NEW YORK (VINnews) — Demonstrating a major lack of journalistic integrity, CBS intentionally doctored a “60 minutes” interview with Kamala Harris, editing out her garbled and incomprehensible answer to a question about Israel with a completely different answer to the version that aired. The news outlet has come under strong criticism, with the Trump campaign demanding that CBS release the original transcript of the interview.
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When asked by host Bill Whitaker why it seemed like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn’t listening to the United States regarding the war in Lebanon and his response to the Iran attack, Harris originally replied:
“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.”
After the clip received backlash over Kamala’s rambling and unclear answer, CBS inserted a totally different sentence in the version that aired, a sentence said earlier in the interview: “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.”
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
Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, stating that “On Sunday, 60 Minutes teased Kamala’s highly-anticipated sit-down interview with one of her worst word salads to date, which received significant criticism on social media. During the full interview on Monday evening, the word salad was deceptively edited to lessen Kamala’s idiotic response.”
“Why did 60 Minutes choose not to air Kamala’s full word salad, and what else did they choose not to air?” she asked. “The American people deserve the full, unedited transcript from Kamala’s sit-down interview. We call upon 60 Minutes and CBS to release it.”
Trump also posted about it on Truth Social, writing “I’ve never seen this before, but the producers of 60 Minutes sliced and diced (“cut and pasted”) Lyin’ Kamala’s answers to questions, which were virtually incoherent, over and over again, some by as many as four times in a single sentence or thought…” Trump suggested that the network helping Harris may have been a “major Campaign Finance Violation,” and is a “stain on the reputation of 60 minutes that is not recoverable.”
Other journalists and social media influencers called out 60 minutes for its behavior, with Geiger Capital stressing:”Mixing and matching questions and answers. This isn’t journalism. It’s fraud.”
Newsweek Editor-in-Chief Josh Hammer called the interview a “word-turd sandwich” and blasted Harris for purportedly standing with Israel but not with Netanyahu.
Investor Bill Ackman questioned “how could @60Minutes’ manipulation occur without the consent of @KamalaHarris? Let’s not forget she is the Vice President of the United States and she is being asked about our foreign policy in the Middle East and our relationship with the leader of our principal ally in the region.
“Thinking about this more, the only plausible explanation is that the Vice President herself and/or her administration found that her original answer, which implied that Israel’s actions in the region were a direct result of the Biden/Harris policy, would harm her campaign and would therefore need to be expurgated from the public record.
“In order to execute such a violation of journalistic ethics, I would expect that CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon and possibly Shari Redstone herself would have had to approve the manipulated video.
“This is a story worthy of investigative journalism from real journalists. Where are they? Where are the whistleblowers? Or are all of them so ideologically compromised that they are prepared to sacrifice the truth and their integrity in an effort to elect their favored candidate?”
This is what a dictatorship looks like. Censorship by media, Tech, and Democrat party bigwigs. Then labeling the truth as mis/disinformation. This is what we’ll get if this nasal kook should ch’v come in.
CBS should be sued for not doing HONEST reporting – hope their stock drops big time
I cannot stand Kamala
This meets CBS News’ editorial standards, asking tough questions of a Jew hater doesn’t.
From the 1970’s and forward, journalistic integrity slowly became an oxymoron.
This is nothing new the press big tech had been manipulating the news and information we see since obamas term
Try to find a trump story on the internet that states something positive about trump
Or republicans or conservatives.
The only difference is cbs got caught this time.
Of course they will make it public but they will slow-walk it until after the elections
This is great Hashem is showing the whole world what these Rasha look like and what they are exactly doing. Lying perverting and killing the innocent.
This is exactly how they cover the middle east too. When they cover the war in Gaza they will cut and paste facts to fit the narrtive. Then they also throw in buzz words like calling it a “conflict” when its really a war on terror. or the “innocent” civilians killed. Its really dangerous because it provides fuel to the free palestine movement who in turn provide fuel to Sinwar YMS. I think we can now all understand why the media is the enemy of the people. I hope Charlie gets this too.
And these Democrates have the gall to say that election fraud is a lie, baseless, unfounded” Any one that can stoop so low to cut and edit such an interview can’t be trusted for anything.
Integrity is such an old-fashioned notion!
Don’t they love to talk about misinformation this is the epitome of disinformation or fraud
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