(Congressional Agenda) – It’s no secret that the mainstream media is involved in creating propaganda on behalf of very wealthy, powerful individuals who lurk in the shadows and try to remain unseen. There have been countless examples of this over the years, especially since Donald Trump popped up on the political scene. You simply cannot trust what big networks are telling you because they only push one side of the story. Here’s a recent example for you.
According to writer Michael Schwarz of The Western Journal, earlier this week, a video editor named “MAZE” was on social media platform X when he noticed that an individual working for CBS News seemingly took down one of the clips featuring Vice President Kamala Harris’ worst, most incoherent answers delivered during her ’60 Minutes’ interview that aired last weekend. It had been replaced with a very different answer which appeared to be a copy-and-paste job that another user on X adequately described as being a “huge journalistic scandal.”
“The editing tactic — if deliberate — replaced Harris’ incoherent answer with a coherent one. See the clip below, which had more than 6.8 million views as of Wednesday morning,” Schwarz wrote in his article.
“Libs of TikTok, a prominent conservative account with more than 3.5 million followers on X, reposted MAZE’s clip, thereby amplifying the original video and generating another 2.7 million views on its own,” Schwarz continued.
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
BREAKING: 60 minutes just quietly *edited out* Kamala’s word salad answer on Israel. Unreal.
Great catch by @mazemoore pic.twitter.com/u3SbMqKz7w
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 8, 2024
Once folks really started to get wind of what CBS News was allegedly up to with the edited clip, they stormed social media to vent their frustrations. And they didn’t hold back.
User John G. West called the whole thing a “huge journalistic scandal.”
“Did CBS do a second take of the question to help her? Did CBS take unaired footage from another question and splice it in? That’s unclear at this point,” West asked his followers.
“CBS needs to release the unedited and full version of the interview so people can see what actually took place and how they constructed the new answer. If the answer came from another part of the interview, someone should be fired,” he followed up.
This is—or should be—a huge journalistic scandal. I had been waiting to comment until I was able to verify some things for myself. This much is now unquestionable in my view: 60 Minutes/CBS has posted two entirely different versions of Harris's answer to the same exact question.… https://t.co/M8JNc8smwh
— John G. West (@JGWestDI) October 8, 2024
Later that day, CBS released the interview transcript. It contained the edited version of Harris’ answer. In light of this, another user on X stated that there are only two potential explanations for this. Either the network cut and carved the word salad answer given by the vice president, or they doctored the transcript.
The official transcript issued by CBS features Kamala's edited answer. This leaves two possibilities. Either CBS inexplicably spliced Kamala's word salad answer into the preview clip or CBS doctored the transcript. https://t.co/H6bhlA6B90 https://t.co/mqLVL0tAHm pic.twitter.com/KlDntDTsNE
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) October 9, 2024
They do not teach you this in journalism school for a reason. This is bad.
— Jason Romano (@JasonRomano) October 9, 2024
Former President Donald Trump weighed in on the matter the following day, Wednesday, in order to make sure that this little scandal didn’t get swept under the rug.
“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,” Trump penned on Truth Social.
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, all in an effort, possibly…
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) October 9, 2024
He went on to float the possibility that this could end up being a “major campaign finance violation.” And CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, Bill Ackman, agreed with the former president.
“This could be the worst violation of journalistic ethics ever during a presidential election,” Ackman proclaimed.
.@realDonaldTrump is correct. This could be the worst violation of journalistic ethics ever during a presidential election. @60Minutes literally manipulated @KamalaHarris answer (after the public blowback of her answer from the preview release of the excerpt) by cutting, culling,… https://t.co/aqrvv4LJTE
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) October 9, 2024
After all of this, if you’re still on the fence about who to vote for, I don’t know what else you need to see. It’s time to drop any and all support of the Democratic Party.
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