If you weren’t a political junkie, you could watch actress Sally Field give a 65-second speech at the end of Sunday’s 60 Minutes about the First Amendment and the “brilliance of our Constitution” and think it was like a “Bicentennial Minute” (which CBS aired in 1976).
But we can easily guess that the 60 Squad was making an anti-Trump statement. As the Daily Beast summarized: “CBS News’s flagship program broadcast a call to protect the First Amendment at a time when the Trump administration has repeatedly threatened its integrity.”
This is what CBS aired:
Sally Field's brief First Amendment commentary at the end of '60 Minutes' wouldn't be objectionable unless we read into it just how '60 Minutes' thinks their anti-Trump animus makes them somehow the country's finest embodiment of free speech, and democracy is "fragile" because of… pic.twitter.com/GdBKcXU3lv
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) May 26, 2026
FIELD: When I was in the seventh grade, I was asked to memorize something that I never forgot. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peacefully to assemble." It's the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. I barely knew what it meant at the time. I certainly didn't know the importance of it, and now almost 67 years later, I understand it like never before.
I have the right to speak out, make a sign, and peacefully join a protest without fear of punishment or retribution or worse. I have learned that this fragile thing called democracy needs to be protected, that the brilliance of our Constitution begins with the words "We the people." I believe in the resilience of our Constitution, and I believe in the goodness and strength of the people.
That’s a perfectly good moment to celebrate America at 250, but you can easily learn that Sally Field’s social media is distraught over Stephen Colbert leaving CBS. That would suggest why this is airing now. The good people are the leftists, and democracy is fragile because of the conservatives.
Field loves to protest with "Hanoi Jane" Fonda, and has said "I go where she tells me to go...I went to jail for her" after a 2017 climate-change protest. In an Instagram reel from Fonda's Committee for the First Amendment about Colbert’s CBS show ending, Field said “authoritarians need to get rid of those voices, voices of the people….This is a dark time in our country and I feel certain with all of us, standing up resisting, one day we’ll be on the other side of it….I love and adore you Stephen!"
Field is probably still angry that Trump defeated her feminist hero Hillary Clinton in 2016. Back then, she told Time “I think it’s miraculous that she is female, and it’s almost secondary to the fact that she’s way qualified, would be a brilliant President.”
When Stephen Colbert asked her if she was supporting Hillary that year, Field said, “You betcha I am. I have been for a very, very long time. I mean, I’ll go door to door. I’ll wash everybody’s car who isn’t voting for her. I don’t care what it takes.”
