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CNN Newsroom host Jim Acosta and fact-checker Daniel Dale white knighted for Kamala Harris on Tuesday as the pair reacted to a Donald Trump forum where Trump called Harris a “Marxist” and “lazy as hell.” Acosta thought such comments were “incoherent,” while Dale claimed they proved that the two candidates cannot be credibly viewed as equally truthful. Acosta began by cutting the sound from Trump’s event and opining, “And that is former President Donald Trump holding what is being described as a Latino roundtable in Miami, although, as you just heard a few moments ago, it was sort of a rambling, incoherent string of consciousness or something close to that from the former president.” He proceeded to claim, “He went on a variety of tangents during that rant a few moments ago. He described Kamala Harris as – quote, ‘lazy as hell,’ saying she is a Marxist. She's not a Marxist. Obviously, she's not lazy as hell. She was a district attorney in San Francisco, attorney general in California, senator from California, and vice president. Can't really be lazy as hell if you're doing all of those things.”     Those aren’t fact-checks. Those are “I don’t like what he said” lamentations. Trump’s “lazy as hell” comments were almost certainly a response to the Harris campaign lobbing the same criticism against him, but Acosta would never say Trump holding a roundtable was proof that he wasn’t lazy or exhausted. As it was, Acosta then introduced Dale with another compliant he had against Trump, “During the Trump administration, the Bureau of Prisons, a division of the Justice Department, provided an array of gender-affirming treatments, including hormone therapy, for a small group of inmates who requested it during Donald Trump's four years in office, that according to the New York Times. What Acosta left out was the Times adding, “The most significant change the Trump administration made in the treatment guidelines after it took over was the addition of the word ‘necessary,’ which created a higher but not insurmountable barrier to federally funded surgeries.” Trump adviser Brian Hughes also told the Times, “Kamala Harris has forcefully advocated for transgender inmates to be able to get transition surgeries, President Trump never has.” Still, Acosta wondered, “There were a number of falsehoods, typical Trump stretching of the truth, bending of the truth, attacking the truth, but your thoughts? What did you pick up on?” Dale began by agreeing with Acosta on transgender prisoners and Harris not being lazy, “Yeah, I mean, that one about prisons and transgender people stood out to me. He claimed that Vice President Harris is off today. She is off the campaign trail in terms of rallies, also taping two pretty high-profile interviews, so she's not like she's not on the beach.” He also attacked Trump for talking “about how Harris is a huge liar. The New York Times did a side-by-side analysis of one speech from each of them, I think it was last week. They found something like 23 false claims from Trump, 15 or 16 misleading, 15 or 16 exaggerations. They found from Harris, it was like one false, one misleading, one exaggeration. I might quibble with the specific numbers, but we're dealing with that kind of huge disparity, so I think important to point out.” One reason for Trump’s number is that it includes claims about when Harris dropped out of the 2020 primary, while part of the reason Harris’s number is lower is because her speeches are full of political clichés. Acosta then recalled, “I mean, when Donald Trump was in office, correct me if I'm wrong, or if you have got the numbers handy, that's great, but the Washington Post found well over 30,000 lies, I think, uttered by Donald Trump when he was in office.” That itself is misleading, but Dale cleaned it up a little bit, “Yeah, it was 30,000 false or misleading claims. I counted false claims in particular. I had like 7,000-plus from Trump.” If one were to count every time a Democrat compared Republicans to Jim Crow or the Nazis, you would end up with some mind-bogglingly large number too, but Democrats don’t get fact-checked on such claims. Here is a transcript for the October 22 show: CNN Newsroom 10/22/2024 11:30 PM ET JIM ACOSTA: And that is former President Donald Trump holding what is being described as a Latino roundtable in Miami, although, as you just heard a few moments ago, it was sort of a rambling, incoherent string of consciousness or something close to that from the former president. He went on a variety of tangents during that rant a few moments ago. He described Kamala Harris as – quote, "lazy as hell," saying she is a Marxist. She's not a Marxist. Obviously, she's not lazy as hell. She was a district attorney in San Francisco, attorney general in California, senator from California, and vice president. Can't really be lazy as hell if you're doing all of those things. And, Daniel Dale, I want to bring you in because you're a fact-checker. One of the things that we heard from the former president a few moments ago, he was talking about how she was in favor of sex changes for prisoners. One thing that we should note is that, during the Trump administration, the Bureau of Prisons, a division of the Justice Department, provided an array of gender-affirming treatments, including hormone therapy, for a small group of inmates who requested it during Donald Trump's four years in office, that according to the New York Times. But, Daniel, there were a number of falsehoods, typical Trump stretching of the truth, bending of the truth, attacking the truth, but your thoughts? What did you pick up on? DANIEL DALE: Yeah, I mean, that one about prisons and transgender people stood out to me. He claimed that Vice President Harris is off today. She is off the campaign trail in terms of rallies, also taping two pretty high-profile interviews, so she's not like— ACOSTA: She's not off. DALE: She's not on the beach and then I think -- I fact-check both of these candidates, but I have fact-checked Donald Trump for eight-plus -- eight-plus years now. That's right. And I think any objective analysis of the level of lying done by these two candidates will find that Trump does way more. You know, he spoke for a couple of minutes there about how Harris is a huge liar. The New York Times did a side-by-side analysis of one speech from each of them, I think it was last week. They found something like 23 false claims from Trump, 15 or 16 misleading, 15 or 16 exaggerations. They found from Harris, it was like one false, one misleading, one exaggeration. I might quibble with the specific numbers, but we're dealing with that kind of huge disparity, so I think important to point out. ACOSTA: And, Daniel, we should also -- I mean, when Donald Trump was in office, correct me if I'm wrong, or if you have got the numbers handy, that's great, but the Washington Post found well over 30,000 lies, I think, uttered by Donald Trump when he was in office. DALE: Yeah, it was 30,000 false or misleading claims. I counted false claims in particular. I had like 7,000-plus from Trump.

Nine in ten voters say CBS should release the full transcript of its October 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris which the network edited before airing in an apparent attempt to present Harris’s comments in an unrealistically favorable manner. CBS issued a statement this week denying allegations that it deceitfully edited Harris’ answers to questions – but, it obdurately continues to refuse to release the full video and transcript of the interview. By releasing the full transcript of the October 7, 2024 interview, CBS would enable the public to judge whether or not the edits made before airing were biased and made to dishonestly portray Democrat Presidential Candidate Harris’s remarks. And, Americans overwhelmingly do want to see for themselves what actually took place in the CBS interview, a CAPS/Harris survey finds. (The Harris poll, which has been around since the Sixties, is in no way related to Kamala Harris.)  A national survey of registered voters, conducted October 11-13 by The Harris Poll and HarrisX, asked the following question: “Should CBS release the full transcript of its interview with Kamala Harris or not release the full transcript?” Fully 85% of voters – including 87% of Democrats, 88% of Republicans, and 80% of Independents/Others say that, yes, CBS should release the full transcript. Even seeing the full transcript, a majority (53%) of voters say “CBS has edited their interview with Kamala Harris to make her look better.” Partisanship appears to have had a strong influence over voters’ beliefs, however. While 81% of Republicans think the interview was edited to make Harris look better, 73% of Democrats believe CBS was “fair and objective in their editing.” Independent/Other voters were evenly divided (50%-50%) in their opinions of the integrity of CBS’s editing. The controversy was sparked when CBS changed Harris’ answer to a question it aired, as NewsBusters explained in an October 9 report: “Brian Flood and David Rutz at FoxNews.com reported that CBS aired two different answers to the same question on Israel in its 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. First they aired a word-salad answer on Sunday’s Face the Nation. But when the interview aired on Monday night, the answer was entirely different.” “This is obviously not the first time 60 Minutes has made a hash out of editing a politician. They deceptively edited a hit piece on Gov. Ron DeSantis over Covid vaccines in 2021,” NewsBusters explains. “Then, of course, there's the difference between the video Trump made of his battle with Lesley Stahl over the Biden influence-peddling scandals in October 2020, and the video that CBS put on television.” The CAPS/Harris poll finds that voters are also strongly divided along party lines about whether Harris’s recent interviews on 60 Minutes, Howard Stern and Call Her Daddy helped or hurt her, with Democrats largely saying they helped (86%) and Republicans saying they hurt (81%). A 54% majority of Independents/Others say the recent interviews hurt Harris. Voters generally distrust all network news taken together, as 56% say news departments are “run more by partisan activists” than by “fair, even-handed journalist.” Again, however, Democrats are trusting of network news, while Republicans and Independents/Others see political propaganda being peddled. Among Democrats, 59% say objective journalists are running network news. But, 67% of Republicans and 61% of Independents/Others say “partisan activists” are controlling network news coverage.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris was caught plagiarizing again, according to a report from the Washington Free Beacon. Harris was accused of plagiarizing sections of a book she published in 2009 with a co-author, and the campaign denied those claims. Now, a new report showed evidence that she may have plagiarized large sections of her testimony before Congress in 2007. 'The report said that a shocking 80% of the testimony Harris submitted for the John R. Justice Act was lifted.' Harris was the district attorney of San Francisco at the time. Virtually her entire testimony about the bill was taken from that of another district attorney, Paul Logli of Winnebago County, Illinois, who had testified in support of the legislation two months earlier before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both statements cite the same surveys, use the same language, and make the same points in the same order, with a paragraph added here or there. They even contain the same typos, such as missing punctuation or mistaken plurals. One error—a "who" that should have been a "whom"—was corrected in Harris’s transposition.Logli made his testimony before the Senate while Harris submitted hers to the House, and Logli is a Republican. The report said that a shocking 80% of the testimony Harris submitted for the John R. Justice Act was lifted from that of Logli made two months earlier. In addition, the Washington Free Beacon documented how Harris allegedly misrepresented a fictionalized story about a sex-trafficking victim and made it appear as though it were a true story while switching the location of the tale to San Francisco. The Washington Free Beacon caught several other examples of apparent plagiarism that had been previously unreported. The Harris-Walz campaign did not respond to a request for a comment from the Beacon but had dismissed the earlier accusations of plagiarism. "Rightwing operatives are getting desperate as they see the bipartisan coalition of support Vice President Harris is building to win this election, as Trump retreats to a conservative echo chamber refusing to face questions about his lies," said James Singer, a spokesman for the campaign. "This is a book that’s been out for 15 years, and the Vice President clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout," he added. Harris was also accused of stealing a story about her childhood from the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Whether it was drinking wine through masks, cutting out family for refusing to vaccinate, or ratting out neighbors for having company, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in people all over the world taking their faith to an entirely new level. “Science suddenly became this kind of new god, and it was perhaps embodied in its priest Dr. Fauci, who claimed to be the science and therefore to have authority over all ... aspects of our lives,” Spencer Klavan, author of “Light of the Mind, Light of the World: Illuminating Science Through Faith,” tells Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report.” While science itself is what Klavan calls a “noble human tradition of understanding and trying to know about the natural world,” the newfound worship of the practice disfigured its true nature. “Originally, the scientific revolution that we all know of was not an anti-religious crusade, just the opposite, it was a religious endeavor to know God’s universe,” Klavan says, noting that we were brought up to believe that science is the only truth there is. The blatant lies peddled by Dr. Fauci and the rest of the Democratic establishment regarding masks, vaccines, and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic not only pushed Americans to question “the science” — but how long they’ve been told that it’s the only truth. “It’s a very different story than we were brought up to believe, and I kind of think we need a hard reset on this,” he says. Meanwhile, those who do worship science over religion will be for the most part checking off Kamala Harris on their ballot this November — but it’s not stopping Americans from waking up. “While you have this kind of decrepit establishment endorsing Kamala Harris, you also have things like this article in City Journal that came out recently about all these scientists who are totally shocking themselves by starting to think, ‘Maybe there’s more to the universe than just math and matter in motion,’” Klavan explains. And perhaps, human beings are much more magnificent than we’ve been led to believe. “This is also what I think the quantum revolution has unlocked, is this realization that actually, self-awareness and consciousness are irreplaceable things,” he says, adding, “It looked for awhile like everything was just made of meat and we were just chemistry sets, but actually, there's something much more capacious on the other side.” Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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