Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was Against BLM Kneelers, Couric Admits To Cover-Up
The Left loves Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but RBG doesn’t love everything about the Left.
The Left loves Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but RBG doesn’t love everything about the Left. It seems that RBG doesn’t love the BLM athletes who kneel for the National Anthem. She criticized them loudly. Why have we never heard about that? – because Katie Couric edited her comments. She wanted to protect the SCJ and didn’t report on Ginsburg’s anti-kneeling comments.
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It is one of the temptations of journalism to protect those you favor. Couric was urged not to do this by the former president of ABC News, himself a news anchor. It was the right advice. https://t.co/oFLMW1Qfmw
— Brit Hume (@brithume) October 13, 2021
Katie Couric: I withheld RBG's harsh anthem kneeling comments to 'protect' her https://t.co/iiGGmyaSgQ pic.twitter.com/lhMZxaczSu
— New York Post (@nypost) October 13, 2021
Completely indefensible for Katie Couric to withhold this from the public to protect a *sitting Supreme Court Justice*https://t.co/t0kaBJ5eRh pic.twitter.com/UBhw8FV4FL
— Natalie Shure (@nataliesurely) October 13, 2021
We are journalists, and we have to report the truth, regardless of how bad it is. We shouldn’t protect public figures. Have you ever seen someone protecting Donald Trump?
Couric believed that she was able to protect Ginsburg by covering up Justice’s anti-kneeling attitude.
Huffington Post reported:
In a new book, journalist Katie Couric reveals that she previously chose not to report the comments the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made about athletes kneeling during the national anthem in protest against racial injustice.
In an upcoming memoir, “Going There,” Couric says that she held back some of Ginsburg’s comments from a 2016 interview to “protect” the then-“elderly” justice, the Daily Mail first reported.
In the 2016 interview published by Yahoo News, Ginsburg, who died last year, was quoted as saying that protests by NFL players choosing not to stand before games were “dumb and disrespectful.”
The kneeling protests, led by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, were meant to call out police violence and systemic racism against Black people in the U.S.
What Couric didn’t include in the Yahoo News interview was Ginsburg saying that athletes protesting in this way were showing “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life … which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from.”
In her book, Couric says she held the comments back at the time because she “wanted to protect” Ginsburg, then 83, because she was “elderly and probably didn’t fully understand the question.”
Have you seen that HuffPost has never published Ginsburg’s comments! This is what she said about the BLM kneelers: ‘’[They have] contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.’’
We aren’t surprised. It isn’t the first time when Couric deceptively edited the interviews.
2008 Sarah Palin’s interview???
If only someone would have warned us, multiple times, that Katie Couric has a tendency to deceptively edit her interviews. pic.twitter.com/nyqKWcGdxM
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) October 13, 2021
Couric writes that she wanted to protect RBG and so she edited out RBG saying that those who kneel during the national anthem are showing 'contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.' https://t.co/iQKyeHjgCB
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) October 13, 2021
It seems that Couric thinks she’s guilty over the deceptive cover-up.
People magazine reported:
Katie Couric is revealing a journalistic “conundrum” that caused her to lose “a lot of sleep,” she writes in an upcoming memoir.
Going There contains an anecdote about an interview she did with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a Yahoo! News story in 2016, according to passages obtained by The Daily Mail.
Couric, 64, asked the justice, who died in 2020 at 87, about San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other athletes kneeling during the national anthem before games as a form of protest against racial injustices in the U.S.
Though Couric’s piece contained a substantial portion of Ginsburg’s answer to the questioning, Couric edited out part of the response in her story, according to the passages in the Mail.
Couric’s memoir will be published on Oct. 26. In an exclusive PEOPLE interview in this week’s cover story story, she reflects on her time with disgraced anchor Matt Lauer — and how his behavior “shocked” her — as well as her struggles with bulimia and more.
Writing about the Ginsburg episode from 2016, Couric says that she “wanted to protect” the justice from her own words, according to the Mail excerpts.
That included Ginsburg’s assertion that such protests show a “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life. Which they probably could not have lived, in the places they came from … As they become older they realize that this was a youthful folly. And that’s why education is important.”
Although those sentences did not appear in the 2016 piece, Couric did share much of the justice’s opinion, including this line about the protests: “I think it’s really dumb of them.”
Couric writes that she felt that response was “unworthy of a crusader for equality,” but she nonetheless included it and more of Ginsburg’s quotes after consulting with other journalists, including David Brooks of The New York Times and David Westin, the former head of ABC News.
It is another evidence that the MSM will cover only the stories that fit their narration.
However, on the other hand, they don’t find it a problem to edit and make up stories about the right.
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Sources: people.com
