I've written about 60 Minutes' edits to the Kamala Harris interview, slicing and dicing her word salads to paste together a coherent answer. It is, in a way, exactly the opposite of what the media does to create false Donald Trump narratives like the "fine people" hoax. 

More information has come out about the disastrous interview and 60 Minutes' manipulations, and of course, we should throw in CBS' lie about Leslie Stahl's Trump interview in 2020. They flat-out lied about what happened, and there is tape to prove it. 

And, of course, CBS is facing fallout from its Ta-Nahise Coates interview and the Maoist struggle sessions at the network. I wrote about that yesterday, too. But let's set that one aside because that is more about woke ideology taking over the newsroom and not flat-out dishonesty. 

First, let's go back to the edits CBS made--that we know of. We actually have only a tiny amount of information, and even THAT makes CBS look terrible. Here is the original clip comparison that started the controversy.

60 Minutes removed Kamala's word salad in the latest version. 1984 is here.

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— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 8, 2024

The only reason we have this much to go on is that CBS pre-released a few tidbits from the interview and then edited them down for the final broadcast. Enterprising people noticed the vast differences between the videos originally seen and those that aired and are now shared by CBS as genuine. 

Laura Powell put together transcripts of the differences, and they are startling. 

Just to make it clear, they turned this response:

“The aid that we have given Israel allowed Israel to defend itself against 200 ballistic missiles that were just meant to attack the Israelis and the people of Israel. And when we think about the threat that Hamas—Hezbollah…

— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) October 8, 2024

Let me quote her transcript and highlight what was taken out:

In addition to substituting an entirely different answer to a question, 

@60Minutes edited Kamala Harris’s response to the previous question so much that it is not an accurate representation of what she said. 

Here is the question and answer from the original clip, with the parts edited out before broadcast in brackets:

WHITAKER: We supply Israel with billions of dollars in military aid, and yet Prime Minister Netanyahu seems to be charting his own course. The Biden-Harris Administration has pressed him to agree to a ceasefire; he’s resisted. You urged him not to go into Lebanon; he went in anyway. [He has promised to make Iran pay for the missile attack, and that has the potential of expanding the war.] Does the US have no sway over prime minister Netanyahu?

HARRIS: [The aid that we have given Israel allowed Israel to defend itself against 200 ballistic missiles that were just meant to attack the Israelis and the people of Israel. And when we think about the threat that Hamas—Hezbollah presents—um Iran um, I think that is without any question our imperative to do what we can to allow Israel to defend itself against those kinds of attacks. Now,] the work that we do diplomatically, with the leadership of Israel, is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles, [which include the need for humanitarian aid, the need for this war to end, the need for a deal to be done which would release the hostages and and and create a ceasefire. And we’re not going to stop in terms of putting that pressure on Israel and and in the region, including Arab leaders.]

WHITAKER: But it seems that prime minister Netanyahu is not listening.

HARRIS: [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.]

You immediately notice that CBS left on the cutting room floor the vast majority of what she said, the vast majority of which was nonsense. Laura lays it out concisely:

Just to make it clear, they turned this response:

“The aid that we have given Israel allowed Israel to defend itself against 200 ballistic missiles that were just meant to attack the Israelis and the people of Israel. And when we think about the threat that Hamas—Hezbollah presents—um Iran um, I think that is without any question our imperative to do what we can to allow Israel to defend itself against those kinds of attacks. Now, the work that we do diplomatically, with the leadership of Israel, is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles, which include the need for humanitarian aid, the need for this war to end, the need for a deal to be done which would release the hostages and and and create a ceasefire. And we’re not going to stop in terms of putting that pressure on Israel and and in the region, including Arab leaders.”

Into a concise and vague statement:

“The work that we do diplomatically, with the leadership of Israel, is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles.”

All that verbiage is cut and pasted into one concise sentence that makes her sound 1000% better. 

That's just one exchange. God knows what else they did because they are hiding the evidence. The transcript they released was not of the whole exchange but their edited version. They are hiding the ball and have clammed up about it. 

Here are the two different 60 Minutes edits layered on top of each other in full. You will hear where Whitaker's questions line up, and the different edited answers from Harris.

SC 1842 (bottom) is what aired on Monday night.
SC 1843.5 (top) is what the Face the Nation X account… pic.twitter.com/FEuQp2o0kn

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 9, 2024

The Harris/Walz campaign could have been in the editing room, and for all we know, they were. Not that it would matter because CBS took a pretty decent interview from Whitaker and turned it into something else to help her. 

SCOOP: Does CBS News Know Where Jerusalem Is?

‘Do not refer to it as being in Israel,’ said the network’s senior director of standards and practices.@ollywiseman in @TheFP:https://t.co/UtwmT6o2QY

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) October 9, 2024

Stephen Miller did an excellent podcast on the topic. He points out something I hadn't noticed: CBS cut out Harris' most pro-Israel comments. This fits nicely with the Coates controversy. Tony Dokoupil challenged Coates on his anti-Israel screed and was forced to apologize to the newsroom for asking questions. In both instances the issue was Israel, and in both cases CBS was deprecating any defense of Israel. 

10/9/24 VS Media Podcast on Substack - Breaking down in detail, clip by clip, just how 60 Minutes and CBS News reshaped and re-edited Kamala Harris' interview and answers on Israel. https://t.co/5OsgRyZp6Q pic.twitter.com/FeYX7JUdi9

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 9, 2024

RELEASE. THE. TAPE. https://t.co/cmeqinu0HB

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) October 10, 2024

Now consider the Trump controversy. 

Donald Trump was willing to sit down with an interview with 60 Minutes but rightly demanded an apology for Leslie Stahl's claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was discredited--a fake. We all know that is completely false, and it is now evidence in Hunter's legal troubles. The FBI had verified it in 2019 and hid it, and the intelligence community lied about it, but it had been verified and fair game. Stahl lied to cover it up. 

CBS has the tape from the interview, so they know they are lying in this clip.

60 Minutes straight up claimed tonight that Lesley Stahl didn't dismiss the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinfo in 2020.

The only problem is that's exactly what happened.

Notice how they don't say "we were wrong. The laptop was real."

Instead, they mock Trump for demanding… pic.twitter.com/QAQZkuQDBC

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 8, 2024

Glenn Kessler, the "fact checker," claims that Trump is wrong to criticize CBS and 60 Minutes, posting transcripts. Except if you read the transcript themselves you see he is pulling a 60 Minutes here--slicing and dicing to create a false impression. 

For the record: Here's the exchange with Stahl on 60 minutes. She said the laptop "can't be verified." At the time, virtually no news organizations were not given access to the hard drive to do their own forensic analysis https://t.co/JwbWD4KaFD https://t.co/3jKsSpbSem pic.twitter.com/g299T0QnUX

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 2, 2024

In his own post, he shows that Stahl said the laptop was "investigated and discredited." Both of those statements are false and used to dismiss a true story that may have changed the outcome of the election. 

We now know that the laptop was real, the shady deals in China and Ukraine are real, and that millions of dollars have been spread around from foreign countries to Biden family members, yet CBS claims it is TRUMP who is lying about what we can see and read. 

60 Minutes has, unfortunately, a lot of credibility with an important group of voters, including a lot of swing voters. In this one episode, they manipulated the Harris interview to make her look coherent and falsely claimed that Trump was wrong about something that is indisputably true. They defended their own lies and called him a liar. 

Some commenters say that nobody trusts the MSM anymore, but that isn't true. Their influence is vastly diminished, but a lot of low- to mid-information voters still trust brands like 60 Minutes. 

Who knows if 60 Minutes will break its silence on these scandals or whether anyone else in the MSM will call them on it? I tend to doubt it. Instead, you will get a circling of the wagons because, well, they are propagandists.