From Rich Rostron of The Response:
Free speech allows CBS Face the Nation host to prove she’s an idiot
The temporary FOX & Friends weekend host cut her some slack.
He said that she works really hard.
The only half-criticism he offered was to suggest she would like to take those words back.
What words?
On CBS’s Face the Nation program, Sunday, Feb. 16, host Margaret Brennan challenged Secretary of State Marco Rubio about VP JD Vance’s speech about the erosion of free speech in Europe.
Brennan made the obviously insane suggestion that free speech was to blame for the Holocaust.
“He (Vance) 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,” Brennan said to Rubio.
When she said the “political party with far-right views,” she was referring to what the Left has branded the populist right-wing Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party.
Did Brennan deserve the slack the FOX host offered?
Hardly.
Brennan’s words actually offered a glimpse into the tortured logic of Leftists.
Did Adolf Hitler build the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party) by expressing his ideas using the free speech offered by the Weimar Republic?
Of course.
But then, when he gained power, what happened to free speech?
There was no free speech in Nazi Germany.
The problem wasn’t free speech in the Weimar Republic; the problem was that there wasn’t better speech to counter Hitler’s arguments.
The problem was that he gained power leveraging the emotions of Germans and by lying.
America is not Germany and, contrary to the nonsense pushed by Democrats and their Leftist lapdog media, Trump is not Hitler.
Trump is reducing the size of government.
No dictator ever did that; dictators count on the power of a massive government to maintain control.
Trump also supports free speech.
He may say things some people don’t like.
He may call out some people for what they say.
But he never tells anyone what they can or can’t say.
The true test of free speech isn’t when someone says something you agree with; the true test of free speech is when someone says something you disagree with or don’t like.
Brennan has the freedom to say whatever she wanted, no matter how stupid her comment.
And Marco Rubio responded appropriately – with better speech.
Rubio schooled Brennan after she set herself up to be schooled.
Her free speech was easily confronted because it was moronic.
Rubio didn’t tell her she couldn’t make that stupid comment and why would he; as with the old quote from Mark Twain, “It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.”
“No. I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide,” Rubio said to Brennan.
“There was no free speech in Nazi Germany.
“There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany, they were the sole and only party that governed that country.”
“The point of (Vance’s) speech was basically that there is an erosion in free speech and intolerance of opposing points of view within Europe, and that’s of concern because that is eroding.
“That’s not an erosion of your military capabilities, that’s not an erosion of your economic standing, that’s an erosion of the actual values that bind us together in this transatlantic union that everybody talks about.”
Hopefully, Europeans will get over their WOKE feelings and take Vance’s words to heart. It will be to their benefit. But there are also Americans who could learn from that message.
