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Self-righteous mutiny at ‘60 Minutes’ isn’t about saving the show — it’s about sabotage and being martyrs for the rotting left

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Don’t ever mistake Scott Pelley for the Welcome Wagon.

During a Monday meeting, Nick Bilton, the new head of “60 Minutes,” introduced himself to his team including, among others, Pelley.

Instead of offering Bilton a handshake like a normal person, pompous Pelley threw an epic tantrum that included claims new management is “murdering” the 57-year-old show.

But this mutiny was not driven by a serious concern for editorial standards or integrity.

It was meant to make Pelley a martyr of the rotting lefty media establishment and to embarrass Bilton and CBS News’ Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss — to delegitimatize them and preemptively tarnish any editorial or personnel decision either make. (Pelley’s blowout came on the heels of the show cutting ties with some correspondent Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi, who has been a vocal critic of Weiss.)

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