As former President Donald Trump’s lead in the Electoral College widens over Vice President Kamala Harris, the national media is pulling out all the stops. The latest example: flagrant media bias at CBS News in favor of Harris.

Conservatives are taking aim at CBS for what appears to be its attempts to polish Harris’ sloppy speaking style. Harris, known for her meme-worthy, strange verbal meanderings, gave a disjointed, word-salad answer during a “60 Minutes” interview about Israel. 

Harris’ unvarnished response first aired on CBS’ Sunday show “Face the Nation,” but didn’t appear in the version that aired on a special Monday edition of “60 Minutes.” 

Instead, the network ran a more concise, articulate response from Harris. 

This begs the question of whether the Harris campaign pressured CBS News to airbrush her verbal gaffe.

CBS must release an unedited copy of the Harris interview to restore its integrity with voters. This would help restore trust among the network’s audience even as public trust in the national media plummets.

The veteran polling organization Gallup found trust in television media to be at the lowest point in nearly a quarter century.

As someone who has been a frequent guest on CBS programs, I know the network has producers who value evenhandedness, and I appeal to their better angels to do the right thing and come clean.

“We do not control CBS’ production decisions and refer questions to CBS,” a Harris campaign aide said in a statement to Fox News Digital. 

Will CBS release all correspondence with the Harris campaign to verify this?

Trump took notice,posting Wednesday on Truth Social: 

This comes also as CBS faces heat for attacking its own “CBS Mornings” co-anchor Tony Dokoupil for his interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, an anti-Israel, pro-Hamas author who previously wrote comic books, including Marvel Comics’ “Black Panther” and “Captain America” titles.

CBS’ attack on its own anchor was so blatant that even Shari Redstone, chair of CBS’ parent company Paramount Global, publicly defended Dokoupil. Redstone disagreed with network executives’ behavior in throwing Dokoupil under the bus simply for asking Coates tough questions. 

These two episodes sum things up well: CBS News would rather be a propaganda organ for Harris, a Democratic candidate who has not won a single electoral vote in a national primary, than ask tough questions like real journalists do. 

How is CBS serving democracy by doing this? 

Carrie Sheffield is a senior policy analyst at Independent Women’s Voice.

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