{"id":2610983,"date":"2026-06-05T08:34:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-what-60-minutes-and-the-new-jersey-anti-ice-riots-have-in-common\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:36:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:36:55","slug":"heres-what-60-minutes-and-the-new-jersey-anti-ice-riots-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-what-60-minutes-and-the-new-jersey-anti-ice-riots-have-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s What &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; And NJ Anti-ICE Riots Have In Common"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fheres-what-60-minutes-and-the-new-jersey-anti-ice-riots-have-in-common%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2610983&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh article argues that both CBS\u2019s *60 Minutes* and activists protesting outside an ICE facility in New Jersey reflect the same pattern: Democrats (and Democratic-aligned figures) respond to losing control by acting violently or hysterically instead of engaging constructively.<\/p>\n<p>It claims *60 Minutes* has new leadership that wants staff to behave more like journalists than partisan performers, and it portrays Scott Pelley as a prominent example of someone resisting that change. the piece says pelley publicly attacked executives at an internal meeting-reportedly even accusing someone of \u201cmurdering\u201d the show-then was fired, while criticizing the new management for expecting accountability and editorial independence. It also points to a prior dispute involving a deportation segment that was allegedly withheld until additional reporting was added, framing Pelley\u2019s preferred language as part of his conflict with journalistic standards.<\/p>\n<p>The article then compares this to protests outside ICE in New Jersey, alleging that demonstrators tried to physically block agents from entering and leaving, confronted the governor, and claimed concern about detainee treatment without evidence beyond detainees\u2019 allegations. It argues the real motivation is opposition to enforcement itself, because the existence of undocumented residents helps Democrats politically through potential voter support, and it cites examples meant to show Democrats working to reverse deportations.<\/p>\n<p>it concludes that both media figures and protestors are \u201craging\u201d as they aren\u2019t getting their way, and that acting out rather than persuading is presented as their strategy for winning elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>What\u2019s happening at CBS\u2019s <em>60 Minutes<\/em> and outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-sneak-peek-of-ices-alligator-alcatraz-ahead-of-trumps-arrival\/\" title=\"A sneak peek of ......s &#039;Alligator Alcatraz&#039; ahead of Trump&#039;s arrival\">illegal alien detention center<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/01\/anti-law-enforcement-riots-like-new-jerseys-will-escalate-without-stronger-deterrence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in New Jersey<\/a> is the same thing: Democrats acting out hysterically, even violently, when they don\u2019t get their way. The only difference between the two is an obnoxious little queen <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/03\/scott-pelley-was-a-highly-paid-propagandist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">named Scott Pelley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like the rest of CBS\u2019s News division, <em>60 Minutes<\/em> is under new management, and because the network previously operated as a propaganda outlet for the Democrat Party (and in many ways still does), a lot of the staff are uneasy about being told that their new bosses expect them to behave more like curious journalists and less like Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s joke writers. Chief among them is Pelley, who over the past few days has had a public crash-out with the very obvious intent of becoming yet another one of the dying news media\u2019s Trump \u201cResistance\u201d heroes.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/01\/business\/media\/cbs-60-minutes-scott-pelley-nick-bilton.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> Monday on an internal <em>60 Minutes<\/em> meeting wherein Pelley berated his superiors in front of their colleagues, accusing one of them of \u201cmurdering\u201d the show. In what was surely a tell that Pelley himself was the one to leak all the details to the Times, the report said the staff  \u201capplauded\u201d Pelley after his tantrum. <\/p>\n<p><em>And, scene! Pelley flourishes his right arm up and across his waist and takes a bow. \u201cThank you, ladies and gentlemen.\u201d The curtain closes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s such an actress. No one is \u201cmurdering\u201d <em>60 Minutes<\/em>. It\u2019s a network broadcast show, and like all network broadcast news shows, it\u2019s ratings are in steep <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RoadMN\/status\/2061566144494837800?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decline<\/a>, even as <em>60 Minutes<\/em> saw an increase in viewership this most recent season. By the way, the most recent season is the one overseen by the new bosses, a correlation Pelley didn\u2019t seem to grasp, as he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DylanByers\/status\/2062013125554246140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cited<\/a> that piece of data in a huffy public statement this week, as if the growth was in spite of, rather than because of the change in leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Pelley was rightfully fired and he continued to openly gripe about it, complaining that the program\u2019s new executives actually took an interest in the show and didn\u2019t let the entitled little divas like Pelley at the network call every shot. Outside of the media, this is what is known as \u201chaving a boss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To date, the most <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/12\/23\/illegal-aliens-will-say-and-do-anything-to-stay-in-america-we-dont-need-a-60-minutes-sob-story-to-tell-us-that\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prominent example<\/a> of new leadership at <em>60 Minutes<\/em> interfering with any of the longtime correspondents\u2019 work was when a segment on deportations to a detention center in El Salvador was held back until additional reporting was included. Bari Weiss, the executive who held the story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/21\/business\/60-minutes-trump-bari-weiss.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> asked the correspondent to include an interview with White House senior aide Stephen Miller (Weiss even provided his contact information), and she objected to the segment\u2019s use of the term \u201cmigrants,\u201d since what it was referring to were people in the U.S. illegally. This is standard journalistic guidance. But Pelley prefers to call it \u201cmurdering\u201d <em>60 Minutes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A more chaotic and sometimes violent version of this dynamic has been playing out outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in New Jersey, where leftists have tried to create a human barricade preventing ICE agents from entering and exiting. They also harangued Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill for \u2014 let\u2019s see here \u2014\u00a0oh, failing to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >completely thwart federal immigration law enforcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When Sherrill showed up at the rioting in solidarity with the leftists, \u201csome protesters shouted in Ms. Sherrill\u2019s face to criticize her for not showing up earlier in the weekend,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/25\/nyregion\/sherrill-ice-delaney-hunger-strike.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> The New York Times. And when she left, \u201cher security had to clear the road of a couple people who tried to stop her S.U.V. from leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the rioters are pretending to be upset about something other than what they\u2019re really mad at. They say it\u2019s about inhumane treatment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-4-in-10-illegal-aliens-refusing-coronavirus-vaccine-as-americans-hit-with-mandates\/\" title=\"Nearly 4-in-10 Illegal Aliens Refusing Coronavirus Vaccine as Americans Hit with Mandates\">detained illegal aliens<\/a> at the facility when there\u2019s no evidence of that being the case, other than detainees trying to get out claiming so. They <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/05\/27\/trump-admin-targets-big-immigrations-legal-industrial-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">want to stay in the U.S.<\/a> What <em>wouldn\u2019t<\/em> they say?<\/p>\n<p>No, what the rioters are mad about is that the Trump administration is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-proposing-administrative-abolishment-of-ice-report\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Proposing \u2018Administrative Abolishment... Of ...: Report\">enforcing immigration law<\/a> at all. They would prefer their precious illegals be left alone so that Democrats can gain more power on both the local and federal level. More illegal aliens means more Democrat voters or, at minimum, more Democrat representation in Congress. It\u2019s why they resist every single deportation. It\u2019s why a sitting Democrat senator literally flew to El Salvador last year <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/16\/democrats-drop-everything-to-bring-back-a-deported-illegal-alien\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to reimport a self<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-attempts-to-set-illegal-alien-abrego-garcia-free\/\" title=\"Judge Attempts to Set Illegal Alien Abrego Garcia Free\">-professed illegal alien<\/a><\/a> who had been deported.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Pelley and the ICE detention rioters are raging because things aren\u2019t going their way. And rather than offer constructive criticism or win with a persuasive argument, they act out. This is their strategy for winning elections. It\u2019s their very strategy heading into this next one.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party\u2019s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS\u2019s 60 Minutes and NJ ICE protests: Democrats act out violently when denied their way-only Scott Pelley stands out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2610984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Scott-Pelley.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[42153,36382,33457,80868,80869],"class_list":["post-2610983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-60-minutes","tag-immigration-policy","tag-media-analysis","tag-nj-anti-ice-riots","tag-public-protests"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Scott-Pelley.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610987,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610983\/revisions\/2610987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2610984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}