CBS Says Holocaust Was Caused By Free Speech and Lack of Censorship

The establishment left’s war on free speech reached a new low this week when CBS host Margaret Brennan suggested that the Holocaust was a direct result of free speech being “weaponized.”

The shocking claim came during a heated exchange with Senator Marco Rubio on Face the Nation, where Brennan attempted to link Nazi atrocities to free speech and a lack of censorship.

Brennan’s remarks were prompted by Vice President J.D. Vance’s recent speech at the Munich Security Conference, where he criticized European leaders for embracing censorship in the name of fighting “misinformation.” Instead of engaging with the substance of his concerns, Brennan dismissed his remarks outright and framed free speech itself as a historical danger.

“What did all of this accomplish, other than irritating our allies?” Brennan asked Rubio, referring to Vance’s speech.

Rubio immediately challenged the premise, defending the fundamental right to express ideas without government interference. Watch:

“Why would our allies or anybody be irritated by free speech and by someone giving their opinion? We are, after all, democracies,” Rubio responded. “The Munich Security Conference is largely a conference of democracies in which one of the things that we cherish and value is the ability to speak freely and provide your opinions.”

That’s when Brennan dropped her jaw-dropping assertion: “Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.”

Rubio, taken aback by the revisionist claim, swiftly dismantled her argument.

“I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide,” Rubio fired back. “The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews.”

He went on to highlight a crucial fact conveniently ignored by Brennan: “There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were the sole and only party that governed that country. So that’s not an accurate reflection of history.”

Rubio’s rebuttal exposed the absurdity of Brennan’s claim—Nazi Germany wasn’t a bastion of free expression, but a brutal dictatorship where dissent was crushed, books were burned, and political opponents were imprisoned or executed.

Yet, Brennan’s remarks fit neatly into a growing narrative pushed by left-wing media figures and political elites: that free speech is dangerous and must be curtailed to prevent so-called “harm.” Her comment wasn’t just historically illiterate—it was a blatant attempt to justify censorship by rewriting history itself.

In a time when governments and tech giants are openly working to police online discourse, Brennan’s statement is more than just media bias—it’s a direct assault on the very foundation of democracy. And as Rubio made clear, those who seek to silence speech in the name of “safety” are far closer to authoritarian regimes than they’d like to admit.