Beth Brelje writes for the Federalist about an eye-opening spring commencement address in North Carolina.
Like a freshly dropped pile of doggy dung, it was hot and steamy at the Wake Forest University commencement in Winston-Salem, where students melting in caps and gowns fanned themselves throughout the blathering speech of 60 Minutes propagandist Scott Pelley.
While the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is investigating 60 Minutes and President Donald Trump has sued the program for allegedly deceptively editing an interview with failed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Pelley unashamedly holds himself out as an expert on the truth. (Pelley’s 2024 interview with Moms for Liberty founders was a similar exercise in editorial distortion that reshaped the original interview and promoted a leftist political narrative that parents who don’t want school libraries to provide sexually explicit books want a full-on “book ban.”)
Pelley offered these poor graduates a dire picture of the world, calling this a “moment of crisis,” and comparing this time to World War II. He spoke of George Orwell fighting fascism and said that right now “our country is in peril.”
It would be scary to graduate into Pelley’s version of the world. Fortunately, his take was as honest as a 60 Minutes segment.
“The Wake Forest Class of 1861 — they did not choose their time of calling. The Class of 1941 did not choose. The Class of 1968 did not choose. History chose them. And now history is calling you, the Class of 2025,” Pelley said, referencing classes that graduated amid the Civil War, World War II, and the civil rights riots.
Who knows what calamity Pelley is forecasting? Democrats’ losses in future elections? Trump creates chaos in the White House?
“Your country needs you,” Pelley implored. “The country that has given you so much is calling you, the Class of 2025. Your country needs you, and it needs you today.”
But the country does not need more propagandists like Pelley, who earlier this month hosted an unbalanced 60 Minutes segment featuring Marc Elias playing the part of a credible source.
