It was a deeply weird Sunday at CBS. Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan told Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the Holocaust happened in Germany because “free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.”argued that free speech led to the Holocaust, as if the Nazis allowed free speech. Rubio “fact checked” her into next Sunday.
Brennan tried to “fact check” Vance at the vice-presidential debate last year. No one inside the media will seek to correct her now.
Days after Vice President Vance went into the Munich Security Conference and denounced European censorship regimes as a betrayal of Western values, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired a report extolling the virtues of German censorship. The report filed by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi made sure to highlight prosecutors who go after memeposters as defenders of civility and democracy. CBS likes a little…
