Oh boy. Margaret Brennan stepped in it this time. You’d think a so-called “journalist” hosting Face the Nation would have a firm grasp on, I don’t know… basic history? But no, Brennan went on national television and tried to argue that free speech was used to enable the Holocaust—and Marco Rubio absolutely torched her for it.
Now, let’s break this down because this level of stupidity deserves some attention.
Margaret Brennan’s Big Brain Moment
Vice President JD Vance gave a speech at the Munich Security Conference, where he called out European leaders for their increasing censorship—something he rightly compared to Soviet-style suppression of speech. But instead of engaging in a legitimate debate about the dangers of censorship, Brennan decided to throw out the single dumbest talking point she could think of:
“Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.”
Excuse me, what?!
This is like saying democracy was weaponized to elect Hitler—which is just as ridiculous as it sounds.
Rubio Brings the Hammer Down
Enter Marco Rubio, who wasn’t about to let this historical illiteracy slide. He immediately shut Brennan down, correcting her nonsense on the spot:
“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.”
BAM. Game over.
Rubio wasn’t finished. He reminded Brennan that there was no free speech in Nazi Germany—it was literally one of the most censored regimes in history. The Nazis didn’t allow opposition, debate, or dissent. If you criticized Hitler, you didn’t get a Twitter suspension—you got a one-way ticket to a concentration camp.
Yet Brennan thinks she can spin history to make it sound like free speech was the problem?
The Left’s War on Free Speech—And Common Sense
Let’s be real. The left hates free speech. They love censorship because they can’t win in the marketplace of ideas. They call everything they don’t like “misinformation” or “hate speech” and demand it be silenced. That’s why they cheered when Big Tech colluded with the government to censor stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop. That’s why they celebrate when conservatives get banned off social media.
Brennan’s comment wasn’t just stupid, it was dangerous—because it reveals the left’s twisted mindset. They want you to believe that free speech is the problem, not authoritarianism. That way, when they start cracking down on opinions they don’t like, they can say it’s “for your own good.”
Why Brennan’s Meltdown Matters
Brennan didn’t just lose the debate—she lost credibility (what little she had). She wanted to trap Rubio with some phony moral argument, but instead, she ended up looking like a clueless hack who got steamrolled by basic facts.
And let’s be honest—she’s not alone. This is the same nonsense mindset that leads to people getting arrested in the UK for misgendering someone on Twitter while actual criminals run free. It’s the same mindset that justifies banning books, silencing dissent, and punishing speech that doesn’t fit the left’s narrative.
But guess what? People are waking up. They’re seeing the censorship, the gaslighting, and the hypocrisy—and they’re sick of it.
Final Thoughts
Rubio demolished Brennan because facts matter, and you can’t just rewrite history to justify your authoritarian fantasies. Nazi Germany didn’t have free speech, it had totalitarian control—and Brennan just embarrassed herself trying to argue otherwise.
Maybe next time, instead of trying to spin history, she could try reading a history book first. But hey, that might be asking too much.
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JIMMY
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