Well, Margaret Brennan sure outdid herself this time. During a Sunday interview on Face the Nation, the CBS host made the absolutely ridiculous claim that “free speech” played a role in the Holocaust. According to Brennan, the problem wasn’t the authoritarian Nazi regime that banned opposing viewpoints, controlled the media, and threw dissidents into concentration camps—it was free expression.
The comment came as Brennan was attempting (and failing) to corner Secretary of State Marco Rubio over Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech in Munich, where Vance criticized Europe’s increasingly authoritarian speech laws. “Free speech, I fear, is in retreat,” Vance warned, calling out European leaders for using words like “misinformation” and “disinformation” as cover for silencing dissent. And he’s absolutely right—look no further than the way European governments are cracking down on political opposition, all in the name of fighting so-called extremism.
Brennan, ever the loyal foot soldier for the globalist establishment, tried to spin the story into some kind of attack on the “far right,” bizarrely claiming that Germany’s AfD party—a mainstream party advocating for immigration controls—was comparable to Nazi Germany. Never mind that the real authoritarian tactics are coming from the German government itself, which is actively trying to ban the AfD for daring to challenge their disastrous open-border policies.
But Brennan didn’t stop there. She then dropped the mind-boggling assertion that Vance was “standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.” That’s when Rubio, to his credit, shut her nonsense down immediately.
“Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide,” Rubio fired back. “The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime… There was no free speech in Nazi Germany.”
Rubio is 100% correct. Nazi Germany was a totalitarian state that violently crushed opposition, banned books, censored the press, and dictated what could and could not be said in public. It was the opposite of a free speech society. If Brennan had even a passing knowledge of history, she’d know that. But this is the modern left—they redefine words and twist history to justify their obsession with controlling speech.
Rubio then perfectly summed up the entire point of Vance’s speech: free speech is one of the core values that binds the West together. If Europe continues down this path of criminalizing speech, banning political opposition, and silencing dissent, it won’t just be bad for them—it will be a major threat to the entire transatlantic alliance.
So let’s be clear: free speech isn’t the enemy here. The real danger comes from the people trying to destroy it under the guise of “protecting democracy.”
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