Back in July after President Joe Biden, in withdrawing from the presidential race essentially declared the end of his 50+ year political career via tweet, the mainstream media were working fast and furious to revise Kamala Harris’ history of failures as his vice president.
Most notably, there were the “she was never his border czar” pieces, with Axios leading the way in not only gaslighting voters but also thoroughly embarrassing themselves when it was pointed out that they, too, had referred to Harris as Biden’s border czar in April 2021, a month after Biden made the announcement.
Hilariously, the Community Note that got attached to their tweet on the article is still attached to it as of this writing:
Fast forward a month and we see that the MSM has gone from saying, hey, she was never tasked to do this to now trying to completely distance the Democrat presidential nominee from her boss altogether.
Here, we learned via Politico that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, was “trying to tether Harris to Biden”:
From the article:
Speaking at a rally in Big Rapids, Michigan, former President Donald Trump’s running mate tried to tie Harris to the Biden administration’s policies — saying at one point that “Kamala Harris has been calling the shots” — while also warning of China’s emergence as an economic superpower that’s taking jobs away from the U.S.
Though the Community Note isn’t currently appearing under that tweet, here’s what it looked like when it did:
Media critic Joe Concha even provided a bit of a fact check:
In a write-up at The Hill, we were informed that Trump was “trying to link Vice President Harris” to the Afghanistan chaos:
Except there was no “trying” to it. In April 2021, Harris tied herself to the Afghanistan decision:
Vice President Kamala Harris confirmed Sunday that she was the last person in the room before President Joe Biden made the decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.
In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” Harris was asked about being the last person in the room regarding major decisions, something that Biden has said is important to him in his working relationship with the vice president. Harris confirmed that was the case regarding the move to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11.
And the Washington Post‘s Aaron Blake performed his Operation Demoralize duty by insinuating that maybe Republicans should give up on linking Harris to Biden because the polls allegedly suggest the tactic isn’t working:
And yet if that’s truly the case…
The media mockery was, of course, on point:
Vance even got in on the action:
Sadly, we are currently at the point at which we shouldn’t be too surprised in the very near future to see a fact-checking organization actually try to claim it is false that Harris served as Biden’s VP:
I mean, come on y’all, you know we’re not that far away from this level of media gaslighting. It truly has gotten that bad.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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