CBS ’60 Minutes’ airs two different answers from VP Harris to the same question
Fox News | October 9, 2024 | Brian Flood, David RutzCBS aired two different answers to the same question in its “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, replacing a clip from the Democratic nominee that aired on “Face the Nation” Sunday when the interview package aired in a primetime special on Monday.
Harris was mocked by conservatives when footage of her offering a lengthy “word salad” that was aired by CBS on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” to promote the “60 Minutes” sit-down, when Bill Whitaker asked why it seemed like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn’t listening to the United States. However, the vice president’s lengthy answer didn’t make the version that aired on Monday night on “60 Minutes” and a shorter, more focused answer to the same question was shown instead.
“Well Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by, or a result of, many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region,” Harris responded in the “Face the Nation” version.
Sometimes interviews are edited to save time, but when CBS aired the interview on Monday night, Harris had a different answer to the exact same question.
“We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end,” Harris said.
The Trump campaign called for CBS to release the full interview unedited on Tuesday.
“So, does this war need to end?”
“Well, we’re still not able to be clear about where we stand on that.”
“But, you’re close to a conclusion, right?”
“There’s still a few necessary things to pursue before we can figure it out.”
“But you are pursuing these things, right?”
“We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary.”
“But you have started pursuing what is necessary, right?”
“We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary.”
… at this point in the interview. Foghorn Leghorn would make an aside to the audience.
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I gave up on MSM the night of the 2020 election when I saw it stolen and there was no report. This is just more of the same. CBS as others have no Journalists and to get any you have to go to podcasts and internet. It is sad that many in this country still are still watching these people but their networks are dying.
60 Minutes, selectively editing since before you were born.
The media has graduated from their usual stunt of dubbing in questions after the fact that were never asked during the interview, and matching an answer to it based on politics. Another of their despicable practices.
60 Minutes has only one interesting characteristic: it’s the only broadcast TV show to NOT have a theme song; it’s just the stopwatch ticking.
Also, they’ve had no credibility since the Audi 5000 episode in 1985 (or so). The story was that the cars were accelerating on their own, overpowering their brakes, until the driver lost control and crashed. In one instance, a mother’s car crushed her son to death against the back of her garage (they even showed the black patch of rubber on the garage floor where the spinning tire “laid rubber”). As evidence that this was some nefarious plot by Audi, they showed a segment that purported to show that a “simple malfunction” was possible that could cause this to happen.
It was all BS. First, a cheap car’s brakes have the equivalent force of 2,000 ft/lb. A good car with a high performance set of disk brakes has the equivalent force of 4,000 ft/lb. Cars with automatic transmissions are routinely held in place with their brakes while engine power is taken to the max in order to get the quickest acceleration times. Car and Drive did an article on this. They showed that the car’s brakes prevented it from moving when pressed fully down and then full throttle was applied. They showed that the average normal stopping distance for the car from 60 MPH was 153 feet. Applying full power at the same time as hitting the brakes increased that distance by 5 feet. It’s just not possible for a street legal car’s engine to overpower its brakes.
All 60 Minutes had to do to debunk the story was do what Car & Driver did (C & D did it after the show aired), but either they were too stupid to think of it, or they did it and decided to not show it, which would make them complete frauds; in neither case should they be considered credible. They also knew that the mechanic who demonstrated the “simple malfunction” had spent 8 hours modifying the car to produce the “simple malfunction”. 60 Minutes is where Dan Rather learned his “fake but accurate” lie.
After a 3 year “investigation” by the government, the cause of the unintended acceleration was determined to be “driver misapplication of pedal”. Drivers who swore up and down that they had their foot on their brake pedal actually had their foot on the accelerator, and they refused to believe that they made that mistake. There have been other car models with higher than normal claims of “unintended acceleration”, and they have ALL been proven to be caused by driver error.
Audi won ALL the lawsuits, including the one they filed against 60 Minutes.
You’re a Car Guy aren’t you?
What gave it away? I could have talked about how 60 Minutes panned the AH-64 Apache as being a useless death-trap at about the same time, which of course was shown to be wrong during operation Desert Storm. But more people can relate to civilian cars than military attack helicopters. And by the way, I’ve never owned an Audi.
The point is that 60 Minutes has been committing fraud in their reporting for 40 years. Anyone who thinks they’re credible is willingly delusional. It’s the information age; ignorance is something people have to choose since there is no excuse for it in pretty much anyplace with uncensored internet access.
60 Minutes also kicked off and contributed greatly to the “great Alar scare” from about twenty or so years ago that nearly destroyed the apple growing industry in this country. Eventually it was proven to be a total BS story but by then most of the damage had already been done.