Some conservative members of the media have criticized “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley’s commencement speech at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

Writers and radio hosts have been saying over the past week that Pelley, who expressed concern over the Trump administration in his May 19 address, delivered pompous remarks.

He told the graduates that “insidious fear” has infiltrated schools, businesses, and homes across the nation — leaving America in a state of “peril,” according to the New York Post.

Buck Sexton, co-radio host of “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show,” captioned a clip of Pelley’s speech on social media platform X, “The supposed titans of tv journalism are just sanctimonious theater majors with mid-level IQs and world class egos.” Pelley said during the clip the rule of law and, with it, freedom of speech are under attack. He also said people in power can “rewrite” history with “grotesque, false narratives.”

Scott Adams, who hosts the “Scott Adams Show” for a conservative talk radio company, characterized Pelley as raging at President Donald Trump in an “angry, unhinged commencement address.”

“Liberals who once controlled speech and the power to censor are now upset that a majority of Americans now reject their lies and deception,” Adams wrote on X.

Some writers presented Pelley’s speech as a more truthful portrayal of the Trump administration. Marianne Williamson, a spiritual writer who has campaigned for the Democratic nomination for president, posted on Instagram Tuesday that the correspondent “tells it like it is.”

Tom Jones, a senior writer for the Poynter Institute, said in an opinion article the same day it’s hard to argue with Pelley’s points. His remarks about how people in power can “rewrite” history and “change the definition of the words we use to describe reality” are powerful and based in fact, Jones wrote.

“But that didn’t stop many conservatives from losing their minds over Pelley’s speech,” Jones added. “Some tried to argue that Pelley was complaining about free speech being under attack while freely giving a speech. Surely, though, you get Pelley’s point.”

Jones noted how Trump has sued CBS News and ABC News and blocked The Associated Press from some events. The president is also trying to cut funding to NPR, PBS and Voice of America, he said.

“On a nearly daily basis, Trump insults reporters if he doesn’t like their legitimate questions and rails against them on social media. That’s not an attack on journalism?” Jones asked.

Curtis Houck, managing editor for a conservative Media Research Center blog, said in a post that Pelley “seethed with implicit hate” for Trump and the “MAGA movement.”

“Pelley encouraged graduates to rise up, comparing them to Unionists fighting the Confederacy, the Allies fighting the Nazis, and the civil rights movement standing up to segregationists,” Houck wrote. “So, to make sure we’re all on the same page, Pelley believes Trump and tens of millions of supporters are akin to Confederates, Nazis, and segregationists (so the Ku Klux Klan).”

Pelley did not directly compare Trump and his supporters to any of those groups.

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