They’ve edited Kamala Harris’s comments to remove the “word salad” responses and to make her sound succinct and articulate.
CBS did this following her 60 MInutes interview.
We know that because the teaser for the interview on her proposed handling of the Middle East conflict was full of bafflegab compared to what actually aired.
Even so, she came across as highly scripted and lacking empathy.
They’ve cried on camera sounding unhinged about a United States under Donald Trump as president. They’ve spewed scenarios so ridiculous and far-fetched you are left wondering whether they need professional help, or just suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
This is the largely Democratically aligned legacy media and their talk show acolytes in 2024.
They no longer pretend to be objective, insightful or fairly present the many issues America faces — or especially remind their viewers that Harris was in the White House during the past four years when she repeatedly says she wants to “turn the page.”
Harris can’t run on her record and the media knows that.
So they’ve done what they think needs to be done to win at all costs — misleading or quoting out of context statements made by Trump and manipulating weak, low-info voters.
The media had already shown their lack of integrity by pretending for months and months that Joe Biden was fit to run again for President.
When it became obvious he has Alzheimer’s or some form of dementia — I know because my dad suffered from it — the Democrats quickly parachuted in the candidate they’d previously considered a terrible pick.
Suddenly the narrative shifted to one of “joy” and the media quickly changed gears to prop up Harris.
In my 35 years as a journalist, I’ve never seen anything like this from the legacy media in the U.S. — the hyperbole, the drama, the temper tantrums, the cooked up controversies, the sophomoric and inane behaviour.
I particularly enjoyed watching Washington Post columnists quit after owner Jeff Bezos refused to endorse a candidate.
Their tone deafness exemplified how much the legacy media is dying one leftist tirade at a time. As if they’ll ever get another job with a huge salary in a shrinking industry.
They have made our own Canadian media seem tame — for now.
Just wait for federal election fever to heat up here when the Liberal media — propped up with bailouts from the Trudeau government— will likely start peddling their own misleading coverage of Pierre Polievre.
They’ve already repeatedly compared him to Trump and have claimed that only the Liberals will protect abortions in Canada.
I can only hope that they don’t get as whacky as pundits and talk show hosts south of the border.
Whoopi Goldberg recently lost it on The View, claiming Trump will break up interracial marriages.
Mika Brezezinski, wife to Morning Joe on MSNBC, has been absolutely over-the-top, telling viewers in a tragic voice the end is nigh if Trump wins.
Here she is alleging that under Trump, women will no longer be free to get health care or abortions.
Fact-checking during debates has been consistently one-sided in favour of the Democrats. It was only near the end of the campaign that CNN’s Anderson Cooper actually challenged Harris’s vague answers full of “word salads.”
When Bret Baier of Fox News actually asked Harris some tough follow-up questions — as a journalist should — MSNBC chastised him for doing his job!
That’s why I was so thrilled when vice-presidential hopeful J.D. Vance interrupted Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan in his Oct. 1 debate to fact check them on border security. They responded by cutting off his mic.
So many conspiracy theories have been expounded. I’ve lost count.
MSNBC has been the worst in a close race, running a ticker on their newscast the Sunday of Trump’s Madison Square Gardens Rally reminding viewers that a Nazi rally was held in another MSG building in 1939.
Trump was criticized as being a hater of Puerto Ricans after a comic, who appeared at the rally hours before Trump spoke, made fun of the Puerto Rican garbage crisis.
Billionaire Mark Cuban made it all over the airwaves when he called women who support Trump, “stupid.” He was forced to walk back that comment.
Proving he has a sense of humour, Trump took to a garbage truck this past week after president Joe Biden called him “garbage”
But that made MSNBC fume even more:
Prissy CBS talking head Norah McDonnell was not amused either:
Still it is interesting to note that in the past few days some talk show hosts and pundits have bravely called out the misleading statements.
Bill Maher put down the hysteria related to Trump’s comments about LIz Cheney:
Respected pundit Hugh Hewitt actually walked off the job mid-podcast after he tried to correct the record about Trump and was met with predictable disdain by his arrogant Washington Post colleagues:
I suppose we’ll see on Tuesday but I suspect that the average U.S. citizen is not fooled by these tactics — except for the entitled Liberal women who actually believe Trump will take away their abortion rights.
Through this election the legacy media has sunk to a new low— one from which they will never recover.
