CBS journalist Margaret Brennan was rebuked Sunday after she claimed that free speech was “weaponized” in Germany to hold out the Holocaust throughout a back-and-forth with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The 2 sparred over Vice President JD Vance’s fiery speech on the Munich Safety Convention the place he slammed European leaders for censorship and mentioned “the threat from within” posed the best hazard to the safety of the West relatively than Russia or China.
Rubio was fast to defend the veep after Brennan requested in regards to the remarks that irked US allies and Vance’s reported assembly with a far-right German chief forward of the nation’s chancellor’s election.
“Why would our allies or anybody be irritated by free speech and by someone giving their opinion? We are, after all, democracies,” Rubio mentioned on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“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,” he added.
Brennan, 44, then provided a traditionally doubtful response.
“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 mentioned. “The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that.”
Rubio, 53, shortly reduce in and strenuously objected.
“No, I have — I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide,” the previous US senator mentioned.
“The genocide was performed by an authoritarian Nazi regime that occurred to even be genocidal as a result of they hated Jews they usually hated minorities they usually hated those who they — that they had a listing of individuals they hated, however primarily the Jews.
“There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none,” Rubio added.
Vance, 40, weighed in on the change later Sunday.
“This is a crazy exchange,” he tweeted. “Does the media really think the holocaust was caused by free speech?”
White Home communication director Steven Cheung additionally took a shot at Brennan.
“Margaret Brennan of CBS News is going through some bizarre episode as she makes disgusting excuses for Nazis and the Holocaust.”
