On Sunday night, the the 60 Minutes team at CBS News put out a statement of self-defense about their sneaky or sleazy editing of their Kamala Harris interview special. The word salad aired in a Face The Nation promo didn’t match the more coherent answer that aired the next night.
CBS claimed "Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false.” But CBS News has yet to release an unedited video or full transcript of the interview, which would put these matters to rest. The radioactive fact that they won’t simply release the full reality here signals that it’s not going to make either CBS or Kamala look good.
In his “Reliable Sources” newsletter, Brian Stelter's headline was "60 Minutes refutes Trump." Rebut, maybe, but not refute. Stelter wrote: "For a long while CBS declined to comment on the dispute, but last night CBS responded to his hot air with a cool-headed statement. The network did not admit to any screwup. Trump will surely keep talking about this on the trail since it plays into they're-all-out-to-get-us narrative." So CBS isn't out to beat Trump and elect Harris?
Trump suggested the FCC should pull CBS's license. The largest fine in FCC history came in 2020, under Trump. Guess who agreed to pay $48 million? Sinclair Broadcasting.
Then look at CBS ripping Trump for having some fun with Kamala Harris's unproven claim that she worked at McDonald's one summer. Trump manned the drive-through and served up some fries at a franchise in Pennsylvania.
Ed O’Keefe on CBS weirdly claimed Trump had "no evidence" that Harris did NOT work there. Harris has yet to prove she did, but the liberal reporters say "she said she did," and that should be good enough. O'Keefe said Trump's campaign day “included a visit to a McDonald’s, closed just for him, where he tried scoring political points after claiming without any evidence, that Vice President Harris didn’t once work at the fast food chain while in college.”
The New York Times headline was "Trump, Slinging Fries and Smearing Harris, Takes Turn Behind a McDonald’s Counter."
Reporter Michael Gold sent this message: "The visit married his two fixations: his well-documented affection for fast food — McDonald’s in particular — and a more recent pattern of accusing Vice President Kamala Harris without evidence of lying about a summer job working at McDonald’s."
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