‘You're Wrong' With Mollie Hemingway And David Harsanyi, Ep. 202: Scott Pelley

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🗓️ 3 June 2026

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Join Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Washington Examiner Senior Writer David Harsanyi as they discuss CBS's firing of 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, compare and contrast Democrats' and corporate media's treatment of Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton versus Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, and examine the coordinated efforts to attack conservative members of the Supreme Court. Mollie and David also review season two of The Four Seasons, and Mollie shares about her latest visit to the Museum of the Bible.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of You're Wrong with Molly Hemingway, editor
0:19.4	and chief of the Federalist and David Harsani, senior writer at the Washington Examiner. Just as a reminder, if you'd like to email the show, please do so at Radio at theFederalist.com. We'd love to hear from you. So, Molly, are you as broken up as I am about Scott Pelly of 60 Minutes being fired. I don't know what I'm going to do.
0:38.8	What am I going to do next week?
0:40.5	For listeners, I think we should explain who Scott Pelly is
0:43.9	because I'm not entirely sure he's as much of a household name as he seems to believe
0:48.9	he is.
0:49.9	He worked at 60 minutes.
0:53.5	Is that correct?
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:55.8	Actually, I think he was an anchor a while back for CBS News, but was kind of fired, as my understanding is.
1:02.5	And then he became a 60 Minutes correspondent.
1:06.8	He's a, I think he's older, right?
1:08.9	He may even be 70 or something like that.
1:10.9	I'm not sure.
1:11.4	I actually don't know.
1:12.9	I do want to talk about how he handled his departure,
1:16.5	but I first want to say that it absolutely cracks me up how in this country,
1:22.2	every day many people get fired.
1:25.9	I myself have been fired.
1:30.2	I'm not saying it's an enjoyable experience, but it has happened. And nothing like makes you realize how self-absorbed corporate media are
1:41.4	as the news they devote to the firing of one unimportant individual.
1:47.5	He wasn't unimportant. He was one of their chief propagandists. And CBS News's 60 Minutes program
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