CBS ‘News’ Hack Margaret Brennan Falsely Claims Nazi Germany Weaponized Free Speech To Conduct Genocide Against Jews (Video)

Joe NewbyFebruary 16, 2025

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During an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CBS “News” propagandist Margaret Brennan made the patently ridiculous and false claim that Nazi Germany had free speech and weaponized it to conduct their genocide against Jews.

“Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide,” Brennan said in reference to Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech to European bigwigs.

“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. You know that, that the censorship was specifically about the right,” she added.

Rubio didn’t accept her false premise and fired back:

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“No, I have to disagree with you. 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 hated those that they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews.

There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were a sole and only the country that governed that country. So that’s not an accurate reflection of history. I also think it’s wrong.

Again, I go back to the point of his speech. The point of his speech was basically that there is an erosion in free speech and in tolerance for 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. And I think allies and friends and partners that have worked together now for 80 years should be able to speak frankly to one another in open forums without being offended, assaulted, or upset.

I spoke to foreign ministers from multiple countries throughout Europe. Many of them probably didn’t like the speech or didn’t agree with it, but they were continuing to engage with us on all sorts of issues that unite us.

Again, at the end of the day, I think that that is a forum in which you’re supposed to be inviting people to give speeches, not basically a chorus where everyone is saying the exact same thing.

That’s not always going to be the case when it’s a collection of democracies where leaders have the right and the privilege to speak their minds in forums such as these.”

Here’s video:

Twitter users responded to Brennan’s false claim:

She thought Nazi Germany allowed free speech.

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— Chess Warrior (@ChessWarri42621) February 16, 2025

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

How little do you have to know about Nazi Germany to believe that it was a place where free speech was the problem?

The Nazis didn’t weaponize free speech, they abolished it. People were regularly sent to prisons and even concentration camps for speaking out against the regime. https://t.co/PLQkEbkDxc

— AG (@AGHamilton29) February 16, 2025

WTF. @NBCNews thinks Nazi Germany had free speech and free speech was a tool of the Holocaust? The regime with the gestapo and authoritarian bureaucracy had free speech!? What type of bizarro history are they smoking over there.

Good job @SecRubio correcting this. pic.twitter.com/AgHenJY6vQ

— CommonSenseOnMars (@CommonSenseMars) February 16, 2025

I don't understand the left. They say the right are Nazis. Then lie about what the Nazis did to make the right look like Nazis. The policies of the Democrat part are more in line with Nazi Germany than the MAGA movement. https://t.co/PngXFWbdqY

— Joshua Banigan (@banigan_joshua) February 16, 2025

This is the modern left…

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