The Watchdog with David Bozell

Newly unemployed Scott Pelley gave America a rare gift in May 2025: a window straight into his soul. Standing before Wake Forest graduates, he turned what should have been a moment of encouragement into an anti‑Trump screed about “our sacred rule of law” being “under attack,” “journalism under attack,” “Freedom of speech under attack,” “diversity now described as illegal.” And he did it while Donald Trump was already suing 60 Minutes for deceptively editing their Kamala Harris interview.

It was the moment his true self, his true bias, slipped past the polished 60 Minutes veneer. 

But that speech wasn’t a slip. It was the tell. And now, a year later, the mask is gone, and so is Pelley.

Good riddance. 

Pelley’s meltdown inside CBS — ambushing new 60 Minutes boss Nick Bilton, accusing Bari Weiss of “murdering” the show, and staging a self‑styled martyrdom tour — ended exactly the way tantrums usually do: with a firing for cause.

And then Pelley released two cartoonishly self‑pitying statements comparing himself to combat veterans and painting himself as the lone honest journalist standing up to hostile, dishonest CBS leadership — the same emotional immaturity he showed on that commencement stage, only louder, messier, and impossible for CBS to spin away.

And just like when Colbert was canceled, and the elitist media rushed to defend him, expect the same here. Look at Yahoo News stepping in to launder Pelley’s exit by placing a left‑leaning Deadline write‑up about his firing in the number‑one spot of its Top 20, pushing a sympathetic anti-Trump framing instead of the plain truth.

From his melodramatic moralizing to his Trump‑obsessed framing, our “Worst of 60 Minutes Correspondent Scott Pelley” reel — pulled from the MRC’s million‑hour TV news archive — shows the pattern clearly. These weren’t one‑offs. They were the job description.

Thanks to supporters like you, we’ll keep exposing the lies, spin, and left‑wing activism of the Morans, the Dowds, the Lemons, the Pelleys — the crowd rightfully getting their just deserts.

​​​​​​​Take it easy, 

David Bozell
President