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Legalized Press-titution – THE NEW YORK TIMES
If she walked out and let him filibuster for five minutes, it may not have been any more self-congratulatory.
If she walked out and let him filibuster for five minutes, it may not have been any more self-congratulatory.
It is touted as the first interview with Scott Pelley following his ouster from CBS. (We just need to ignore his numerous official statements he released last week.) Scott sat in with Lulu Garcia-Navarro to discuss all of the melodrama he went through last week. To no one’s surprise, Pelley was full of self-importance and puffery, but the level he took it to was impressive. Some of the highlights:
Claims Bari Weiss wanted the production to stipulate that Rene Nicole Goode targeted an ICE officer with her vehicle, which Pelley called incorrect. That we saw body cam footage of the agent being struck seems to escape his purview.
Claims Bari Weiss wanted the production to stipulate that Rene Nicole Goode targeted an ICE officer with her vehicle, which Pelley called incorrect. That we saw body cam footage of the agent being struck seems to escape his purview.
Pelley expressed surprise at his firing. He spent days declining to meet with executives and claimed Bari Weiss was murdering 60 Minutes, but the veteran newsman never saw this coming. He abjectly refused to sit with management, then says he was expecting an explanation…from the people he refused to speak with.
Pelley expressed surprise at his firing. He spent days declining to meet with executives and claimed Bari Weiss was murdering 60 Minutes, but the veteran newsman never saw this coming. He abjectly refused to sit with management, then says he was expecting an explanation…from the people he refused to speak with.
He said being fired was like seeing his wife murdered.
He said being fired was like seeing his wife murdered.
He claimed that he was in the service by covering wars as a journalist.
He claimed that he was in the service........