"She’d be bounced out of that role in anything resembling a meritocracy for the damage she’d already done before Rubio took her to the woodshed over the idiotic contention that too much free speech led to the Holocaust."
“I Don’t Really Care, Margaret”
"It should have been something of a signal that trouble was afoot at CBS News when the network unloaded Norah O’Donnell, the lead anchor of its evening news broadcast. O’Donnell’s reputation wasn’t particularly shiny, and the ratings reflected that.
"But getting rid of O’Donnell changed absolutely nothing, and in the past week, CBS has gone completely over the falls.
"Now that O’Donnell is out of the way we’re getting a fuller dose of Margaret Brennan, whose AWFL sensibilities appear to be advanced beyond what mainstream America could be expected to tolerate.
"But tolerate it we must, apparently. Because Brennan is now CBS’s assigned interrogator of the Trump administration. Regardless of how badly that’s going.
"You’ve almost certainly ingested the brilliance of the “I Don’t Really Care, Margaret” meme, which came from her disqualifying performance attempting to interview Vice President JD Vance on the network’s “Face The Nation” Sunday show. Brennan was arguing with Vance over the obviously poor results we’ve received from inviting in unvetted migrants from some of the world’s worst places, and she objected to his noticing that one of those, an Afghan who had conducted a stabbing spree in Oklahoma, had provided a shining example of his point. That led to this… As I’ve written before, that should have been the end of Margaret Brennan as a major figure at CBS News. When you’re the butt of one of the most viral memes in American political history, you no longer have a viable journalistic brand — or, at minimum, what’s left of you must be rebuilt either at the local level or in a different venue, like for example as a fashion correspondent or as a sideline reporter during coverage of women’s college basketball." . . .
Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site. " . . .
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