In a New York Times podcast interview, fired CBS correspondent Scott Pelley claimed to be utterly nonplussed at the idea that people thought CBS was biased, as Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss suggested.He said he told her: "Do you have a poll? Is there market research? What are you talking about? We felt that she was making statements that she couldn’t back up and was coming into the news division with hardened preconceived notions that didn’t seem to be thought through."Pelley is fooling no one outside the liberal-media bubble.
To most people, it sounds like former CBS anchor Dan Rather claiming he’s never mangled a fact, like you couldn’t possibly find evidence that he had.But now, Rather’s out there claiming "the president and the corporate billionaires who curry his favor have eviscerated the best news program in the world."That’s poppycock.
We’ve long known "60 Minutes" as a prestigious news brand that’s used and abused by Democrats to promote their campaigns.When I came up in the media-watchdog business, it started with how "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Kroft helped the Clintons negotiate around the Gennifer Flowers adultery scandal at a crucial make-or-break moment in 1992.He asked if Bill had cheated, and Hillary broke out a fake Southern accent and said she wasn’t just going to stand by her man like Tammy Wynette.
(But she did.)BARI WEISS REPORTEDLY 'STUNNED' '60 MINUTES' CREW BY ASKING WHY THE COUNTRY THINKS THEY'RE 'BIASED': REPORTScott Pelley speaks on "60 Minutes" in April.(Screenshot/CBS)When the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke out in 1998, CBS played previously unseen excerpts of that 1992 interview, where Hillary claimed their adultery problems were "between us.
… We don’t owe anyone else besides each other the honesty that we’ve tried to bring as we worked these problems out," and then she added this whopper: "The voters are tired of people that lie to them." They clearly weren’t. Kroft then performed five interviews with ...