Hero of the left, Ruth Bader Ginsburg absolutely despised people who kneeled for the National Anthem disrespecting our flag and country. Maybe the overpaid athletes should take the hint. Katie Couric: I withheld RBG’s harsh anthem-kneeling comments to ‘protect’ her https://nypost.com/2021/10/13/katie-couric-admits-she-edited-rbgs-anthem-kneeling-comments/ Katie Couric has admitted that, in a 2016 interview, she withheld Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s harshest comments on kneeling during the national anthem. The editing was done in an effort to “protect” the late Supreme Court justice, Couric wrote in her memoir, which was obtained by The Post. She revealed in “Going There,” which is out Oct. 26, that she felt that Ginsburg, who was 83 at the time of the interview, may not have totally gotten what Couric was asking her, as first reported by the Daily Mail. She “was elderly and probably didn’t understand the question,” Couric explained in the 500-page scorched-earth biography in which no colleague, ex-boyfriend or acquaintance is safe from the former “Today” host’s brutal score-settling. While the interview that was eventually published by Yahoo! News did include Ginsburg saying that she believes that not standing during the national anthem as an act of protest is “dumb and disrespectful,” it did not include her strongest condemnations of the act, according to Couric. Not standing for the anthem shows 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 became older, they realize that this was youthful folly. And that’s why education is important,” Ginsburg told Couric at the time. “I think it’s a terrible thing to do, but I wouldn’t lock a person up for doing it. I would point out how ridiculous it seems to me to do such an act.” Couric, being a “big RBG fan” and feeling protective of her and the controversy the comments would likely embroil her in, wrote in the book that she “lost a lot of sleep” and felt extremely “conflicted” over deciding whether she should include Ginsburg’s full thoughts on the matter. As well, the day after the interview, the Supreme Court’s head of public affairs emailed Couric to say Ginsburg had “misspoken” and requested that her comments on the matter be removed from the piece. Couric eventually mostly did as they requested.
I dont believe she mis spoke, that was truly how she felt. I also suspect many democrats strong disagreed with anyone kneeling but never said anything.
Not sure why they needed to protect her.... it is her opinion and she is entitled to voice it and let the consequences be what they are. She should not weigh in on political issues being a SC justice in all fairness but not like it would have affected her job since it is for life. But RBG should also acknowledge that standing for the anthem is not a legal requirement and there are no laws on the books about forced pledges. The same freedom that allowed her to fight against sex discrimination should be affored to others or did she forget what it took for her to get to where she is. As a person who had to fight for her place at the table and faced plenty of discrimination she could have tried to understand why someone was kneeling instead of being tone deaf about it.
RBG basically called NFL players that kneel idiots and ignorant. This development has to make you wonder just how many other democrats feel the same way behind closed doors. I bet the answer is many feel the same way.
Idolatry is pretty ridiculous to many. The magic sky cloth people need a smack and be told to stop being so basic. It's OK to have different thoughts and feelings in parallel. Ginsberg was elderly and a bit crystallised as a result and this is fine. She can have her opinion and was clear, she would not take action against people who disagreed with her on this.
She covered that point in the full interview. Couric asked her about her position on it and she said there was "no legal barrier to being stupid." Question asked, answered, and rejected. I think Ruthie was speaking more from her jewish heritage and the hardships inherent in it in the old country than giving a legal opinion when she pointed out that this country has provided a better place for the parents and grandparents of some of those who object. That's fine.
RBG went much deeper than that and even suggested going back to their country of origin to see if they would of been afforded the same opportunities as they were given in our great country. RBG is basically calling them ignorant fools.
All you have ever had was the opportunity to stupid and unable to afford mental health care you need.
I absolutely despise police violence on blacks and those who would see their rights to freedom of speech suppressed. What's your point?