CBS Still Resisting Release of Full ‘60 Minutes’ Harris Interview– www.dailysignal.com
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Former President Donald Trump’s criticism of CBS’ “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris has triggered the predictable legacy media meltdown. It’s unfortunate.
Trump and Harris supporters should demand CBS come clean about why the network significantly altered Harris’ responses on the Biden-Harris administration’s relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
The network has disingenuously claimed that the editing was a standard exercise of its authority to trim interviews for time considerations. That rationale might work for the first answer, where CBS trimmed Harris’ four-paragraph answer down to a single sentence, but it completely ignores the second answer substitution, where “60 Minutes” egregiously swapped one single-sentence answer for another.
Either way, CBS News would typically post the full interview on its website, as many of its news programs often do. But it didn’t do that here.
Since CBS has declined to fully explain the editing controversy, viewers must speculate why the network substituted a different answer to the same prompt. An obvious possibility is that anti-Israel politics are the real driver here.
As a result of its selective editing, CBS removed Harris’ statements about Israeli aid and self-defense and replaced another answer with a statement calling for a cease-fire, which Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders oppose.