Katie Couric’s new book contains the explosive admission that she edited Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments on protests during the national anthem to exclude the part where the 83-year-old liberal icon said kneeling showed a “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents & grandparents to live a decent life”:
Katie Couric says she cut quotes from an interview with RBG in 2016 where the SCOTUS Justice said that kneeling during the National Anthem shows a "contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents & grandparents to live a decent life."https://t.co/XBnopuptSu
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) October 13, 2021
This truly is “amazing”:
Amazing https://t.co/Lb1cstovrL
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) October 13, 2021
Anyone can get canceled:
It’s amazing that RBG would have eventually gotten canceled. https://t.co/r8Iru6lUvB
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) October 13, 2021
Couric says in the book that Ginsburg was “elderly and probably didn’t fully understand the question”:
Couric writes that she thought the justice was "elderly and probably didn't fully understand the question."https://t.co/tnsgWnNK6k
— Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) October 13, 2021
Keep in mind, RBG was ON THE COURT at this time:
"But Couric writes in her memoir that she thought the justice, who was 83 at the time, was 'elderly and probably didn't fully understand the question.'"
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She was still serving as a JUSTICE ON THE FLIPPING SUPREME COURT!!https://t.co/u8XI5Q3OV2 https://t.co/b8Ck0sUykF
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) October 13, 2021
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So, instead of asking Ginsburg to clarify, Couric just memory-holed it?
Didn’t fit the narrative. They do this alllllll the time and then bemoan, without irony, the declining trust in the news business. https://t.co/5rbv62Upiy
— Eddie Scarry (@eScarry) October 13, 2021
But of course, she did:
I, for one, am shocked to hear Katie Couric would do something like this. https://t.co/mCvIvoY7QS
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) October 13, 2021
Exit question: What else aren’t they telling us?
I've said this many times when discussing media bias, but bears repeating: The big question is often not what you see they're doing, but what they're hiding from you. https://t.co/jkZNzsRyfr
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) October 13, 2021
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