Unbelievable. Outrageous. Disgusting. Amazing.
And yet, oddly satisfying and welcome!
That “60 Minutes” segment on Kamala Harris in which CBS and the once-respected new magazine tried to influence the 2024 election by editing a Harris interview to make her seem like less of a babbling, intellectually-challenged fool — the subject of Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS — was nominated yesterday by Emmys for “outstanding edited interview.”
The revelation that the television industry approves of deceptive partisan propaganda that helps Democrats and advances progressive agendas isn’t the shocking aspect of the nomination. Anyone paying attention know that already. What is head-blowing is that the Emmys would be so open about its bias and rejection of ethics.
The nomination is a direct and flagrant gesture of defiance to President Trump. It is not merely political and partisan, but openly and intentionally political and partisan. Trump sued CBS for $20 billion as a result of this all-time low-point in fair, unbiased, and trustworthy journalism, and should have, if only to make sure the smoking gun “Nah, there’s no mainstream media bias!” episode wasn’t jammed in a metaphorical memory hole as the Axis media continues to pretend that it is interested in informing the American public rather than manipulating it.
The Associate Press, naturally, spun the story as if there is any question that the interview was deliberately distorted to help Harris, the Democrats, and the aspiring totalitarians who ran the Biden Potemkin village administration. “Trump, in his lawsuit, complained that the interview was deceptively edited to make his Democratic election opponent look good,” writes the AP. Let me fix that to make it correctly informative: “The Harris interview was edited to make Trump’s pathetic Democratic election opponent look good, and Trump sued CBS and ’60 Minutes’ in response.”
Ethics Alarms has several posts about the nauseating effort by CBS to drag Harris over the finish line, but the main was is “To Nobody’s Surprise But the Brainwashed, Trump-Deranged and Axis Useful Idiots, the “60 Minutes” Unedited Transcript Proves CBS Was Unethically Helping Harris,” when CBS, after withholding the unedited “60 Minutes” transcript as long as it could—three months!—finally released it. I wrote, after examining the discrepencies between the actual interview and how it was presented on “60 Minutes,”
“This is news distortion. It is fine for CBS to claim that it frequently edits responses for time and clarity, but Harris’s inability to answer questions clearly and to avoid sounding like a babbling idiot was a major issue in the campaign. Eliminating responses that seemed to prove that this frequent criticism of Harris was warranted either constituted an illicit attempt to advance her candidacy or astounding incompetence. In the context of CBS’s constant bias in favor of Democrats and against Trump, the latter seems like the far less likely explanation.”
I believe the Emmy nomination is “oddly satisfying and welcome”?” because it shows one of the Left’s agents and “by any means necessary” allies ripping off its own mask and showing the rot beneath. You know…
This nomination says, “Yeah, we cheat so progressives will win and gain power, and we’re proud of it. We’re right and everyone who disagrees with us is racist, sexist, stupid and evil. “60 Minutes” did a great job, and it’s a tragedy that fixing Harris’s interview wasn’t enough.”
The Emmys showed us exactly who the people who run television are and how far they are willing to go to undermine democracy. We should be grateful for the admission.
Ethics Alarms 
Breath taking. How did this grow up amongst us over the last ten or twenty years? I think it started during the Clinton Regnum and burst fully on the scene when Al Gore didn’t ascend to the throne as anticipated so he could serve for a term or two and then Hillary would have her two years. Infinity.
I’m not kidding: this one really came close to making my head explode for real. Your question is a good one. Talk about American sbeing apathetic and asleep at the switch. Pick your metaphor: the boiling frog?
*italic”Yeah, we cheat so progressives will win and gain power, and we’re proud of it. We’re right and everyone who disagrees with us is racist, sexist, stupid and evil. “60 Minutes” did a great job, and it’s a tragedy that fixing Harris’s interview wasn’t enough.”*
Pretty much checks with chart on how the MM reports news-
Step 1. Deny (insert subject) is happening.
Step 2. When Step 1 can no longer be reasonably applied, admit (insert subject) is happening.
Step 3. Report your opposition’s reaction to (insert subject) as the primary focus of any and all coverage, while also rationalizing why (insert subject) happening is a good thing.
“CBS — was nominated yesterday by Emmys for “outstanding edited interview.””
Hmmmm, I’d consider that to be intentional biased propaganda that’s trying to intentionally manipulate public opinion, just like CBS did with their immoral election interference with the Harris interview. Wouldn’t this effort from the Emmys, and the CBS edited interview, be considered pure gaslighting. Maybe the Emmys are trying to bias a potential jury pool; hmmm, jury manipulation; convince the general public that that kind of immoral gaslighting is somehow honorable.
Personally I hope that Trump wins the lawsuit against CBS in a very big way, but in reality, I think Trump will likely lose outright or CBS will find a some way to settle to save face.
I turned CBS and NBC news off many, many years ago because of their obvious bias. As for ABC news, that one gets turned off during presidential elections and back on after the election is over. My wife and I have exceptional abilities in using the mute button on the TV remotes during election season, we’re both damned sick and tired of all the in-your-face propaganda lies.
I suspect this is CBS using the Emmy nomination as part of its defense strategy: “We couldn’t have slimed Trump! We were nominated for an Emmy!”
jvb
The EMMY being an “award”, it would be interesting to know the entrants in this category that CBS triumphed over. This creates thoughts that there is a competition among news agencies to see who can do the best “edited interview”. What are the elements of an award winning entry? Impact? Public awareness/deception?
How long has this been an award category and who are winners from prior years?
Sweet sainted mother of Dag Hammarskjold. This did in fact make my brain hurt!
I too have tuned out the big 3 network newscasts, just cannot stomach the overt bias any longer. Kind of related – sorry my mind works in mysterious ways – BTW, if one tunes in the intro to the CBS morning news show, is it just me or does this remind us of Howard Beale’s show on the movie ‘Network’?
I don’t know when the Emmy show is, or when the “awards” are actually presented, but I think we can safely predict that this video will win.