Posted on 02/18/2025 5:31:21 AM PST by Twotone
It's not the most burning topic of the hour, but, as my days dwindle down to a precious few, I confess I have always marvelled at how one can make a multi-decade career on American telly despite having no obvious talent or skill - or ratings. Take CBS News, which is still out there apparently: Dan Rather, the parody "hard news" anchor, was unable to read prompter in anything approximating the cadences of human vocal delivery. Yet it was no obstacle to spending seventy-three low-rated years hosting the CBS Evening News. Why? I've never had a convincing explanation other than that he must have had Polaroids of network execs.
Now Mr Rather has been replaced by, among others, Margaret Brennan. So Miss Brennan was in the chair for this surreal exchange with America's new Secretary of State:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defends @JDVance's "historic" speech last week in Munich, leaves ABC's Margaret Brennan speechless after she tries to claim that free speech was "weaponized" by the Nazis. Incredible exchange: 👇 pic.twitter.com/GYLZfopVwP — Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) February 16, 2025
So, according to Margaret Brennan, JD Vance "was standing in a country where free speech was weaponised to conduct a genocide." Free speech is all very well, but we all know where it leads. As The Babylon Bee summarised Miss Brennan's argument:
Von Trapp Family Crosses The Alps Into Switzerland To Escape Free Speech https://t.co/0DnJ1fOzGp pic.twitter.com/PBvIEuXpEQ — The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 17, 2025
But, wait a minute, weren't Brain-Dead Brennan's comrades boring on about free speech just the other day?
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Rubio has been doing a great job so far.
The “anyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi” leftist indoctrination is laughable.
Another inconvenient fact: nonviolence only works politically in a free speech / Christian society.
When the Imans stone you to death or the Nazis or Leninists line you up against the wall and execute you... nonviolence doesn’t work so well.
All of the nonviolent successful protests in history relied on the free speech media (or Deep State funded ops like Arab Spring) to work.
Otherwise, the MLKs are taken off to Gulags and concentration camps and never heard from again then written out of history.
Brennan displayed a level of stupidity that is hard to believe. I get it, Brennan is incapable of serious thought and was merely trying to support her communist allies in the Dem part, (who love censorship).
Brennan and her fellow legacy media members and the Dem political machine are lost causes. The problem is, a lot of Americans listen to this stuff and believe it. I know a lot of reasonably intelligent people who believe the legacy media is “unbiased” and truthful. Ugh.
‘I really don’t care, Margaret’ is the new ‘Let’s Go, Brandon.’
Perhaps they secretly want to donate to the Trump library again but can’t openly do it which would enrage their leftist base.
Is this the same Margaret that JS vance had an exchange with regarding apartment buildings in Aurora CO?
I think it’s time for Trump’s cabinet picks to stop talking to leftist news organizations.....all they’re looking for is a gotcha moment sound bite to exploit......I think time would be better served performing thier task at hand.
Because after taterhead we all know they have their work cut out for ‘em.
Mark Steyn has had some serious health issues.
Is this his way of saying he is terminal?
JD Vance
Republicans, up to now, have been totally unable to confront these pinheads & show them for the fools they are. We are so lucky to have JD & a few others who take them on & pin them to the mat.
The historical information Steyn notes in the rest of the column should be held under their noses, too. The answer to “hate” speech is more speech, as Jefferson said.
I think that was Andrea Mitchell.....but the mentality is the same......or lack there of.
Then they made a run with the Gestapo on 60 Minutes to bust into memer apartments and laughed about it.
Not terminal necessarily, but his heart has been badly damaged by multiple heart attacks. He knows his time is limited.
“”Speaking on SteynOnline, he said: “The good news is that the first one occurred when I was in London. If you get a chance to see that day’s Mark Steyn Show, with hindsight, I don’t look quite right in close-ups.
“By not recognising it as a heart attack, I deftly avoided being one of those stories we feature on the show every couple of nights about people in the UK calling emergency and being left in the street for 15 hours before an ambulance shows up.
“I had a second heart attack in France. With Audrey helping me in the ambulance, she told me I was 15 minutes from death.”
Why does he have precious few days left at 65?
Unless I missed something, he may have 10,000 “precious few days left”.
The speech employed against Barry Goldwater by the American press was truly hate speech through and through. St. Bill Moyers a-bomb commercial was far from the worst, though the most celebrated example.
Look at us being distracted by the Margaret squirrel.
I learned how evil and deceitful the left is during the Vietnam war and its aftermath. Victory was turned into defeat, evil was called good, traitors like Kerry were made senators.
Not an exaggeration, and the left has kept it up ever since.
Heart attack after heart attack last 4 years. He had to arrive in a wheel chair for last years long awaited Mann libel case, predetermined outcome by DC jury
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