Posted on 06/03/2026 4:12:41 AM PDT by V_TWIN
CBS News axed veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday night, a day after after the longtime network star blasted editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and challenged her newly installed leadership team in a heated confrontation that exposed the widening civil war inside the iconic news magazine.
In a letter obtained by The Post, newly appointed “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton blasted Pelley in informing him he was fired “for cause effective immediately.”
“[Y]ou hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt,” Bilton wrote, referring to Monday’s heated face-off between the journo and his boss.
Bilton further accused Pelley of staging a “performative display of hostility” and claimed he had “no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress.”
“I am here to deliver first-in-class news programming, not to make headlines about newsroom drama,” Bilton wrote.
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Quitting is just quitting. But rage quitting is attention-grabbing drama.
* Scott probably thinks some other network will hire him now*
I think he’ll be spending more time with his Substack.
This wicked, completely evil Talariquian philosophy is about to destroy this nation. If we are able to avoid a civil war, we will be LUCKY (or by the grace of God through repentance). If more leaders EVERYWHERE do not start terminating these people out of our system, we ARE going to have a civil war here and it is going to be horrific.
This explains the incidence rate of calls for violence against conservatives and for actual acts of violence by supposed-to-be professionals from all walks of life at protests around the country. They are going to fight literally before they will allow themselves to lose their power either in jobs or politics. I know them like the back of my hand. They will fight to the death to keep their philosophy going.
If people can not see this comung, they are NOT paying attention. We need our "Jonah" right now or we are doomed.
Over on Facebook people are wailing that Nazi Fascist Trump is silencing free speech, unaware that 60 Minutes has been serving them leftist propaganda for decades. It would be cool if CBS hired Nick Shirley to replace him.
Quitting is just quitting. But rage quitting is attention-grabbing drama.
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quitting is also lame.
I didn’t read the whole back story here, nor am I aware of his politics because I never watched him. Heh!
But speaking in general, why would you just resign to submit and acquiesce so easily? All things being equal, and you are likely to be gone one way or another, why not at least chose to fight for that hill????
“”” It would be cool if CBS hired Nick Shirley to replace him.””””
Yes, that would be cool.
Agreed
What a self important dunce!
He asked for it. Musta thought he was MacArthur standing up to Truman.
Pelley wanted to get fired so he could push the narrative of Trump’s War on the First Amendment.
But most likely he’ll be relegated to the black hole of uninteresting pod casts.
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He will never be interesting as a podcaster, because he is not honest, and he is a leftist propagandist.
There it is.
60 Minutes became garbage decades ago. After their hit piece on the Abrahams tank and Bradley AFV, that proved to be enough that they completely lost it.
Scott probably thinks some other network will hire him now
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He’s 69 next month. He’s probably fine walking away but thought he would make a big scene before his exit.
Jesse Helms said 40 years ago CBS needed a correct takeover. David Ellison is the man. Clean up CBS, 10, and Five.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!! Someone else who recognized the shitte show that was 60Min. Thank you.
In its 2nd year I quit watching as I caught them telling absolutely nothing but lies about every STEM subject. Kinda like today someone telling you that cow farts will destroy Earth or the Vax was totally safe.
That is what 60M has ALWAYS been. It slick, tho, like a cigarette commercial. So, the gullible ate it up.
I bet Pelley sends a job application to Fox News to replace Jessica Tarlov on the Five.
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