Scott Pelley hit a new low, bordering on stolen valor, when the disgraced ex-60 Minutes host likened himself to a war hero, saying he’s “been in combat,” despite never fighting for his country.
In a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times, his first since being fired by CBS, Pelley was asked to respond to Trump’s criticism of him after his firing.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Pelley was fired after a public meltdown, where he accused CBS’s new Editor in Chief, Bari Weiss, of “murdering 60 Minutes.”
Pelly is “terrible,” “a stiff,” and “afraid,” Trump said during an interview last week with the New York Post’s Miranda Devine.
“He’s part of this, you know, gang of crooked, stupid people that don’t care about our country,” Trump added, further slamming George Stephanopoulos for covering up Joe Biden’s mental decline.
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Pelly was aghast that Trump described him as somebody who doesn’t care about the country. “Stupid, I can, I can take that. Stiff, yeah, probably,” he told the New York Times’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro before launching into a tirade about his service to the country “in combat.”
“Don’t care about the country? I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country in Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait,” he claimed, adding that he’d “been shot at” and “spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert.”
“I’m not aware that the President of the United States has ever done any of those things for his country,” he said.
Then he started crying!
Fighting back the tears, Pelley audaciously likened himself to the American warfighters, declaring, “There is no democracy without journalism. It can’t be done, and that is why I am a journalist.”
After breaking down into tears, Pelley said, “You know, on Fox News, they’re gonna just run the parts where I’m crying and say I’m a lunatic.” Laughing, he added, “It is the era we live in.”
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Pelley: Stupid, I can, I can take that. Stiff, yeah, probably. Don’t care about the country? I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country in Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait, been shot at, spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the President of the United States has ever done any of those things for his country. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
You become a journalist because you love the First Amendment. You become a journalist because you love the country, and while all the other descriptions that the president used about me might be applicable, not that one. There is no democracy without journalism. It can’t be done, and that is why I am a journalist.
Pelly further told the New York Times during a phone interview, “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.”
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