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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: JD VANCE in Europe
Date: 02/16/25 1:15 PM
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Marco Rubio was on CBS this morning. Margaret Brennan may now be the dumbest media person out there:

X (Twitter): Scott Morefield on X: "Secretary of State Marco Rubio defends @JDVance's "historic" speech last week in Munich, leaves ABC's Margaret Brennan speechle

RUBIO: And so I think if anyone's angry about his words — they don't have to agree with him, but to be angry about it, I think actually makes his point. I thought it was actually a pretty historic speech, whether you agree with him or not, I think the valid points he's making to Europe is: We are concerned that the true values that we share — the values that bind us together with Europe — are things like free speech and democracy and our shared history in winning two world wars and defeating Soviet communism and the like. These are the values that we shared in common, and in that Cold War, we fought against things like censorship and oppression and so forth. And when you see backsliding, and you raise that, that's a very valid concern.

We can't tell them how to run their countries...He simply expressed in his speech his view of it, which a lot of people, frankly, share. And I thought...he said a lot of things in that speech that needed to be said. And honestly, I don't know why anybody would be upset about it...You don't have to agree with someone's speech — I happen to agree with a lot of what he said, but you don't have to agree with someone's speech to at least appreciate the fact they have a right to say it, and you should listen to it and see whether those criticisms are valid. I assure you the United States has come under withering criticism on many occasions from many leaders in Europe, and we don't go around throwing temper tantrums about it.

BRENNAN: Well, he 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. The context of that was changing the tone of it...and you know that — that the censorship was...specifically about the right —

So the Nazis weaponized free speech? This is stupid on stilts. And yet, there’s probably more than one poster here who would agree with this nonsense.
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