Kamala Harris was hoping to move the needle with her media tour.
She may have moved the needle alright, but in the wrong direction for her. She seems to be completely imploding along with her knuckle-headed running mate, Tim Walz. Interviews with friendly outlets are supposed to help prop you up. But her interview with “The View” just decimated her and her interview with “60 Minutes” has evolved into a full-blown scandal.
Bill Whitaker actually did a good job of asking some probing questions, and Kamala gave some ridiculous answers, including one incredible word salad about Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They released a clip on it early, but then when they did the whole interview on Monday, the answer had changed and been edited.
Remember Kamala’s word salad answer about Israel on 60 Minutes? It’s gone.
This is what many Americans will now see. pic.twitter.com/H4w7btDv6x
— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 8, 2024
That caused the scandal to implode and made people ask what else they might have edited/left out/changed in the interview because it looks like it was edited to make her sound better after they cleaned up the word salad. As my colleague Sister Toldjah explained, they also edited the transcript and the “full” YouTube video.
Stephen Miller lines it up and also shows that if they’re going to try to argue that it’s because of “time,” it won’t fly.
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 Harris campaign is trying to run away from the scandal. “We do not control CBS’s production decisions and refer questions to CBS,” a Harris campaign aide told Fox. Uh-huh. Did they ask to have any parts aired or not aired? Notice their response simply says they don’t “control” the production decisions.
CBS isn’t talking, so that’s not looking good for them.
The Trump campaign is demanding the release of the full transcript, understandably.
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Now former CBS reporter Catherine Herridge is calling CBS out with an example of what journalistic integrity and transparency are about. She began posting on X calling for them to release the full, unedited transcript.
She posted about releasing Trump’s interview.
NEW CONTEXT:
As Trump campaign calls on @60Minutes to release “full, unedited transcript” of Kamala Harris interview…
There is precedent.
When I interviewed then President Trump in July 2020 @CBSNews we posted the interview transcript.
This is more complete and NOT… pic.twitter.com/Rb7QU5nwlQ
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) October 9, 2024
“It’s about transparency and standing behind the integrity of the final edit,” Herridge said, demonstrating the “precedent” for doing so.
She also posted about Bill Barr’s interview.
Another transcript @CBSNews
2019 Bill Barr interview with chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford @JanCBSFull transcript = journalistic transparency. https://t.co/gwbLnqQvdr https://t.co/kfRYg398S4 pic.twitter.com/V5WZWv7pRN
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) October 10, 2024
But the fact they aren’t even responding on this so far speaks volumes.
And if they don’t release the full, unedited transcript before the election or provide any explanation, one can’t help but wonder if there’s more there that they left out or changed that could have hurt Harris.
