Ruth Bader Ginsburg - People who kneel are showing 'contempt for a government that made a decent life possible'

Katie Couric covered up RBG's dislike for taking the knee: Anchor says she edited 2016 interview to 'protect' the justice after she said people who kneel are showing 'contempt for a government that made a decent life possible'

• 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