YES, BUT SHE’S SLIGHTLY UNORTHODOX:
The CBS tantrums are even funnier when you remember they’re not in reaction to some fringe right-winger, but a lesbian Obama-Democrat. https://t.co/3GNIVCVAJJ
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) June 4, 2026
June 4, 2026
REASON’S MICHAEL MOYNIHAN AND MATT WELCH ON SCOTT PELLEY’S CRASH AND BURN:
Pompous ass @ScottPelley deserved to be fired from 60 Minutes.
From our new episode. pic.twitter.com/tH2AE8Joco
— The Fifth Column 🖐 (@wethefifth) June 3, 2026
Later in their Fifth Column podcast, Moynihan and Welch discuss the current state of the CBS News:
Moynihan: We have seen this for so long. This pompous, journalistic attitude of, “We are here for the truth.”
It’s like, you’re not here for the f**king truth. You’re here for the truth in some ways; you’re not always here for the truth. And thank God you aren’t. I’m happy that you’re not. I just don’t want you to pretend that you’re doing something you’re not.
Welch: If you are here for the truth, you don’t say–because it’s not true–that Bari Weiss was sent to destroy 60 Minutes.*
Moynihan: Or you don’t say to Donald Trump in an interview, as Lesley Stahl did, “You can’t tell that that’s his laptop.”
Are you a journalist? Are you brain-dead?
All you have to do is look at the emails and email the person in the email and say, “Did you get this email from Hunter Biden?” “Yeah, I did.”
[Then] it’s his f**king laptop.
One email. Do five of them. Do ten of them. Take ten minutes.
But they didn’t want the story. They didn’t want it because it crashed into their worldview, and they thought it would help Donald Trump. And that’s not what journalism is about.
“It’s going to help Donald Trump.” Who f**king cares? It’s a story. Go after the story.
And everyone abdicated their responsibility on that. And she did that on camera to Donald Trump: “Well, we can’t tell. There’s no way of verifying it.”
Yes, there’s a way of verifying it.
You guys go to the Uyghur camps in China–and congratulations, you do great work on a lot of stuff–but you couldn’t verify it? You didn’t want to verify that.
That’s fine. But don’t pretend you’re speaking truth to power in a broad way. You’re not.
* As X personality “Jarvis” notes:
Political talk today is characterized by CATASTROPHIZING. Your enemies will put you in CAMPS. Democracy is ENDING. Every election is THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIMES. Scott Pelley being sacked isn’t the mere natural outcome of calling his new boss a murderer and generally acted like a petulant dickhead in front of God and everyone — it’s the END OF LIBERAL MEDIA AS WE KNOW IT just like it was when Acosta and Lemon and a million other replacement level talking heads were shown the door.
Excellent question good sir as jokes are always better when fully explained.
We here at the Jarvis Account do not do POLITICAL jokes. We do not care who you vote for or why. We do jokes about the way people TALK about politics. Because it is unhinged.
Political talk today… https://t.co/GJobKEfRzj pic.twitter.com/rq1dKszcuQ
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) June 3, 2026
The CBS tantrums are even funnier when you remember they’re not in reaction to some fringe right-winger, but a lesbian Obama-Democrat. https://t.co/3GNIVCVAJJ
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) June 4, 2026
Weiss isn’t “destroying” 60 Minutes, but technology and market forces rendered the original three TV networks no longer a monopoly for news, a topic that Geoffrey Ingersoll explores in “The Truth Behind Scott Pelley’s Epic CBS Meltdown:”
Pelley’s highly choreographed meltdown is more than likely his way of resigning so that he can launch a substack or his own podcast venture amid the kind of controversy that gets an early boost in viewers.
Yes, it really is that cynical and contrived.
Underneath it, however, is a real anxiety.
Scrape away the high-minded f*ckery, the self-flattering elitism, and you lay bare a rather coherent theory of mind.
Pelley is right. Something is dying. They’re losing their grip on the (un)reality machine. They see their rapidly dissolving ability to include and exclude lines of inquiry and it freaks them out. New people with new motivations will now be deciding which stories are legitimate and, importantly, how to cover them.
Pelley’s composure might be well practiced, intact, stalwart, but he is almost certainly shrieking on the inside.
Tranquility Base here, the Ego has landed. Was Pelley doing an Olbermann? Does he think he’s Cronkite? William Holden in Network? Olbermann left MSNBC 15 years ago. Cronkite retired 45 years ago. Network debuted in movie theaters 50 years ago. The era of mass media was over a long time ago.
So what could be Pelley’s next gig?
Kind of proving the entire point, doesn't it. https://t.co/2yVUKBuLKM
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 4, 2026
That cable opinion network is a perfect fit in many ways: Pelley ripped for claiming he was ‘in combat’ in Afghanistan and Iraq after CBS News firing.
Pelley was fired from the long-running CBS News show on Tuesday following a bitter clash with the network’s editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and new “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton. Pelley, who first joined CBS News in 1989 and did not serve in the military, quickly raised eyebrows with a statement he gave following his termination.
“I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast,” Pelley, who has reported from several war zones in his career, told The New York Times.
As the successor to MSNBC, M-SNOW has a lot of experience with former network anchormen who cosplay as soldiers:
COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: ‘Perhaps Not Enough’: The Chilling Leftist Answer on Political Violence.
THE SUICIDE OF EXPERTISE:
The 6th anniversary of Fracture Day approaches. https://t.co/asFyD8KNFm
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) June 3, 2026
Some ghosts refuse to stay buried.
Fresh from the cursed hollows of Possum Creek, Special Agent Amaya Lombard is yanked back to the one place she swore she’d never return: Nesika House, the coastal coven that once cost her everything. When the high priestess who nearly destroyed her demands help recovering a stolen ritual chalice, Amaya has no choice but to walk through those familiar, poisonous wards — this time with a badge, a partner, and fourteen years of hard-won scars.
What she finds inside is far more dangerous than any illusion.
Child of Crows — a Witchward novella.
A POX ON THE APOCALYPSE SCREAMERS: Quote Of The Day.
THESE ARE NOT SERIOUS PEOPLE: House Democrat Clowns Are Fixated On Marco Rubio’s … SHOES .
THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: South African company debuts vehicle “gunport” for mostly peaceful trips to the grocery store.
HE’S NOT THE ONLY ONE SEEING IT: Because of that Red Curtain of Blood thing,
HISTORY HAS BEEN RHYMING A LOT LATELY: QotD: Rhodesia and the suicide of the West.
DATA REPUBLICAN’S PRICE IS BEYOND RUBIES: Which NGOs Are Organizing the Newark Protests, and How. How a six-word Signal message shut down a thousand-person protest.
FRIENDS OF MINE ARE GETTING BANNED ON SUSPICION OF BEING BOTS ON X: Recent algorithm changes on X may be unfairly hammering Brave users. And there’s a larger issue here about bad interactions between robots and privacy measures.
NO UNIFYING THEME, BUT SOME GOOD STUFF: Another Target Rich Environment.
SOCIALISM IS BASED ON ENVY: Make of this what you will.
And Tilting at Windmills sale for instapundit readers ends tonight.
June 3, 2026
LEST WE FORGET:
37 years ago today, the Chinese government brutally crushed peaceful protesters in and around Tiananmen Square who were demanding an end to corruption, freedom of speech, and democratic reform. The massacre revealed a truth the world should never forget: the Chinese Communist… pic.twitter.com/yaHqfF5XUu
— Terence Shen (@Terenceshen) June 3, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Sorry it’s late!
OVER ON SUBSTACK, ERIC OF SECURITY & CIGARS (WHICH I’VE LINKED A NUMBER OF TIMES) HAS BEEN WRITING A SERIAL NOVEL, BOUGIE APOCALYPSE. “”Bougie Apocalypse” is a serial style post-apocalyptic pulp story. Retired Sergeant Major Jack Harlan and his wife Raych are doing their best to keep civilization alive (real coffee, quality beans instead of MRE’s, refusing to become savages) while the Cough turns people into Zombies. It’s a mix of World War Z realism, Zombieland humor, and Mad Max road survival in the face of collapse. Competent protagonists, zombies, gas station raids, and killing zombies with frying pans!”
I’m in the book, maybe alive, maybe not. Schrodinger’s law professor!
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: From Delaney Hall to ‘Freedom 250,’ lefty violence is what real insurrection looks like. “A duly elected president — one who won a majority of both the electoral vote and the popular vote, as well as carrying every swing state — is trying to enforce valid federal laws widely supported by the public. His political opponents are trying to use violence to stop it.” (Bumped.)
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:
One of our reporters, who got locked up in a New Jersey jail while documenting the chaos outside Delaney Hall a few nights ago, asked for toilet paper after being in a holding cell for 18 hours.
They told him to use his hand.
Wanna condemn that, @GovSherrillNJ?
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 3, 2026
If that had happened to a typical lefty reporter in a red state, it’s all you’d ever hear about.
TRIM YOUR NAILS: Ergonomic Long Handle Toenail Clippers with Catcher. #CommissionEarned
