CBS News fires ’60 Minutes’ blowhard Scott Pelley after he dumps on Bari Weiss

Scott Pelley, a 68-year-old liberal who claimed in a commencement speech last year that “you only lose if you quit,” has been a fixture at CBS News since 1989.

Although he was ousted as the anchor of “CBS Evening News” in 2017 — allegedly because he complained “to management about the hostile work environment,” though his ratings also stank — Pelley clung to another position at the network, working for nearly a decade as a correspondent on “60 Minutes.”

CBS News kicked Pelley to the curb for good on Tuesday — a day after the talking head reportedly volunteered a number of criticisms of the network’s choices and personnel.

‘I have been in combat.’

At a Monday staff meeting in Manhattan, Pelley hammered Nick Bilton, a newly hired executive