Katie Couric admits editing 2016 RBG interview to remove comments critical of anthem kneeling

[Alben Barkley]

Genuinely shocked by this from Ginsburg. I find it very surprising how bad her take was on the whole kneeling thing.

Why?

She was very old and from a generation and background that knew more than anyone how good America has been to them and how lucky they have been to live in this country.

It would have been far more surprising if she sided with Colin "I suck at football and think voting is for losers, but I'm gonna try to make myself out to be a political martyr (and make a ton of money from Nike at the same time) with a ridiculous publicity stunt" Kaepernick.

[Alben Barkley]

The fact that people are so shocked by Ginsburg's comments shows just how much the left has changed over a very short period of time. Liberals and most of the left did not used to be so vocally unpatriotic. There's a world of difference between "We love this country and want it to evolve past its flaws" and "The United States is and always has been a uniquely evil white supremacist, imperialist nation." The latter was not mainstream on the left side of the aisle until recently. It's no surprising to me that a woman who came of age during Truman's administration would be disturbed by disdain for the US anthem.

You got it backwards. "Liberals" have not changed at all. What's happened is that the far left (which openly hates liberals) has found more of a voice thanks to social media.