Andrew Roberts criticized CBS News' Margaret Brennan after her controversial comments during an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Brennan indicated that free speech had been weaponized to facilitate genocide under the Nazis. Roberts, outraged by her dismissal of historical facts, emphasized that the Nazis suppressed free expression and controlled all media, which helped them execute the Holocaust. He argued that had there been genuine freedom of speech, the atrocities could have been exposed and confronted more forcefully, mischaracterizing Brennan's statements as historically ignorant and simplistic, coining the term 'sophomoronic' to describe her line of questioning.
Brennan's comment implied that free speech was used to gather support for genocide in Germany, but Roberts argues that true freedom of expression was suppressed by the Nazis.
Roberts criticizes Brennan's historical ignorance, explaining that the Nazis rapidly eliminated opposing views and controlled all media, undermining any notion of free speech.
The lesson to learn from history, according to Roberts, is that a lack of true free speech facilitated the Nazi regime's rise and the Holocaust.
Roberts coins a term, 'sophomoronic,' to describe Brennan's effort to challenge Rubio based on a fundamentally flawed understanding of history.
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