WATCH: Disgraced, jobless leftist ‘news’ veteran Scott Pelley breaks down in tears, compares ’60 Minutes’ shake-up to a ‘massacre,’ claiming his TV ‘family’ was ‘murdered’

By Jim Hoft, The Gateway Pundit

Scott Pelley (Video screenshot)
Scott Pelley

The 68-year-old former “60 Minutes” correspondent, axed from CBS News after nearly four decades of far-left activism masquerading as journalism, sobbed uncontrollably through a New York Times interview this week.

Scott Pelley literally broke down in tears during a desperate, sob-filled interview with the far-left New York Times, crying over his recent firing from CBS News after nearly four decades at the network.

But instead of showing an ounce of humility, the unhinged ex-anchor doubled down on the exact same hysterical tirade that got him axed in the first place.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, “Black Thursday,” as Pelley described it, marked the beginning of the purge when new CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, the former New York Times writer who famously walked away from that paper’s radical leftward lurch, fired the far-left executive producer and multiple anti-Trump correspondents at the once-venerable newsmagazine.

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The old guard was stunned when Weiss replaced the longtime executive producer with Nick Bilton, a tech journalist with zero traditional broadcast experience, as part of a long-overdue effort to inject actual viewpoint diversity and restore public trust after years of embarrassing anti-Trump bias and the disastrous Kamala Harris interview that triggered a major lawsuit.

Pelley, never one to go quietly, hijacked Bilton’s first staff meeting with a performative meltdown. He accused Weiss of “murdering 60 Minutes,” declared she “does not love this place,” and sneered that the new boss had “slender qualifications.”

Days later, CBS terminated his contract for cause. Bilton’s letter was brutal but accurate: Pelley had shown “remarkable incivility and contempt,” staged a “performative display of hostility,” and demonstrated zero interest in contributing to the future success of the show.

Now the jobless news veteran is playing the victim in the New York Times. He conceded that calling it the “murder” of the show itself was hyperbolic, only to immediately double down and claim it was actually the staff that Bari Weiss had murdered.

Pelley wept as he described the firings of his “family” in the “Black Thursday massacre.” This is the same man who spent decades at a show that repeatedly targeted President Trump and conservatives with loaded, one-sided reporting while giving Democrats the softest of softballs.

New York Post reported:

“No one saw the Black Thursday massacre coming,” Pelley told the paper of the network laying off senior staff, including executive producer Tanya Simon.

“The night before, Tanya and I were at the Emmy Awards, and we won two Emmys. Within hours, all of those people have been wiped out, and one-third of our correspondents have been fired,” he said.

“My colleagues and I have worked together 10, 20, 30 years. We travel together. We dine together. We go into literal combat together,” Pelley continued.

“So, these bonds are pretty tight, and when somebody wipes out, murders, a large number of your family members, people are desperate for some explanation, and as you and I sit here today, there still has been none,” he said.

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After comparing it to being “like your spouse being murdered,” he said, “I am not emotional about this because I have lost this job. I’ve done it for a long time. I’ve had the greatest experiences. But the people I leave behind, treated in this way? That breaks my heart, and it’s going to take me a long time to get over it.”

Below are some of the worst moments from Pelley’s NYT sitdown via Newsbusters:

The interview began on an insensitive and jarring note as Pelley said the upheaval at CBS News was “like your spouse was murdered” and, through misty eyes, asserted this isn’t “about me” and “I’m fine,” but “these people that I left behind…who are still trapped.” This, he insisted, was “the depth of my devotion.”

Pelley explained “no one saw the Black Thursday massacre coming” in which executive producer Tanya Simon, her deputy, other staff members, and correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega were fired.

He said it triggered “dismay” and “shock” to see colleagues he went to war with were laid off. Pelley actually compared it to “when somebody wipes out, murders a large number of your family members, people are hurt and shocked in disbelief and just desperate for some explanation.”

Again, how insensitive to those who’ve actually experienced that heartbreaking scenario. At least Pelley’s colleagues are still alive, and he has his sailboat.

To Garcia-Navarro’s credit, she asked him to explain why he ignored previous overtures from Bilton to talk instead of blow himself up in front of the entire staff:

As for why he unleashed such anger at his bosses, he called it “fate” and broke down in tears when saying “newsrooms are sort of like the military” and have “life-threatening job[s]” with “very strong bonds” that demand “people…go to war zones when…pregnant.”

He added Bari Weiss, Nick Bilton, and their lieutenants “have never felt that” in their lives:

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Pelley closed with what he hopes Paramount Skydance executives do in the future to end this Weiss tenure in which “there is a thumb on the scale for” Donald Trump’s GOP and “there’s a subtle political bias that I’ve never seen” before at the network.

‘Pompous a**’: CBS News fires ’60 Minutes’ anchor Scott Pelley after ferocious meltdown

This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com.

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