Claim: CNN Taped 41 Minutes of Puffball Interview With Kamala But Edited It Down to Just 18 Minutes

The filthy Gaslight Media are just corrupt fonts of endless propaganda and disinformation.

Is this claim true? I don't know, but I'll run with it the same way CNN ran with the "Russian Collusion" and "Russian Disinformation Laptop" hoaxes without checking even a little bit.

Allegations have surfaced that CNN aired just 18 minutes of a 41-minute joint interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. A social media user claiming inside knowledge suggested that significant portions of the interview were cut due to objections from Harris's team, raising questions about what may have been omitted.

Key Details:

A Twitter user, Paulie (@PkgcGop), who claims to have inside knowledge at CNN, tweeted that the network had 41 minutes of footage but that "Kamala Harris and her team objected to over half of the already taped interview."

Paulie alleged that Harris's team pressured CNN into cutting significant portions of the interview.

Paulie also tweeted that Harris avoided answering tough questions about how she could support both the Green New Deal and fracking, suggesting that these segments were removed because "she didn't have an answer for it except to say she will 'get it done.'"

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During the aired portion, Harris was questioned on several key policy issues, including her past statements on fracking. When asked by Bash if she still supported banning fracking, Harris claimed, "No, and I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020... I kept my word, and I will keep my word."

Harris also addressed the issue of immigration, particularly her role in addressing the root causes of migration from Central America. She claimed that her work as vice president had "resulted in a number of benefits," including a reduction in the number of immigrants coming from the region, despite crossings reaching record highs. However, when pressed on why the Biden-Harris administration waited three and a half years to implement sweeping asylum restrictions, Harris cast blame on Trump, claiming that they had worked with Congress on a border security bill, which Trump and Congressional Republicans did not endorse: "He told his folks in Congress, 'Don't put it forward.' He killed the bill."

Governor Tim Walz also took part in the interview, discussing his military service and the importance of addressing gun violence. Walz candidly acknowledged a past misstatement about his military service, saying, "My wife the English teacher told me my grammar's not always correct."

LOL, that's what you're going with?

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton later commented on the pair's performance, questioning Harris' ability to handle high-stakes situations. "Kamala Harris needed Tim Walz as a heat shield and ended the interview after 18 minutes? How will she handle her first summit with Putin or Xi? Will she insist on a break after 18 minutes to get new talking points? Kamala Harris is dangerously unprepared to be our commander-in-chief," Cotton remarked.

From what I saw of it:

1, Dana Bash spent a lot of time asking personal-interest and "humanizing" questions of Kamala Harris. But that's what her DNC speech was entirely about, and what all of her ads are about. In other words, Kamala's using all of her efforts to get that (fake) biographical background out. Why would a "journalist" ask her about what she's already talking exclusively about? Wouldn't a real journalist spend all of her time probing about what Kamala Harris doesn't want to talk about -- like what the hell her policies are? Her responsibility for the border chaos and Afghanistan bug-out? Her participation in the Biden Dementia Cover-Up?

2, The few questions Dana Bash asked about issues like these consisted of a single question, usually phrased as "How would you respond to critics who say..." or "How would you reassure voters who are worried about..." There was no follow-up, no probing past her first pre-scripted talking point answer, no raising of points that contradict her current claims. In other words, she did the standard leftwing media trick of pretending to ask "the hard questions" while in fact merely offering a Democrat ally the chance to push their scripted talking points to the public in the guise of authentic, spontaneous conversation.

Plus, Dana Bash now allows Harris -- and Walz -- to claim, like Hillary Clinton did about Whitewater, "Those questions have already been answered." They were never answered; she evaded answering, or lied. But having given her pat lawyered-up answers to one friendly conspirator "journalist," she was then immunized against ever having to answer them again. She just kept repeating "Those questions have already been answered" forever.

So now, if you want to ask Walz about why he repeatedly -- not once, but repeatedly -- told "journalists" that he had served in Iraq and/or Afghanistan (he seemed confused on the point), he can just say, "I answered all those questions when Dana Bash asked them.

If you want to ask Kamala Harris why she participated in the cover-up of Biden's dementia, she'll just say, "Those questions have already been asked and answered." Even though Dana Bash never, ever even came close to asking this. All she asked about was something like, "Do you stand behind your prior support of Biden?" She never asked why Harris lied, or what she knew and when she knew it.

But, you know: Those questions have now all been answered.

And, hello everybody!

Happy Friday before a three-day weekend (for those with Monday off, at least).

Hope everyone has fun plans. Or sexy shelf-organizing plans.

Below: A couple of stories which I've had in tabs for a few days and figure, might as well post them.

A podcast who volunteered at the Democratic National Convention said the convention convinced her to vote against the "Joybringer."

"When I was there, I didn't feel any connection to real America or the place that I come from, which is the Midwest, Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri," the volunteer said. "I didn't feel any connection to the people that I know right now, who are struggling to buy their groceries or to pay their rent, the people who want to know what both candidates are going to do to materially affect change in their lives. And when I was there listening to the speeches, I felt myself feeling mad because I didn't hear anything about the economy, definitely not in Kamala's speech and not very much in the others as well. Instead, I heard generic platitudes, things like joy and respect and integrity. And what does that even mean?"

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"How can we ever say that we're going to fight corporate power or give a voice back to those communities that have been left behind when above the delegates on the floor and levels and levels and rings of suites were donors in corporations that were literally looking down on the people below from above? That's what Chris Cuomo said and he's absolutely right," the volunteer said.

"You know, I went to the DNC this year hoping that I would feel reconnected to the Democratic Party, that I would have more of a sense of understanding of Kamala and her candidacy and what she stood for, but instead I ended up leaving and feeling the opposite, more disconnected and alone than ever," the podcast host said. "And I don't think I can support Kamala Harris for president. I don't even know if I can call myself a Democrat anymore. I don't know who I'm gonna be supporting, but I know it's not her. And for once, I'm not afraid to say it."

An Atlantic writer just wrote that she is also rejecting Kamala Harris -- and tells people to remember that Kamala Harris was a key Covid Shutdown Karen, despite her claims that she "opened the country."

Author Nancy Rommelmann criticized Democrats for their "COVID amnesia"...

"Democrats might count on Americans to be forgiving, but they are not stupid, and they would do well to not let the pageantry of televised politics obfuscate the fact that they are being lied to," she wrote....

We were captive to decisions sold in the name of science but created more crudely by teachers' unions and political appointees. Children were among the worst off as America--blue America, really, like the host city to the Democratic National Convention--kept its schools closed longer than any peer country. Does the Biden administration expect voters to not remember this? In our supposed exuberance over Kamala Harris, are we somehow supposed to invent a memory of her heroic effort to pry open schools? Although gaslighting is a term we should probably retire for overuse, it's worth keeping in mind as we look at the 2020--21 school-reopening timeline we are being asked to magically revise in 2024, with an eye toward what, if anything, Harris had to do with it.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:00 PM

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