The Velvet Megaphone: Scott Pelley’s war on speech (yours, not his)

The Velvet Megaphone: Scott Pelley’s war on speech (yours, not his): It takes a special kind of person to be handed a velvet-covered megaphone — and then whine that no one’s letting him speak.

Enter Scott Pelley. CBS’s veteran chin-scratcher, master of the furrowed brow, and lead correspondent of 60 Minutes, which is less journalism these days and more an extended segment of “This Is Why You’re Wrong, Middle America.”