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This country will never mend its political divide if mainstream media is allowed to be so blatantly biased.

If you were a conservative candidate running for office and witnessed how liberal moderators comported themselves in national television debates, would you want them to moderate your debate?

Recall recent debates moderated by David Muir and Linsey Davis of ABC in the presidential debate, or Nora O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan of CBS in the vice presidential debate. These “moderators” publicly “fact-checked,” often incorrectly, conservative candidates while allowing liberal candidates to say virtually anything.

CNN, in search of better ratings, then volunteered to host another presidential debate. Trump rightfully declined. The left-wing jackals at CNN are about as trustworthy as gas station sushi.

Moreover, how should a conservative candidate feel about being interviewed by the left-wing reporters of the CBS program “60 Minutes?” Could someone like Trump or his running mate JD Vance ever expect a fair interview? Sadly, as was seen in recent debates, conservatives candidates cannot expect fair treatment by these New York based propagandists masquerading as journalists.  

When “60 Minutes” offered to conduct separate interviews with Trump and Harris, Trump refused, due primarily to the mistruths and innuendo’s Leslie Stahl of “60 Minutes” broadcast over the Russia Hoax and Hunter Biden Laptop matters while interviewing Trump in 2020. As “60 Minutes” never apologized or corrected themselves, Trump has no reason to expect an honest interview this time either.

When the program aired the Harris interview on “60 Minutes,” comrade Scott Pelley felt compelled to lead off the show stating the reasons why CBS thought Trump did not sit for an interview on their show this time, oblivious to past treatment.

After Pelley, CBS turned to Bill Whitaker’s pre-recorded interview of Harris. I have often commented on how Whitaker can’t be trusted because of his biased politics, but when I watched him interview Harris, I thought he did a fair job. Well, I was wrong.

After the program aired, it was revealed that “60 Minutes” edited the interview when they questioned Harris about the Israel conflict. The original version included fragmented and rambling answers from Harris. After this came to light publicly, “60 Minutes” posted the longer version on their YouTube page.

In the longer interview, Harris unleashes another word salad: “The work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.”

But the damage was done. CBS put their thumb squarely on the side of disinformation airing an abbreviated incorrect response to millions of viewers on national television. What viewers heard was a cleaned up sensible version of a situation that in reality, Harris has no clue about. How many people watched the program and came away with a false sense that Harris had command of the situation?  

Just earlier that day CBS was involved pandering to their left-wing employees. CBS “News” Anchor Tony Dokoupil, a Jewish man with family in Israel, was castigated by network staff for being too tough on pro-Palestinian author, Ta-Nehisi Coates during an interview about his book critical of Israel. Coates is usually critical of white folks, seeing racism in just about everything. The Left loves him for it.

In the interview, Dokoupil asked Coates, “What is it that so particularly offends you about the existence of a Jewish state that is a Jewish safe place?” That question sent the networks’ Race and Culture’ unit apocalyptic. They were critical of Mr. Dokoupil’s tone and body language in the interview, calling it racist.  

CBS executives felt compelled to reassure butt-hurt staff members that the interview did not meet their editorial standards. Evidently, some employees at CBS were actually in tears over Dokoupil’s audacity.  

These are only recent incidents of liberal prejudice by mainstream media. Recall earlier this year when NBC’s staff was enraged when Republican Chair Ronna Daniels was hired on to the network. In a case of the tail wagging the dog, nearly every one of their program hosts lashed out on their programs about the hiring. This caused pathetic executives to fire Daniels four days after she was hired, but not before paying her $300,000.  

When mainstream media is as one-sided as major news outlets like ABC, NBC, and CBS have consistently been, then it’s not news, folks, it’s brazen propaganda. It’s socialism when they promote and assist one party over the other.

This country will never mend its political divide if mainstream media is allowed to be so blatantly biased? The only way to change that is to stop watching and buying products that advertise with them.