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The American television station CBS favors the Democratic candidates for the White House, by spreading disinformation and fake news, according to pro-Russian blogger Dan Diaconu.
NEWS: The climax was when the “60 Minutes” show featuring Kamala was aired. The show is particularly popular in the US, to the extent that any worthless person who ends up on the show can become a celebrity. The whole world saw how it went. Kamala is dry, spouting platitudes and nonsense. But that was not the shocker: to hide how stupid Harris really is, “60 Minutes” edited the interview, replacing one of Harris’ blunders with an answer to a different question. Nothing great came of it, as you can imagine, there was no way that was going to happen. In the end, what viewers got was senseless drivel, although on a smaller scale.
What’s important to highlight is the fact that such a level of fake news is unacceptable, even for a crude country such as the USA. It represents an unacceptable interference in the election campaign and fake news at the highest level. All that after another blatant piece of disinformation from CBS, broadcast live during the debate between J.D. Vance and Tim Waltz. While editorial independence is at stake, the spread of falsehoods on such a scale is unacceptable! It's one thing to say that Trump is wrong when he makes Kamala look stupid (namely to express an opinion), and it's quite another thing to replace something stupid she said to get her out the mess.
NARRATIVE American mainstream media is manipulating voters to favor Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the race for the White House.
The Kamala Harris interview was edited, not faked
WHY THE NARRATIVE IS FALSE: Several excerpts from an interview given by the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris to CBS on October 5 were broadcast separately on two broadcasts, the station's Sunday morning political show “Face the Nation”, and the show with a wide audience among the American public, “60 Minutes”, broadcast Monday evenings. Indeed, the two montages showed Harris giving apparently different answers to the same questions posed by the show host about the Biden administration's efforts to stop the war in the Middle East, but that’s what “60 Minutes” usually do – they shorten materials that are too long for the format of the show which, as the name suggests, lasts only an hour. In these cases, parts of the filmed material are “cut” and reserved for broadcasting in other shows, in order not to censor the entire dialogue, but also to promote the main show, the one airing the interview.
Thus, when asked by the host of the “Face the Nation” TV show about how the Biden administration responded when the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, did not want to take into account the Americans’ suggestions, Harris answers: “Well, the work that we have done - it has led to a number of movements in that region of Israel that were largely driven by, or as a result of, many things, including our support for what needs to happen there”. Conversely, on “60 Minutes”, Harris' response was “We will stop at nothing to pursue whatever is necessary to make the United States' position on the need to end this war clear”. Contrary to Diaconu's statements, however, the answer was not modified, but simply divided into two, one broadcast on Sunday and the other on Monday. Thus, the two sentences together formed the complete answer given by Kamala Harris.
Similarly, when asked by the host whether the US administration has any influence on Prime Minister Netanyahu on “60 Minutes”, Harris gave a brief answer: “Diplomatic cooperation with the leadership of Israel is about making our principles known”, whereas on “Face the Nation”, Harris replied more broadly, talking about efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement and about the release of hostages held by Hamas. “We will not stop putting pressure on Israel and the region, including on Arab leaders”, she added. Likewise, the two interventions placed side by side form the entire response given by Kamala Harris.
Faced with Donald Trump’s allegations of manipulation of the election campaign, CBS representatives explained that they resorted to this way of rendering the interview, constrained by the mere 20 minutes allocated in the “60 Minutes” show. The interview was 45-minutes long, and in order to make sure the entire discourse of the American vice-president would reach the audience, pieces cut during editing for the main show were broadcast on other shows. The fact that all parts of Harris’ responses were broadcast not only on the station, but also on all of CBS's social media accounts, shows that, while questionable, the TV station's decision was not to alter Kamala Harris' statements, but only to fit within an extremely rigid broadcast format. In fact, CBS stated that the same thing happened with the interview given by Donald Trump during the 2020 presidential campaign, which prompted Trump to publish the unedited material, even before it was broadcast by the television station.
However, we cannot fail to notice that, in his article, Dan Diaconu does not also talk about the editing and “sanitizing” Trump's speeches by the media favorable to him, which leaves out the Republican candidate’s extremist and racist remarks.
Preserving the same allusive tone and without providing clear examples, the blogger with strong Russian-Chinese affinities claims that the electoral debate between the candidates for the position of vice-president, J.D. Vance and Tim Walz (not Waltz, as Diaconu mistakenly called him) was used by the show hosts to spread disinformation and false information on a wide scale. In fact, Diaconu criticizes CBS's decision to air a message during the debate, informing the viewers they can check on the television's website whether the statements made by both candidates in the debate are true or not. There were even times when the television showed a code that allowed viewers to instantly access the information on their mobile phones. Moreover, at one point, the debate moderators had to turn off the two politicians’ microphones, due to the noise created on the set by the Republican candidate, who felt offended he was corrected after promoting a piece of fake news.
Donald Trump, the Kremlin's most useful idiot
BACKGROUND: As if setting the tone for the whole world, American society today is facing a lot of problems caused by extremist rhetoric promoted by the progressive “left” and the conservative “right”, producing a strong rift amplified by false narratives promoted by both camps in the media. Images going back to the summer of 2020, depicting Black Lives Matter demonstrators protesting violently, looting stores, burning cars and blocking access to various areas in large American cities still haunt the collective psyche, as does the January 2021storming of the Capitol, when thousands of supporters of Donald Trump tried to stop Congress’ session devoted to the Electoral College vote count, a stage designed to formalize the victory of the president-elect Joe Biden. This was, perhaps, the clearest attempt to undermine the essence of democracy in general, not just in the USA, namely the freedom of vote and its prevalence in electing a state’s leaders.
Denying with childish stubbornness the evidence he’s presented with and failing to acknowledge his mistakes, the former president and current candidate in the race for the White House, Donald Trump, continues to propagate false narratives, lies and disinformation in the public sphere, under the aura of a martyr of in the name of the life-or-death fight between Good and Evil. One by one or simultaneously, Trump and his acolytes wage battles against evil Freemasons, Satanist sects, reptilians, or all kinds of occult societies, such as the Illuminati, but also against the media, medical staff, ethnic and sexual minorities, migrants or IT companies, also promoting and amplifying (deliberately or not) narratives of Russian origin, which seek only to deepen the ideological divide between the two camps and to establish a state of confusion and uncertainty across the entire Western space. For this reason, the Kremlin wants Trump to win the November 5 election. To that end, pro-Russian propagandists from all over the world validate the actions and speeches of the Republican candidate, in turn invoking a global conspiracy his political opponents are allegedly part of.
Dan Diaconu, the author of the article in question, is a pro-Russian blogger, whose website is a conglomeration of conspiracy theories, fake news and disinformation narratives related to most current topics (the pandemic, anti-COVID vaccines, climate change, the Israel-Hamas conflict, etc.), as well as articles where Russia is presented a model state, while welcoming its acts of aggression against Ukraine. Diaconu also keeps a kind of frontline diary on Telegram, where he informs his followers about the victories of the Russian army, overpraising its victories on the battlefield. Moreover, when he announces the conquest and the razing of a new Ukrainian town, Diaconu speaks of its “liberation”. Over time, Diaconu has promoted several false narratives and anti-American disinformation narratives, some claiming that partnerships with the USA lead to bankruptcy, while deals with Russia ensure prosperity, or others referring to Moscow's technological superiority over Washington, after Russian forces purportedly captured a state-of-the-art American drone. At the same time, Diaconu constantly promotes “classic” narratives of anti-Ukrainian propaganda, such as those that claim that Ukrainian leaders secretly hold American citizenship, or that Ukrainian pilots trained in Romania are incompetent drunkards, but also lies and baseless speculation, for instance stating that Ukraine is literally selling its land to Poland, or that the Ukrainian secret services are behind the assassination attempt on Slovakia’s Prime Minister. Robert Fico.
PURPOSE: To weaken trust in mass media, to promote anti-American and anti-Western discourse, to amplify sovereigntist sentiment, to provoke anti-establishment social movements.
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