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In a recent episode of the Freedom Center’s podcast The Right Take with Mark Tapson, journalist Michael Walsh declared unequivocally that journalism is dead. Certainly legacy journalism is, and definitive evidence of that came this last Sunday on Face the Nation when CBS news anchor Margaret Brennan boldly declared that freedom of speech had been “weaponized” under Adolph Hitler to enable the Holocaust.
This came in the wake of Vice President JD Vance’s epic, very presidential speech at the Munich Security Conference last Friday in which he warned the assembly of European diplomats against abandoning our shared democratic values, including suppressing freedom of speech by tightening a vise of systemic censorship on citizens for expressing politically incorrect views.
On Face the Nation, guest Marco Rubio, our newly installed Secretary of State, was in the process of defending Vance’s remarks about declining freedom of speech among our European allies when Brennan interrupted Rubio with the eye-opening claim that Vance had been “standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defends @JDVance‘s “historic” speech last week in Munich, leaves ABC’s Margaret Brennan speechless after she tries to claim that free speech was “weaponized” by the Nazis. Incredible exchange: 👇 pic.twitter.com/GYLZfopVwP
— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) February 16, 2025
Did you catch that? A top news personality at one of the Big Three TV networks made the outrageously idiotic (or intentionally misleading – take your pick) assertion that free speech under the Nazi regime enabled the Holocaust.
Brennan went on to criticize Vance for meeting with Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, which she claims has “far right views.” Of course, everyone knows by now that the legacy media use the nebulous smear “far right” to describe anyone more conservative than Chairman Mao. Vance also met with leaders of other major German political parties, by the way, but Brennan wants you to believe that Vance is a Nazi, even though the Nazis – the National Socialists – were not “far right.”
Rubio admirably shot back, more politely than her historical revisionism deserved:
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…
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, and so that’s not an accurate reflection of history.
Rubio finished by defending Vance’s point about the “erosion in free speech and intolerance for opposing points of view” in Europe. When he was done, Brennan ended the segment without further comment, stating only “I’m being told that we are out of time.” Maybe it gradually dawned on someone in the CBS control room that Brennan would only further humiliate herself and the network by continuing.
Social media roasted Brennan. Commentator Jim Hanson tweeted, “Marco Rubio rightly calls her out on one of the most deranged analogies ever.” White House communication director Steven Cheung wrote, “Margaret Brennan of CBS News is going through some bizarre episode as she makes disgusting excuses for Nazis and the Holocaust.” Vance himself weighed in, calling it “a crazy exchange.”
As Jonathan Turley, author of The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in the Age of Rage, explained at The New York Post,
One of the first things that the Nazis did in coming to power in 1933 was to crack down on free speech and criminalize dissent. Censorship is the harbinger of authoritarianism and Germany is the ultimate example of how no censorship system in history has ever succeeded in killing one idea or stopping a single movement.
Brennan could not have picked a better country to utterly destroy the point that she was trying to make in favor of limits on free speech.
In the country which Margaret Brennan claimed conducted a genocide by “weaponizing” free speech, a poll found that only 18% of German citizens feel free to express their opinions in public; only 17% felt free to express themselves on the internet. In Germany, public insults are considered a crime. Check out the video below in which German prosecutors laugh as they confirm for 60 Minutes, another CBS propaganda outlet, that it is a crime to insult people online or to repost a lie on social media. 60 Minutes then joins German police as six armed officers raid a man’s home and remove his electronic devices for sharing a “racist” cartoon online:
German prosecutors explain to American viewers on 60 Minutes all the various ways the country criminalizes speech, such as online insults, holocaust denial and reposting fake news. pic.twitter.com/ESc1zvivX1
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 17, 2025
🚨60 minutes with German police arresting a man over a ‘racist’ cartoon meme he posted online. Over 50 similar raids played out at the same time.
It is a crime to insult someone online in Germany. H*tler didn’t allow free speech either. Germany is on a dark path.
Meanwhile… pic.twitter.com/FaH4rPUjCf
— LionHearted (@LionHearted76) February 17, 2025
Meanwhile in the UK, citizens are routinely harassed, if not arrested, by police for social media posts deemed insulting to the protected victim classes, primarily Muslims, or for praying silently in the vicinity of an abortion clinic. Under multiculturalist elites like Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the UK is now on the verge of adopting blasphemy laws to protect Islam from criticism.
The propagandists of the legacy media, and the globalist elites that they prop up everywhere throughout the Western world, view freedom of speech as a threat to democracy – by which they mean one-party political hegemony – and therefore it must be tightly circumscribed by state power. This is why conventional journalism is dead and why JD Vance’s challenge to the increasingly totalitarian European nations we call our allies was so courageous and vital.
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Margaret Brennan is the imbecile within. Her term weaponized free speech is a buzz phrase opposed to free speech. Her analysis of the Third Reich that posits free speech as a factor in the Holocaust is so opposite to reality that she needs analysis, along with her employer.
See B.S. who has fake news programs like 60 Minutes and Sunday Morning now claims Freedom of Speech enabled the Nazis to send Jews to Concentration Camps?! Just how stupid is See B.S. and the Lying Eye
It all comes down to Voter Fraud imho .
Just because we Jews use our freedom of speech to denounce Al Sharpton, Loiis Farrakhan, W.E.B. Du Bois, Adolph Hitler, the grandparents of the current EU leadership, and other similar niggers, does NOT mean we are responsible for The Holocaust‼️
What you wrote is true but when you write “niggers,” you open up FPM to phony accusations of racism and non-existent “white supremacy.”
Jimmy Carter was white, as was his brother, sister, and mother.
I wish I had influence over the language.
I believe that the few who read me know that I don’t believe that Condi Rice and Susan Rice are soul sisters, and that it is easy to tell the two apart.
It’s the word which all “woke” lefties and most blacks go berserk over, not who it’s applied to.
Like I wrote, you’re right but nobody on the left wants to hear the truth and they’ve been trying to “cancel” this website for a long time. Now that Trump is President they’re shit out of luck but they still cause harm.
Given their fondness for Jew hating campus “activists” and politicians like Rashida Tlaib, to say nothing of their bias toward Hamas, Fatah and Hezbollah, how can CBS maintain the pretense that it thinks the Holocaust was a bad thing, much less the absurdity the “free speech caused the Holocaust”. CBS showed its utter lack of sensitivity toward the Holocaust and Holocaust survivors 45 years by casting hideous Jew hating totalitarian Vanessa Redgrave as Fania Fenelon in “Playing For Time”
I remember that. It angered me up then, and it still angers me to think about it.
I was and remains so angry at Vanessa Redgrave, I prayed her daughter would speed quickly into Hell when she died of head injuries.
I still smile when I think about her daughter died suddenly and young. 🤕 . • °°
The casting was suggested by self hating Jew Arthur Miller, who felt his experiences before HUAC in the 1950s (testifying before Congress and arriving in a convertible with Marilyn Monroe in tow) were analogous to a Jew arriving at Auschwitz.
Talk about scripts that write themselves. Someone should request an AI program’s appraisal of the farce–it might be interesting. Or it might blow some super circuits.
Just because we Jews use our freedom of speech to denounce Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, W.E.B. Du Bois, Adolph Hitler, the grandparents of the current EU leadership, and other, similar n°__ers, does NOT mean we are responsible for The Holocaust‼️
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Does that ( forced ) self-censorship make that post suitable for publication❓
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germany hasnt veered of the hitler path since they lost the 2nd world war . the ruse has finally come to light . jew and christian hatred and muslim loving elites will eventually give an account of their treason . nothing in germany has changed . a leopard never changes its spots . whatever happens to germans and their ilk is never as much as they deserve . too many nazis escaped justice with the help of the catholic church and european nazi sympathisers .
Mengele got a passport from West Germany for a visit under his real name when he was hiding out in Argentina.
So according to See B.S. our Constitution is the Blame for the Holocaust? So just where did they come up with this Bean Brain on Deface the Nation? We do know that 60 Minutes and Sunday Morning(Both See B.S. Programs along with Eye on America are all Fake News Programs and Leftists Propaganda
lol, “Bean Brain”. That’s a good one 🙂
The legacy media is funded by leftist elites and Saudi princes. Nuff said.
And were also funded by $70 billion deep-state slush fund, deceptively titled USAID.
I took impish satisfaction watching the title removed from that stone building.
(The S.S. is so regretting that their attempt in Butler, PA didn’t end Trump. Instead it emboldened his resolve even further.)
The New York Slimes as well
And Politico and many other left-wing Dirtbagocrat propaganda outlets.
Yeah, I can’t even figure out what she was talking about. There was no free speech in Germany at that time.
None of us are surprised. Margaret Brennan is the same dumb bitch who tried to fake check J D Vance during the last vice presidential debate, after all, and then talked over him. She did her best to promote that whack-job liar, Tim Awalz, and failed miserably. He’s probably out chasing parked cars with MAGA bumper stickers nowadays. Enjoy that Arctic Minnesota weather, Timbecile. We all hope your peanuts freeze off. Brennan is a typical troll for the unwatched Mini True Media. Face the Nation? 60 Minutes? Who watches network TV in 2025, much less its fake news programs on the forgotten 3 alphabet channels? Only America last retards and old people or other couch potatoes too lazy to get off their sofas and too dumb to want to, so far as I can tell.
If anybody has her personality written all over her pinched face, it’s Butt-Ugly Brennan. Maybe she’s related to that other lying sack of shit, John Brennan? They’re definitely related in their deceit and hatred of America. She might as well have “dumb bitch” tattooed on her forehead.
America is so sick of you “people,” Margaret Brennan. Trump and America won. You trolls lost, despite your mass Dirtbagocrat vote cheating. America hates you.
The video depicting the raid and the mention of over 50 similar raids reminded me of the Night of the Long Knives in 1934, when Hitler eliminated his SA and political opposition.
If they are cracking down on free speech in Germany and England, which they obviously are, how long before the Leftists try it again in this country. We were going down that road beginning with Blackrak Obama. Thank God Musk bought Twitter.
In the meantime, don’t ever give up your guns. England and the E.U. nations already made that mistake. All that remains are a few rusty WWII Enfield and Mauser rifles squirreled away. The people are defenseless and now they are overrun with Muslims. That is why they are in the mess they are in.
And Margaret Brennan is dumber than a box of rocks.
Also consider the visceral reaction among leftists as Elon Musk bought Twitter.
What alarmed the pricks was they had tight control over right-wingers on the biggest media platform there is.
Elon ended that, allowing us MAGA scumbags to run our yaps again.
Proud to be a MAGA scumbag!
That is a wretched insult to rocks!
If I’m not mistaken there was no freedom of speech in the Weimar Republic either.
Well, you’re not mistaken. The Weimar government shut down 100’s of pro-NAZI newspapers in Germany and Prussia. Also, Hitler was barred from attending any NAZI meetings or rallies in the 1920’s.
Weimar shut down All Quite On the Western From, because Natzis were rioting when ever theaters showed it. That only made things worse.
Meetings and rallies? Otherwise known as brawls in beer halls? As much as I hate the memory of Shitler and the content of his politics, I like the debate tactics he used. We should be beating lefty D-Bags and their jihadis allies in the streets. Too bad we don’t.
Weimar republic? Is that the regime ruling Canada nowadays, eh?
That was the German government before Hitler (I was reading about it last week). Anyway it was kept afloat by foreign loans. Fascinating economics study. Fascinating political study. Hardcore politics in Germany. An individual who’s political views were known was in physical danger from the other side.
I know, big guy. I was just joking because Canada’s government is becoming more and more like the UK’s and Germany’s every day, and both of those governments pattern themselves after the Weimar Republic. Pretty soon they may all pattern themselves after the Third Reich.
The current hive mentality in the legacy media is “free speech is hate speech” and dutifully make fools of themselves attempting to prove it.
This same hive mentality infected these credentialed imbeciles when they kept defending Ray Epps. They knew he was a provocateur, and as such, deviated from the DNC dictat that all Jan 6th patriots were “evil insurrectionists!” . . . but not Epps, because he’s on our side.
The MSM also took their cues from the DNC deep-state, and immediately lost interest in the Jan 6th “bomber”.
Kamala, having been near the “bomb”, never uttered a single word about her near death experience.
Why?
She knew to keep her mouth shut, lest we find out Jan 6th was like Butler – a set up.
If Scholtz, Merkel et al. want to know why there is an AfD they should look in the mirror. Maybe Germans have finally had enough of stabbings, gang rapes and murders committed by all those poor, young male “refugees.”
From what institution of misinformation did Brennan “Granulate” from and who was the pedant who fed her this load of bovine excrement?
“The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities…”
Anyone, especially from a Jewish heritage, care to ask why the hatred? Its the same question nobody ever asks on either side about bigotry in general, against any race or religion. Of course hate is the wrong response to a problem, but it doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
Even though hate is “the wrong response to a problem “ you maintain that everyone, Jews in particular,
should ask why they are hated as it (hate) doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Have I got that right?
Harry: Slime,
no, Jew hatred doesn’t generate in a vacuum. It generates in islamic and left-wing incubators, just like TDS. And it’s just as diseased and mindless.
Have a shitty day.
You know of course, about Harry Lime being a character in “The Third Man” by Graham Greene, excellent book, excellent movie. I like films showing that period.
Yes, Graham Greene was a good writer even though he used to be a commie. I read some of his short stories but I haven’t read any of his novels yet. The list of authors and books I want to read is very long but time is short. Not because I’m dying but you know how chicks take up too much of our time. The world revolves around them, you know.
I like the actor Graham Greene, too. 🙂
I feel like I am in some kind of time-warp, where good is evil, and evil is good. My first thought was that she simply had it backwards. Who would agree that the Nazi’s used free speech to enable the Holocaust? The Nazi’s eradicated free speech in order to murder millions of people. Rubio didn’t miss a beat and corrected her. Then she doubled down on her statement. It is apparent that the left is so desperate that they blindly and illogically attack anyone associated with Trump. Her logic was obscured by her TDS. It seems like liberals have a malfunction in their cognitive capabilities. Their frontal lobe must continually malfunction because their emotions override any hope they have hope for sanity.
What we are observing is that the adults have entered the room, and the disobedient children are scrambling.
Yeah, Rubio knows his history. I was impressed by that.
Isn’t an anchor something that drags through the muck and slime until it catches on to something?
Unfortunately, this historically ignorant, activist “Anchor” will be smugly sitting in her usual seat next Sunday to spout more inanities. I highly recommend turning off the TV and spending some quality time with the family.
Taking a dump would be quality time compared to being subjected to the stupid lies of that nasty skank, Margaret Brennan.
It’s not the “far right” that does unspeakable violence to others, it is the “far left”, such as todays socialist Marxist progressive democrats with their antifa minions, KKK and Nazi followers.
Yes and there’s no such thing as a “far right.” That presumes the existence of people with the polar opposite beliefs and agendas of the very real and often organized far left. That’s a left-wing fantasy, just like their warped ideology.
Over in that land from which our founders freed us in the 18th Century, practitioners of Ms. Brennan’s occupation are called “news readers.” One suspects that she fits that description, because she is clearly not up to understanding the nonsense she spouted, and must have been reading from a script. She sounded like the narrators on the History Channel, saying without reservation the most fatuous lies.
Perhaps the author of her screed believes that the National Socialist Party was “right wing” and thus aligned with the putative aims of American Constitutional conservatives who rode a wave of popular disgust with Leviathan in DC to electoral victory last November.
This very same radical twisted Margaret Brennan, a true bigot Israelophobe, has suggested another historical and factual error on 10.15.23. Reacting to DeSantis who said, “palestinians” are antisemites, Brennan, on her Sunday talk show ‘Face the Nation’ – argued: “I’m sure you know all Arabs are Semites.”
Does Brennan not know that Arab leadership of “palestine” hooked up with Hitler?
She aught to kmow, that Arab press in “palestine” [Falastin, ad Difa’a, etc., except in WW2 years, when the British censored, controlled it] was admiring Hitler and justified his hate;
that ‘Mein Kampf’ was a best seller among palestine-Arabs in 1937…and as is right now too.
Was Emil Ghuri not a semite when he wrote on his ‘Arab Federation’ on July 7, 1934: “Hitler, whom the Arabs admire very much”?
Or PLO’s first leader Ahmad Shukeiri when he wrote in 1969 that they prayed, cheered for Hitler?
Or PLO’s Farouk Qaddoumi on Dec. 7, 2013, admitting – “palestinians” supported Nazis, for both were against Zionists?
She aught to kmow, that it was explained by a very popular magazine, ‘Pathfinder’ – on March 16, 1940: “Palestine Arabs admire Hitler for his Jew-baiting”;
that the ‘New York Times’ reported on May 23, 1937 that all Arabs in “palestine” celebreated Muhammad’s birthday with: “Hitler and Duce Cheered”;
that journalist John Gunther in 1939 [‘Inside Asia’] wrote: “The greatest contemporary Arab hero is — Adolf Hitler”;
that 88% of Arabs in “palestine” polled by Sari Sakakini in Feb 1941 were pro Nazis;
the atrocious June-1941 Farhud Arab-Nazi pogrom in Iraq by ‘semitic’ Arabs – incited by Arab “palestinian” leadership and teachers;
that 93% polled “palestinians” in 2014 showed to be antisemitic..