Pressured by Lawsuit and Owner Shari Redstone, 60 Minutes Finally Releases the Unedited Word-Salad Nonsensical Kamala Harris "Interview"

Happy Thursday. I can't wait for all of the good news of the day!

Starting with this latest exposure of the activist media.

Strange that a "news" organization fought the release of unedited news product so forcefully.

Kamala Harris gave a meandering, 179-word answer on Israel that "60 Minutes" cut to just 20 words, according to transcripts released Wednesday by the Federal Communications Commission.

The FCC says it's investigating CBS for possible election interference, after complaints that the venerated news program cut Harris' word-salad answers to make her look more coherent. Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the network.

Trump-appointed FCC chair Brendan Carr got the full transcript and video on Monday after a tug-of-war with the Tiffany Network, which has defended the editing as a standard practice for "time, space or clarity."

But a CBS source told The Post on Wednesday that the "60 Minutes" edit did Harris "a lot of favors and makes her seem more succinct."

"You have to watch the video. A lot of 'word salad,'" the source said. "Feels like a cleanup on Aisle 7. Not a technical foul but one could argue still news distortion."

Hit the link for comparisons of her endless word-salads to what actually appeared on the air. In every case, she babbled for 150-200 words, and CBS trimmed her answers to short, more coherent 25-40 word answers.

In every case, CBS's helpful editors take her rambling, incoherent, dum-dum ding-a-ling non-answers and craft them into something more comprehensible and more "presidential."

The article explains Trump's cause of action here:

After releasing the transcripts, Carr said the FCC will hold hearings over a complaint by the Center for American Rights, a right-leaning activist group, over CBS News' alleged deceptive editing.

"The FCC has concluded that establishing a docket and seeking comment on the issues raised in the complaint would serve the public interest. The people will have a chance to weigh in," Carr said in a post on X.

CBS, which also released the unedited documents to the public on Wednesday, said the transcripts "show -- consistent with 60 Minutes' repeated assurances to the public -- that the 60 Minutes broadcast was not doctored or deceitful."

The FCC is reviewing whether the broadcast violates "news distortion" rules. Though the agency is prohibited from censorship or infringing on the First Amendment rights of media, broadcasters cannot intentionally distort the news.

LOL. This has been a rule all this time and no one has ever investigated broadcasters for their obvious violation of the rule?!

Note that the American public had not seen Kamala much because she was hiding from the press for months. This was the first time the public would get to see her and make judgments about whether she was qualified to be president.

In other words: This was the time to show her answers in their most complete form. This wasn't just about finding about what her fake "positions" were, but a chance to see how her mind worked, if in fact it worked at all.

CBS deliberately hid this valuable information from the public and presented her as much more cogent, decisive, and direct.

The knock on Kamala Harris was that she was indecisive and incoherent, and the real unedited tape would have allowed the public to see that that knock was accurate.

Instead, they faked the interview to present an entirely false version of her in her first solo major network interview.

If Carr finds evidence of misleading editing, it could impact regulatory approval of Paramount's $8 billion merger with Skydance, which was set to close by next month.

The very partisan cheerleader interviewer asked Kamala Harris how she would pay for her bonanza of spending -- but only after declaring that all of her plans were "logical," but the "illogical" thing was Congress, which would resist all of her very logical spending proposals. That's at about 3:00.

Also, after that, there's video comparison of one of her real answers vs. one of the edited Cheapfake answers.

posted by Ace at 12:01 PM

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