It should be abundantly clear by now that the media has their thumb on the scale for Kamala Harris, much the same way they did for Joe Biden in 2020. The actions by CBS are merely the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

For those who remember, CBS had Bill Whitaker interview Kamala Harris back on October 7th. In that interview, the first one where Kamala Harris was even mildly pressed for real answers, not just memorized soundbites, she gave a word salad answer on Israel that got used in promotional clips (including on X), which mysteriously did not make it to the final cut of the interview. The side-by-side of the originally promoted response, and the completely different answer that was aired, are featured in the below video. An FCC complaint has now been filed against CBS as well.

CBS News has taken heat in recent days for airing two different answers to the same question in its “60 Minutes” interview last week with Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris was mocked by conservatives when footage of her offering a lengthy “word salad” was aired by CBS’ “Face the Nation” to promote the “60 Minutes” sit-down, when Bill Whitaker asked why it seemed like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn’t listening to the U.S.

However, the vice president’s lengthy answer didn’t make the version that aired on Monday night on “60 Minutes” and a shorter, more focused answer to the same question was shown instead.

The Center for American Rights, also known as CAR, argued that the discrepancies “amount to deliberate news distortion — a violation of FCC rules governing broadcasters’ public interest obligations.”

The complaint insisted CBS release the unedited transcript of the interview to set the record straight, which echoes calls from former President Trump and many others.

The ordeal began when CBS teased the Harris interview earlier this month on “Face the Nation.”

“Well, Bill, 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,” Harris responded to Whitaker in the “Face the Nation” version.

When CBS aired the interview the following night, it showed a different answer to the exact same question.

“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,” Harris said.

The Harris campaign has distanced itself from the notion that it asked for the answers to be swapped and directed questions to CBS.

It’s obvious that the campaign wants no part of this, but they didn’t HAVE to tell CBS to edit the answer. Somebody at CBS has their own agenda, and if it wasn’t obvious with this Kamala Harris interview, and the entire Ta-Nehisi Coates interview meltdown by CBS staff, then the editing of the interview with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson should make it crystal clear that CBS is deliberately messing with the answers they are getting, and slanting the news.

Apparently, CBS also doesn't want you to hear about Virginia Gov. Youngkin, who is trying to clean the state's voter rolls so non-American citizens can't vote there.

We need more states doing this, but the Biden-Harris Administration is SUING VIRGINIA and trying to STOP it. pic.twitter.com/10JIJSNkPR

— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) October 15, 2024

There is editing for time, and then there is deliberately manipulating what the public is hearing. CBS would like you to believe that they are doing the former, not the latter. But unless every single Republican, like Speaker Johnson, decides to record the entire interview for themselves, and then post the video on a platform like X, the public is going to be left in the dark and wondering if what they are hearing is what actually happened – especially when it comes to protecting a “preferred” candidate.

CBS should be concerned that they are being accused of manipulating the news. Their response to the Kamala Harris “60 Minutes” controversy, released on Sunday evening, is nothing more than an attempt to sweep it all under the rug and telling the audience to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false.

60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes. Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response. When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point. The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment.

Remember, Mr. Trump pulled out of his interview with 60 Minutes and the vice president participated.

Our long-standing invitation to former President Trump remains open. If he would like to discuss the issues facing the nation and the Harris interview, we would be happy to have him on 60 Minutes.

Let’s fisk this statement, shall we? First of all, they claim that their editing wasn’t “deceitful,” but that it was done for time constraints. This has already been debunked.

Here are the two different 60 Minutes edits layered on top of each other in full. You will hear where Whitaker's questions line up, and the different edited answers from Harris.

SC 1842 (bottom) is what aired on Monday night.
SC 1843.5 (top) is what the Face the Nation X account… pic.twitter.com/FEuQp2o0kn

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 9, 2024

The tracks time up almost exactly. This was not "edited for time" as CBS and 60 Minutes will likely claim.

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 9, 2024

Also, as they say, the interview was 21 minutes long. Call me crazy, but the show is called “60 Minutes.” I’m pretty sure that if they had a lot more material than what fit into a 21 minute segment package, they could have – oh, I don’t know – given the current Democrat nominee for president MORE AIR TIME??? The answer was edited to chop up Kamala’s word salad, and they even admit that they went for the “more succinct” answer. Isn’t the public supposed to hear the COMPLETE answer, not just the part that CBS thinks makes Kamala sound better?

CBS also snarks that Trump declined his “60 Minutes” interview, without mentioning that he demanded an apology first for the Lesley Stahl “60 Minutes” interview back in 2020, where she tried to claim that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation.” Seeing as the network should eat some crow for that one, and Donald Trump is busy reaching voters without giving “60 Minutes” or CBS the airtime, there is no reason for him to sit down for an interview – especially considering their “editing” jobs. Now, Donald Trump has been a proponent of recording his interviews for his own protection, so there is less likelihood that a “stealth edit” would escape his team’s attention. Still, why should CBS be rewarded with a Trump interview, after proving that they will edit according to their biases however they see fit?

If CBS wanted to clear everything up, they could just release the transcript, as many people on X helpfully reminded them.

This self-righteous statement, for no apparent reason, is not “here is the unedited transcript.” https://t.co/Rx4kwtxYzm

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 21, 2024

Former CBS reporter Catherine Herridge pointed out that there was plenty of precedent for releasing a complete transcript, and that the network refusing to do so is compromising its journalistic integrity. Considering that this is the news network of Dan Rather and the faked National Guard documents during the 2004 presidential campaign, I’d say that their integrity left a LOOOOOOONG time ago.

This statement from CBS confirms, rather than denies, that the interview was edited for the benefit of Kamala Harris. That the campaign says they didn’t ask for the edit is immaterial. The network is fully in the tank for Kamala, and even though Bill Whitaker conducted a fair interview that asked salient questions, Kamala’s innate stupidity and inability to speak in anything but platitudes is obvious. So CBS stepped in to help the dummy out pick the “more succinct” answer. Unfortunately, should Kamala Harris become president, there will be no CBS editors on hand to make her sound more coherent to hostile world leaders in real time.

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