CBS News put out a statement of self-defense on Sunday night about the obvious differences in editing of their Kamala Harris interview. The word salad aired in a Face The Nation promo didn’t match the shorter, more coherent answer that aired the next night on a 60 Minutes special.
It began like a PolitiFact evaluation: “Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false.”
If the two different answers aren’t “deceitful,” they’re sneaky. The one in the program clearly makes Harris sound more in command of the English language than the larger answer did.
CBS insisted it was “Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response.” But CBS still refuses to release the full transcript (or partial transcript of this specific question and answer), which…
