To prove fealty to Kamala Harris, the media gaslights voters by rewriting her past

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To prove fealty to Kamala Harris, the media gaslights voters by rewriting her past

I had thought that after the ******** 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.

**** 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

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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,

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to “lead the White House effort to tackle the migration challenge at the U.S. southern border and work with Central ********* 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: “

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Sounds like a pretty ***** 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 “

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Yet now, accurately referring to Harris’ vital undertaking has become a huge no-no.

Since Harris ******* to address anything to do with immigration (the number of ******** border crossings continued to

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), she quietly was removed from that position and has turned to other things like visiting ********* clinics and

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Harris bothered to visit the border only once –

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Vice President Kamala Harris in El Paso, Texas, in 2021 with, from left, Sen. ***** 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 “

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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,

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: “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

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It’s insulting.

In 2019, Harris was the ‘most ******** senator.’ Not anymore.

This may be even more alarming.

CBS: “You’re considered the most ******** ******* States senator.”

KAMALA: “I— somebody said that, and it was actually Mike Pence on the debate stage…”

CBS: “Actually, nonpartisan GovTrack has rated you as the most ******** senator.”

KAMALA: *blank stare*

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A supposedly nonpartisan organization that tracks congressional voting records,

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, has simply waved its wand and made a 2019 page on its site dedicated to Harris’ voting record go “poof.”

It no longer exists on its main site. (

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Why?

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That page accurately referred to Harris’ record that year as the most ******** in the Senate – beating out even self-declared

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, I-Vt.

Apparently, that could be seen as unhelpful to Harris’ crowning as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

GovTrack doubled down on its disappearing act, by adding an

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: “On July 23, 2024, this article was updated. The text ‘, especially given

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based on cosponsorship. But looking at the legislation she’s introduced tells a different story ‒ judge for yourself’ was removed. Once the 2019–2020 session of Congress was complete, the statistics

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and for Harris’s

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in the senate showed a different story.”

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It’s kind of funny (scary?) that the editor’s note includes a link to the 2019 page that the group has erased. The

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that the page no longer exists because it had stopped single-year ratings of lawmakers a few years ago.

And while

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, too, GovTrack was inspired to make that call to take down these pages, including Harris’ page, “

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Interesting timing.

Expect a lot more of these shenanigans to continue in the coming months. Don’t let the media get away with it.

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