Outraged critics blasted longtime “60 Minutes” anchor Scott Pelley as “angry” and “unhinged” after he delivered a fear-laced tirade in opposition to President Trump throughout a graduation speech in North Carolina.
The CBS newscaster warned Wake Forest College’s graduating class on Might 19 that “insidious fear” has infiltrated colleges, companies, and houses throughout the nation — leaving America in a state of “peril.”
“Your country needs you — the country that has given you so much is calling you, the class of 2025, your country needs you and it needs you today,” Pelley mentioned throughout his grandiose sermon-like speech.
“This morning our scared rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack, universities are under attack, freedom of speech is under attack and insidious fear is reaching throughout schools, our businesses, our homes and into our private thoughts,” he continued.
“The fear to speak in America. If our government is, in Lincoln’s phrase ‘of the people, by the people, for the people,’ then why are we afraid to speak? Ignorance works for power. Power can change the definition of the words we used to describe reality. This is an old playbook, my friends. There is nothing new in this.”
The speech, met with scattered applause through the commencement ceremony, was ridiculed on social media by these baffled by Palley’s dramatic gestures and dread-filled rhetoric through the celebratory occasion.
“Scott Pelley raged at Trump in angry, unhinged commencement address at Wake Forest…as he speaks openly and freely in America,” one person wrote on X.
“This self-important, sermonizing propagandist is what passes for a legacy media ‘journalist’.”
One other referred to as the liberal-leaning correspondents’ speech a “national disgrace.”
Juanita Broaddrick, who alleged former President Invoice Clinton raped her in 1978 when he was Arkansas lawyer common, additionally chimed in, calling Pelley “a pompous POS.”
Others ripped Pelley as a hypocrite, stating that his community is at present dealing with a $20 billion lawsuit filed by Trump over how “60 Minutes” edited a sit-down with then-Vice President and failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris final fall.
Mediation efforts to resolve the go well with started earlier this month.
“Did Scott Pelley mention that 60 Minutes edited Kamala’s campaign interview, and they helped her answer questions ???” one person mused on X.
“Unit he does that, his credibility is ZERO.”
