Posted on 06/04/2026 12:14:41 PM PDT by Rummyfan
I like to picture him shrieking, but Scott Pelley almost certainly delivered the line with confidence.
“She’s murdering ’60 Minutes,’” Pelley said of his insurgent new boss, Bari Weiss. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that. She has no qualifications for her job.”
The assertion came in what turned out to be a very-not-public grilling Pelley gave his other new boss, Nick Bilton, the executive producer Weiss hired to run 60 Minutes.
“You have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she’s made at the ‘Evening News’ have been catastrophic. So why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?”
This is a recurring theme with Pelley, qualifications. What is qualified, what isn’t. Importantly, who is and who isn’t.
In case you were wondering whether this whole outburst was scripted with intent of leaking: The Post had both a recording of the entire exchange along with two sources in the room willing to corroborate.
The story was bowtied and dropped into WaPo’s lap.
It ended with Bilton leaving the room and the entire staff giving Pelley a standing ovation. In other words, the “and then everyone clapped” meme except in real life.
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Calling your boss out in a meeting full of employees and trashing the CEO, your crappy, slanted show not withstanding, this is cause to be fired from any job.
How you “picture” things does not make it the “truth”. Although that is the m.o. of the Fake News Media.
It’s not rage quitting without Johnny Paycheck!
“It’s high time I gave this little Whippersnapper a piece of my mind! I will be speaking for all of us. Where is he today? He’ll probably be too Chicken to even show up, just like his Boss, the Abominable Ms Weiss!!”
“You have slender qualifications for this job.”
Maybe he’s obsessed with qualifications because he never fished college.
Pelley’s composure might be well practiced, intact, stalwart, but he is almost certainly shrieking on the inside.
Not to mention Pelley doing a Lewinsky on McCabe, failing to easily identify the Russia hoax as the hoax that it was.
Pelley knew he was going to get fired, he needed and PLANNED to do this to launch his next podcast career.
Pelley? You know what I like about Pelley? Nothin’. I don’t like nothin’ about him.
I remember one show where he had a talented young pianist on. Instead of introducing her and stepping away from the piano, he remained in camera view with his stupid cloying smile.
He can go to blazes.
Just sit back and enjoy it. I am.
60 minutes still on the air? I’d rather watch some good YouTube on how to run steel brake lines on a 67 Corvette or read a book.
Decades of bullshit cant come a close quietly, I suppose
Assuming she was she was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that, it sounds like she was fully qualified for her job.
Scott Pelley is an idiot.
The Pompous
The Preening
The Petulant
Scott Pelley!
He’ll soon be another Brian Williams. Irrelevant.
His "All the President's Men" moment, in his small mind.
Scot Pelly... 60 Minutes...
Never watched them... Never once... Never cared to listen to, or watch, American communists... Except through a scope...
I can only imagine the self-satisfied look on Pot Skelley’s face as he received a standing ovation from his peers. Hope that feeling keeps him warm at night because a paycheck from CBS sure won’t be doing so.
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