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Posted on 06/02/2026 3:32:45 PM PDT by Libloather
Scott Pelley’s brazen attack on the new boss of ’60 Minutes’ has divided staffers at CBS News, with some insiders branding his behavior as “bullying” and “grandstanding” — and yet another reckoning it was “a set up,” The Post has learned.
Pelley laced into Nick Bilton, the new executive producer of “60 Minutes” on Monday during a meet-and-greet with staffers, calling out the boss’ lack of TV experience, challenging his vision and telling him he will “never be welcomed here.”
“What did he accomplish?” one CBS source said of Pelley’s explosive attack. “He embarrassed the company and the leadership.”
Network sources said Bilton and CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss had tried to speak privately ahead of the meeting with Pelley — who was fuming about the network’s firing of “60 Minutes” correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi, Cecilia Vega, executive producer Tanya Simon and other top producers last week.
“This was a set up. This was Scott going off for show,” the insider opined. “This was just a show. He wants to stand up for journalism and maybe get fired but what does it change?”
A second source agreed that Pelley’s tactics were “problematic,” noting that the correspondent should have met with Weiss or Bilton to at least to hear them out.
“That grandstanding thing is insane. It’s third-grade, playground bullying stuff,” the source said. “This is not the way you conduct yourself.”
“You’re not taking down a dictator or someone who has committed war crimes,” the source added. “You’re not interviewing Saddam Hussein. It was a little bit overkill.”
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Pelley is a low IQ idiot pretending to be a journalist.
A total jerk.
Pelley wants to be a martyr. Relegate him to doing pet stories.
Pelley has always been a PUNK!
Insubordination deserves firing, every time, no exceptions.
And the entire known universe has but one comment to Pelley...
Well....... Bye
Headed for the bread line if they let him go no doubt. Hey scott......stfu!
The news has gone downhill since Ted Baxter and Kent Brockman.
Scott Pelley acts and looks like a gay Max Headroom.
Well said.
Pelley is all about Pelley.
Finally after decades, the GOP realizes its time to hang up on 60 min when they call.
And you're not covering up for Saddam's atrocities to keep your bureau open, either, like CNN did.
-PJ
Personally I can’t wait until they just synthesize a presenter with AI and do away with the multi-million dollar egoists they have lecturing to the public now.
Will they start presenting the fake anchors in the middle of the night? Get everyone used to it. My beef - every stinkin’ AI picture should have some sort of signature in the corner. If it’s fake, it’s fake.
Because it's so difficult to make suitable expressions
while reading off the teleprompter.
Well, who cares? It has been many years since I last watched those fools.
60 Minutes has reeked of pompous self-righteous posers from the beginning. Only Andy Rooney had his feet on ground.
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