Joe Concha says Scott Pelley is ‘hoping and begging’
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha criticized former CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley after his dismissal from CBS News.
“When you look up three words in the dictionary, whether it’s ‘sanctimonious,’ whether it’s ‘arrogant,’ whether it’s ‘self-entitled,’ in every instance, you will see a photo of Scott Pelley next to that definition,” Concha said on Fox News’s Hannity on Wednesday.
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Pelley’s firing on Tuesday was the result of a contentious exchange with new network leadership on Monday, calling for his immediate termination. Pelley forcefully criticized new executive producer Nick Bilton and accused editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the long-standing program, according to multiple reports.
“The next time you have an in-person meeting with your fellow staff members and your boss, during that meeting, stand up and tell the boss that he’s murdering the company. Then go even further and tell the boss that he does not have the qualifications to work there in the first place,” Concha said.
Multiple sources confirmed that Pelley hijacked the meeting with Bilton and berated him in front of staff.
“Scott Pelley, who seems to think he’s the next Mike Wallace meets Walter Cronkite, two legends of CBS past, now he’ll be doing a podcast from his kitchen,” Concha said. “Now he’s updating his LinkedIn page right now, hoping and begging that MS Now, or MSNBC, or whatever they call that insane asylum, will hire him.”
60 MINUTES HOST SCOTT PELLEY FIRED AFTER ACCUSING CBS CHIEF OF ‘MURDERING’ SHOW
According to reports from People, Rachel Maddow, host of the Rachel Maddow Show on MS Now, has spoken in solidarity with Pelley, saying she “hopes he lands at MS Now.”
“If Rachel Maddow says ‘hire this guy,’ we hear about the president of MS Now, or all the executives there. Rachel Maddow runs that network; she has the power apparently and now she will make sure, I guess, Scott Pelley joins there,” Concha said.
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