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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The left is LYING to you about illegal immigrant crime



While rabid defenders of illegal immigration often claim immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens, investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck that couldn’t be further from the truth.

“The problem that I don’t understand is, first, people will say, you know, illegal immigrants, they don’t commit crimes half at the number that the citizen actually commits, and yet, we’re seeing people now killed on the streets, robbed, raped, etc., etc., by illegals,” Glenn tells Attkisson.

“I’m not saying all illegals are like this. ... But we have lost the ability to seemingly even care about the crime if it’s an illegal doing it,” he adds.


“I’m so surprised that more people haven’t reported this. And I started reporting it at CBS News, and I’ve continued at full measure. So, we’ll go over a couple of facts because this is hard evidence,” Attkisson replies.

“There’s really hard evidence that a lot of people are ignoring for some reason that came in a 2018 analysis by the GAO, and it looked at how many illegal immigrants are in our prisons and jails. That’s a great hard measure of how many, compared to U.S. citizens, are caught committing crimes and serving time,” she explains.

Attkisson tells Glenn that in 2011, “The criminal alien proportion of the total estimated federal inmate population was 25%.”

“This is even before the big surge. One in four federal inmates was an illegal immigrant. But they only accounted for something like less than 7% of the population. So they’re committing crimes, if you look at the data in prisons and jails, at a huge rate compared to U.S. citizens,” she explains.

“And, by the way, that’s partial data because not all prisons and jails were reporting illegal immigrants,” she adds.

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News veteran Sharyl Attkisson on what happened to journalism, and what we can do to fix it



The state of journalism and the media in America is broken like never before. And the topic of award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson's new book, "Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism", is all too crucial.

Sharyl has watched from the inside as the mainstream media replaced news with activism. As a leading correspondent at CBS News for 21 years, she argues that there's a new definition of censorship and it involves the media, Big Tech, and the government all working together to decide what "truth" is — and their suppression of the Hunter Biden story in the months leading up to the election is a prime example.

Sharyl joined Glenn Beck on this week's podcast to discuss a range of topics and offers her expert advice on how she would fix our media.

Watch a short clip from the podcast below, or watch the full interview here.


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'One of the most INCREDIBLE and BIGGEST stories of our time': Sharyl Attkisson on newly declassified Trump-Russia info



Just hours before the first presidential debate Tuesday, National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe declassified Russian intelligence information, obtained by the U.S. intelligence community in 2016, which accused then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of approving the Trump-Russia collusion hoax before it all began.

Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Wednesday to discuss this new bombshell report, which she called "one of the most incredible and biggest stories of our time."

"Well, [this story] kind of puts a final punctuation on what we've seen come out over the last three years," Sharyl said. "I will say, when I first heard some early reporting and leaks and theories about all of this, it sounded so far-fetched, that this actually would be a plan hatched and paid for by Democrats in the Clinton campaign. But when you fill in the blanks, it's all there. It's pretty clear, and it's pretty obvious.

"But, as often is the case, the drip of information has come out so slowly and been reported so piecemeal, that people are acting like they're not very surprised or shocked ... there's been no giant 'wow' moment on the part of people that were reporting the news at large. That said, this is really one of the most incredible and biggest stories of our time."

Watch the video below to catch more of the conversation:

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