Two weeks after Vice President JD Vance schooled CBS News' Margaret Brennan over illegal immigration, with his "I don't really care, Margaret" mic-drop, Brennan floated an absurd argument on Sunday to get back at Vance - suggesting to Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Hitler 'weaponized' free speech to commit the holocaust, after Vance chastised 'horrified' European leaders over censorship while speaking from Germany.
"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. The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that, that the censorship was specifically about the right," Brennan said.
Rubio didn't let the remark stand, replying: "Well, 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 ... 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 party that governed that country. So that's not an accurate reflection of history."
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Last week, Vance slammed European leaders for allowing mass migration and extreme laws censoring free speech - remarking that he worries more about Europe’s “threats from within” than from external threats like Russia and China.
“While the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine … the threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor,” said Vance.
“What I worry about is the threat from within – the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.”
And now the left is trying to equate free speech to Nazi authoritarianism.
Do they hear themselves speak?
"We don't really care, Margaret!!"
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