CBS News/60 Minutes correspondent tested the mettle of new Wake Forest graduates at commencement on May 19. He gave a 25-minute commencement address that went on for about 25 minutes too long. The Washington Free Beacon’s Zach Kessel was in attendance and broke the story last week in “60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley Tells College Grads: ‘Freedom of Speech is Under Attack’ By Trump Administration.”
Michael Goodwin has reviewed the tape and comments in his New York Post column today:
Is this a commencement address in 2025 or the introduction to a 1950s late-night horror movie?
The theme song of “Jaws” would have made a fitting backdrop, with Trump as the frightening Great White.
Because no self-respecting graduation speech is complete without citing Abraham Lincoln, Pelley goes for the obvious, saying that “If our government is — in Lincoln’s words — ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’ — then why are we afraid to speak?”
Yet there he is, speaking!
Actual fairness doesn’t interest him or his network. The once-trusted CBS has become just another dog barking at shadows.
Worse, Pelley is a member of the “60 Minutes” team that is leading the charge downhill.
It denied the legitimacy of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop long after The Post proved it was real, and even after the FBI authenticated its damning contents.
And neither Pelley nor any of his colleagues saw the slightest hint that Joe Biden was suffering from serious cognitive decline. To admit it would have helped Trump, so they looked the other way.
You know, to save democracy.
Whole thing here.
