Glenn Beck unveils the TRUTH about Scott Pelley's FIRING from '60 Minutes'



Veteran investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson knows what really happened inside CBS News with the firing of "60 Minutes" reporter Scott Pelley — and it’s not what the left is making it out to be.

“The story is she [Bari Weiss] just appointed a new producer for '60 Minutes' and Scott Pelley, who you know, one of the lead guys there, he said this guy’s going to kill '60 Minutes' ... there’s a big showdown in the newsroom, and he’s fired, and now Pelley is upset and making a big deal,” Blaze media co-founder Glenn recounts to Attkisson.

“The left is upset about all of this,” he adds, before asking Attkisson if she has any “insight” about his firing.


“I do, I mean, Scott Pelley was not a popular anchor in terms of his skill as an anchor as well as his personality. And I can’t explain why he persisted in the chair for some years anyway, because gosh, quite a while before they removed him, I was told by a level above David Rhodes that they were trying to fix what they called the Scott Pelley problem,” she tells Glenn.

“One of the issues they had with him was, as it was told to me, he takes his managing editor role too seriously. He was interfering with the correspondent stories in a way that was not productive. And the veterans were complaining, and longtime CBS names that you would recognize, were complaining to the high executives about this,” she continues.

While Attkisson was told that the show would be “all about” her investigative reporting under Pelley, she instead was censored by the anchor.

“The very first week, the very first investigative piece, one of the best ones I think I ever did that I offered them, he censored, never aired. And that was the pattern,” she tells Glenn.

This story was on high school students being lured into going on “amazing global trips” as ambassadors — but instead the children were getting injured, and in some cases, they were killed.

“I don’t know if it was people connected at a higher level that didn’t want these stories to air,” Attkisson says.

While Pelley claims that the new editor in chief of CBS, Bari Weiss, is the one “censoring the stories” and that management had instructed him to “inject lies” into his reporting, Attkisson doesn’t believe it.

“I believe that most likely based on my experience, they were trying to make the stories more balanced and fair. And the culture among some at CBS ... was not to do so. And I think they don’t understand or came to not understand the very basic tenets of journalism,” she explains.

“Weiss is simply trying to tug CBS News back a little bit closer to the center, but the inmates have been running that asylum for a long time, and they’re going to go down quietly,” she adds.

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Scott Pelley Claims Being Fired From 60 Minutes Feels Like ‘Your Spouse Was Murdered’

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Scott Pelley Isn’t a Serious Journalist

A week ago, former 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley arrived for a meeting with his new boss, Nick Bilton, on the CBS News show at which they both work. Pelley took this as an opportunity to lecture and browbeat Bilton. In the meeting, which was recorded and leaked to the press, Pelley publicly accused those whom he works for as lacking credentials as journalists. Singling Bilton out, Pelley said that he had "slender qualifications" for the job of producing 60 Minutes. Necessarily, CBS fired Pelley the next day.

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Fallen Hero: CBS Fires Scott Pelley After Decorated Career 'In Combat'

CBS News fired a senior employee on Tuesday for violating the sacred journalistic principles of "trust and mutual respect." Scott Pelley, 68, got the axe after a preening confrontation with 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton in which Pelley disparaged his supervisor with "remarkable incivility and contempt."

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Scott Pelley Was A Highly Paid Propagandist

What do you call a political activist who plays the role of a journalist? A propagandist.

CBS News fires '60 Minutes' blowhard Scott Pelley after he dumps on Bari Weiss



Scott Pelley, a 68-year-old liberal who claimed in a commencement speech last year that "you only lose if you quit," has been a fixture at CBS News since 1989.

Although he was ousted as the anchor of "CBS Evening News" in 2017 — allegedly because he complained "to management about the hostile work environment," though his ratings also stank — Pelley clung to another position at the network, working for nearly a decade as a correspondent on "60 Minutes."

CBS News kicked Pelley to the curb for good on Tuesday — a day after the talking head reportedly volunteered a number of criticisms of the network's choices and personnel.

'I have been in combat.'

At a Monday staff meeting in Manhattan, Pelley hammered Nick Bilton, a newly hired executive producer on "60 Minutes," for his "slender" qualifications and characterized Bari Weiss, the blogger turned CBS News editor in chief, of being a hatchet man who is "murdering" the show and lacks a love for "this place," reported the New York Times.

Bilton, an English-born filmmaker and former tech columnist who apparently has no broadcast news experience, announced on Tuesday, "We have parted ways with Scott Pelley."

The purportedly slenderly qualified producer said in a missive to Pelley obtained by the Times,

I started this job excited to collaborate and to benefit from the wisdom and experience of the 60 Minutes veterans, with you among them. For that reason, one of the first things I did in my new role was call you to talk and invite you to dinner. It is a profound disappointment that you rejected that overture and chose ambush instead. Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt.

Bilton claimed that while he supposedly welcomes "a diversity of viewpoints and respectful debate," Pelley's "performative display of hostility" demonstrated that he has "no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress."

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After emphasizing that Pelley's "antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear," Bilton told the liberal that his employment was "terminated for cause effective immediately."

Pelley, who complained in a woke speech last year that "journalism is under attack," wasted no time reminding everyone of his bravery and "devotion" to journalism.

"I have been in combat in Afghanistan," he told the Times in a phone interview after his termination, referring to his time as a war reporter while other men actually engaged in combat operations. "I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast."

Pelley claimed that Bilton's letter "betrays a complete misunderstanding of what we work for and what we live for at '60 Minutes.'"

Earlier in the day, the ex-CBS News correspondent stated that the "incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc" at CBS News, adding that the "collapse of values at the top has become untenable."

Pelley claimed further in another statement that the new owner of the network — Paramount Skydance — was casting aside the "legend" of "60 Minutes" in an effort to "curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration." He claimed further that new management had instructed him to "inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story."

CBS News did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

Now with Pelley out and Anderson Cooper having bailed out last month, the "60 Minutes" roster of correspondents includes Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim.

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'60 Minutes' blasted for pearl-clutching over disaster relief, rescue operations by 'anti-government far-right groups'



CBS News debuted a "60 Minutes" report on Sunday that delved into the supposedly troubling trend of Americans bypassing official channels to help other Americans who are struggling in the aftermath of natural disasters.

"What if we told you that after natural disasters, some of those who descend on hard-hit communities with offers to help are anti-government conspiracists and white nationalists?" Lesley Stahl said at the outset of the episode.

'Shameless and transparent.'

While the geriatric talking head clutched pearls over a pattern of life-saving help from undesirable sources — namely "anti-government, far-right groups" — video played showing men helping to clear brush, distribute supplies, and reinforce disaster-stricken Americans.

Among those men reportedly featured in the montage are members of the multiracial Virginia Kekoas militia group, which provided aid in 2024 to those areas impacted by Hurricane Helene and neglected by the Biden administration.

The "60 Minutes" report — which strategically focuses on the efforts of Patriot Front and Active Club, a pair of groups regarded as white supremacist hate groups by the scandal-plagued Southern Poverty Law Center — smears unsanctioned volunteers who are "far-right" and/or affiliated with militia groups as "disaster tourists who are out to sow doubt in government, soften their own image, and gain followers."

In addition to leaning on Henderson County Sheriff Lowell Griffin's critique of the challenges supposedly posed by "misinformation" and "outside folks" in disaster areas, "60 Minutes" turned to Freddy Cruz, a program manager at the Western States Center — a Portland-based leftist organization whose bread and butter appears to be concern-mongering about perceived white nationalism — for help in framing the story.

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"These people come in, they hand out water, they help clean up the debris," Stahl said. "Whatever their ideology, they're doing something positive, aren't they?"

"What we're seeing is actually these groups will show up and generate a whole bunch of social media content," Cruz said. "We're dubbing it 'disaster tourism.'"

This and the other bizarre attacks in the report did not go over well with some of the self-giving groups and individuals who have repeatedly stepped into the breach in those moments where the government's relief efforts have proven wanting.

The United Cajun Navy — a nonprofit organization that was not mentioned in the "60 Minutes" episode by name but has for decades engaged in life-saving rescue operations, humanitarian assistance, and logistical support in areas hard-hit by floods, hurricanes, and other ruinous natural events — noted on X, "We have many media outlets that are very good to us. Then there's this trash."

"This SCREAMS 'Funded by the [SPLC]," wrote the UCN, which in the wake of Hurricane Helene joined forces on aid efforts with Mercury One — another outfit whose relief efforts "60 Minutes" smeared by implication. "Even though we aren't mentioned, we would still be happy to comment ON THE RECORD about what [horse manure] this is. It's time to put 60 Minutes out to pasture, Holla!"

Shawn Hendrix, the "expert survival dad" featured on MrBeast's YouTube channel who was among those who helped victims of Hurricane Helene, said in response to CBS News' agitprop, "Not one 'left'-leaning news station reached out to me during the disaster. They pretended it wasn't happening because Biden was president and Cooper was governor, failing us badly. I was up there for months and never once saw a CNN camera or MSNBC crew. Now, over a year later, they want to create some wild narrative. They weren't there, so how did they know?"

"I, however, was there," Hendrix continued. "The only people being selective about who they helped were FEMA. I saw no racism; no one cared who you voted for. We were all just surviving and serving."

BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre tweeted, "SPLC funding the KKK story drops[.] A week later 60 Minutes just happens to run a 'hey that white guy helping you while your house was destroyed is probably a fascist' segment."

"Shameless and transparent," MacIntyre added.

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The ‘MOST disingenuous piece of reporting’ on latest Trump assassination attempt



When another alleged would-be assassin set his sights on President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the room was full of journalists across the political spectrum.

And despite the threat on Trump’s life, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales believes their coverage of the event has only continued to prove the media’s bias and hypocrisy.

“You would think that when he was almost assassinated again and they were there to witness it, that maybe they might be able to fairly and accurately cover the story, but no, actually, they can’t,” Gonzales says.

“That’s actually just how bad they are and how evil they are. They just, in true arrogant, narcissistic fashion, they just wanted to make it about them,” she continues, before playing a clip of CBS News’ Weijia Jiang.


“This is a room full of reporters. So, I know you’ve already seen the president’s tweet. My apologies, his post on Truth Social,” Jiang said at the WHCD after the attempted assassination. “And law enforcement has requested that we leave the premises consistent with protocol.”

“I said earlier tonight that journalism is a public service because when there is an emergency, we run to the crisis, not away from it. And on a night when we are thinking about the freedoms in the First Amendment, we must also think about how fragile they are,” she continued.

“I saw all of you reporting, and that’s what we do,” she added.

“‘Our job is so dangerous,’” Gonzales comments, mocking Jiang. “‘It’s all about us. ... Our freedoms are under attack. The right for us to do our jobs is under attack.’”

“Actually, lady, the reason that we are in the position that we are in, where people are after the president as much as they are, is because you guys continue to misrepresent and distort reality and stir up a bunch of little activists who go on to then try to murder Donald Trump,” she continues.

“So, I’m just not having it from you. I’m really not,” she adds, pointing out that just moments before the attempted assassination, a journalist on CNN said that Trump “figuratively” wants “journalism dead.”

However, the coverage only got worse as the week went on.

“This one is going to take the award for the most disingenuous piece of s**t reporting from the most insufferable and arrogant excuse for a news anchor there is: Norah O’Donnell from ‘60 Minutes,’” Gonzales says.

“The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. He writes this quote, ‘Administration officials, they are targets.’ And he also wrote this, ‘I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.’ What’s your reaction to that?” O’Donnell asked Trump in an interview.

“Well, I was waiting for you to read that, because I knew you would. Because you’re horrible people. Horrible people,” Trump responded. “Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.”

“You should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I’m not any of those things,” he added.

“We all know what you’re doing,” Gonzales says, referencing O’Donnell. “He knows what you’re doing.”

“Stop embarrassing yourself,” she adds.

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