by Charlton Allen, American Thinker:
There was a time—before modern journalism became a contest in elite conformity—when invoking Nazi Germany carried a certain weight. There was an unspoken rule: unless you were discussing genocide, actual brownshirts, or totalitarianism in its purest form, you didn’t go there. It was a matter of basic historical literacy and, frankly, decorum.
But CBS’s Margaret Brennan, host of Face the Nation—or as it increasingly resembles, Face the Nonsense—has no such qualms. With all the confidence of a sophomore who just discovered Howard Zinn, Brennan recently claimed that Nazi Germany “weaponized” free speech, as though Goebbels spent his afternoons battling for blue checkmarks on Weimar Twitter.
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Let’s be clear: Nazi Germany didn’t weaponize free speech. It obliterated it. The regime burned books, criminalized dissent, shut down newspapers, imprisoned political opponents and exterminated them, and tightly controlled every broadcast, publication, and public utterance. Free speech in the Third Reich had all the freedom of a man handcuffed to a radiator with a Luger pressed to his temple.
For a brief moment—perhaps thanks to a satellite feed delay and a generous dash of sheer disbelief—Senator Marco Rubio looked like he was running an internal diagnostic. Did I really just hear that from a supposedly educated American journalist? Then, like a teacher correcting a wayward student, he pointed out the obvious: Nazi Germany didn’t have free speech. It had the Gestapo.
The Nazis didn’t “weaponize” free speech any more than they “weaponized” due process. They crushed it, erased it, and replaced it with state propaganda enforced by terror.
Not Her First Face-Plant—And Definitely Not Her Last
We might chalk it up to ignorance if this were a one-off gaffe. But Brennan just isn’t good at this. She may be a fine reporter, but as an interviewer or moderator? Not at all. She struggles in the role in a way that’s becoming painful to watch.
Take her performance at the 2024 vice presidential debate. CBS and Norah O’Donnell explicitly stated they wouldn’t fact-check the debate in real-time, but Brennan gave it a go anyway.
And, of course, she Brennaned it.
She tried to fact-check J.D. Vance on illegal immigration, only for it to become painfully clear that he had the facts and she was the one in need of checking. It wasn’t a debate—it was a live-action lesson in why moderators shouldn’t insert themselves into arguments they aren’t prepared to win.
Vance got to shoot fish in a barrel—and not for the last time.
At some point, she has to wonder: Am I about to get Norah O’Donnelled? And speaking of—what is Norah up to these days? The Face the Nation seat has to be getting warmer.
Tweeting Through It
And what does Brennan do in response to this debacle?
Does she pause, take stock, and think twice about doubling down on historically illiterate soundbites?
Nope. She takes to Twitter and resumes full-scale Resistance Tweeting.
Why take a loss with dignity when you can spend your weekend posting about it? Brennan’s post-interview strategy appears to be to look more partisan, sound even less informed, and reinforce why nobody takes corporate media seriously anymore.
The GOP Boycott That Shouldn’t Be
Some Republicans have floated the idea of a full-scale GOP boycott of Face the Nation. That would be a mistake. Why deprive yourself of the spectacle? The best part about Brennan’s moderating is that she keeps tripping over her own ideological shoelaces. The left-wing talking point is delivered—but only after a humiliating misstep that becomes the real story. That’s a win-win for conservatives.
Score your points and let Brennan face-plant again in front of a national audience.
Besides, if GOP politicians boycott Face the Nation, we might have to wait until 2028 to see J.D. Vance obliterate Brennan again. That’s too steep a price to pay for moral indignation.
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