INGERSOLL: Folks At CBS Had A Planned Public Meltdown Behind Closed Doors. Here’s The Real Reason Why

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THE TRUTH BEHIND SCOTT PELLEY’S EPIC CBS MELTDOWN

I like to picture him shrieking, but Scott Pelley almost certainly delivered the line with confidence.

“She’s murdering ’60 Minutes,’” Pelley said of his insurgent new boss, Bari Weiss. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that. She has no qualifications for her job.”

The assertion came in what turned out to be a very-not-public grilling Pelley gave his other new boss, Nick Bilton, the executive producer Weiss hired to run 60 Minutes.

“You have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she’s made at the ‘Evening News’ have been catastrophic. So why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?”

This is a recurring theme with Pelley, qualifications. What is qualified, what isn’t. Importantly, who is and who isn’t.

In case you were wondering whether this whole outburst was scripted with intent of leaking: The Post had both a recording of the entire exchange along with two sources in the room willing to corroborate.

In other words, the story was bowtied and dropped into WaPo’s lap.

It ended with Bilton leaving the room and the entire staff giving Pelley a standing ovation. In other words, the “and then everyone clapped” meme except in real life.

Just two months after Donald Trump declared a state of emergency in mid-March 2020, Pelley sat across from Peter Daszak for a segment on 60 Minutes.

In case you don’t know, Dear Reader, in broadcast news media, 60 Minutes is the pinnacle. It’s........

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