On Kamala Harris’s role, media cross border into outright lies - Washington Examiner (2024)

Facts are facts, even if they make new presidential candidate Kamala Harris look bad. This fact is undeniable, no matter how much dishonest media try to obfuscate it: President Joe Biden appointed the vice president to stem the tide of migrants to the U.S. southern border. Period. No wiggle room.

And the almost inarguable judgment is that she failed at the job. Miserably. The tide didn’t recede; it rose and crashed in huge waves upon our (figurative) shores.

It was way back on March 24, 2021. Biden, in a White House meeting that included Harris, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, announced he was tapping Harris to lead the administration’s response to the growing number of migrants arriving at the U.S. border. Her job, he said, was “stemming the migration to our southern border.” He also said she “agreed to lead our diplomatic effort and work with nations [to our South] to accept re- — the returnees, and enhance migration enforcement at their borders — at their borders.”

Biden told reporters before the meeting that he wanted Harris to be the point person on the border, to speak decisively for the administration. And in a call to reporters after the announcement, a senior official told reporters unequivocally that Harris’s focus would be on the historic surge of illegal border crossings.

Within hours stories emerged in major news organizations with clarity that “Biden was tasking her with leading efforts to stem migration and the border” with dozens of elite news organizations referring to her as the “border czar.” This is irrefutable history. It’s all documented.

Nonetheless, one hour after Biden endorsed Harris last Sunday, news organizations and Democrats were stridently saying it was never the case that Harris was in charge of the border, that they never said she was the border czar and that the claim was all a right-wing conspiracy.

Axios, a popular Washington insider online news organization, not only scrubbed part of its story from 2021 reporting Harris was “appointed by Biden as border czar,” but also said in an editor’s notethat it had “incorrectly” labeled Harris a border czar. At least it admitted it originally called her that.

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It was one of the most remarkably dishonest moments in American journalism, a once revered industry that in recent years has lost the trust of the people to report the news in a full, fair, and accurate way. And it wasn’t just Axios. The gaslighting of readers across multiple news organizations has been equally repulsive — and it may just be the final straw in that relationship between readers and news organizations.

The New York Times admonished readers Thursday, saying, “Ms. Harris was not in fact appointed border czar, nor was she tasked with addressing the border problems plaguing the border itself.”

That is not what Biden said. That is not what the press wrote and said.

Simply put they were either lying then or they are lying now.

For years the national press has had what they referred to as “disinformation beats” and used them to rush to say that social media platforms should not feature certain news stories or news outlets, almost all of them center-right or conservative, on their sites.

And now they are engaged in disinformation that discredits their own reporting. They need to call themselves out for disinformation. Either they’re lying now or they were lying then.

They called Harris the border czar at the time, and now they’re saying she wasn’t the border czar. That means they weren’t very good reporters at the time. And so, they need to address their reporters who called Harris the wrong thing.

It’s a statement that their own product was wrong or it’s wrong now. It’s one or the other.

What they don’t understand is that most people are smarter than that, and that their takeaway is, “Oh, you just want to help her.” Because rest assured, if we had no immigration problem, Harris would be running on the fact that she’s the border czar, and everybody knows it.

The same goes for the “nonpartisan” GovTrack, an organization that touts itself as a government transparency website that tracks congressional voting records that in the dark of night on Wednesday decided to scrub its 2019 rating of Harris as the most liberal U.S. senator in the upper chamber.

GovTrack founder Joshua Tauberer told Fox News the page was removed because it was not “a reliable portrait of the activity of legislators.”

Run that by us again? He says the same rating that is GovTrack’s stock in trade, one that has been on site for years, suddenly is not accurate? If her rating is not accurate, doesn’t that throw into question GovTrack’s entire rating system? It can’t be inaccurate for just her, but not for 99 other senators.

The truth is that it absolutely was correct all along, but now it’s so embarrassing to their candidate that GovTrack is falling on its own sword. Yet the reality is that if voters were not rejecting the far-left spiral that Biden has embraced since becoming president, Harris would indeed be running on her rating as the most liberal senator in the country.

In short, two storied institutions that are supposed to operate at the highest level of reliability not only scrubbed any evidence of their original reporting and rankings but somehow expected the general public to be OK with it — all because the candidate the institutions prefer would be damaged by past reporting or rankings.

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All of this reporting was good until they now pretend it wasn’t. And rather than stand behind their reporting, they are trying to pretend that it didn’t happen. Which makes you wonder, were they terrible at reporting then, or is it just now?

In the words of Al Gore, the fact that Harris is the border czar is an inconvenient truth. No matter how much they try to get rid of the inconvenience, the truth, inviolable, remains.

On Kamala Harris’s role, media cross border into outright lies - Washington Examiner (2024)

FAQs

What is Kamala Harris involved in? ›

Kamala D. Harris is the Vice President of the United States. She always fights for the people – from her barrier-breaking time as District Attorney of San Francisco and Attorney General of California, to proudly serving as a United States Senator and the Vice President.

Where did Kamala Harris start her political career? ›

Early career

In February 1998, San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan recruited Harris as an assistant district attorney.

What is Kamala Harris fighting for? ›

Vice President Kamala Harris has spent more than a decade advocating for Black, Hispanic and impoverished communities struggling with pollution — an insurgent segment of the environmental movement that never entirely warmed up to President Joe Biden.

What does Kamala Harris have to do with the Senate? ›

Harris served in the Senate representing California during two Congresses (the 115th and 116th) before resigning to assume office as vice president in 2021.

Who did Kamala Harris get for Vice President? ›

Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, looking to strengthen the Democratic ticket in Midwestern states.

What religion is Kamala Harris? ›

Haynes – whose family has close ties to Third Baptist – was guest preaching at the time while visiting his mother. Harris, then the Alameda County district attorney, had just joined the congregation. “She has always understood that Jesus and justice go together.

What is the role of the Vice President? ›

The Constitution names the vice president of the United States as the president of the Senate. In addition to serving as presiding officer, the vice president has the sole power to break a tie vote in the Senate and formally presides over the receiving and counting of electoral ballots cast in presidential elections.

Who is Kamala Harris picking for Vice President? ›

Picking a running mate: Inside the 16 days between Kamala Harris' launch and her choice of Tim Walz. Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz made their joint debut as the 2024 Democratic ticket Monday night at a packed rally in Philadelphia.

What did Kamala Harris' mother tell her? ›

Is Kamala Harris' sister a lawyer? ›

Maya Lakshmi Harris (born January 30, 1967) is an American lawyer, public policy advocate, and writer. Harris was one of three senior policy advisors for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign's policy agenda and she also served as chair of the 2020 presidential campaign of her sister, Kamala Harris.

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