The American media/left attack on Vice President JD Vance for calling out censorship during his speech in Germany is a truly alarming thing. How do you stand with censorship rather than with the person calling it out? 

We even saw the crazy moment where "Face the Nation's" Margaret Brennan claimed that free speech had been "weaponized" by the Nazis to "conduct a genocide." Secretary of State Marco Rubio had to school her on how nuts that was if she thought that free speech was somehow the cause of the Holocaust — that, indeed, the Nazis didn't allow free speech. 

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After folks on the right called out this insanity, leftist media personality Mehdi Hasan tagged JD Vance in an effort to compare Vance's criticism of the Germans to the White House blocking the AP from the Oval Office and Air Force One. 

Hey @JDVance, I know you’re busy lecturing the Europeans on free speech, but have you seen this? https://t.co/jVoWE0Z5q1

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 17, 2025

We reported at length the reason the White House chose to block the AP because of what the White House viewed as weaponizing/politicizing their language. 

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But not having them in the Oval Office or on Air Force One is not infringing on their "free speech." It's not like locking up people for praying in Germany — it doesn't look like Mehdi Hasan understands what "free speech" is. If you don't invite a reporter into the Oval Office, that isn't preventing them from reporting on anything they want. The White House noted that the AP doesn't have a "right' to any special access, particularly given the limitations and the "misinformation" the White House believes they spread. Hasan should have read what Marc Caputo was saying in that tweet to learn why the White House was doing what they were doing in regard to the AP. 

But Hasan is so pro-free speech he locked his replies so he didn't have to see the people who were blasting him for his interpretation. As some noted, his blocking replies, by his illogic, might be a "free speech violation."

Vance then schooled Hasan in a brutal post. 

Yes dummy. I think there’s a difference between not giving a reporter a seat in the WH press briefing room and jailing people for dissenting views. The latter is a threat to free speech, the former is not. Hope that helps!

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 17, 2025

Yes dummy. I think there’s a difference between not giving a reporter a seat in the WH press briefing room and jailing people for dissenting views. The latter is a threat to free speech, the former is not. Hope that helps!

Exactly. Now that's the standing up for principle for which we voted. 

It's not complicated, and Hasan should know that.  The fact that he doesn't — add that into the rest of the media mania over this issue. They should be the first people you would think who should be standing with Vance on the principle. But they're not because the overarching principle above that seems to be to take the opposite position of anything Trump or the Trump team does.