Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes gave a commencement speech at Wake Forest College in North Carolina this week that bashed Trump and Republicans, due to course he did.
His speech was stuffed with gloom and doom, together with traces like “in occasions like these” and “our nation is in peril.”
That is a kind of moments when a supposedly goal journalist reveals himself to be nothing greater than a liberal hack, a Democrat occasion activist, and a liar.
NewsBusters has particulars:
Final Saturday, longtime CBS Information anchor and 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley gave a graduation tackle at Wake Forest College that seethed with implicit hate for President Trump and the MAGA motion, telling graduates “freedom of speech,” “journalism,” “our sacred rule of regulation,” and “universities” are all “beneath assault” with “an insidious concern” permeating American “companies,” “houses,” “faculty[s],” and even “non-public ideas.”
Pelley inspired graduates to stand up, evaluating them to Unionists preventing the Confederacy, the Allies preventing the Nazis, and the civil rights motion standing as much as segregationists. So, to verify we’re all on the identical web page, Pelley believes Trump and tens of hundreds of thousands of supporters are akin to Confederates, Nazis, and segregationists (so the Ku Klux Klan)…
This led proper into the primary meltdown about America “want[ing] you” as a result of the nation has moved away from a mindset wherein “[r]easonable folks [can] differ in regards to the lifetime of our nation” as a substitute of “demonize” and “destroy.”
Right here’s a clip:
Pompous CBS journalist Scott Pelley closed his graduation tackle at Wake Forest by telling graduates they “are the fierce defenders of democracy, the seekers of fact,” and “the vanguard towards ignorance” that’s taken over the nation (i.e. Trump).
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— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 23, 2025
Hold this behind your thoughts of anybody ever means that Pelley ought to average a political debate any time sooner or later. He has made his positions fairly clear.
