{"id":2403352,"date":"2025-02-17T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-news-free-speech-caused-the-holocaust\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T10:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:59:19","slug":"cbs-news-free-speech-caused-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-news-free-speech-caused-the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS News: Free Speech Caused The Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcbs-news-free-speech-caused-the-holocaust%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2403352&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent segment, CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan controversially claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize\/\" title=\"Elon Musk nominated for Nobel Peace Prize\">free speech contributed<\/a> to the Holocaust. During an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio,she suggested that criticisms of\u200d free speech \u200cin Europe were problematic,arguing that in Nazi \u2063Germany,free speech\u2063 was &#8220;weaponized&#8221; to facilitate genocide. Her assertions sparked\u200c outrage due to their historical inaccuracies and perceived insensitivity \u2064toward Holocaust victims. Critics highlighted the\u200b contradiction that \u2063while CBS previously \u200bdefended free speech against censorship,\u2062 it now appeared to blame \u2064free expression for horrific outcomes. Rubio countered Brennan&#8217;s claims\u200d by asserting that there was no\u200b free speech \u200bin\u2063 Nazi Germany, reiterating that the regime suppressed dissent.The discussion \u200dhas raised alarms about the ongoing \u2064debate over free speech and \u200ccensorship\u2064 in contemporary America.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1891220427319775710\">  Collin Rugg\/ X <\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/17\/cbs-news-free-speech-caused-the-holocaust\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=CBS%20News:%20Free%20Speech%20Caused%20The%20Holocaust&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/17\/cbs-news-free-speech-caused-the-holocaust\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=CBS%20News:%20Free%20Speech%20Caused%20The%20Holocaust&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/17\/cbs-news-free-speech-caused-the-holocaust\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/17\/cbs-news-free-speech-caused-the-holocaust\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=CBS%20News:%20Free%20Speech%20Caused%20The%20Holocaust&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/17\/cbs-news-free-speech-caused-the-holocaust\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>CBS News&rsquo; Margaret Brennan claimed Sunday that free speech was to blame for the Holocaust. <\/p>\n<p>During an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Brennan spun a wild theory that free speech in Germany paved the way for the Holocaust, arguing that Vice President J.D. Vance&rsquo;s criticisms of European attacks on free speech were problematic because, according to Brennan, free speech was &ldquo;weaponized&rdquo; in Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1468209336\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, [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,&rdquo; Brennan said. &ldquo;The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that, the censorship was specifically about the right.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Brennan&rsquo;s assertion was not only historically inaccurate, but outright offensive to the millions who were murdered at the hands of the Nazi party.<\/p>\n<p>But suppose Brennan <em>was <\/em>correct in her claim that free speech caused the Holocaust. Then, as The Federalist CEO and co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1891221147523387590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sean Davis<\/a> said in a post on X: &ldquo;That means Trump needs to shut down CBS to prevent another Holocaust.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"F0rde3rRRB45bo8ylzF4ttUTdBWJh1cL262yQqQjAlkMP9ZVXK5moimnHGCMU0sXnjHxu\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welp. I guess that means Trump needs to shut down CBS to prevent another Holocaust. Not the path I would&rsquo;ve chosen, but if Margaret Brennan says that allowing CBS to just say whatever it wants will lead to another Holocaust, who am I to argue? Better to be safe and shut down CBS&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vfbe7tqJV0\">https:\/\/t.co\/Vfbe7tqJV0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1891221147523387590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Not the path I would&rsquo;ve chosen, but if Margaret Brennan says that allowing CBS to just say whatever it wants will lead to another Holocaust, who am I to argue? Better to be safe and shut down CBS than be sorry you let CBS bring Hitler back.&rdquo; <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But before Brennan and CBS News jumped on the &ldquo;free speech causes genocide&rdquo; train, the outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/amp\/news\/how-free-speech-is-under-attack-in-the-u-s\/\">fretted<\/a> just three years ago that &ldquo;free speech is under attack in the U.S.&rdquo; Now to be clear, the &ldquo;threat&rdquo; referred to by CBS News was Republican-led efforts to prevent young school children from having access to pornography or graphic sexual information in school. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">outlet enlisted &#038;ldquo<\/a>;experts&rdquo; to talk about how &ldquo;scary&rdquo; it was that free speech was allegedly being trampled on, while another expert talked about how &ldquo;problematic&rdquo; it was that people allegedly want to regulate speech they dislike.<\/p>\n<p>By CBS News&rsquo; logic, attacks on free speech were bad just three years ago when Republicans were allegedly the culprit, but now the same free speech that CBS News defended is also responsible for genocide?<\/p>\n<p>That would make CBS News complicit in genocide for advocating for free speech. <\/p>\n<p>By suggesting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-ceo-reveals-details-of-freedom-of-speech-not-reach-policy\/\" title=\"Twitter CEO shares new policy prioritizing freedom of speech over reach.\">allowing free expression<\/a> could lead to genocide, Brennan unwittingly mirrors the kind of propaganda used by totalitarian regimes: propagate notions totally divorced from reality and disseminate them as truth.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News did not respond to an inquiry from The Federalist as to whether the network would continue to let Brennan broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Of course such a notion is ridiculous &mdash; but this is CBS News we&rsquo;re talking about. Luckily, Rubio is a master at dealing with the propaganda press, correctly pointing out that &ldquo;free speech was not used to conduct a genocide.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany,&rdquo; Rubio said. &ldquo;They were a sole and only party that governed that country. So, that&rsquo;s not an accurate reflection of history.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As Rubio correctly pointed out, there was no &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-picks-brendan-carr-for-chairman-of-fcc-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump picks Brendan Carr for chairman of FCC ... Washington Examiner\">free speech&#038;rdquo<\/a>; in Nazi Germany. In fact, the Nazis controlled all mediums, stifling (and murdering) anyone who dared speak freely in opposition.<\/p>\n<p>But Brennan&rsquo;s dangerous distortion wasn&rsquo;t accidental &mdash; it was an attempt by Brennan to push the left&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-twitter-execs-tell-congress-we-didnt-meddle-in-2020-election-and-also-we-need-to-do-it-more\/\" title=\"Former Twitter Execs Tell Congress: We Didn\u2019t Meddle In 2020 Election And Also We Need To Do It More\">anti-free speech agenda<\/a>. While Brennan distorts history to justify censorship, the truth remains that Nazi Germany was a regime built on silencing dissent &mdash; not free speech. <\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist&rsquo;s Editor-in-Chief <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1879718626087027107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mollie Hemingway<\/a> previously noted, &ldquo;Democrats would win many fewer victories&rdquo; without censoring dissent. Brennan&rsquo;s rhetoric is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to demonize free speech in hopes of crippling Americans from pushing back against an ever-encroaching government.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. 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