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Scott Pelley got himself fired to set up his next career move

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Rachel Maddow joined the rally-round-Scott Pelley brigade Thursday night — a cavalcade of lefty support that shows why he felt the need to make CBS fire him.

Jimmy Kimmel, Margaret Sullivan, Robert Reich, Ben Rhodes, Jim Acosta, Tommy Vietor and many more damned the network and praised Pelley — because they all recognize him as a “newsman” sure to spin everything against Republicans and conservatives.

That’s MSNOW’s reason for existence: No wonder Maddow actually offered Pelley a job. 

Landing a new gig was plainly his plan when he engineered his own firing by calling his........

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