The Watchdog with David Bozell

Scott Pelley didn’t just lose his job; he lost the plot.

In a slow-pitch softball New York Times interview, the fired 60 Minutes anchor played the baffled martyr, pretending he had no idea why anyone thinks the show has lost the country’s trust. Pelley recounted how CBS editor‑in‑chief Bari Weiss met with the 60 Minutes staff and asked a direct question: “Why does the country think you’re biased?”

Pelley wasn’t in the room, but he told The Times that when he heard that, he thought: “Why do you think so? Is there market research, because we certainly did not believe that.”

That line is the whole story. Pelley and the crew don’t think they’re biased because they believe their worldview is the default setting. Left‑wing assumptions aren’t “opinions” to them; they’re “objectivity.” Anyone who disagrees is an outlier or right-wing fanatic.

As I told Fox News, Americans have spent years watching 60 Minutes run “one set of rules for Democrats and another for Republicans.”

So let’s answer Pelley’s question. Let’s give him the “market research.”

At MRC, we’ve archived over a million hours of TV news and programming since 1987. We deal in receipts, and here are just a few from our “Worst of CBS’s 60 Minutes” report: 

• Rathergate, where CBS used forged documents to attack George W. Bush.
• Lesley Stahl dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop story and editing out Trump’s responses.
• Cleaning up Kamala Harris’s gaffes before the 2024 election.
• Scott Pelley suggesting it was “too soon to tell” whether Donald Trump was “in defiance of the Constitution.”
• Pelley telling Biden that “hard‑right Republicans” were endangering the world by delaying the Speaker vote.

These examples aren’t bloopers requiring retractions. They’re purposeful editorial choices by 60 Minutes to advance a narrative. And Pelley’s shock that anyone notices is laughable. 

And these five are just the start. We have plenty more. Thanks to your trust, we can keep documenting the rest — every clip, every segment, every time 60 Minutes tries to pass partisan spin as journalism.

​​​​​​​Take it easy, 

David Bozell
President