KAMALA INTERVIEWS! Goes as badly as you’d expect

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30 minutes ago, K D said:

 A media company got busted for purposely changing a candidate's (they favored) answer to put them in a positive light. Whether that had a quantitative impact on votes is hard to say. But the damage is done. Nobody should trust CBS news ever again. What else are they spinning?

 

Not the first time for CBS.

Remember the fake Bush National Guard stuff that led to Dan Rather resigning?

[BillsFanNC]

Finding approved reliability!

 

 

[JDHillFan]

2 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:

Finding approved reliability!

 

 

Imagine being a Stelter fan. 

[BillsFanNC]

The wailing and gnashing of teeth.  The raging. The coping. The seething.

 

Meanwhile there's likely no orange menace II without a dementia patient POTUS replaced by a cackling hyena moron candidate.

 

only 3.5 more years though.

 

😂

 

 

[Taro T]

On 7/2/2025 at 1:27 PM, The Frankish Reich said:

Look, "you edited your interview to make my competitor look smarter" is a theory that has no standards. It absolutely would not have succeeded at trial, and there are 1st Amendment issues that may have shot it down as a legal matter too.

 

In this specific case we once again see Trump's personal desires - to punish CBS for favoring Harris over him - run up against his total control of the Executive Branch and the very real threat that the FCC will do his bidding by messing with Shari Redstone's plan to sell the company. In this way it is a corrupt settlement. And everyone who's looked at it objectively has agreed.

 

Not a lawyer, so am asking.  Have heard it speculated that the real fear CBS had was their employees biases being exposed via the discovery process should this case have moved forward as internal e-mails and the like would have to have been turned over to 47's legal team.  

 

Do you, as a lawyer, completely discount that take or is it a credible reason for CBS (and the others such as ABC that have settled) to do so?

[The Frankish Reich]

1 hour ago, Taro T said:

 

Not a lawyer, so am asking.  Have heard it speculated that the real fear CBS had was their employees biases being exposed via the discovery process should this case have moved forward as internal e-mails and the like would have to have been turned over to 47's legal team.  

 

Do you, as a lawyer, completely discount that take or is it a credible reason for CBS (and the others such as ABC that have settled) to do so?

Good question.

My hunch is that there is probably something there. Emails back-and-forth between CBS and the Harris campaign about how the interview will be conducted. The best possible lighting, who the interviewer is, things she doesn't want to be asked about (Willie Brown, whatever). In other words, things that probably happen all the time with structured/planned "exclusive" interviews that nevertheless could be embarrassing. 

 

So yes, keeping that stuff under wraps would also give CBS a reason from wanting to avoid further litigation, even if it doesn't directly have anything to do with how the interview was edited.