Let’s take a look at a few examples from the past few days.
Was Harris in charge of the border – or wasn't she?
Shortly after Biden took office in 2021, the president appointed Harris to “lead the White House effort to tackle the migration challenge at the U.S. southern border and work with Central American nations to address root causes of the problem.”
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At least that’s how The Associated Press reported the story at the time.
Biden made the announcement following a surge of migrants at the southern border after he had become president. He also said of Harris in this new role: “When she speaks, she speaks for me.”
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No, she never was "in charge" of the border...and one has to be absolutely nuts to suppose that ANYONE was ever "in charge" of our borders.
She was appointed to attempt to solve the problems we have with our southern border...which is about like appointing here to attempt to solve the problems NASA has with visiting other galaxies.
So, Kamala Harris did not solve the problems we have with our southern border. Of course, no other president or individual has ever come near solving the problems we have with our southern border...because the problem is way too complicated and no one will ever "solve" it in a way that would be adequate for the MAGA morons. They, the morons, simply want it solved in a way that will prevent people who have skin darker than white from coming into America...which is never going to happen.
Seriously just shut the fuck up and stop your bullshitting.
Some of the media’s largest players are proving their newfound devotion to Harris by attempting to rewrite her past – and some of their own coverage.
Yes, it’s as Orwellian as it sounds. And it’s a little too close to the tactics used by the Soviets to simply “erase” opponents from photographs. Don’t like someone – or something that happened? Hit delete.
Was Harris in charge of the border – or wasn't she?
Shortly after Biden took office in 2021, the president appointed Harris to “lead the White House effort to tackle the migration challenge at the U.S. southern border and work with Central American nations to address root causes of the problem.”
At least that’s how The Associated Press reported the story at the time.
Biden made the announcement following a surge of migrants at the southern border after he had become president. He also said of Harris in this new role: “When she speaks, she speaks for me.”
Biden gaslighting:Is Joe Biden's bizarre behavior a GOP 'cheap fake'? It's up to him to prove that he's OK.
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To prove fealty to Kamala Harris, the media gaslights voters by rewriting her past
Some of the media's largest players are proving their newfound devotion to the likely Democratic presidential nominee by attempting to rewrite her past – and some of their own coverage.
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I had thought that after the liberal media was exposed for its shameless attempts to cover for President Joe Biden’s deteriorating mental and physical condition, mainstream outlets would maybe take a moment for a collective mea culpa.
Fat chance.
Instead, Biden’s allies on the left quickly turned their cheerleading efforts from the president (once it became blatantly obvious he was in bad shape) to Vice President Kamala Harris, now that it looks like she will be the Democratic Party's replacement on the presidential ticket.
Some of the media’s largest players are proving their newfound devotion to Harris by attempting to rewrite her past – and some of their own coverage.
Yes, it’s as Orwellian as it sounds. And it’s a little too close to the tactics used by the Soviets to simply “erase” opponents from photographs. Don’t like someone – or something that happened? Hit delete.
Let’s take a look at a few examples from the past few days.
Was Harris in charge of the border – or wasn't she?
Shortly after Biden took office in 2021, the president appointed Harris to “lead the White House effort to tackle the migration challenge at the U.S. southern border and work with Central American nations to address root causes of the problem.”
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At least that’s how The Associated Press reported the story at the time.
Biden made the announcement following a surge of migrants at the southern border after he had become president. He also said of Harris in this new role: “When she speaks, she speaks for me.”
Biden gaslighting:Is Joe Biden's bizarre behavior a GOP 'cheap fake'? It's up to him to prove that he's OK.
Sounds like a pretty darn important job to me.
That’s why many in the news media started referring to Harris’ big task as “border czar,” including me, even though that technically wasn’t her official title. Anyone in Washington knows that people put in positions of power like this are commonly referred to as “czars.” It's a phrase that dates at least to 1989, when President George H.W. Bush appointed William Bennett to be his "drug czar."
Yet now, accurately referring to Harris’ vital undertaking has become a huge no-no.
Since Harris failed to address anything to do with immigration (the number of illegal border crossings continued to skyrocket during the Biden administration until recently), she quietly was removed from that position and has turned to other things like visiting abortion clinics and fighting Islamophobia.
Harris bothered to visit the border only once – and only after being shamed in an interview for not having done so.
Vice President Kamala Harris in El Paso, Texas, in 2021 with, from left, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
To cover for her shortfalls, the news media is now desperately seeking to rewrite history.
One glaring example is from Axios. In 2021, the outlet reported that “Biden puts Harris in charge of border crisis.” Another story used the phrase “border czar.”
Fast-forward to this week, and Axios is acting shocked that anyone would refer to Harris in this way, claiming that she was given only a “slice” of the crisis to combat. To make matters worse, Axios added an editor’s note to the recent article, stating: “This article has been updated and clarified to note that Axios was among the news outlets that incorrectly labeled Harris a ‘border czar’ in 2021.’ ”
While no “correction” was deemed necessary for three years, suddenly it’s a matter of incredible importance.
Many others in digital and television media are trying the same tactic.
The push to rewrite Kamala Harris' record as vice president and in the Senate is as Orwellian as it sounds.
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