If democracy
dies in darkness, what happens when no one even bothers to get out the
flashlight? I just plowed through thousands of words of coverage in the New
York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN and found no effort
whatsoever to flag the multiple lies told by Kamala Harris in her debut as
the veep pick. (Quick: is the following the headline of a Democratic Party
press release or a neutral news report: “Biden and Harris Pledge a Strong
Challenge to Trump and a Path Out of Crisis.” Answer: It’s the Times.)
Amid headlines such as “Colbert: Kamala Harris delivered a ‘zinger’ on Trump” (CNN) and “In Kamala Harris, a Choice at Once Safe and Energizing” (the Times) and “’A trailblazer’: Indian Americans react with joy, pride to Harris’s VP nod” (WaPo) and “Tucker Carlson’s mangling of Kamala Harris’s name was all about disrespect” (WaPo, a few hours before Joe Biden mangled her name in the same way), there was no space to compare Harris’s various claims to reality. Some reports quoted her lies without mentioning that they were demonstrably and indisputably false, such as Harris’s claim that the virus “has hit America worse than any other advanced nation.”
The Paper of
Record did find room, however, to report breathlessly that one of President’s
Trump’s sons, Eric, liked a tweet, that was later deleted, that referred to
Harris as “whorendous.” CNN did an entire story on this matter.
Read the entire article here by Kyle Smith.
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