in World News JD Vance Steamrolls CBS’ Margaret Brennan When She Says America ‘Is a Country Founded by Immigrants’
Say this much for the propagandists in the establishment media: They remain impervious to humility or truth.
Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” during an interview with Vice President J.D. Vance, establishment journalist Margaret Brennan, with equal parts smugness and ignorance, confidently repeated the trite liberal falsehood that “this is a country founded by immigrants.”
With his preternatural patience and characteristic erudition, Vance calmly but firmly dismantled Brennan’s nonsensical claim.
“This is a very unique country,” Brennan added, no doubt prematurely thinking she had scored a debating point.
Needless to say, she soon found herself overmatched against the vice president.
“This is a very unique country, and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers,” Vance replied. “But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn’t mean that 240 years later that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world.”
Indeed, one can scarcely overstate the importance and brilliance of Vance’s reply. More on that in a moment.
As for the context, Brennan had asked Vance about President Donald Trump’s executive order last week ending birthright citizenship.
Thus, Vance elaborated on the Trump administration’s position.
“No country says that temporary visitors — their children — will be given complete access to the benefits and blessings of American citizenship. America should actually look out for the interests of our citizens first. And that means, again, if you’re here permanently and lawfully, your kid becomes an American citizen. If you’re not here permanently, if you’re not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and don’t plan to be, why would we make those people’s children American citizens permanently?” Vance said, there by concluding his masterful reply.