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CV NEWS FEED // House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, posted multiple video clips to X (formerly Twitter) showing that CBS decided not to air several criticisms of the Biden-Harris administration he made during his Sunday appearance on the network.
“CBS has been under fire for selectively editing their interviews to PROMOTE Democrats and UNDERMINE Republicans,” Johnson wrote in a Monday X post. “Yesterday, they chose to cut FIVE important minutes out of my nearly 15 minute interview.”
“I recently traveled to NC and victims of Hurricane Helene told me nearly two weeks after landfall, the Biden-Harris Administration had STILL not provided them with all the resources they desperately needed,” Johnson noted. “But CBS selectively edited OUT ENTIRELY this first-hand perspective.”
As shown in the unedited footage, Johnson told CBS’ Margaret Brennan:
When I was there on the ground, and you should go – bring the cameras and talk to the people there – they’ll tell you. Don’t take the politicians’ words for this or the administration’s word. Talk to the people there on the ground. They had not been provided the resources, almost two weeks out from the storm, that they desperately needed.
And when I was there, 13 days post the storm hitting that state, people are still being rescued. They’re stuck in the higher elevations in the mountains because the roads are down and all the rest. So, they need every available resource and all hands on deck.
CBS edited out this entire portion of Johnson’s answer to Brennan’s question.
Johnson also alleged that the corporate media network truncated his answer to a question Brennan asked him on the topic of immigration. Here, too, the speaker critiqued Biden-Harris policies in some detail.
“CBS also doesn’t want you to hear about Virginia Gov. [Glenn] Youngkin, who is trying to clean the state’s voter rolls so non-American citizens can’t vote there,” Johnson wrote on X. “We need more states doing this, but the Biden-Harris Administration is SUING VIRGINIA and trying to STOP it.”
In a section of the interview that CBS edited out, Johnson told Brennan that Youngkin “issued an executive order to clean up the voting rules [sic] heading into the election, less than 30 days out, a couple of days ago.”
“The Biden-Harris administration sued the governor and the state, the Commonwealth of Virginia, to try to prevent them from cleaning up their voter rolls,” he continued, again in a portion of an interview that CBS scrapped. “See, that kind of thing creates a lot of doubt and concern in the minds of a lot of the American people. Why would they do that? We want – everybody should want the law to be followed.”
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In, yet another clip that Johnson shared to X – which CBS nixed from their aired segment – he criticized Senate Democrats’ decision to block the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a bill the Republican-controlled House passed which seeks to prevent non-citizen migrants from voting in federal elections.
“The Biden-Harris Admin let millions of illegal aliens in our country,” the speaker wrote on X. “So, the House passed the SAVE Act to ensure only American citizens vote in American elections.”
“CBS edited that out and focused on 2020 instead of immediate threats to election integrity,” Johnson emphasized.
This is not the first time in recent days that CBS has been accused of selectively editing an interview with a government official to fulfill a political end.
CatholicVote reported on Tuesday: “CBS News needs to publish the full, unedited transcript of its recent interview with Kamala Harris at risk of being accused of journalistic malpractice, according to the Free Press.”
CatholicVote’s report indicated:
The Free Press reported that CBS News appears to have rearranged clips of the interview to make Harris’ responses appear better, likely violating CBS News’ standards guide.
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According to the Free Press, CBS News’ standards guide states that “answers to different questions may not be combined to give the impression of one continuous response.”
“We cannot create an answer merely because we wish the subject had said it better,” the guide adds.
The Free Press noted, “Excessive editing distorts reality — which is the opposite of what good journalism is supposed to do” and pointed out that CBS News has not yet provided a transcript of the interview.
