‘Ignorance!’ CBS Anchor Bombards Trump in New Clip from Viral Grad Speech You Haven’t Seen

CBS News anchor Scott Pelley bombarded President Donald Trump in a new clip from a graduation speech that went viral over the weekend, excoriating him for a laundry list of offenses and praising those who have spoken out against them.

Pelley’s network and program are the subject of a blockbuster lawsuit by Trump that has roiled the company and become a linchpin in a series of showdowns with media companies that critics say amount to an assault on free speech.

That was the backdrop and the thrust of Pelley’s speech when he delivered the commencement address for Wake Forest University’s Class of 2025 in North Carolina last week, one portion of which went viral when Trump supporters shared a clip and criticized it. That clip ripped Trump over issues of free speech and the free press:

But elsewhere in the speech, Pelley delivered an even more blistering denunciation of Trump and the “ignorance” he says fuels him.

Pelley cited the lawsuits against media outlets like CBS and ABC, the arrest of a student by masked agents, the “attacks” on universities, and Trump’s anti-DEI crusade:

Why attack universities? Why attack journalism? Because ignorance works for power.

First, make the truth seekers live in fear. Sue the journalists and their companies for nothing!

Then, send masked agents to abduct a college student who wrote an editorial in her college paper defending Palestinian rights. And send her to a prison in Louisiana charged with nothing!

Then move to destroy the law firms that stand up for the rights of others.

With that done, power can rewrite history with grotesque false narratives! They can make criminals heroes and heroes criminals.

Power can change the definition of the words we use to describe reality!

Diversity is now described as illegal. Equity is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word.

This is an old playbook, my friends. There’s nothing new in this. George Orwell, who we met on the street in London, 1949, he warned us about what he called “Newspeak.”.

He understood that ignorance works for power. But then it is ignorance, isn’t it? That you have repudiated every single day here at Wake Forest University. Who are you? I think we know.

Watch above via Wake Forest University.