Journalist Scott Pelley of CBS’s “Sixty Minutes”, has many years of reputable work at that news source. He gave a scathing commencement speech at Wake Forest University in North Carolina a week ago, against the authoritarian ideology of Donald Trump, which has provoked wild, vehement accusations from Fox News Channel and its disgraceful talk show hosts.
Pelley, rightfully, warned of the threat to freedom of speech and press represented by the Trump Administration’s attack on journalism, higher education, and law firms.
He also condemned the arrest of foreign students on visas for their use of their right of freedom of speech to criticize the Israel-Gaza War, as well as the attacks on voting rights being perpetrated by the federal government under Donald Trump.
Pelley condemned the fear being promoted by Trump loyalists who are working to undermine the Bill of Rights, and his rhetoric was uncompromising, setting an example for Americans who are terrified at the authoritarian bent of Trump and his supporters.
Pelley has been attacked as being “unhinged”, another of a multitude of examples of “projection”, accusing critics of Trump of what Trump and his supporters do regularly, speak and act in an “unhinged” manner.
Pelley is doing a great service in using his reputation to promote opposition to the dangerous trend that is running amuck around Trump, the movement toward authoritarian Fascism.
If Americans lose the First Amendment, then democracy and the rule of law is lost long term.
Trump administration emerges as a staunch defender of Germany’s far-right AfD
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-administration-german-politics-defense-afd-rcna209177
Trump nominates one of his former personal attorneys for prestigious federal appeals court seat.
https://cnn.com/2025/05/28/politics/emil-bove-trump-nomination
The Senate absolutely SHOULD reject this nomination – but it won’t.
More Trump insanity!
Trump will ‘take a look’ at pardoning convicted Whitmer kidnap plotters, he says.
https://eu.freep.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/28/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trump/83901717007/
Inside Trump’s push against school desegregation plans.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/29/trump-school-desegregation-orders
Paramount Has Offered $15 Million to Settle CBS Lawsuit. Trump Wants More.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramount-has-offered-15-million-to-settle-cbs-lawsuit-trump-wants-more-861d857e?st=bKShvL
Paramount should, in fact, offer ZERO, because CBS News did nothing wrong in this case.
Fox attacks Scott Pelley for accurately describing Trump’s war on the press.
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-attacks-scott-pelley-accurately-describing-trumps-war-press
Jake Tapper Tapped Out: Anti-Biden Book First Week Sales A Bust After Non Stop CNN Shilling
https://www.showbiz411.com/2025/05/29/jake-tapper-tapped-out-anti-biden-book-first-week-sales-a-bust-after-non-stop-cnn-shilling
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson represent everything wrong with journalism. NOBODY should buy their book, read their book, promote their book, etc.
Speaking of authoritarianism…
Poland’s Election Just Sent an Ominous Signal to the World
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/opinion/poland-election-nawrocki.html