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CHRISTIAN • MUSICIAN • PRODUCER • T1D • KY Col. • PDGA 154593 • ISAIAH 5:20

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@gtconway3d Can we help you understand angles and reflections?

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@JustinBerkobien Tell me you don’t understand the sin of pride or what the Bible teaches about sexuality in 1 tweet…

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@fire_starter457 His Word represents and instructs our worldview - not misused labels and cliche words

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This is gonna be fun…

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@JonnyRoot_ It would depend on the cultural norms around the French anthem

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@WUTangKids Respect the country his $ is coming from?

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@Deggans Fair enough. If he was surprised they let him go he shouldn’t have been.

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@stephenasmith Patently? Plenty of? In anyway? It’s utterly ridiculous? That’s a lot of confidence in your observations. you have no more to go on than others who have a different perspective observing the same video. it’s more than possible there are a few that aren’t respecting the flag.

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@Deggans Who says they were surprised? Maybe they were relieved to have cause…

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@Deggans He is not entitled to answers to the questions he asked not are they required to make any compromises. He was required to be respectful to keep his job. He choose the wrong path of his hope was to remain employed

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@davematt88 … and still be fired. If he had any integrity he would have resigned and then made a statement

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@IMAO_ It’s actually much easier to park backwards. Especially a larger vehicle. You can get your vehicle straightener with less effort and it’s safer when you pull out of the space. Everyone should do it.

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@GretchenCarlson @kaitlancollins @CNN Can you tell me what specifically is disgusting about his statement? It appears to be his observations and assessment of the job she is doing. Are we not allowed to observe and comment these days?

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@tamiramadsen You might not understand employment law

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

Is 60 Minutes that show that’s on after football if you forget to turn over to NBC?

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@BenMullin I find it hard to believe @scottpelley doesn’t understand that they had no obligation to answer those questions. In fact he doesn’t have to even be given the opportunity to ask those as an employee. He knew exactly how this would end.

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@Mediaite Dan rather fabricated stories about W leading up to the 2000 election. Who would know more about the current @scottpelley situation than him LOL

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@brianstelter Apparently he didn’t understand his employment brings with it the expectation of respect and civility.

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“New management has instructed me to insert falsehoods…” - maybe @scottpelley is confusing the stories @60Minutes fabricated back during the 2024 election cycle with today.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Abigail Shrier @AbigailShrier]

One hundred percent, the correct decision.

Indeed, the only decision.