Totally Informed Serious Intellectual Scott Pelley to Bari Weiss: Where Are You Getting This Lunatic Claim that the American Public Thinks We're Biased? Because We Sure Don't Think That

The Royal We. And by "royal" I don't mean of noble birth, I mean "inbred, stupid, and incapable of caring for themselves."

He literally says, "I never wore the uniform, but I've been in combat for this country."

He's been in combat for you, you guys.

He's a War Hero, Racists.

Oh and he cries at how hurtful it is to be denied the respect that his Combat Experience has earned him.

He's such a brilliant reporter and student of society that he had no idea that repeatedly insulting your boss (and his boss, on top of that) to get cheap applause from the other communist droogs is a firing offense.

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Lulu Garcia-Navarro: "But it really didn't occur to you that you could be fired after so many of your colleagues had been let go after you'd had this, you know, very contentious interaction with your new boss?"

Scott Pelley: "You know, some reporter, I turned out to be. I just didn't connect the dots. I mean, was this meeting contentious? Yes, but 60 Minutes is known for two things, a ticking stopwatch and hard questions. And we ask ourselves those hard questions in the shop because they sharpen us and make us better..."

Garcia-Navarro: "So, you walk in, and what was the energy of the room?"

Pelley: "Hostile, dismissive before I could take my seat. Tom Cibrowski said, this is a firing offense. I was confused. I wasn't sure who he was talking about in the room, but it became plain very quickly that they were talking about me, and they were unhappy about the meeting that had occurred, a meeting that had ended in thunderous applause for me, if I may say so, because somebody had stood up for the broadcast."

He cried again later in the interview, but insisting he was crying for his fellow Fake Journalists, not shimself:

Via Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, Scott Pelley is a Theater Kid Dum-Dum, writes Jonathan Leaf.

And a nasty one, too.

Pelley is a classic talking-head--someone who started in television and whose whole career has been forged within it. This is the world that the movie Broadcast News depicts. Someone handsome and deep-voiced appears on camera. Others do most or all of the writing and the research.

(Interestingly, the producer of the 2009 Chevron piece, Draggan Mihailovich, was among the top 60 Minutes producers fired late last month by CBS News management, enraging Pelley.)

In Britain, news anchors have traditionally been called "newsreaders." That's because this is what they are. Their job is to make sure that their hair is coiffed when they read from the teleprompter. Pelley was a male bimbo: a himbo.

Over the years, he made many absurd and bombastic statements. For example, in 2006 he presented a completely uncritical two-part report on climate change. When critics asked him why he didn't speak to anyone who questioned the assertions of those who said that climate change was an existential threat to humanity, he responded by saying that this idea was akin to Holocaust denial.

...

"The job of on camera talent is that of a performer. Take Christiane Amanpour. She has often appeared on TV wearing flak jackets when she is far from a combat zone. This is her way of selling the message that she is a field correspondent accustomed to visiting dangerous terrain. Similarly, Pelley is said to have liked to end news broadcasts by taking off his glasses and gazing gravely as the camera dramatically panned in to him. That was his way of ending on a weighty yet "intimate" note."

Apparently this gaywad's big Theater Kid Power Bottom Move is chewing solemnly on his glasses as he contemplates the injustices of the universe.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:25 PM

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