Scott Pelley’s CBS Complaint Backfires
Daily Signal,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: 4250Luis,
6/12/2026 6:44:42 AM
OK, let’s go to Scott Pelley. Here’s the headline from the Daily Mail. “Teary-eyed Scott Pelley goes scorched earth on Bari Weiss as he calls for her removal and describes CBS firings like his family being murdered.”
He says at one point he started to tear up when talking about his former colleague, executive producer Tanya Simon, being fired an,d said it felt like “your spouse being murdered.”
Victor Davis Hanson: They always do that. I mean, anybody who’s in the arena and espouses political views, “I was almost murdered, Jack. I was swatted.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mifla 6/12/2026 7:04:31 AM (No. 2115556)
How many tears did this guy shed when Biden killed the Keystone pipeline and told the workers to learn to code?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/12/2026 7:20:07 AM (No. 2115564)
Murder? No. More like Bari Wiess is a surgeon removing the cancer from CBS News and 60 Minutes in order to save it. Continued treatment will help destroy more cancer from the news division, but it might be painful. Pelley and his associates are the cancer.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/12/2026 7:57:24 AM (No. 2115592)
Get a job, Pelley, you little weasel. Maybe the DM could use you as a copy boy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 6/12/2026 8:24:11 AM (No. 2115618)
I am sure Scott has plenty of money but what he really hates is losing his relevance and a megaphone to talk down to and lecture us rubes. He is no longer a "player" in the leftist media propaganda game. Oh, he will make a few appearances on friendly shows to whine about the unfairness and somehow blame Trump and the end of democracy but his days in the spotlight are over.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Italiano 6/12/2026 8:30:48 AM (No. 2115622)
Of course Pelley is a whining little bi…pussy. Name one of them who isn’t.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
franq 6/12/2026 9:21:04 AM (No. 2115642)
Retire and count your money, Scott.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Kate318 6/12/2026 10:06:38 AM (No. 2115668)
The level of narcissism on the left is off the charts. They really believe that they are deigned by the Universe to rule. It’s why they are always so shocked when the world doesn’t go their way.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Kafka2 6/12/2026 10:12:33 AM (No. 2115672)
Most of these news readers have staffs that do the hard work of digging up the information to make them look so knowledgeable on the air. Their main talent is dramatizing the presentation of the news. That can be seen in how he described the RIF and his firing over the top insubordination. It sounded like he was the boss dressings down a stupid insubordinate.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/12/2026 10:18:24 AM (No. 2115675)
Leftist MORONS, Always the Victim, Always the Mouth with NO BRAIN!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 6/12/2026 10:19:24 AM (No. 2115676)
The Left operates on arrogant entitlement.
How many "news" and entertainment people, educators, and bureaucrats get in our face with their opinions, that have no more value than our own opinions. They are no more skilled and informed that we are. They think that they can pompously say "This is so!" and because it is THEM saying it, we are supposed to bow in respect.
Yet we have clearly seen that they simply do NOT know what they are talking about. They make stuff up and lie to support their pontifications. When they are caught at it, they feel totally justified about what they have done because, to them, it is their goal that matters, even when the goal is wrong and corrupt. The fact that THEY want it, fully justifies it and fully justifies any means used to achieve it.
It's a form of insanity and moral decadence.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 6/12/2026 10:54:09 AM (No. 2115693)
These arrogant asses so easily claim "murder" when someone merely loses a job. They literally have no concept of the factual use of the language.
Can they grasp that actual murder involves someone being KILLED, not just needing to find a new place of employment?
Having spent and entire career lying and exaggerating.....this fool cannot stop....and equates loss of a job with the end of a life. Stupid, foolish, and just tiresome. GOOD RIDDANCE.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
FormerDem 6/12/2026 1:21:37 PM (No. 2115761)
some important stuff in this article about graduate school and thesis directors. listen.to.me. When you are picking a thesis director, find out whether they usually get their students through. If not, run away, no matter how famous they are. Find out how they treat women/men/GOP or whatever you are and do not expect you will be different.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Indy8166 6/12/2026 1:48:59 PM (No. 2115773)
Scott Pelley is an insufferable blowhard bore.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/13/2026 7:20:22 AM (No. 2116001)
But the poor man spent time in a wet foxhole in the desert. Have you ever tried to dig a foxhole in the sand or in the fine dust that passes for sand over there?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/13/2026 11:13:48 AM (No. 2116111)
The most depressed an arrogant narcissist can ever get must be when strangers walk up to them in a store and, assuming they're a store manager to ask where they can take their returns, or what time they close. A person with humility laughs it off, but the arrogant narcissist lashes out, condemns them all as rubes, cretins, and philistines, and never returns to that store. Scott Pelley is the latter. The days of the "Dinosaur Media" (hat tip Rush Limbaugh) are waning quickly, and there will never be another case of sustained, corporate enforced, "celebrity" news-readers in this country, or even among the "PodCast/Influencer Class" because the fickle nature of the masses can be satisfied so easily by the Internet ecosphere.
Buh-bye, and "beam up, Scotty."
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
pensom2 6/14/2026 1:53:22 AM (No. 2116293)
Just consider why Pelley thinks he is such a hot shot. CBS was paying him personally $5 million a year. And that doesn't include his staff and writers that were well-paid to make him look good. All this while "60 Minutes" was losing money! He reminds me of no one so much as John Francois Kerry--another blowhard elitist who can't pass a mirror without pausing to examine and admire himself.
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