’60 Minutes’ Anchor Ruins Graduation With Deranged Anti-Trump Tirade

The last cable news holdovers have an excuse for their growing irrelevancy: It’s everybody else’s fault. But mostly Trump’s. 

“Our sacred rule of law is under attack,” “60 Minutes” anchor Scott Pelley told Wake Forest University’s class of 2025 in a commencement speech. “Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack. And insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts.”

Pelley is right on one count. Freedom of thought is the fundamental freedom. But it’s the left that has spent decades eroding that freedom. Their obsession with “isms” goes beyond controlling what you’re allowed to say or do (or who you have to bake a cake for). It’s an obsession with making sure you think along the right (HR approved) lines. 

Pelley continued to rage against the Trump administration as faculty and students looked on, seemingly mystified. 

“Why attack universities? Why attack journalism? Because ignorance works for power. First, make sure the truth seekers live in fear,” he added. 

Pelley identifying as a “truth-seeker” is about as plausible as a man identifying as a woman. CBS News, which produces “60 minutes,” is currently facing a $20 billion lawsuit from Trump. The lawsuit alleges the network deceptively edited a “60 Minutes” interview with then Vice President Kamala Harris to “tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party.”

“Power can rewrite history with grotesque false narratives. 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. Equity is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word.” 

The left would now like us to believe they’re attached to some sort of fundamental principles. This is untrue. They are in the business of power. They need it to prop up otherwise ridiculous claims. Unfortunately for him, Pelley isn’t adroit enough to disguise his own hypocrisy. Turning criminals into civic heroes is the left’s favorite pastime. Every year, leftists celebrate the anniversary of George Floyd, a convicted criminal and fentanyl user. Recently, Democrats latched on to Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gangbanger accused (by his wife) of beating his wife. What’s more, the left is constantly engaged in rhetorical warfare. Mutilation of healthy body parts is now “gender affirming care.” Killing a child in the womb is “choice.” You get the picture. (RELATED: Liberals’ ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful’ Revolution Dead On Arrival)

His description of diversity, equity, and inclusion makes even less sense. No one is quibbling over the definition of diversity. It’s a synonym for heterogeneity. What is up for debate is whether diversity is good, in and of itself. It’s not. Nor is equity. Nor is inclusion for its own sake. The primary end of higher education, for instance, should be to cultivate the mind. So-called “sexual diversity” is not an obvious aid to that goal. 

Pelley digressed from raving against Trump to share a personal story. “In the 1980s, I was rejected by CBS News over and over and over again, over years. They told me at one point, ‘Please stop applying.’ They did. And at the time, I thought, ‘What’s wrong with these people?’ They couldn’t hear the song in my heart.”

One wonders what song is playing in Pelley’s heart. One is grateful they cannot hear it either.

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