Katie Couric has admitted to editing out Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s controversial comments from her 2016 sit-down with the late Supreme Court Justice
Couric writes that she was faced with a ‘conundrum’ while working on the story for Yahoo! News, in her scathing new memoir, Going There, released October 26
The former Today show host reveals Ginsburg responded negatively when asked about people who kneel for the national anthem as a protest against racism
The published story did include quotes from the justice calling the gesture ‘dumb and disrespectful’ but omitted more controversial remarks
Ginsburg had also said that such protests showed ‘contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life’
‘…which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from…as they became older they realize that this was youthful folly,’ she added
Couric claims that Ginsburg, who was 83 at the time, was ‘elderly and probably didn’t fully understand the question’
She admits she ‘wanted to protect’ Ginsburg and felt that the issue of racial justice was a ‘blind spot’ for her
