CBS’s Margaret Brennan had what may be her defining moment—not in a good way—on a recent episode of Face the Nation when Senator Marco Rubio thoroughly outclassed her. The exchange wasn’t only high theater; it was a televised demolition, capped off by Rubio’s now-viral zinger: “You should watch the news.”
It was a moment so clean, so cutting, and so revealing of Brennan’s confusion that it deserves to live in the media blooper Hall of Fame. If such a place existed, it would need a whole wing dedicated to Brennan’s greatest hits—each a case study in face-palming futility. Watch it here.
A Masterclass in Missing the Point
The exchange centered on Brennan’s insistence that the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a doctoral student at Columbia and leader of CUAD, somehow raised troubling “free speech” concerns. Brennan seemed genuinely perplexed—and more than a little miffed—that the federal government would dare remove a foreign national who leads a group that has:
- Advocated violence,
- Obstructed Jewish students’ access to campus,
- Forced Columbia University into lockdown,
- And called for the overthrow of the West, including the United…
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