“I have to disagree with you.”
Over the weekend, CBS host of Face The Nation Margaret Brennan made the audacious (and false) claim that the Nazis weaponized free speech, which ultimately lead to the Holocaust.
Brennan made the comment while interviewing Secretary of State Marco Rubio and discussing Vice President JD Vance’s criticism of America’s European allies for adopting a “soviet”-style approach to censorship.
Brennan implied that free speech likely led to the Holocaust.
“Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide,” Brennan replied. “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.”
“Well, I have to disagree with you. No- I have- I have to disagree with you,” Rubio said as the pair talked over one another. “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 had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews.”
Users on X unloaded on Brennan for her ridiculous claim.
“Wow. Margaret Brennan ACTUALLY claims that the Holocaust happened because ‘free speech was weaponized’ in Nazi Germany. She’s incredibly dumb, a blatant Democrat propagandist or both. Doesn’t really matter which it is, @CBSNews should fire her over this,” conservative activist Robby Starbuck remarked.
Watch the clip below:
Wow. Margaret Brennan ACTUALLY claims that the Holocaust happened because “free speech was weaponized” in Nazi Germany.
She’s incredibly dumb, a blatant Democrat propagandist or both. Doesn’t really matter which it is, @CBSNews should fire her over this. pic.twitter.com/O5qz6TRX8x
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 16, 2025
Radio host Erick Erickson commented, “Can we just talk about how a prominent American news anchor actually believes Nazi Germany had free speech and that supposed free speech is to blame for the Holocaust? That’s both deeply arrogant and deeply ignorant.”
Can we just talk about how a prominent American news anchor actually believes Nazi Germany had free speech and that supposed free speech is to blame for the Holocaust? That’s both deeply arrogant and deeply ignorant. https://t.co/AUyWSdYxdU
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) February 16, 2025
More over at The New York Post:
CBS host slammed for claiming free speech was ‘weaponized’ in Germany to carry out Holocaust during argument with Marco Rubio https://t.co/FabIKZfAaa pic.twitter.com/DZGHosxQfC
— New York Post (@nypost) February 17, 2025
