Brian Stelter distorts Harris’ Fox interview, Kamala denies Blinken’s warnings to Israel are considered as threats and more
Chronicle of alarming misinformation and risky illusions
This perspective:
“Viewers are going to come away saying, ‘Wow, she’s willing to do [the Bret Baier interview]. That’s a sign of toughness.’”
— Brian Stelter, CNN, Wednesday
We say: Give us a break!
Harris’ evasion of every question Bret Baier asked in Wednesday’s interview was a sign of weakness, not “toughness.”
Viewers could plainly see she was completely unable to defend her record. Nor did her go-to response — Trump bad — hide that.
Too bad for Stelter and the left that Americans aren’t as naive as they’d like them to be.
This justification:
“The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes.”
— ABC’s Martha Raddatz, Sunday
We say: Raddatz struggled to downplay Venezuelan gang takeovers of apartment complexes in Aurora, Colo., claiming they were limited to just “a handful.”
But she sounded like those ridiculous TV reporters labeling the George Floyd riots “mostly peaceful” even as viewers watched buildings burn in the background.
When Americans see videos of entire buildings under the control of migrant gunmen, they know they have a problem.
This refusal:
“I don’t believe that’s what the letter said.”
— Kamala Harris, Wednesday
We say: Asked if she supported the letter to Israel from Secretary of Antony Blinken threatening to halt US arms unless it lets more aid into Gaza, Harris simply denied that’s what the letter said.
Here’s the letter’s verbatim language: “Failure to demonstrate a sustained commitment [to increase aid] . . . may have implications for U.S. policy under NSM-20.”
What does President Biden’s National Security Memorandum 20 say? That without sufficient “assurances” on aid, the “transfer of defense articles . . . shall be paused.” QED.
This assertion:
“Illegal crossings have gone down every year for three years.”
— Bill Clinton, Sunday
We say: Sorry, Bubba. Customs and Border Patrol figures show a massive increase in “enforcement encounters” — from about 600,000 to nearly 2 million — from Fiscal Year 2020 to 2021; up again, to 2.8 million in 2022; and higher still, at 3.2 million, in 2023.
The number did fall in 2024 to 2.8 million, but even that’s nearly five times higher than during Donald Trump’s last full fiscal year, and doesn’t account for the hundreds of thousands administratively “legalized” by the Biden-Harris team.
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