The hosts of “The Five” relished in the recent firing of “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley.
Pelley’s firing went viral after he reportedly made a scene in a CBS staff meeting with newly appointed Executive Producer Nick Bilton.
Pelley reportedly recorded himself calling out Bilton directly, telling him he “would never be welcomed” at the show and slamming his “slender” qualifications for the job.
Then he leaked it. Big mistake.
Bilton added Pelley to the list of recent CBS firings in a public letter, and the former “60 Minutes” personality and his media allies have been screaming about it ever since.
The hosts of Fox News Channel’s “The Five” see it differently and believe Pelley had it coming.
“[Pelley] throws a tantrum in public view. Then he leaks it to everyone to amplify his like appearance as some kind of hero,” said Greg Gutfeld. “He just looks like a cartoon because he is a cartoon.”
“If you look at people like Nick Shirley and Chris Rufo, Bill Melugin’s border coverage, [Michael] Shellenberger on homelessness, it reveals how far 60 Minutes has fallen,” Gutfeld continued. “They have not done any real investigative pieces, and all the mistakes they have made. You remember Leslie Stahl talking about the laptop, denying it was real, or Pelley himself blaming Biden’s infirmities on a stutter? These guys are idiots. Goodbye.”
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Co-host Jesse Watters couldn’t have agreed more.
“The guy has massive TDS, and he’s pompous,” Watters said of Pelley. “And there’s a lot of pompous people on television, but this guy– he’s more than even Greg. If your boss is new and comes in and wants to shake things up, and you have new ownership, do you secretly tape the boss and then leak it? No. I mean, he was asking to get axed, and this is the second time. He got axed from the anchor chair of the CBS Evening News. He got axed again. He’s been there for thirty-seven years. He wanted to go, and it was his time to go.
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