The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has finally released the full, unedited video and transcript of Kamala Harris’ disastrous Oct. 2024 interview on CBS’ "60 Minutes." It did so in response to a complaint from the Center for American Rights (CAR), accusing CBS’ New affiliate, WCBS, of “news distortion” in how it edited the video for airing. CBS was, of course, trying to make Harris look as good as possible by straining out some semblance of sense from her word salad. CBS, meanwhile, continues to insist that it did nothing wrong. Now, however, the American people can see for themselves.
Fox News reported Wednesday that “the raw transcript showed CBS News had aired only the first half of her response to ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Bill Whitaker's question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not ‘listening’ to the Biden administration in a preview clip that aired on ‘Face the Nation,’ but aired only the second half of her response during the primetime special.” Does that constitute journalistic malpractice? CBS says no.
At the same time that the FCC released the transcript, CBS did as well, while calling attention to the cleanliness of its hands and purity of its intentions:
We are posting the same transcripts and videos of our interview with Vice President Kamala Harris that we provided to the FCC. They show – consistent with 60 Minutes' repeated assurances to the public – that the 60 Minutes broadcast was not doctored or deceitful. In reporting the news, journalists regularly edit interviews – for time, space or clarity. In making these edits, 60 Minutes is always guided by the truth and what we believe will be most informative to the viewing public – all while working within the constraints of broadcast television. As the full transcript shows, we edited the interview to ensure that as much of the vice president's answers to 60 Minutes' many questions were included in our original broadcast while fairly representing those answers. 60 Minutes' hard-hitting questions of the vice president speak for themselves.
Yeah, sure, CBS, you’re as honest as the day is long! It’s just a complete, total coincidence that your editing made Harris appear more competent and coherent than her full answer did. What a surprise! Obviously a determination to prop up her sagging candidacy and sell her as a plausible president didn’t enter into your stringently upright journalistic considerations even for a nanosecond, now, did it?
Here is the full 60 Minutes unedited video interviewing Kamal Harris, uploaded by FCC:https://t.co/QX08Yvy1RR
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The notorious q-and-a went this way. Whitaker asked Harris: "But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. The Wall Street Journal said that he — that your administration has repeatedly been blindsided by Netanyahu, and in fact, he has rebuffed just about all of your administration's entreaties."
Harris got out her mixing bowl, leafy greens, and olive oil, and went to work: "Well, Bill,” she began sagely, “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. And we're not going to stop doing that. 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." Got it?
Harris seemed to be saying that Israel was doing what the Biden-Harris regime wanted it to do, and that the regime was going to keep on telling Israel what it wanted it to do. But the last part? Come on, man! “We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear”? Well, that was good, because Harris certainly wasn’t being all that clear herself. But what exactly was necessary for the U.S. to be clear? Alas, Harris didn’t say.
CBS went into immediate cleanup mode. In a preview "Face the Nation," Harris was shown saying: "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." That wasn’t as bad as the full clip, which never aired in its entirely. On the primetime special, she was depicted as 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." The incoherence of that last bit remained, but cut off from its lengthy preamble, it didn’t sound at all like the wandering ramble that it actually was.
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CBS was disingenuous even in the process of appearing to come clean. Fox noted that “the network went on to say it aired a ‘longer portion’ of Harris' answer on ‘Face the Nation’ while airing a ‘shorter excerpt’ during the primetime special without acknowledging that none of what aired in the preview clip was featured on ‘60 Minutes.’"
President Trump's FCC chair Brendan Carr injected some common sense into the whole affair when he said: "The policy says you can't swap answers out to make it look like somebody said something entirely different." In this case, CBS was obviously trying to make Harris look as good as they possibly could, while, of course, demonizing Trump in every way it possibly could. And so “in October, Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against CBS News alleging election interference over its handling of the ‘60 Minutes’ interview, accusing the network of aiding his Democratic rival through deceptive editing just days before the election.” Yeah, that is unmistakable at this point.
There is talk that CBS may settle the suit. If it does, it will become the third establishment media propaganda outfit, after ABC and CNN, to settle defamation cases in recent weeks. The entire sinister and false edifice is crumbling.
