
By Katie Jerkovich. Media: Redstate
Conservative commentators blasted CBS’s Scott Pelley for his baseless anti-President Donald Trump commencement speech, falsely claiming that journalism and the “rule of law” were under attack.
A video surfaced on X over the weekend of the “60 Minutes” anchor’s May 19 speech to the graduating class of 2025 at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, in which he makes a series of insane claims about the state of America now under Trump. During Pelley’s entire rant, he avoids actually naming the president.
“But in this moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack,” Pelley said with no example as to what he was talking about. “Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack.”
“And insidious fear is reaching through our schools,” he added, again with no exact reference to what he was talking about. “Our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts. The fear to speak in America!”
At one point, he even referenced, among other things, Trump’s crackdown on the insanity of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) efforts in schools, businesses, and government.
“Power can rewrite history with grotesque false narratives,” the CBS anchor said. “They can make criminals heroes and heroes criminals. Power can change the definition of the words we use to describe reality.”
“Diversity is now described as illegal,” he added. “Equity is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word. This is an old playbook, my friends. There’s nothing new in this.”
Townhall Media’s Guy Benson brutally took down Pelley, pointing out the news department’s absolute hypocrisy in proudly reporting on the crackdown on free speech in Germany.
“60 Minutes recently ran a lengthy report gushing over Germany’s anti-free speech policies, in which prosecutors laughed about confiscating phones and levying fines over bad thoughts,” Benson’s post read. “The lengthy report featured ZERO dissenting voices. Not even one quote against censorship.”
Understand, this was not an adversarial interview where “60 Minutes” pushed back on such illiberal tripe. It was a promotional video. What exactly is “online violence,” which the interviewer mentions in her question? How does a supposed news outlet let that descriptor be used without defining it? And while Ballon’s next comment isn’t the irony overload I was citing above (we’ll get there), it certainly qualifies for the list.
I wonder why half of Germans might be scared to post their political opinions online. What could possibly cause so many people to live in fear of what they say? Could it be because Germany throws people in jail for speech its officials deem to be “disinformation?”
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham took to X and wrote that “Scott Pelley has always been a supercilious specimenāperpetual nose-in-air syndrome with the ‘listen, I’m the anchorman’ voice. These guys pretending to be persecuted when they literally don’t care that China is the real force of global dominationālaughable.”
While a third person wrote, “BS/60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley raged at Trump in angry, unhinged commencement address at Wake Forest ⦠As he speaks openly and freely in America. This self-important, sermonizing propagandist is what passes for a legacy media “journalist.”
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