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Crazy exchange! CBS’ anchor unbelievably claims free speech caused the Holocaust

February 17, 2025 | | Print Article

CBS News’ Margaret Brennan gave the public another reason not to care what she has to say with an unreal claim about free speech and the Holocaust.

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Instead of shifting gears to earnest reporting after failing to see then-Vice President Kamala Harris victorious in the 2024 presidential election, many in corporate media have continued business as usual. After a combative interview with Vice President J.D. Vance led to the coining of the phrase “I don’t really care, Margaret,” Brennan took new heat for contending “weaponized” free speech was behind the atrocities of Nazi Germany.

Joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio on “Face the Nation,” the host turned to Vance’s recent speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, in addition to his meeting with Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party co-leader Alice Weidel, where he chided European leaders for purposeful censorship of their citizens.

“Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide,” argued Brennan after the secretary initially rebuffed her position. “And he met with the head of a political party that has far-right views and some historic ties to extreme groups. The context of that was changing the tone of it.”

“And you know that, that the censorship-” she tried to continue before Rubio cut her off to slap down the claim, “I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide.”

“The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews, and they hated minorities and they hated those that — they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews,” he added. “There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were the sole and only party that governed that country, so that’s not an accurate reflection of history.”

During the speech in Munich, Vance continued President Donald Trump’s renewal of American dominance on the world stage as he expressed, “For years, we’ve been told that everything we fund and support is in the name of our shared democratic values.”

“Everything from Ukraine policy, to digital censorship is built as a defense of democracy,” the vice president continued. “But when we see European courts canceling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others, we ought to ask ourselves whether we are holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard. And I say ourselves because I fundamentally believe we are on the same team. We must do more than talk about democratic values, we must live them.”

Vance specifically cited an example from the United Kingdom where 51-year-old Adam Smith-Connor was charged for silently praying near an abortion clinic before faulting the U.S. government for previously working with social media companies to censor and suppress so-called “misinformation” about COVID.

While Brennan ended the interview with Rubio stating they had run out of time, pushback on the journalist seemingly demonizing free speech continued on social media, including Vance himself who remarked, “This is a crazy exchange. Does the media really think the holocaust was caused by free speech?”

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