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The Media’s Kamala Harris “Fraud”

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Vice President Kamala Harris listens during a virtual tour of the Community Vaccination Center at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

After tapes leaked from the 60 Minutes interview of Kamala Harris that seemed to show that Harris’s answers were edited to make her look better than she was, President Trump denounced the fiasco as a fraud and called for CBS (the network that airs 60 Minutes) to have its broadcast license pulled. Readers may remember that Trump was interviewed by Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes before the 2020 election. Stahl said the Hunter Biden laptop couldn’t be verified, even after the NY Post had reported on it. Now, the same network and the same program have been found to be helping Harris with deceptive editing. Bradley Cortright reports at The New York Sun:

The turmoil over liberal and anti-Israel bias at CBS News has now drawn in top executives from its parent company, Paramount,  and cast a harsh spotlight on the storied news division’s new management team, who hail from its local station group and have no editorial experience in national news coverage.

A slip-up by the network disclosed that it made multiple, contradictory edits to an answer Vice President Harris gave to CBS correspondent Bill Whitaker of “60 Minutes.”

President Trump spoke about the edits during an event at the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday and called it a “fraud,” alleging the network coordinated with the Democratic Party to help Ms. Harris’ campaign. The former president said he has never experienced CBS editing his interviews to improve his answers.


Further, in leaked documents from inside CBS News, a senior editorial standards and practices executive ruled that CBS News journalists may not refer to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel because Palestinians object to that designation.

This follows days of controversy over CBS News management’s reprimand, on the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, of its Jewish show host Tony Dokoupil for challenging, on a broadcast of “CBS Mornings”, the far-left author, Ta Nehesi Coates, about comments he made about Israel in his new book.

The ‘60 Minutes’ edit controversy

During a pre-taped interview with “60 Minutes” that aired Monday evening, the vice president was asked why Prime Minister Netanyahu does not seem to be heeding the warnings or wishes of American officials.

In an excerpt released Sunday on the CBS News program “Face the Nation”, to promote Monday night’s interview, Ms. Harris responded that, “The work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by, or a result of, many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.”

However, in the version of the interview that aired on Monday night’s special edition of “60 Minutes”, Ms. Harris answered the question differently, saying, “We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.”

A third edit also surfaced, posted late Sunday morning by CBS News on X, which included yet another answer from Ms. Harris to the same question. In the third version, the vice president spoke about America’s efforts to help Israel defend itself from attacks from Iran. She said it is America’s “imperative to do what we can to allow Israel to defend itself against those types of attacks.”

Trump’s campaign is demanding that CBS release the full interview transcript, alleging the edit was made to “lessen Kamala’s idiotic response” to help her campaign.

The three different versions of Ms. Harris’ answer to Mr. Whitaker’s question about Mr. Netanyahu shows that CBS News selectively edited the interview, rather than just releasing a straight question and answer.

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