On May 19, 60 Minutes’s Scott Pelley went to Wake Forest University to give what was advertised as a commencement speech but in reality was a partisan diatribe warning that President Trump is a threat to all things good and decent. While Pelley urged the graduates to resist Trump, on Friday, colleague John Dickerson urged “all of us” to pay attention to Pelley’s words on CBS Evening News Plus.
Dickerson, who styles himself as a straight newsman, was playing clips from various commencement speeches across the country when he arrived at Pelley, who “spoke to Wake Forest about the urgency of history’s call.”
In the clip, Pelley was shown declaring, “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…
