Jimmy Kimmel Exposes Real Reason MAGA ‘Suck-Ups’ Axed ‘60 Minutes’ Star

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Jimmy Kimmel accused CBS of firing one of their most respected journalists for standing up to his new right-leaning bosses.

Veteran reporter Scott Pelley was https://www.thedailybeast.com/tv-news-virgin-nick-bilton-49-fires-60-minutes-legend-scott-pelley-68/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tv-news-virgin-nick-bilton-49-fires-60-minutes-legend-scott-pelley-68/">fired on Tuesday after he fiercely criticized CBS’s new editor in chief, Bari Weiss.

Weiss had been hired despite having zero experience running a broadcast news network, and she has since been reshaping the network in a https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-curious-cbs-boss-bari-weiss-plots-massive-changes-to-top-program/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-curious-cbs-boss-bari-weiss-plots-massive-changes-to-top-program/">Trump-friendly direction.

“She does not love this place.

She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that,” Pelley https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-melts-down-as-60-minutes-star-scott-pelley-torches-new-boss-nick-bilton-and-cbs-boss-bari-weiss/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-melts-down-as-60-minutes-star-scott-pelley-torches-new-boss-nick-bilton-and-cbs-boss-bari-weiss/">said about Weiss in a meeting with Nick Bilton on Monday.

Bilton had just been hired as the new executive producer of 60 Minutes despite he too having https://www.thedailybeast.com/tv-news-virgins-unreal-payday-for-running-60-minutes-exposed/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tv-news-virgins-unreal-payday-for-running-60-minutes-exposed/">no prior TV experience.

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