CNN Caught Doing Journalism, Calls Out Harris Campaign As ‘repeatedly deceptive’
CNN writer: @KamalaHQ “has made a habit of misleadingly clipping and inaccurately captioning video clips to attack former President Donald Trump.”
CNN’s Daniel Dale has done the unthinkable. He took aim at @KamalaHQ, the official rapid response page on X for Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. With over 1.3 million followers, the account has a wide reach, and according to Dale, “has made a habit of misleadingly clipping and inaccurately captioning video clips to attack former President Donald Trump.”
The account has been “repeatedly deceptive” and has made “inaccurate comments on multiple occasions,” Dale wrote. And he goes on to detail eight of the account’s most disingenuous posts from the last month.
He points out that all of these posts have been called out in real time by “an anonymous rebuttal account called @KamalaHQLies, which itself has more than 268,000 followers.”
CNN just nuked @KamalaHQ for their constant lies about Trump and Vance.https://t.co/1UWGpK8fPt pic.twitter.com/lhdeHpLWCt
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 14, 2024
In one example, Trump is shown speaking at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The caption on the post reads, “Trump: Would that be okay, North Carolina? (He is in Pennsylvania).” The obvious implication is that Trump has forgotten which state he was in. In the brief clip, he is heard saying, “Would that be okay, North Carolina? I don’t think so, right,” as he points to his left.
Dale notes that the Instagram version of this post includes the comment, “Donald Trump is lost and confused.”
[Democrats can get away with more on Instagram which does not have X’s “Community Notes” capability. This feature, according to X, “aims to create a better-informed world, by empowering people on X to collaboratively add helpful notes to posts that might be misleading.”]
Dale provides some context which shows that Trump knew exactly where he was. He explained, “The full video of the rally shows that earlier in the speech, Trump had pointed to the same spot on his left to acknowledge and then speak to a group of ardent supporters from North Carolina, eventually saying, ‘Thank you very much. North Carolina!’ Later, in the moment shown by @KamalaHQ, he pointed to these supporters again and referred to them as ‘North Carolina.’ He had not forgotten he was speaking in Pennsylvania.”
Trump: Would that be okay, North Carolina?
(He is in Pennsylvania) pic.twitter.com/TcymR609Rg
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 17, 2024
In another post, the campaign tried once again to show that Trump had forgotten which state he was in. The caption on the post read, “Trump: ‘Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote’ (He is in Arizona).” In the video, Trump is heard saying, “So Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote, okay, just remember this: 2,000% increase. This is a small — … “
As usual, the Instagram version of this post was even more direct. It added the comment, “Trump forgets which state he is in (again).”
Once again, @KamalaHQ left out the context in which this remark was made. Dale cleared that up for his readers:
The extended footage shows that the Harris campaign clipped out critical context: Trump was talking about immigration, a key topic in Arizona, and had just read a part of his prepared text about how a small Pennsylvania town has “experienced a 2,000% increase in the population of Haitian migrants under Kamala Harris.” He then added, “So Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote, okay, just remember this: 2,000% increase, this is a small town; of all a sudden they got thousands of people.”
Trump: “Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote”
(He is in Arizona) pic.twitter.com/lMEJwwvQ3I
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 12, 2024
Naturally, @KamalaHQ used Trump’s remarks about the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, out of context for the thousandth time. Although it took seven years, the Left’s version of that story has been formally debunked – by left-leaning fact checkers. It is truly reprehensible that Democrats continue to present it as the truth.
Trump says “nothing was done wrong” in Charlottesville in 2017 when neo-Nazis chanted “Jews will not replace us” and killed an innocent woman pic.twitter.com/rQEuzPp3KP
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 13, 2024
This post was quickly rebutted by @KamalaHQLies.
This may go down as one of the worst lies yet…
Not only did they lie about Trump’s quote here, but they’re lying about his quote from Charlottesville.
So evil.
Here is the truth:https://t.co/fpxlxCthlT
— KamalaHQLies (@KamalaHQLies) September 13, 2024
Dale flagged a post about the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a roadmap for Republican governance prepared by a group of conservative think tanks that Trump has explicitly and repeated rejected. Although Trump has no connection to this initiative, Democrats continue to tie him to it to scare voters.
In another post, Dale shows the campaign taking remarks made by Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), about veterans’ health care wildly out of context. Read the article to see the others.
While none of this comes as a surprise to people who follow current events closely, for those who rarely follow the news or do so only casually, the sheer repetition of these lies makes them believable.
This is what makes Dale’s article so important. Reading an article from a liberal writer on a liberal site calling out the Harris campaign for their deception carries a lot more weight than reading the same article on Fox. Frankly, I’m amazed that Dale’s expose made it through editing at CNN.
Likewise, low information voters frequently turn to social media platforms to get their news. That’s why allowing the Harris campaign’s lies to stand is so dangerous.
The Trump campaign and the conservative media need to keep exposing the dishonesty of the Harris campaign and the candidate herself relentlessly until Election Day. It’s a pleasure to see a journalist from the liberal media helping us to push this message. More of this please.
And I’ll leave you with this. In the clip below, a group of soldiers deployed to a combat zone reacted to one of the many lies Harris told during last week’s debate. She claimed, “As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is on active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world, the first time this century.” And the troops responded in humorous fashion.
[Language warning.]
Kamala tells America there is not one active military troop in any combat zone in the world
Soldiers beg to differ! WATCH pic.twitter.com/5w0WafbUH3
— Myrna 💋💄🍺 𝕏 (@GigaBeers) September 14, 2024
Elizabeth writes commentary for The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a member of the Editorial Board at The Sixteenth Council, a London think tank. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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It appears as though there is a battle raging inside CNN between two sides; one that wants to return to the network’s roots and report real news, and one that wants to continue as the anti-Trump network. So we get bursts of real news and biased infotainment-not-news intermixed.
I hope they get it sorted out soon, or we’ll have to start calling them the Confused “News” Network.
Respectfully, I disagree. Mush of the MSM does a report like this every month or so. They use these few reports to argue after the election that they aren’t biased. (“See, we called out Kamala too.”)
This is nothing but CNN beginning to hear the tumbrels rolling, with an EDA of mid-January.
Some of the media have sorted out that lamp-posts are dual-purpose. There is a big difference between being a member of the press and being a card-carrying collaborator.
Maybe that was once true.
It keeps alive stuff that Trump will feel he has to correct, which keeps Trump off of Kamala’s idiocy. It’s not so much deception as batlespace alignment.
Can you be a bit more vacuous? Or perhaps you cannot discern what deception means.
So you’ve been studying and are now trying to emulate Que Mala’s word salads. Interesting move. But we see you.
Executive summary: they’re trying to deceive Trump, not their base. Not into believing what they say but that what they say is important and has to be corrected.
I think his point is that by running pieces debunking the lies, they’re giving the actual lies more airtime. But if that were their strategy, their debunking would have been much less vigorous.
No. The Democrats would run them anyway, regardless…until the end of time. Whats changed now is that people ARE pushing back against the outright blatant lies of the left.
Not sure I agree with you. By Trump having to constantly correct Harris’s idiocy it keeps her disingenuous front and center highlighting what a complete fool on every subject she is.
Her supporters don’t care if prople are deceived, as they are safe in their bubble. In fact, many approve. They are among the least informed people themselves.
So are we supposed to be surprised that the Harris campaign lies a lot? I’d actually be more surprised if they didn’t.
This reporting is WAY outside CNN’s core mission. Someone’s at CNN is going to be looking for a new job.
Or maybe he’s looking for the top man’s job, after Trump has him “handled.”.
I think CNN is responding to the tidal wave of criticism from the partisan debate performance. They don’t want to be lumped in with ABC.
The left loves taking things out of context nearly as much as their projection, ignorance. lying and racism.
Looks like an intern is at it again.
If there was anyone left in the Democrat propaganda machine with an ounce of integrity they would be truly disgusted by the heavy lifting the media is doing to get Kamala across the line.
ABC news employee has filed affidavit swearing Harris was fed sample questions in advance, assurance that Trump would be fact checked, but she would not, and promise of favorable split screen reaction shots. Also she was assured no questions would be asked about Biden’s health, her tenure as SF Attorney General or about her brother in law, Tony West who is involved in a multi-billion dollars taxpayer fraud.
Trump should sue ABC.
Source? I’d really like this to be true.
this is exactly how the communistnazi regimes takeover
she is running the textbook plays as planned