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Pelley spent his career scoring cheap lefty points; he had no interest in changing his ways.
Add The New York Post on Google Rachel Maddow joined the rally-round- Scott Pelley brigade Thursday night — a cavalcade of lefty support that shows why he felt the need to make CBS fire him.
Jimmy Kimmel, Margaret Sullivan, Robert Reich, Ben Rhodes, Jim Acosta, Tommy Vietor and many more damned the network and praised Pelley — because they all recognize him as a “newsman” sure to spin everything against Republicans and conservatives. Landing a new gig was plainly his plan when he engineered his own firing by calling his new bosses CBS’s owners brought in Bari Weiss as news chief to restore balance; she brought in award-winning journalist Nick Bilton to helm “60 Minutes” for the same reason.
But Pelley spent his career scoring cheap lefty points; he had no interest in changing his ways, so he defied management with a pose of standing on neutral principle against a supposed right-wing agenda, then followed his firing with a letter claiming Wiess wanted him toNot that he cited any specifics, because he couldn’t: Being told you need to get quotes from the other side before a new story is finalized, after all, is theWhich puts a pretty damning light on Pelley’s posturing about how “the principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
” His “principles” involved lazy, biased reporting that he wasn’t going to be able to keep doing; he staged his exit to maximize his chances of getting a new gig doing the same old hack work, and will probably succeed.
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