| "Why did Couric hit the delete button?" Columnist Erik Wemple asks that question about broadcaster Katie Couric's decision to sand down comments made by then-Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a 2016 interview. The episode, which according to DailyMail.com is recounted in Couric's forthcoming memoir, dealt with Ginsburg's criticism of on-field protests by Colin Kaepernick and other professional football players. Couric reported some of what Ginsburg said. But left unaired, reportedly at the request of a public affairs official, was Ginsburg's puzzling conflation of the protests with immigration. The protests showed "contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life," she said. "… Which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from." So why Couric's deletion? Wemple is not impressed with her answer. But more to the point, he writes, the whole thing illustrates exactly why hero worship should have no place among journalists. "Couric did the work of a full-fledged cultist," he writes, and ill served the liberal icon's followers by shielding them from her actual views.  (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) The late Supreme Court justice had some unexpected views on NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest during the national anthem. So she edited out some of them. By Erik Wemple ● Read more » | | | | The Democratic gubernatorial candidate objects to criticism of local school boards for infusing public school curricula with "anti-racist" indoctrination favored by many unionized teachers. By George F. Will ● Read more » | | | | The party invitation that made a university go nuts. By Kathleen Parker ● Read more » | | | | D.C.'s leadership is in transition, and it's time for voters to start getting ready to render their verdicts. Rightly so. By Colbert I. King ● Read more » | | | | The holdout on Biden's agenda says: Let them eat cake. By Dana Milbank ● Read more » | | | A historic, season-long competition between the California rivals ends by providing more support for a technology already being tested in the minors. By David Von Drehle ● Read more » | | | | World leaders will regret turning a blind eye to the problem. By Henry Olsen ● Read more » | | | | The Great Resignation shows power shifting just a bit toward workers. It might not last. By Paul Waldman ● Read more » | | | | I needed a coronavirus test. Why did it take seven hours? By Kate Cohen ● Read more » | | | | The no-knock raid's only real legacy has been unnecessary death. By Radley Balko ● Read more » | | | | 
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