Matt Kittle at The Federalist found some serious bias by omission when Mediaite's "Press Club" podcast brought on Politico reporter Eugene Daniels to discuss how he is one of the few liberal-media reporters who was assigned to cover Vice President Kamala Harris.
Mediaite pushed the 45-minute interview with this quote: “'The excitement this week, it’s insane. Not two, but three points in just a few days into Biden’s deficit is huge,' Daniels told Mediaite editor in chief Aidan McLaughlin."
Kittle noted:
What McLaughlin curiously didn’t get around to, according to the podcast’s transcript, is why the esteemed president of the White House Correspondents’ Association falsely accused Brian Kilmeade of Fox & Friends of a racist remark. Daniels’ race-baiting post on X, after all, helped the atrocious accusation go viral.
Daniels and others jumped on Twitter to accuse Kilmeade of racism after he criticized Harris for skipping a speech before Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to campaign at a “college” sorority in Indianapolis. Daniels, and others, claimed they heard Kilmeade say “colored” sorority.
“He said ‘college’!” black talk host Charlamagne tha God told his audience on his nationally syndicated show “The Breakfast Club,” calling the manufactured outrage “ridiculous.” Daniels backed down and deleted the tweet:
I spoke to Fox News about this and plan on speaking to Brian when he is off air. They've made clear to me that he used college, not colored.
— Eugene Daniels (@EugeneDaniels2) July 24, 2024
The audio is garbled but I am going to take Brian and his team at their word. pic.twitter.com/PNNV15xbfe
Fox issued a statement, saying, “Eugene Daniels’ now deleted tweet completely misquoted and unnecessarily maligned Brian Kilmeade who clearly said college sorority.”
Kittle added "Mediaite’s McLaughlin should be well aware of Daniels’ accusation and the damage it’s caused. His publication has reported on every bit of it." Kittle wrote he emailed McLaughlin “Why did you not ask him about the one thing that actually brought Mr. Daniels to the public’s collective attention this week? Seems like an important subject." He received on response. Mediaite, like many media outlets, are good at "No Comment."
Mediaite's editor/podcast host displayed anti-Trump bias in his questions to Daniels: "Trump is historically unpopular as a political figure, and he had, to put it mildly, a fairly wacky presidency, left office on not great grounds."
Naturally, Daniels -- a regular pundit on liberal networks -- toed the Harris campaign line on the "border czar":
McLAUGHLIN: ..a bunch of outlets wrote fact checks insisting that Harris was never technically crowned border czar by Biden, that she was tasked with tackling the root causes of immigration in a few Central American countries. You’ve been covering Harris for all this time. Is that a silly distinction? How much of a role did she have in the response to the border? And are Republicans within bounds to refer to her as a border czar because of her role there?
DANIELS: She wasn’t the border czar. It’s just not true. And I’m not defending, if you go back, I’ve written some tough stories on the woman, but she just wasn’t the border czar.
Don't buy the "I write tough stories on Kamala" line.
