With Fox News ‘ apparent decision to selectively edit Vice President Kamala Harris ‘ interview to be more flattering of the presidential hopeful in full display, CBS News ‘ apparent decision to do so appears even more damning.
Harris has just given interviews with Fox News anchor Bret Baier and other members of her party’s intellectual fringe, and only a few have been given the job. A lot of them have been pretaped, giving stores the ability to change the images.
One of the most obvious attempts to deceive Americans was made last week by CBS, which released one answer to the same question and then a second, completely different answer. In the first type, Harris shared what has been extensively mocked as a long “word dish” response to “60 Minutes” interviewer Bill Whitaker’s issue about Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strained relationship with the White House.
The “word salad”, however, did not make it into the change that aired in the entire meeting, as it was replaced by a shorter, more terse response that did not appear in the first tape. The switcheroo, which appeared to be nothing less than corporate media election interference, was criticized and even subjected to a complaint from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC ) accusing CBS of” significant and intentional news distortion.”
” This is n’t just about one interview or one network”, Daniel Suhr, president of the Center for American Rights, which filed the complaint, said in a statement. In the context of one of the most significant elections of our period, the public should be confident in the media regarding important issues relating to global security and international relations.
” Democracy is undermined by broadcasters ‘ manipulation of interviews and distortions of reality.” Suhr urged the FCC to respond quickly to regain public trust in the media.  ,
Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat director on CBS and the FCC, defended the careful editing, with Jon Wertheim, a “60 Minutes” journalist, saying that “everything is edited in every story.” Rosenworcel attacked former president Donald Trump’s censure of the changes, saying that while “repeated attacks by the original President may now be well known, these threats against free speech are significant and should not be ignored.”
The vast majority of Americans ( 85 percent ) believe CBS should release the full interview, according to a Harvard/Harris poll.
Her Fox News meeting on Wednesday, which came a little over a year after Harris ‘ CBS meeting, revealed exactly what kind of functionality the CBS editors were allegedly trying to hide from the American public. She was enraged and aggressive after being subjected to press criticism because the exam exposed an unadulterated show of her inability to articulate her own opinions, much less how they differ from those of the fatal Biden management.
Harris was asked typical, literary questions by Baier, and Fox published the appointment in its entirety. In contrast, the Harris battle continued to quickly refer to it as an “ambush,” according to Harris senior adviser and former Obama campaign director David Plouffe.
Harris appeared irritated on numerous occasions in the Fox interview because she was being posed fundamental inquiries about the management in which she is already a member and about her changing plan jobs. She also refused to respond to the questions, using Trump whenever necessary to force Baier to shift Harris ‘ attention away from the actual issues posed.
Harris has changed her mind about supporting decriminalizing improper border crossings, which she stated during her presidential campaign in 2019. She has since stated that she does not support that and that she” will not do that as leader,” despite the fact that the Biden administration has allowed for an extraordinary rise in illegal border crossings with her.
When asked about the repercussions of her administration’s open border policy, like the deaths of innocent Americans at the hands of illegals dumped by the Biden-Harris administration into American communities, Harris offered a mealy-mouthed and dismissive apology. Instead of taking responsibility, she merely said she was sorry that the deaths occurred.
In an effort to blame Republicans for not passing immigration reform, Harris invoked a bill that had been killed in Congress in an effort to codify leftist policies, including deporting illegal immigrants, as Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida noted.
When Harris repeatedly attempted to refute Baier’s claim that Trump is” not stable,” he immediately flipped the situation, asking Harris a question that was so obvious:” When did she first notice that President Biden’s mental faculties appeared to have diminished”?
Harris deflected, exasperated, telling Baier that Biden, who is still serving as president, “is not on the ballot”.
Harris ‘ sit-down with Fox was the only one with an interviewer who was not a far-left dyed-in-the-wool ally. And it showed, as Harris angrily sputtered under mildly challenging questions.
In response, the leftist media outlets that have spent countless hours covering for Harris ‘ shortcomings rushed to portray the Fox interview as something that went against media norms.
Miraculously, many corporate media outlets — the Associated Press, NPR, CNN, the Guardian, and more — came out with matching headlines to help pad the Harris campaign’s disastrous showing, using the word “testy” to describe the Fox interview.
CNN’s Brian Stelter went further, saying Harris “walked into a Trump campaign field office” at Fox and describing Baier as a” Trump surrogate” in an attempt to explain away Harris ‘ incoherence.
Stelter boasted on social media that Harris ‘ campaign shares his views.
Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered issues of culture and education for Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner. He is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow and holds a degree from the University of Virginia. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.