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 "German order" on the internet.
MRC's Jorge Bonilla joins the show to ponder the mysteries of CBS. Plus: CNN Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins promotes her company's Luigi Mangione documentary by -- oops! -- posting a tweet linking to a website that raises funds for the accused killer. She deleted the post, but there were no apologies. She thought the link was "newsworthy." Media reporter Brian Stelter (not so mysteriously) omitted the gaffe from his Monday "Reliable Sources" newsletter. You might learn that Kamala Harris is getting a consolation prize from the NAACP, but there's nothing about Kaitlan's Luigi linkage.
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