Michael Moynihan
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You know, Mike Wallace basically knew what he was talking about in this case on CBS. Yet poor Margaret Brennan was discussing free speech in Germany. Megan, the claim that she made, I'm not a scholarly historian or anything like that. I've got a meager undergraduate degree, okay?
You know, Mike Wallace basically knew what he was talking about in this case on CBS. Yet poor Margaret Brennan was discussing free speech in Germany. Megan, the claim that she made, I'm not a scholarly historian or anything like that. I've got a meager undergraduate degree, okay?
But I think if you took remedial history in the sixth grade, you would know that the claim that Margaret Brennan here made was completely insane.
But I think if you took remedial history in the sixth grade, you would know that the claim that Margaret Brennan here made was completely insane.
But I think if you took remedial history in the sixth grade, you would know that the claim that Margaret Brennan here made was completely insane.
I don't. Yeah, I actually don't know that. I don't know. I understand that in our modern culture, the only historical event that anyone can make any comparisons to is World War II. Every opponent is Hitler. Every political incident is the brink of the Holocaust. This is how our degraded modern media apparatus debates things. So I'm going in already with very low expectations.
I don't. Yeah, I actually don't know that. I don't know. I understand that in our modern culture, the only historical event that anyone can make any comparisons to is World War II. Every opponent is Hitler. Every political incident is the brink of the Holocaust. This is how our degraded modern media apparatus debates things. So I'm going in already with very low expectations.
I don't. Yeah, I actually don't know that. I don't know. I understand that in our modern culture, the only historical event that anyone can make any comparisons to is World War II. Every opponent is Hitler. Every political incident is the brink of the Holocaust. This is how our degraded modern media apparatus debates things. So I'm going in already with very low expectations.
but even as people constantly invoke hitler and the holocaust and everything have you ever once heard the suggestion that the holocaust was caused by an abundance of free speech you know if you just look at the year 1933 you can point to a few acts of the nazi party uh the editors act which said that only arians could be journalists the banning as marco ruby alluded to there of the other political parties so you had a totalitarian state
but even as people constantly invoke hitler and the holocaust and everything have you ever once heard the suggestion that the holocaust was caused by an abundance of free speech you know if you just look at the year 1933 you can point to a few acts of the nazi party uh the editors act which said that only arians could be journalists the banning as marco ruby alluded to there of the other political parties so you had a totalitarian state
but even as people constantly invoke hitler and the holocaust and everything have you ever once heard the suggestion that the holocaust was caused by an abundance of free speech you know if you just look at the year 1933 you can point to a few acts of the nazi party uh the editors act which said that only arians could be journalists the banning as marco ruby alluded to there of the other political parties so you had a totalitarian state
and the Reichstag fire decrees, which severely curtailed civil liberties. Just that alone would seem sufficient to knock down whatever point Margaret Brennan thought she was making. But happily for her, she wasn't even aware of those basic facts of history. And I fear that many of her liberal viewers will be similarly ignorant.
and the Reichstag fire decrees, which severely curtailed civil liberties. Just that alone would seem sufficient to knock down whatever point Margaret Brennan thought she was making. But happily for her, she wasn't even aware of those basic facts of history. And I fear that many of her liberal viewers will be similarly ignorant.
and the Reichstag fire decrees, which severely curtailed civil liberties. Just that alone would seem sufficient to knock down whatever point Margaret Brennan thought she was making. But happily for her, she wasn't even aware of those basic facts of history. And I fear that many of her liberal viewers will be similarly ignorant.
So they have to be corrected by the Secretary of State on really basic facts of history.
So they have to be corrected by the Secretary of State on really basic facts of history.
So they have to be corrected by the Secretary of State on really basic facts of history.
The face of it. I recently did a segment on CBS Mornings on the morning news program, and I thought it was very fair. I thought it was actually a very well put together, balanced segment. I thought they did a really, really great job. And so I thought, oh, good, maybe CBS is really moving in this great direction.
The face of it. I recently did a segment on CBS Mornings on the morning news program, and I thought it was very fair. I thought it was actually a very well put together, balanced segment. I thought they did a really, really great job. And so I thought, oh, good, maybe CBS is really moving in this great direction.
The face of it. I recently did a segment on CBS Mornings on the morning news program, and I thought it was very fair. I thought it was actually a very well put together, balanced segment. I thought they did a really, really great job. And so I thought, oh, good, maybe CBS is really moving in this great direction.