Three months have passed since the vote, and there are still many unanswered questions as to what exactly happened in the blatant relationship that existed between the dying nationwide media and the Kamala Harris plan. However, a little more quality was provided this week when the whole, almost hour-long interview with Harris from CBS “60 Minutes” was made available by Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr.
The Center for American Rights, a right-leaning law company that accused the network of information distortion, filed a complaint with the FCC as a result of the release of the fresh images. The accusation was made in response to a discrepancy between the small tease that CBS released prior to the full “60 Minutes” episode and the last cut, which showed Harris giving a different response to the same question.
What we now know is that CBS’s initial claim that it only used a part of a longer response in the production that aired was accurate. But that doesn’t certain the system of its controversial decision to clear up not only that significant portion of the interview, in which Harris’s sharper answer is wildly confused, but in other parts, also.
An extended section of the final cut, where Harris wasn’t asked a complicated question about geopolitical issues or macroeconomics but about why she wants to be president, was another highly suspect omission. ” There are many reasons but probably, um, first and foremost, I truly believe in the promise of America”, she droned in an alarmingly slow cadence. ” I do. And I love the American people. We are a people who have ambition, aspirations, dreams, optimism, and hope, as you may well know.
You can feel Bill Whitaker’s eyes mentally rolling the back of his skull without even being able to see him. Regardless of whether Harris has a deeply superficial or deeply boring answer, the portion was undoubtedly rejected because of its banality.
Whitaker asks another obvious question in another section: Why did Harris change her mind to the contrary of what she had previously done on virtually every major issue?
Here’s what “60 Minutes” included from that answer:
” In the last four years, I have been vice president of the United States, I have been traveling our country, I have been listening to people, and I have been looking for what is possible in terms of common ground.” I believe in building consensus. We are a diverse people — , geographically, regionally, in terms of where we are in our backgrounds and what the American people do want is that we have leaders who can build consensus. Where we can find compromise and accept that finding compromise is acceptable as long as we don’t compromise our values in order to find common sense solutions. And that has been my approach”.
However, what “60 Minutes” ultimately ran was a mashup of two separate responses that Kamala provided, the first to ask why her positions have changed, and the second to ask whether it was “evolution or, as your critics say, opportunism.”
The program did not air the more divisive follow-up question and omitted the majority of Harris ‘ responses in response to the initial one, including a flippant remark that said,” First of all, many of the positions that you’re talking about have been discussed and dispensed with in 2020, four years ago.”
Instead of including that portion, which suggests Harris admitted she had simply abandoned her prior policy positions without regard for a reason ( no biggie! ), “60 Minutes” solely used the more positive portion about” building consensus”.
CBS refused to release both the full transcript and the interview’s footage at the time of the initial controversies over the one editing error last year, something it voluntarily did infrequently with other interviews. Of course not. The media was still conducting psychological experiments on the voters to persuade them that she was something she never was as the election was not yet over.
