The anchor of CBS' "60 Minutes" made a thinly veiled attack on President Donald Trump during Wake Forest University commencement speech — and MAGA immediately went into a tailspin.
Scott Pelley didn't mention Trump by name but he did warn “freedom of speech is under attack” and that “insidious fear” is creeping into schools, the Daily Beast reported.
“To move forward, we debate, not demonize; we discuss, not destroy. But in this moment, our sacred rule of law is under attack,” Pelley said in the viral address. “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. The fear to speak, in America.”
The comments come as CBS News is being sued by Trump. The lawsuit accuses the network of editing an interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris to portray the Democrat in a more favorable light weeks before the election.
“The supposed titans of TV journalism are just sanctimonious theater majors with mid-level IQs and world-class egos,” Buck Sexton posted on X, and shared the video of the remarks.
“This self-important, sermonizing propagandist is what passes for a legacy media ‘journalist,’” the Western Lensman X account posted.
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Pro-Trump podcaster Scott Adams added: “Liberals who once controlled speech and the power to censor are now upset that a majority of Americans reject their lies and deception. 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley raged at Trump in an angry, unhinged commencement address at Wake Forest: as he speaks openly and freely in America.”
Curtis Houck, managing editor of NewsBusters, said Pelley “Delivers Hateful, Pompous Commencement Address Smearing Trump, MAGA”
“It is very sad that CBS/60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley chose one of the happiest days for graduates and their families to display his undeniable case of TDS [Trump Derangement Syndrome],” one MAGA account with more than 220,000 X followers posted. “Wake Forest University should be ashamed that it allowed this to take place.”
CBS News did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Beast.
