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BlueAnon – CBS NEWS
A most unbelievable case against free speech.
In something we would not have guessed one month ago, Margaret Brennan has demonstrated that she is actually worse than Kristen Welker. On the Sunday show “Face the Nation,” Margaret has been on a losing streak by bringing on Republicans who end up shaming her with facts. This week it was Marco Rubio’s turn, and he could almost not believe what he had heard from the hostess.
Brennan, in making the case that the speech from JD Vance to European leaders at the Munich Security Conference was an authoritarian offense, completely lost the script as she made the most outlandish of statements. She declared that the rise of Nazis in Germany was the result of too much free speech:
Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.
A-mazing.
That this is a reporter attempting to say that Hitler and his party rose as a result of no control over free speech is staggering. The Nazis controlled the statist media, spewed propaganda, and silenced opposition – something trending very close to our contemporaries in the Democratic Party and the press.
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
Artisanally-Crafted Narratives – CBS NEWS / “60 Minutes”
So this is clearly a network position, we see.
Sunday evening on “60 Minutes” was something to behold. Following Brennan’s baffling viewpoint, the news outlet highlighted an organization – unironically named “HateAid” – which promotes the stifling and even punishing of speech that is declared misinformation. Here is the amazing part; this was not presented as a cautionary tale but was one of promoting the idea as a positive act.
“Free speech needs boundaries… Without boundaries, a very small group of people can rely on endless freedom to say anything that they want, while everyone else is scared and intimidated,” says Josephine Ballon, CEO of HateAid. https://t.co/YjlBa7YJ3s pic.twitter.com/xqI88oiiO2
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 17, 2025
That this comes from reporter Sharyn Alfonsi makes this all the more asinine. She was the one who tried to slander Gov. Ron DeSantis during the pandemic with the false smear that he selected Publix grocers to dispense the vaccine in Florida because the chain had been a major campaign donor. Her hit piece was so bad it became debunked before it even aired. And she is still attached to the program.
This is how baffling it is to see this displayed by any American news outlet: Germany is actually criminalizing some forms of speech and CBS News is presenting this as a wise implementation, rather than what it is – a direct threat to our Bill of Rights.
Posting or reposting false information in Germany can be a crime, and the punishment for repeat offenders can include jail time. pic.twitter.com/25OLFeLfna
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 17, 2025
Low-Octane Gaslighting – CBS NEWS / “60 Minutes”
This show manages to have a horrible year…in just one episode.
Need we remind you that this is the program being sued in court for deceptively editing the Kamala Harris interview? In another segment Sunday evening – this one about the after-effects of President Trump shutting down the USAID – the show brought on a pair of workers from that agency who were abruptly put out of work, presented in sympathetic terms, as if seeing government employees laid off is somehow an elevated negative over other Americans laid off and forced out of making a living.
But then we see the real subterfuge in “60 Minutes.” Instead of being lowly government drones, it turned out the duo shown on camera were high-paid contracted consultants for the agency, one of whom was the speechwriter for Samantha Power, the former Obama administration figure who was the head of USAID.
🚨🚨60 Minutes pulled in 2 comms consultants who were never actual employees of USAID and presented them as though they were longtime employees who were fired for lack of "loyalty." 🚨🚨 https://t.co/dxinUlR3T0 pic.twitter.com/nGdEp65DVL
— Eli Steinberg (@HaMeturgeman) February 17, 2025
Stealth Story Evolution – CNN
A White House correspondent fangirling for an admitted murderer is certainly a look.
One person who must be grateful for the meltdown taking place at CBS last night has to be Kaitlan Collins. The CNN hostess and recently promoted correspondent turned quite a few heads this weekend when she shared the address of the website that was just made active by the legal team of Luigi Mangione, the confessed assassin of the UnitedHealthcare CEO.
After this became exposed, Collins deleted the post, but it was captured by many and soon made its way into the press. In response, she tried to suggest it was a legitimate news item, despite removing it from her feed and never producing a story on the website.
1: She deleted the post. (If there was nothing wrong then why did she delete it?)
— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) February 16, 2025
2: Here is a screenshot. I have marked out the website that she shared... the fundraising link that she is now claiming she did not share.
3: The cover-up is always worse than the crime pic.twitter.com/xjE7TSn50R
The galling part of this is that the site does in fact boast a fundraising link in the body, and this was not a simple webpage with details about Mangione’s case. It provides tips on how to send items to Mangione as well as other details for fans of the killer. It defies common sense that Collins would misconstrue this, based simply on the first sentence seen at the site:
Due to the extraordinary volume of inquiries and outpouring of support, this site was created and is maintained by Luigi Mangione’s New York legal defense team to provide answers to frequently asked questions.
Pulitzer Prize Nomination – MSNBC
The answer to your question, Reverend Al, is YES – although we do not need to imagine it.
If ever you need proof that the babbling heads on cable news are not your intellectual betters, go ahead and bookmark this gem from MSNBC pundit Al Sharpton. The man who pocketed half a million dollars in payola from the Kamala Harris campaign delivered a historically ignorant bromide in his criticism of the Donald Trump administration.
Just behold the magnificence of this critique.
Al Sharpton Asks: Can you imagine if James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government?
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 16, 2025
🙄🙄pic.twitter.com/Swr2Gn7qjM
News Avoidance Syndrome – CNN
When you want to avoid the fraud in government and scamming programs, just insult what they are wearing.
It just continues, as the press is supremely bothered by the revelation of government waste and the closing of offices and agencies. Shrinking government is the least tolerable thing that journalists can consider. So, after Elon Musk appeared in the Oval Office last week with his son while discussing the various discoveries his DOGE team has made, a CNN panel discussed the real important takeaway from that meeting; what Musk and his son were wearing during the presser.
CNN PANELIST ON ELON MUSK:
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 17, 2025
"He is in Trump's office with his overcoat still on. He's got his t-shirt under, got a cap on. His son is with him like he was just at a drop off line at his school."
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