CBS journalist Margaret Brennan got roasted on Sunday after she bizarrely claimed that free speech was somehow responsible for the Holocaust. Yes, really. The comment came during a heated exchange with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Face the Nation—and let’s just say, it did not go well for her.
The debate kicked off over Vice President JD Vance’s fiery speech at the Munich Security Conference. Vance didn’t hold back, calling out European leaders for censorship and warning that “the threat from within,” not Russia or China, posed the greatest danger to the security of the West. Naturally, this ruffled some feathers among U.S. allies.
Brennan, clearly eager to stir the pot, questioned Rubio about the speech and Vance’s reported meeting with a far-right German leader ahead of Germany’s chancellor election. Like most fake news folks, Brennan learned that Munich is in Germany, and leftist fake news people love to equate Nazi Germany with Republicans, and so when Rubio made his point about Vice President JD Vance pointing out that free speech no longer exists in many European countries, she jumped at the chance to humiliate him. But, it backfired awkwardly.
Rubio, however, was having none of it.
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“Why would our allies or anybody be irritated by free speech and by someone giving their opinion? We are, after all, democracies,” Rubio fired back. “And so, I think if anyone’s angry about his words, they don’t have to agree with him, but to be angry about it, I think actually makes his point.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELThat’s when Brennan decided to throw logic completely out the window.
“Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide, and he met with the head of a political party that has far-right views and some historic ties to extreme groups,” she said. “The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that.”
Rubio, stunned by the sheer historical inaccuracy, wasted no time shutting that down.
“No, I have — I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide,” Rubio shot 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,” he added.
Boom. Mic drop.
VP JD Vance later chimed in, likely just as baffled as the rest of us.
“This is a crazy exchange,” he tweeted. “Does the media really think the holocaust was caused by free speech?”
White House communication director Steven Cheung also took aim at Brennan, and he did not hold back.
“Margaret Brennan of CBS News is going through some bizarre episode as she makes disgusting excuses for Nazis and the Holocaust.”
Yikes.
So, to recap: Brennan tried to argue that free speech somehow enabled the Holocaust, got schooled on live TV, and then got roasted on Twitter. Maybe next time she’ll brush up on her history before making wild claims on national television.
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