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[Elai Katz @elaikatz]

I’m thrilled and honored to share that I’ve joined @HoganLovells:
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[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: TRUMP JUST HAD HIS WORST MELTDOWN EVER.

Trump completely unravels when Kristen Welker challenged him on his California election claims.

Instead of providing evidence, he called her "crooked" and "stupid," attacked the press, and abruptly WALKS OUT in the middle of the interview.

She did what every journalist should do every time Trump spews his unfounded bullsh*t.

Thank you, Kristen.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear @ScottPelley

Thank you.

Thank you for standing up when it was inconvenient.

Thank you for standing up when it cost you a job you loved.

Thank you for standing up to power and for trying to save a landmark news program.

Thank you for your INTEGRITY.

[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

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

🚨 JUST IN: 60 Minutes reporter Scott Pelley has been FIRED by CBS. I LOVE IT. GOOD RIDDANCE

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

Scott Pelley represents the tradition that built “60 Minutes.” There was no performance. There was no branding exercise. There was journalism.

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[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

If you support him, I will follow you immediately.

[The Patriot Oasis™ @ThePatriotOasis]

🔥🚨 BREAKING — The Fake News is FALLING APART, long-time 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelly has been TERMINATED, "EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY!"

Pelley accused Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss of "MURDERING" the show, and they got into a very heated argument in a meeting

TERMINATION LETTER: "Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you. I therefore write on behalf of CBS News to inform you that your employment with CBS is terminated for cause, effective immediately."

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Thank you for extraordinary reporting extraordinary stories and we will see you soon somewhere else

[CharlotlKL @CharlotlKL]

I support Scott Pelley and the staff at 60 Minutes.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

🚨BREAKING: CBS has fired 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley as the far right fascist state run media outlet continues to further shatter their reputation.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Scott Pelley atood on business, and told those clowns at CBS the truth. He helped make 60 Minutes the respected, high quality show it was before Bari Weiss showed up.

She's RUINED the show.
She's ruined the station.

FUCK @CBS.

I stand with Scott Pelley. 🙏💪🏽

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

Hey everyone!

Let’s get #IStandWithPelley trending right now to support him after CBS News fired him!

#BoycottCBS

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

I completely stand and support Scott Pelley after CBS News fired him from 60 Minutes for standing up to Bari Welss and CBS!

Thank you to him, Anderson Copper, Sharyn AIfonsj, and Cecilia Vega for doing the right thing!

It’s time that we BOYCOTT CBS News immediately!

Who’s with me? ✋🏾

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

By firing Scott Pelley, editor-in-chief of CBS News Bari Weiss has single-handedly destroyed the most brilliant investigative newsmagazine in network history, 60 Minutes. Weiss exemplifies everything MAGA is about: ego, incompetence, and blithering idiocy.

[Staff Sergeant Johnson @Colonel_Myway]

Big ❤️ to Scott @ScottPelley...

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

Who supports him? ✋🏾

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

RETWEET if you support Scott Pelley after CBS News has just fired him.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

They did, it was called America

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: CNN's Abby Phillip ROASTS Stephen Miller's wife for whining that a Democratic staffer telling her husband to "shut up you ugly f*ck" is a call for violence.

They can dish it out, but they sure can't take it...

"Is Katie Miller throwing stones from a glass house? In addition to outing the Democrat social media manager, claiming that she's childless and unmarried even though she's apparently engaged and therefore unhappy, Miller has repeatedly insulted liberals online," Phillip said on her show.

"In just the past few months she's suggested that liberal men aren't attractive," the anchor continued. "She's called liberalism a disease. She's used the r-word to refer to Governor Gavin Newsom. And that's just a few of the many insults."

The point is well-observed. Katie Miller has been in free-fall mode since the official Democratic Party account on X — run by staffer Paulina Mangubat — responded to an insane tweet from Stephen in which he claimed that Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is "transgender." Rather then litigate the deranged smear, Mangubat replied to Miller with a simple "shut up you ugly fuck." It quickly went mega-viral, prompting a wave of screeching and pearl-clutching from Republicans.

These are the same Republicans who constantly tell us that we should just get over Trump's "mean tweets."

The same Republicans who claim that Democrats are literally sacrificing children to Satan.

The same Republicans whose President wrote on social media that "a whole civilization" would "die" unless his demands were met. These people sling filth every time they log online, but God forbid we call one of them ugly.

And Phillip wasn't done. She moved on from Katie Miller to a prominent member of the Trump administration—

"You've got the Communications Director for the White House, Stephen Chung..." she said, pulling up images of his tweets. "'Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie are some of the dumbest R-words ever to be in.' He says, 'Hey, R-word, you must be thinking of someone else.'"

"He refers to another person as, 'you have no idea what you're talking about, you slope-brained, mouth-breathing moron,'" read Phillip.

Cheung's other posts included one calling Stephen Colbert a "sad and pathetic excuse for a human being" and another calling him "an entitled prick."

"So on and so forth. I mean, this is a person who works in the government," said Phillip. "He travels with the President. He tweets from official accounts. So I don't know. How are you comparing saying someone's husband is ugly to, you know, violence in politics? It just doesn't make any sense to me."

It only makes sense once you realize that Republicans don't believe in civility as a rule, they just want Democrats to play nicely while they do and say whatever they want.

It's a cornerstone of fascism: the rules protect but do not bind the in-group while binding but not protecting the out-group.

What do you think of this entire faux "scandal"?

Please ❤️ and share if you stand with Mangubat!