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Former Bush aide: Scott Pelley deserved to be fired because he was mean to me
Power’s Favorite Trick Is Calling Oversight “Bias”The SetupKarl Rove wants the argument to be about Scott Pelley’s tone and Bari Weiss’s appointment at CBS News. That is the bait. The real story is a former Bush adviser, writing from the protected distance of the Wall Street Journal, trying to recast scrutiny of power as evidence of media corruption. The source material is not about one anchor being “mean.” It is about who gets to define legitimacy after years of using institutions offensively.Who Actually Holds PowerRove is not a random aggrieved subject of journalism. He is a former top…
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