The host of Face the Nation is facing a national firestorm.
Margaret Brennan, of CBS News, blamed the Holocaust on freedom of speech. During an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio she accused the Germans of weaponizing free speech to conduct genocide – and by extension – she’s attacked the Trump Administration’s fierce defense of free speech.
“Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide,” Rubio fired back. “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- they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews. There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany, they were a sole and only party that governed that country.”
What Ms. Brennan failed to understand is that without free speech – she would not have a job.
CBS News is not alone in its hatred of the First Amendment. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz caused a stir on the campaign trail when he said there is no guarantee to free speech or misinformation or hate speech.
The question I had for Gov. Walz is which government agency gets to decide what is hate speech or misinformation?
The controversy stems from a speech delivered by Vice President J.D. Vance at the Munich Security Summit. Vance called out countries across Europe that are cracking down on free speech.
The great irony is that just hours after Brennan attacked free speech, 60 Minutes broadcast a horrifying story of how the Germans are actually cracking down on free speech.
For well over a decade a narrative has been festering on university campuses that free speech must be curtailed.
In 2024 the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression released a report that showed most Gen-Z college students actually support crackdowns on the First Amendment. 52 percent say its acceptable to block over students from attending controversial campus speeches. 32 percent think using violence to block a campus speech is acceptable and 68 percent said shouting down a controversial speaker can be acceptable.
Steve Krakauer, the executive producer of the Megyn Kelly Show, predicted that CBS News may very well not exist by the end of the year.
“It’s hard to believe a CBS News host would frame the Holocaust as ‘free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide,’” Krakauer wrote on X. “But this is the remnant of crusty told legacy media that we’re left with in America.”
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