year-old show has been good for,” he clearly has not been watching the show except to be triggered.
Then, as if on cue, Geoffrey Dickens cranked out a “worst” clip post of Pelley under the sneering headline “Bye-Bye Scott!” He went on to sneer further: “Scott Pelley’s hissy-fit got him fired from CBS News but his pomposity wasn’t his worst fault – it was his leftist bias that drove any right-of-center viewers away.” Dickens did not explain why he described his fellow right-wingers as being merely “right-of-center.”