60 Minutes: Scott Pelley Out After Tantrum

June 3, 2026

60 Minutes: Scott Pelley Out After Tantrum

by Lisa Carr in media Post Comment

Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent, Scott Pelley, was shown the door at CBS yesterday after throwing an epic temper tantrum were he accused CBS News Editor-In-Chief, Bari Weiss, of “murdering the news program”.

Weiss was brought in to the network back in October and has since, attempted to bring more balance to the network by adding Conservative counterpoint. Of course, the left-leaning media hates this.

Scott Pelley made 5-7 million a year for 15 minutes a week on 60 minutes & was fired for throwing tantrum not liking his new boss.
The elitism & ungratefulness is overwhelming. pic.twitter.com/pPOrtDZpww

— Benjamin (@Runningbear) June 3, 2026

I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast.”-Scott Pelley

Scott’s “been in three wars”. No, Mr. Pelley. You were not “in combat”. You may have been in a combat zone. But to say you were “in combat” is a big, fat lie.

I've been in combat so many times I lost count. Sure do wish I was getting paid as well as Scott Pelley when he was "in combat" 🤡 https://t.co/AycBL0kGGe

— Douglas MechArthur ☭⃠ (@Kicksbuttson) June 3, 2026

Objective journalism is dead. And Bari Weiss is choking it out, apparently. Take Pelley’s Wake Forest Class of 2025 speech:

To move forward, we debate, not demonize. We discuss, not destroy. But in this moment, This moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack, universities are under attack, freedom of speech is under attack. An insidious fear is reaching through our school, our businesses, our homes and into our private thoughts. The fear to speak in America.”-Scott Pelley

Unless you’re Scott Pelley, a journalist for decades who’s been in three wars. Then, you demonize and call your boss a “murderer” and “unqualified”. Let’s get this into perspective. Any “journalist” who has the opportunity to be a correspondent in a war zone does not go begrudgingly. It’s not just for the story-for portraying humanity in a time of war. It is for the accolades. It is for bragging rights. They go so they can say, “I’ve been to war”. It’s a set-aggrandizing, self-serving gesture. So, Scott Pelley’s willingness to go into a combat zone was not this selfless act of valor.

Sources say Weiss and 60 Minutes Executive Producer, Nick Bilton attempted to meet with Pelley before the public blow-out. Pelley refused. The theory here is Pelley wanted to set this up; he wanted to “go off for show“.

Many have taken to X to call Scott Pelley “stunning and brave”, which is what he wants. But is his performative tantrum doing him any favors?

But while the moral panic over CBS transforming into some Newsmax-OANN Frankenstein continues apace, so too does the network’s critical coverage of the Trump and the right more generally.

And Weiss herself has promoted CBS reporting that would surely make Trump’s blood boil.

Conservative media watchdogs, by the way, still have no shortage of complaints about liberal bias at the network.

For Pelley and his fellow bellyachers, the problem isn’t they’ve been censored, muzzled, or otherwise prevented from reporting the truth. It’s that the culture there is shifting such that they’re no longer free to run roughshod with every partisan frame that they’d like — and that correspondents like Alfonsi are no longer guaranteed cushy titles in perpetuity.”-Isaac Schoor, Mediaite

60 Minutes has lost its reputation as a reliable, unbiased news program for quite some time now. There was the heavily edited version of the Kamala Harris interview. There was the Scott Pelley/Christopher Wray “Orange Man Bad” interview.