The week, CBS News broke its silence and responded to President Trump and other critics’ concerns that its interview with Kamala Harris was edited in a way that made the vice president look more logical than the original video would have suggested.
The difference between the previews of the interview and the final version that aired on Oct. 7 wasn’t seen as planned changes in Harris’ favor by CBS News. Instead, they said it was normal and Trump was wrong.
“Former President Trump says that 60 Minutes lied about how they edited our interview with Vice President Harris on October 7. That is not true,” the network said in a comment made just one week after Gallup found that Americans still have very little trust in the media.
This is something I’ve never seen before: the producers of 60 Minutes repeated Lyin’ Kamala’s answers, which were often confusing, over and over again, sometimes up to four times in a single thought. They did this to make her look “more Presidential” or at least better, which may be illegal as part of the “News Division,” which needs licenses. It could also be a big misuse of campaign funds. This is a stain on 60 Minutes’ reputation that can’t be cleaned up. It will always be associated with this once beloved brand.
CBS News has not yet released the unedited audio. In a statement released on Sunday, the company said, “60 Minutes used a longer part of her answer in an excerpt of the interview with Face the Nation. The same question. The same answer. But a different part of the answer.”
“Their dishonest changes must be great for them to refuse to release the original transcript.”
CBS News seems to have gone beyond Harris’s real answer to find a useful one in order to make the vice president look “clear, accurate, and on point.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson wrote on Twitter, “@60Minutes has now confirmed what we all knew: they edited the video.” Johnson has himself been the subject of misleading edits on CBS News.
“60 Minutes still won’t release the full transcript of its conversation with Kamala Harris. In this case, too, they lie about the trouble that copy caused. They must have made a lot of misleading changes if they won’t release the original transcript,” tweeted Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist.
