The left just adores the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and there are plenty of reasons for them too. After all, Ginsberg was all for abortion and women’s rights to kill their unborn but there are some things she wasn’t too keen on and the mainstream media lackeys made sure no one knew about it.
Yikes!
She was trying to “protect” the Supreme Court Justice, so she omitted to report on Ginsburg’s anti-kneeling comments.
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Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t the purpose of journalists is to report the news and not shield public figures?
When did they ever protect Donald Trump?
However, Couric took it upon herself to cover up the late Justice’s anti-kneeling stance.
It’s so bad that even the left-wing Huffington Post is reporting on it:
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.”
Did you notice that HuffPost didn’t even publish Ginsburg’s comments?
Are they trying to “protect” the legacy of Ginsburg as well?
Here’s exactly what Ginsburg 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.
This should not come as a surprise for Couric since she has a history of editing her interviews.
Does anyone here remember the 2008 Sarah Palin interview?
It appears that Couric feels guilty over this deceptive cover-up.
How do we know?
She apparently lost a lot of sleep over her decision.
Per People magazine:
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.
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