How many people can walk into their workplace, defecate on the new management, insult their new direct supervisor, and get immediately fired for cause right before getting a glowing sendoff on the way out? Well, there’s Scott Pelley, apparently, given the sendoff he just got from the CBS Evening News.
The Evening News ran an extended A-block in order to give Pompous Pelley a five-minute sendoff. The sendoff was bifurcated into two segments, the first being a process piece on the runup to Pelley’s firing and aftermath, which was handled by national correspondent Jim Axelrod (click “expand” to view transcript).
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