(Relevant) Former Today Show host Katie Couric’s has included a provocative passage in her new memoir Going There where she opens up about “protecting” (her words) the Ruth Bader Ginsburg by editing her criticism of Americans who take a knee during the National Anthem. Couric wrote that she felt printing the late Supreme Court Justice’s full thoughts would have led to too much public backlash.
In a 2016 interview Couric conducted for Yahoo!, Ginsburg told Couric that she felt refusing to stand for the anthem is “dumb and disrespectful.” Those comments made it into the published interview. But Couric censored other, harsher remarks. Apparently, Ginsburg also said that people like Colin Kaepernick who protest police brutality by kneeling during the anthem are showing “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.”