Kamala Harris will do a sit-down interview with the rightwing broadcaster Fox News on Wednesday, the news channel announced on Monday, in the most dramatic moment yet in a recent media blitz by the Democratic presidential nominee.
Fox has a long history of helpfully editing Trump's remarks:
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Fox News has selectively edited Trump's interviews so he doesn't sound like he's siding with Putin to give away Ukraine. They're Trump's MAGA propaganda machine, even when that means concealing what he's actually saying.
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@#16 ... But instead of letting that stand CBS violated their own standards and considerably edited her answer about Israel to make her seem less incoherent. ...
How, exactly did CBS violate their own standards?
Yer up ...
Trump's complaints about '60 Minutes' put a spotlight on editing at the nation's top newsmagazine
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... Donald Trump skipped a "60 Minutes" interview this past week, but he's attacking CBS for how it handled its session with opponent Kamala Harris, calling it a "giant fake news scam" and suggesting the network was out to protect her.
Portions of the Harris interview ran Monday on the newsmagazine and on the Sunday morning political show "Face the Nation." On two occasions, it depicted Harris giving different answers to questions posed by correspondent Bill Whitaker on the Biden administration's efforts to stop the war in the Mideast.
For CBS News, it was considered part of the typical editing and cross-promotion process that takes place for a big interview. Yet to those unfamiliar with journalism and television production, the effect can be jarring.
How did Harris appear to give two answers?
Whitaker interviewed Harris on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 5, in Washington for the special broadcast that aired Monday, two days later. But "60 Minutes" offered a portion of that interview to colleagues at "Face the Nation," both to give the Sunday morning show some fresh news and to "tease" the longer interview.
At one point, Whitaker observed that it appeared Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, did not appear to be listening to the administration's suggestions.
"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," the vice president said in response, on the "Face the Nation" clip.
On "60 Minutes," after Whitaker said the same thing, Harris answered: "We're 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."
After the differences were pointed out online, Trump said on his Truth Social feed that Harris' "REAL ANSWER WAS CRAZY, OR DUMB, so they actually REPLACED it with another answer in order to save her or, at least, to make her look better."
So what did Harris actually say to Whitaker?
Well, both things, according to CBS. Her full answer to the question was the two sentences put together " the first sentence used on "Face the Nation" and the second sentence on "60 Minutes."
CBS said the need to make the "60 Minutes" interview segment concise prompted the editing. The full interview with Harris took 45 minutes, and it was fit into a 20-minute slot on the broadcast. Yet the editing made it appear that the answer shown on "60 Minutes" was the first thing Harris said in response to the question. Having "Face the Nation" show Whitaker asking the question " instead of having someone paraphrase it -- added to the confusion and made CBS vulnerable to criticism. ...
Great tune that just popped up on a playlist here...
Stevie Wonder - Ngiculela-Es Una Historia-I Am Singing (1976)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
...
Ngiculela ikusasa
Ngiyacula ngo thando
Ngicula ngelinyi langa
Uthando luyobusa
Jikelele kulomhlaba wethu
Es una historia de mañana
Es una historia de amor
Es una historia que amor reinar
Por nuestro mundo
Es una historia de mi corazn
There's songs to make you smile
There's songs to make you sad
But with a happy song to sing
It never seems as bad
To me came this melody
So I've tried to put in words how I feel
Tomorrow will be for you and me
I am singing of tomorrow
I am singing of love
I am singing someday love will reign
Throughout this world of ours
I am singing of love from my heart
Let's all sing someday sweet love will reign
Throughout this world of ours
Let's start singing
Of love from our hearts
Let's start singing
Of love from our hearts
...blockquote>
@#73 ... On topic, ...
Because your current alias' off-topic comments revealed an ignorance?
OK, that aside.
.... I believe this is a massive mistake doing this interview. ...
Time will tell.
... She has consistently proven to be terrible off the cuff. ...
You mean, telling the truth instead of "making up stories?"
Yeah, I do look forward to the interview.
Now, when will fmr Pres Trump agree to do a sit-down with 60-Minutes?
Trump backs out of a '60 Minutes' prime-time interview, CBS says (October 1, 2024)
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... The CBS news program 60 Minutes announced on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump has backed out of an interview he had agreed to do as part of its prime-time election special next week.
"For over half a century, 60 Minutes has invited the Democratic and Republican tickets to appear on our broadcast as Americans head to the polls," the newsmagazine posted on X. "This year, both the Harris and Trump campaigns agreed to sit down with 60 Minutes."
It went on to say that "after initially accepting 60 Minutes' request for an interview" with Scott Pelley, Trump's campaign "has decided not to participate." ...
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