60 Minutes' Smelly Leftist Scott Pelley Knows He's About to be Fired, So He Stages a Tantrum-Flounce to Make It Seem Like He Was Fired in Retalliation for #FightingThePower

Nick Bilton, an investigative journalist working for magazines and newspapers, was appointed producer for 60 Minutes, replacing an old liberal.

Scott Pelley knows he's next so he's picking up on the Leftist Guild's attack on Bilton for not having experience in television reporting.

In other words, he doesn't know enough about male make-up as Scott Pelley.

Dylan Byers @DylanByers

NEW: In @NickBilton's first all-hands meeting at 60 Minutes this morning, @ScottPelley told Nick he had "scant qualifications' for the job and pressed him to account for last week's firings.

Nick suggested conversation would be better held in private, Scott countered that he'd prefer to have them in front of his colleagues.

Nick told Scott, "they're my colleagues too," to which Scott replied: "that remains to be seen."

That podcast isn't going to promote itself.

More from media shill site Variety:

CBS News had hoped to keep Scott Pelley and the remaining correspondents tied to "60 Minutes" on the show, according to a person familiar with CBS News, before reports emerged of a blistering verbal donnybrook between the long-time journalist and Nick Bilton, who was named last week to lead the venerable newsmagzine.

Note the tense: Past perfect. They had hoped to keep him, previously.

It's not present tense. They do not currently hope to keep him.

Now I don't think they ever wanted to keep him. I think they always intended to fire him. I think they have not really attempted to re-sign him, which is why Scott Pelley is posing as Spartacus, as Curtis Houck says.

But now they can/will say "Gee we had hoped to keep him, but he seems so determined to leave! Aw filddlesticks! (kicks rock)."

In a meeting held Monday, Pelley lashed out at Bilton and current CBS News management, according to multiple press reports, alleging that Bari Weiss, the CBS News Editor in Chief who orchestrated an overhaul of the program last week, is "murdering '60 Minutes." Pelley also alleged that Weiss held "no qualifications for her job" and said Bilton that he has "slender qualifications for this job."

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Bilton is replacing Tanya Simon, a longtime senior steward of the show and a daughter of one of its former correspondents, Bob Simon.

Oh a nepo baby, perfect.

Her deputy, Draggan Mihailovich, was also ousted, along with two of the show's correspondents, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega.

Pelley also demanded to know why CBS News fired former Simon, Alfonsi and Vega, asking Bilton "why should we expect any of this is going to be any better?" Status reported that Bilton attempted to deflect the queries and wound up ending the meeting prematurely. Charles Forelle, a new CBS News senior editor, recently hired by Weiss from The Wall Street Journal, told Pelley several times he was being "rude," according to Status, which reported the remarks based on an audio transcript of the meeting it obtained.

CBS News was eager to keep Pelley at the show, according to a person familiar with the situation. This person says senior CBS News executives had reached out to Pelley, Bill Whitaker, Lesley Stahl and Jon Wertheim -- the "60 Minutes" correspondents who remain on staff -- several times since last week in hopes of convincing them to stick with the program.

Well, now I don't know -- that makes it sound like Pelley and these other losers are leaking it that CBS really, really wants to keep them but they're Spartacus and cannot be bought and will not compromise with a biased newswoman like Bari Weiss.

Either way, though: They're gone, I think.

Pelley, Whitaker and Stahl did not respond to queries last week asking for their comments on the show's next steps. Wertheim did not respond immediately to a query sent Monday.

I have a feeling they called you themselves to leak this and offer their Spartacus spin.

Pelley is going full histrionic Woke Woman, accusing Bari Weiss of "murdering" 60 Minutes.

When Bilton told staffers that Weiss, who was brought in as the first ever editor-in-chief at CBS News under the direction of new owner and billionaire son David Ellison--"loves this institution," Pelley reportedly interrupted to say, "She is murdering '60 Minutes.'"

He went on to say Weiss "does not love this place," condemned the changes she's made to the network's evening news broadcast and added of the news division, "She was brought in to kill it, and she's been doing exactly that."

Bilton reportedly told Pelley he was "not going to intimidate me in front of this group of people" and ended the meeting after 15 minutes.

I wasn't fired, I quit in a blaze of glory!

So yeah, he's done and he knows it.

Have security escort him out of the building.

Check back with this post -- it seems like new "Fire Me Now So I Can Claim Victimhood and Promote My Podcast" quotes are being released minute-by-minute in real time.

Update! This was supposed to be part of the original post, but didn't get posted. User Error and all that.

It's so bitchy and effeminiate! I keep referring to Mean Girls in the comments but you don't know what I'm talking about because I accidentally omitted this.

As Bilton tried to move the meeting along, Pelley pressed him on "what was wrong" with the correspondents recently let go, including Sharyn Alfonsi, who was at the center of one of Weiss' first scandals at the helm of CBS when she chose to abruptly pull a 60 Minutes segment on deportations to El Salvador's CECOT prison last year.

"As Bilton started to say he would 'defer,' Pelley interrupted: 'This is not the crowd to dodge,'" reported Darcy.

The Group demands Apologies!

When Charles Forelle, managing editor of CBS News and Weiss ally, Pelley hit back, invoking Thursday's firings, which he referred to as "Black Tuesday."

"I'm not being rude," he said. "You know what was rude? Black Thursday was rude. That was the absolute definition of rudeness."

"This is not actually productive," Forelle said at one point in their exchange. "This is not an interview."

"It's working for me," shot back Pelley. "Anybody came into our house--this is '60 Minutes.' I guess you wandered in expecting to read a statement off?"

Later in the meeting, Bilton responded to another staffer's claim that it "takes years" to train new correspondents for 60 Minutes by claiming that no new hires would lack experience. Laughter reportedly erupted at this remark. Pelley then continued to hammer Bilton, asking him bluntly why he would take the job in the first place.

"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."

Pure 9th-grade estrogen: "We think it's weird you would even try to sit at our table when no one at our table likes you!!!"

YOU CAN'T SIT WITH US!

"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," said Bilton in response.

The meeting might be best summed up by one especially poignant exchange between the two.

While describing his plans for the show, Bilton claimed at one point: "I care so deeply about this institution."

"Oh, please," interrupted Pelley.

Goodbye, Smelley,
it's been nice
enjoy your new
substack paradise

The firings last week included the old producer, Democrat political operative Sheryl Alfonsi, and Celia Vega, who announced that Woke Women being fired from media jobs to which they are Entitled is "censorship."

Yeah because there aren't literally thousands of Woke White Women in the media. Not a single one can be fired, or it's "censorship:"

"60 Minutes" correspondent Cecilia Vega accused CBS News of "censorship," saying she fears for the future of the network, after she was fired by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss in a bloodbath of top producers and reporters.

Vega sounded off Thursday night on social media about her firing -- which came even though her contract was not set to expire until next March -- after three years with the storied newsmagazine.

Wow, three whole years. She's an institution.

"I have the utmost respect and admiration for my colleagues at '60 Minutes' and the stories that air every Sunday," the journo wrote on Instagram. "But I very much fear what comes next for and the future of the legendary broadcast."

How can they go on without me? the narcissist fretted.

Though her blistering note did not mention Weiss by name, Vega claimed that network leadership "in recent months" has attempted to "insert political bias into our stories" and erode editorial independence at "60 Minutes."

A CBS News spokesperson told The Post in a statement: "We respect Ms. Vega and her contributions, but her claims are not based in reality."

Neither is her sense of entitlement or her belief that she is highly accomplished.

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Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck

CBS's Scott Pelley reportedly told new '60 Minutes' boss Nick Bilton that "I find it odd that you would take this job knowing that you would never be welcomed here."

What an eighth-grade girl thing to say! "I think it's weird you would come here when you know no one likes you. YOU CAN'T SIT AT OUR TABLE!!!"

Fire. Him. Now.

If this happened in just about any other profession, they'd be hauled out by security ASAP.

Yes that's what I said. This is unprofessional and unhinged. I would treat this person as a stalker and as potentially violent. You at least have to worry he's going to abuse his computer access to leak out damaging internal reports and correspondence.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:11 PM

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