Scott Pelley went down swinging.For that, he is being widely praised as a journalistic hero by the media-industrial complex.And also widely mocked as a self-promoting phony.Let’s face it, the onetime CBS anchor wanted to be fired – and made sure it happened.BATTLE BETWEEN BARI WEISS AND ‘60 MINUTES’ EXPLODES AS SCOTT PELLEY ACCUSES HER OF MURDERING THE SHOW"60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley was fired, and he went down swinging.(David M.
Russell/CBS via Getty Images)He gave Bari Weiss and the program’s new boss, tech journalist Nick Bilton, not the slightest opening for trying to work together to see how it goes.Once you accuse Weiss, the editor-in-chief, of "murdering" the show you’ve been on for more than two decades, you are in full bridge-burning mode.Once you confront your new boss, Bilton, by calling him minimally qualified – and Weiss not at all – you are handing them the rope.SCOTT PELLEY FIRED AT CBS NEWS AFTER BLOWUPS WITH BARI WEISS, NEW '60 MINUTES' PRODUCERWeiss, in damage-control mode, told the staff "there must be trust and mutual respect…That foundation was broken on Monday, and despite our attempts to engage with Scott Pelley and to find a way back, unfortunately we weren’t able to do so, and so we had to part ways."We did not want that to happen, but that’s the path that he chose.That unfortunate outcome does not discount from the amazing contributions and work that Scott Pelley has done for CBS and for ‘60 Minutes’ over the course of his career."The British-born Bilton got his revenge in a blistering letter to Pelley:"You hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt." He called this a "performative display of hostility enacted in front of the staff."Leftists often caricature CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss as an unhinged conservative – though she's more center-left, if anything.
(Michele Crowe/CBS News via Getty Images)Pelley...