Scott Pelley Isn’t a Serious Journalist
Posted By: Hazymac, 6/8/2026 8:32:16 AM
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. In his posture against Bilton, Pelley portrayed himself as possessing the journalistic credibility his new boss lacked. This is a little like
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A tear in the social contract
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Governed peoples, in the post-Enlightenment era, adhere to the fiction of having a social contract with the state. Part of that agreement allows the state to retain a monopoly on violence. The governed cede their right to retaliate against parties that have injured them provided that the state intercede on their behalf to deliver justice and retribution. The exercise of vigilante justice by individuals or groups is prohibited.
I say it is a fiction because there never was a party called the governed that sat down with rulers to cede their rights in exchange for protection and justice. It was an idea promulgated by rulers alone who understood that violence
Suppose you were a university professor and a liberal -- but I repeat myself. And suppose you were ambitious. What better way to blaze across the sky like a meteor than to write a book about how all those far-right armed insurrectionists were fans of a guy with a semi-Nazi mustache?
I first learned about Friedrich von Hayek, born in Vienna, economist of the Austrian school and political philosopher, back in the 1970s when Bob Bartley set the world ablaze at the WSJ editorial page. In 1931, Hayek left Vienna. He joined the London School of Economics, became F.A. Hayek, and hit the big time with his critique of socialism and
Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman has overtaken former reality TV personality Spencer Pratt for the second spot in the Los Angeles mayoral runoff, according to updated vote totals released Sunday by the LA County Registrar-Recorder.
Raman, a progressive Democrat representing the city’s 4th Council District, now holds 27.12% of the counted ballots. Pratt, a registered Republican who ran on a law-and-order platform, sits at 26.69%. The gap stands at 3,113 votes.
Decision Desk HQ projected Sunday that Raman had secured the second of two spots in the nonpartisan primary, which advances the top two finishers to the November 3 general election
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.
In his posture against Bilton, Pelley portrayed himself as possessing the journalistic credibility his new boss lacked. This is a little like
Redpelleyed, the himbo
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Scott Pelley is the pompous windbag of 60 Minutes. Ted Knight played a character like Pelley for laughs in days of old on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Pelley amped up the character and drained it of humor. He is beyond satire. An insufferable fool, he plays himself seriously.
But he’s worse than that. Jonthan Leaf explains why in the Washington Free Beacon column “Scott Pelley isn’t a serious journalist.” Leaf focuses on one fraudulent story retailed by Pelley on which Leaf himself has become an expert based on his own work. It takes a little patience with the details. On my point, however, Leaf puts it this way:
What is treason?
The basic definition is easy enough: giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
But what does that really mean, in practice?
It can mean a government employee or a friend of a government employee, spying on our government officials and reporting back to his foreign masters, as so many people have been caught doing in recent years, such as Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) driver, Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) girlfriend, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D-NY) deputy chief diversity officer.
Such stories make the news, more often than one would expect, but there’s an even bigger kind of treason out there, and this one takes place through normal-looking
The Bank of England has decided that Winston Churchill, Alan Turing, and Jane Austen are too controversial to appear on British banknotes. So they're replacing them with frogs.
I’m not kidding. Frogs. And foxes. And dolphins. And puffins.
The Bank announced it would phase out portraits of historical figures in favor of native wildlife imagery on its next banknote series.
The official explanation was “security,” but we all know better than to believe that. Writing in The Telegraph earlier this week, Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, said: "The Bank's foremost objective is the security of our banknotes, which includes tackling the threat from counterfeiting."
The American medical establishment spent years insisting that puberty blockers were safe and reversible, that gender transition saved young lives, and that anyone who questioned the science was a bigot. A new peer-reviewed paper suggests the “science” used to justify the barbaric procedures was the problem all along.
According to a report from Just the News, a critical review published May 30, 2026, in the European Journal of Developmental Psychology concluded that "three decades of 'Dutch Protocol' research has not produced reliable evidence." The Dutch Protocol is the foundational framework for medically transitioning kids suffering from gender confusion.
Clinicians in the Netherlands,
The jury that acquitted OJ Simpson in the 1995 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman had nine members who were black. That is all that one needs to know about the case to infer the verdict. The prosecutor’s argument and evidence, including the bloody glove, were beside the point. The verdict was preordained the moment that the jury was chosen. It says a lot about our jury system, but it says even more about a society in which blacks view justice through a racial lens.
I experienced it firsthand when I sat on a jury determining the guilt of a black former felon who was standing trial for
A Sleeping Pill Called Heresy
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The attempt to bridge the differences between religions in order to make religion generic has been an ongoing obsession of religious reformers that have a progressive bent of mind. Such a one-size-fits-all type of religion has found its way into many churches, reaching even the Vatican, where it has caused confusion, disorder, and disunity among Catholics. I think this tells us all we need to know about “progressive” church reform: it is a way to ruin churches, not improve them.
There is no limit to the degradation that comes from the call from liberals for “inclusion,” hypocritically joined with the exclusion of Christians that follow the Gospel. It gives faithful Christians
The DOJ’s Broken Windows
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Disgraced former FBI director James Comey has been indicted for posting “86 47.” The DoJ has also opened an investigation of E. Jean Carroll for lying under oath about the financial backing for her lawsuit against Donald Trump. Has the DoJ implemented Rudy Giuliani’s “broken window” strategy, or is it something much bigger?
The radicals are reacting predictably. They’ve stopped screaming, “No one is above the law.” Now they’re behaving as though their anthill just got kicked. The lefties are howling that Trump is wasting federal resources on personal vendettas — while hoping we don’t remember Merrick Garland and Jack Smith.
In spite of their protestations,
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Activists Create Chaos at TPUSA Women's
Summit in TX 5 replies
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Turning Point USA is holding a Women's Leadership Conference in San Antonio, TX, over the weekend. Erika Kirk and Riley Gaines are among the women at the event.
But the event also drew the attention of radical leftists, who were angry about the event, claiming it was somehow harming "feminism." (X) The full post reads:
HAPPENING NOW: Far-left activists are preparing to march towards the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter to protest @TPUSA and @MrsErikaKirk
.Organizers have been plotting this for months — ever since TPUSA announced the Women’s Leadership Summit.
They claim the event “actively harms feminist movements” and insist “hateful obstructions to feminism” are not welcome in San Antonio.
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Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman is roughly one percentage point away from leapfrogging Republican candidate Spencer Pratt in the L.A. mayoral race with 78% of votes counted. After slowly gaining on Pratt for several days, Raman, a Democrat, is still sitting in third with 26.21% of the vote, Saturday night’s latest election numbers show. Pratt, a reality TV star, is now clinging to second with 27.32% of the vote. (Snip) On Saturday morning, Pratt held 28.24% of the vote in the June primary, while Raman trailed by multiple points at 24.89%. She has since gained significant ground in the
Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman has overtaken former reality TV personality Spencer Pratt for the second spot in the Los Angeles mayoral runoff, according to updated vote totals released Sunday by the LA County Registrar-Recorder.
Raman, a progressive Democrat representing the city’s 4th Council District, now holds 27.12% of the counted ballots. Pratt, a registered Republican who ran on a law-and-order platform, sits at 26.69%. The gap stands at 3,113 votes.
Decision Desk HQ projected Sunday that Raman had secured the second of two spots in the nonpartisan primary, which advances the top two finishers to the November 3 general election regardless of party.
Former first lady Dr. Jill Biden gave an update on former President Joe Biden’s cancer on Saturday, saying that though the 83-year-old will live with cancer for the rest of his life, he maintains a busy schedule, but has slowed down.
Biden explained during a discussion with political commentator and “The View” co-host Ana Navarro for her new book “View From the East Wing: A Memoir,” that while her husband was still president and had a team of doctors, she mentioned that he was getting up seven times a night to go to the bathroom, and she assumed that someone would follow up on that.
President Trump delivered one of the moments of his presidency as his interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker neared its conclusion.
The “Meet the Press” host traveled to Wisconsin to interview Trump on a variety of topics, including the war with Iran, gas prices, and the “anti-weaponization” fund.
Toward the end, Trump absolutely went off on the corrupt state of American elections, especially in California. Welker tried desperately to interrupt. But Trump would not let go.
Spencer Pratt’s once-comfortable lead in the Los Angeles mayoral primary has been slashed yet again — as a fresh batch of ballots delivered another major boost to progressive City Councilmember Nithya Raman in their race to the November runoff.
New results released Saturday show Pratt’s advantage over Raman shrinking to just 7,494 votes, down from more than 20,000 a day earlier. Roughly 78% of the ballots had been counted as of Saturday. Raman picked up 23,514 votes in the latest count, more than double Pratt’s gain of 10,336. Her share of the vote jumped from 24.9% to 26.2%, while Pratt slipped from 28.2% to 27.3%.
Donald Trump slammed Barack Obama's new $850 million presidential library, with a photoshopped prediction that it would be surrounded by homeless camps within ten years.
A 'giant trash can' is just one of the unflattering comparisons the new center has been called ahead of its opening on the South Side of Chicago on June 19.
And Trump weighed in by posting a photo of the library with a garbage bag on top and homeless encampments surrounding it to Truth Social on Saturday.
Trump wrote over the AI-generated image: 'The Barack Hussein Obama Library, in 10 years, when fully matured!'
McDonald's customers could soon find themselves placing orders with an AI system. The chain is currently piloting an AI-powered drive-thru ordering platform called ArchIQ at five US locations. The effort falls under a broader brand initiative known as McDonald's Next, which was unveiled earlier this week. At the launch, McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski stated that customers shouldn't have to choose between "hospitality or speed,” per Fox Business. An X account representing a McDonald's franchisee indicated that Google is involved in the project.
California U.S. Attorney Office Pretends
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Not to Know Specifics or Origin of California
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California ballot counting will continue until the key republicans in each race are pushed into 3rd place. That’s when ballot counting will conclude.
(snip) This X message from the First Asst U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of California is a case study in pretending not to know things.(graphic)(snip) Eric Holder was hired by California govt to advise on the election changes created by linking DMV database to Secretary of State database.
The tech team that wrote the code to link the DMV and SOS were given specific instructions. The affirmative flag, the checkbox in the DMV system that says the applicant is legally eligible to vote, was neutralized.
Last Thursday, even as California’s chaotic primaries demonstrated the need for a nationwide election integrity law, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) voted to kill the SAVE America Act. This would be understandable if the bill were unpopular with the electorate. But its requirement that voters in every state must provide proof of citizenship before registering to vote and produce a photo ID when casting a ballot are wildly popular among Republicans and Democrats. Yet, because its passage is one of President Trump’s top priorities, TDS forced them to ignore his agenda.
Imagine putting your taxes in the mail a full week before the April 15 deadline, only to be fined by the Internal Revenue Service for a late filing. (snip)Like the IRS analogy above, they contend that by “election,” Congress did not merely mean the act of casting a ballot. They argued before the Supreme Court in March that “election” “plainly refer[s] to the combined action of voters and officials meant to make a final selection of an officeholder.”
The jury that acquitted OJ Simpson in the 1995 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman had nine members who were black. That is all that one needs to know about the case to infer the verdict. The prosecutor’s argument and evidence, including the bloody glove, were beside the point. The verdict was preordained the moment that the jury was chosen. It says a lot about our jury system, but it says even more about a society in which blacks view justice through a racial lens.
I experienced it firsthand when I sat on a jury determining the guilt of a black former felon who was standing trial for
Israel conducted strikes on military targets in western and central Iran early Monday local time, the Israeli military announced, escalating a conflict that had already broken through the ceasefire just hours earlier when Iran fired multiple waves of missiles at Israel on Sunday.
The strikes came despite a direct phone call from President Trump to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him not to retaliate immediately for the Iranian missile attack. A senior U.S. official told the Associated Press, on condition of anonymity to describe a private call, that Trump believed he had convinced Netanyahu to wait.
Israel struck anyway.