Thu Oct 14, 2021 – 2:35 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Veteran liberal journalist Katie Couric has admitted to censoring politically inconvenient remarks by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from a 2016 interview, writing in her new memoir that she did it to “protect” the far-left jurist from her own words.
In the 2016 Yahoo News interview, Ginsburg told the former Today Show host she felt it was “dumb and disrespectful” of National Football League (NFL) players such as San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to kneel during pregame National Anthem performances, a symbolic protest of the United States as allegedly systemically racist. Ginsburg, who died in September 2020, added that kneeling was their legal right, but she would “strongly take issue with the point of view that they are expressing when they do that.”
On Wednesday, the Daily Mail reported that Couric’s upcoming memoir Going There reveals Ginsburg had condemned Kaepernick’s actions even more strongly than Couric revealed at the time, by adding that anthem kneelers 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
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