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As CBS mourned the loss of veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon after he was killed in a car accident on Wednesday, Thursday's CBS This Morning invited CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley to share his thoughts on the late journalist. While eulogizing his longtime friend and colleague, Pelley took an odd turn when he praised Simon's advocacy, not objectivity: "Bob had a sharp intolerance for injustice and he had equal-opportunity rage for every injustice committed in every corner of this Earth."
As evidence of that "rage," Pelley recalled one particular interview Simon conducted: "I'll never forget an interview he did with an Israeli general, for example. He looked up at the general and he said, 'You're one of the greatest generals Israel has ever produced,' and the man smiled and nodded, and Bob said, 'So why are you killing children?'"