Katie Couric Exposes RBG After 'Protecting' Her from Scolding National Anthem Kneelers Like Colin Ka

[Calista241]

Source: Mediaite

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is often recognized and remembered as a symbol for progressive change, but the late Supreme Court justice’s opinion of kneeling during the national anthem was socially conservative.

According to Katie Couric, she eliminated some of Ginsburg’s quotes regarding the national anthem during a 2016 interview, to “protect” the Supreme Court justice. While she protected Ginsburg in 2016, Couric decided to publish the controversial comments in her memoir more than five years after the interview. The Daily Mail was first to obtain an excerpt from the upcoming book.

In 2016, Couric omitted Ginsburg’s claim that not standing for the anthem depicts 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. “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’s memoir Going There is set to be released on Oct. 26. In the book, Couric states Ginsburg, who was 83 at the time, was “elderly and probably didn’t fully understand the question,” pertaining to the NFL and players choosing to kneel.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/sports/katie-couric-exposes-rbg-after-protecting-her-from-scolding-national-anthem-kneelers-like-colin-kaepernick/

[Joinfortmill]

1. I wonder about Katie Couric. Just saying.

[brooklynite]

15. What do you wonder?

Should her reputation be protected after death? Is there something wrong with the truth?

[Champp]

29. There's something wrong about editing out key elements of an interview

to "protect" anyone, whether the journalist is assuming that person is an honest, thoughtful, honorable citizen Democrat, or a lie-gulping, anti-democracy, fascist-ass-kissing Republican reprobate.

It's not Couric's job to "protect" her subject. It's to make plain what they say and do.

If she'd broadcast the quotes back when the were spoken, the ensuing "controversy" (if one did arise) would have rapidly clarified the matter. To wit, if Ginsburg did not fully grasp the question, as Couric speculates, then the "controversy" would have given her an opportunity to clarify.

Thus endeth today's first rant. Thank you very much

[pnwmom]

20. I don't think we should idolize anyone, including RBG. If her ego hadn't been so large

she would have retired during Obama's first term, and made it possible for him to appoint a young replacement.

But she refused, saying he wouldn't be able to find anyone better than she was -- which wasn't the point. She had already had cancer twice by then, including a very serious pancreatic cancer. We would have been better off if she'd retired when she could have been replaced by Obama.

But she thought she was essential. And now look where we are. Instead of having her, we got Amy Coney Barrett.

[CTyankee]

37. Yes, I believe you are right. Sadly, it wasn't her finest moment.

We don't know if the drugs she was taking had befogged her brain. I wish someone could have talked her out of it and retired.

[PSPS]

3. Mediaite is now considered LBN?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. It's Mediaite regurgitating UK Daily Mail which also isn't exactly LBN. . . . nt

[msongs]

4. not LBN. its a press release for her book n t

[milestogo]

5. So she's "going there"

Where exactly is she going?

[tulipsandroses]

7. She's really going after some beloved figures

Recently had a really stupid statement about Denzel Washington, as if she was trying to make him sound hostile. Now RBG. Roll the tape so we can hear it ourselves . Until then, not really buying it.

[ananda]

8. I haven't liked Couric for awhile. And definitely won't..

be talking about or buying her stupid, irrelevant book.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. 'Protecting' an interview subject. I'll bet she wonders why she's not taken as a serious journalist.

[Skittles]

14. you nail it

overrated

[BradAllison]

18. What would make her a "saint"?

Saying she always wanted someone to put a knee on her back while they kneel for the anthem?

[Devil Child]

34. RGB as a "white privileged" selfish woman who you feel didn't know her place?

As far as your last sentence, I can only hope!

ps. RGB is a Jewish American woman, hard to argue privilege when she has intersectionality of some of the most historically oppressed groups. Jewish women.

[Freethinker65]

11. RBG did not need protecting

Katie and her publisher are just working hard to increase sales of a book. Katie could have followed up if she didn't fully understand RBG's answer rather than speculate a few years later to sell a fucking book after RBG was no longer alive to expand upon her answer to a throw away question. If Katie were a real journalist, she would have had a major scoop if RBG went full on anti-kneeling as protest.

[SharonClark]

21. Well said.

[OldBaldy1701E]

27. Yep. (n/t)

[Autumn]

12. I wonder if RBG was aware that Kaepernick's parents and grandparents are white?

[GulfCoast66]

23. How would that change things?

Sure as shit RBG’s family had a hard time before coming to America. And she was old enough to remember those times. I’m not at all surprised she personally took umbrage to people kneeling during the anthem. But also defended their right to do so.

Not all liberals thought it was cool. Not by a long shot. But all defended their right to do so.

[Autumn]

30. My post was in response to what RBG supposedly said

"not standing for the anthem depicts 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 …"

What I bolded I disagree with 100%. That may be her history but not his.

I'm not talking about where she came from, I'm talking about where he came from. His family had privilege that others don't. He did not kneel to show contempt, he knelt for the injustice of what government agencies and our justice system has allowed.

Don't like my opinion? Scroll on by

[CapnSteve]

13. (Sorry) who the fuck cares? We have bigger problems! (Sorry)

[madaboutharry]

16. Justice Ginsburg wasn't perfect.

She wasn’t a saint. She was a great Justice who sought to protect the American people from hard right extremists on the court who think the Constitution should be interpreted as if it was 1790.
She sometimes thought out loud, just like the rest of us.

Katie Couric was wrong to “protect” her in the first place. RBG was tough, she didn’t need protection.

[BradAllison]

17. What's the big deal?

She said she wouldn't "lock a person up" over it, which is the only point that really needs to be made here.

[NNadir]

22. Wow!! That great intellectual powerhouse Katie Couric was protecting weak little RGB!!!

Who knew?

Rather who cares?

[GulfCoast66]

24. I agree with RBG. When did liberals begin to participate in groupthink?

You think all liberals agree with kneeling during the anthem? No way. We all agreed they had the right to do so and understood the narrative they were attempting to send.

But almost almost of my liberals friends disagreed with it and would never do it ourselves. Especially when being paid millions a year.

We are not iconoclastic. But 3 years ago I would not have dared post anything on DU saying I disagree with kneeling during the anthem. It would have caused negative consequences. Kneeling does not help our cause in the long run. Others may disagree. But those who want to certainly have the right and should be protected.

[summer_in_TX]

25. If Kaepernick had only connected his kneeling to prayer for the disproportionate killing

of blacks to end and justice to be done, I think many in the religious community might have said yes, let's kneel in prayer for an end to the killing and for justice. After all, faith communities have a long tradition of kneeling in prayer – and prayer can certainly be protest. He might still be employed by the NFL too.

I always saw his kneeling in protest as a form of prayer for the world to be a better place for all.

[Raine]

26. I totally agree with you. 👍 nt

[myohmy2]

28. then...

...it should be on tape...

...I would like to see that tape before I got too excited...

...it doesn't sound right to me...

[Orinocojhon]

31. RBG is and was one of the most interesting and intelligent people

in the world. Her frank honesty, courage in the face of loss of family, and in the face of cancer remain admirable. She was a class act and was a REAL Liberal. Obviously she retained some of the libertarian philosophy that the Democratic party used to have but seems to be losing recently. I'm sad for that. Her independence of thought was was amazing. Her ability to find bridges with people that she disagreed with (Scalia was her dear friend) shows just how amazing and strong a person she was. Nowadays, most people left and right seem to only be REAL friends with people they agree/vote with.
She was a national treasure.
A true AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL.
I miss her.

[marble falls]

32. She was Democrat but you wouldn't know it from her SCOTUS record. That's what we need ...

... from all Justices: we should not be able to suss political bias from their rulings.

They're to rule on issues of law based on the Constitution, not furthering political agenda.

[Devil Child]

33. RGB doesn't need Katie Couric "protecting" anyone from RGB's liberty to have an independent thought

Beyond insulting to Ruth Bader Ginsburg's memory to pull this after she has passed.

Quite simply, so fucking what if she didn't want to engage in the social exercise of kneeling for her reasons which are hers. And double fuck you to Couric for playing the age card, if she was "too old" to understand the question which she fully did, then the implication is she was "too old" to serve as a justice. Goddamn this ground my gears....

[FreepFryer]

35. Katie so shady (Nt)