{"id":2308203,"date":"2024-07-25T16:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corporate-medias-reinvention-of-kamala-harris\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T16:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T20:02:52","slug":"the-medias-transformation-of-kamala-harris-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-medias-transformation-of-kamala-harris-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media&#8217;s Transformation of Kamala Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-medias-transformation-of-kamala-harris-5%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2308203&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200carticle discusses the media&#8217;s attempts \u2063to reshape the \u2064public perception of Vice President \u200bKamala Harris, suggesting that these efforts require a significant &#8220;suspension of disbelief.&#8221; It criticizes the media for\u200c promoting \u2063Harris as \u200ccompetent despite her perceived\u200c failures, \u200cparticularly regarding her \u200crole as &#8220;border czar,&#8221; a title that the media\u200d now disputes. The \u200bauthor points out contradictions \u2064in how media outlets\u2062 have reported\u200d on Harris\u2019s responsibilities related to immigration and border issues, implying that \u2064they are\u200c trying to \u2064distance her\u2064 from criticisms surrounding \u200dthe \u2063Biden administration&#8217;s handling of these crises.<\/p>\n<p>The piece highlights the media\u2019s broader tendency to\u200c narrate political stories in ways\u2062 that align with their interests and the \u200dadministration\u2019s\u200b agenda, drawing parallels \u2064to seemingly exaggerated comparisons, like painting the Joker as Captain America. Additionally, it notes that public opinion is not aligned with this media narrative, as many voters, \u2062particularly women\u2064 in\u200c swing states, view Harris unfavorably. The article expresses\u200d skepticism about the ability of the media to successfully rebrand Harris, given the current public \u2064sentiment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The reinvention of Kamala Harris requires a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\/display\/10.1093\/oi\/authority.20110803100544310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suspension of disbelief<\/a> that only Hollywood and its kissing cousin corporate media could deliver.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is it any wonder that the same marketing team that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/358877\/biden-age-debate-media-coverage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insisted President Joe Biden wasn&rsquo;t slipping into cognitive applesauce<\/a> before our very eyes is now demanding that we believe his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-corporate-medias-transformation-of-kamala-harris\/\" title=\"The Corporate Media&#039;s Transformation of Kamala Harris\">grossly incompetent vice president<\/a> is up to the job of leading the free world? The same accomplice media that insists men can have babies, all white people are inherently racist, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article282198838.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;from the river to the sea&rdquo;<\/a> isn&rsquo;t a rallying cry for genocide are selling us another bad bill of goods on Kamala Harris.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Joker is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/former-rnc-chair-mocked-debasing-himself-kamala-harris-captain-america-embarrassing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Captain America,<\/a> for Christ&rsquo;s sake.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The same media that has suggested that former President Donald Trump is to blame for nearly being assassinated is the same media now doing damage control for Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably, it&rsquo;s the accomplice media&rsquo;s rewrite regarding this paint-by-numbers presidential candidate&rsquo;s &ldquo;work&rdquo; on the border crisis that might just be the most alarming.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The &lsquo;Border Czar&rsquo; That Suddenly Wasn&rsquo;t<\/h2>\n<p>As my colleague Jordan Boyd <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/24\/after-years-of-regaling-vp-as-border-czar-media-claim-harris-was-never-in-charge-of-the-invasion\/\">wrote<\/a> this week, the usual suspects are now insisting that Biden didn&rsquo;t make Harris &ldquo;border czar&rdquo; after reporting for years that Biden made Harris border czar. Case in point, the fine journalists(?) at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/axios\/status\/1816078350659494130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Axios<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Corporate media outlets wagged their collective finger at Republicans for audaciously claiming that Biden, who created the open border debacle currently devouring America, put his feckless VP in charge of finding solutions to the mess of the administration&rsquo;s making. The Wall Street Journal led the charge in painting Harris a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/biden-drops-out-election-2024\/card\/analysis-was-kamala-harris-actually-biden-s-border-czar--KUegJ0yUmHcgDoGmR0UW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;convenient scapegoat&rdquo;<\/a> of Republican rancor, not only insisting that the vice president&rsquo;s role was much narrower than had been routinely reported, but that she has acquitted herself nicely by announcing that Pepsi and Nestle would make investments in Central America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WT actual F! Talk about your Hollywood makeover.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Axios took the cake, asserting in an X post that Harris never actually had the job.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The outlet&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/07\/24\/kamala-harris-border-czar-immigratin?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complaints<\/a> that the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrumpWarRoom\/status\/1815801282742915522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump campaign<\/a> and Republicans like House GOP Chair Elise Stefanik have unfairly labeled Harris&rsquo; role, however, fall short in the face of its own reporting, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2021\/04\/14\/harris-immigration-visit-mexico-guatemala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2021\/04\/15\/immigration-biden-children-unaccompanied\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">referred<\/a> to Harris as Biden&rsquo;s border czar,&rdquo; Boyd writes. Caught in its own crap, Axios added an editor&rsquo;s note to the original reporting, offering a late mea culpa that it &ldquo;was among the news outlets that incorrectly labeled Harris a &lsquo;border czar.&rsquo;&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why, pray tell, did Axios make this quick change this week of all weeks? We ask the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-medias-transformation-of-kamala-harris-2\/\" title=\"The Media&#039;s Transformation of Kamala Harris\">cross-examining attorney&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s question, of course, an answer clear to any mind still capable of reason.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Axios wasn&rsquo;t interested in that question, however. The publication did not respond to my request for comment, sent Wednesday afternoon. Here&rsquo;s what I asked:<\/p>\n<p><em>Can someone from Axios comment on why the publication suddenly has changed its narrative on Vice President Kamala Harris&rsquo; role regarding border\/immigration issues, particularly the identification of the VP as &ldquo;border czar&rdquo;? As noted, Axios has described&nbsp;Harris as &ldquo;border czar&rdquo; in at least one previous report. It seems Axios and other media outlets are attempting to distance the vice president from what clearly has been a failed initiative. Why is that?&nbsp;<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Radio silence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Unbelievable<\/h2>\n<p>But let&rsquo;s be honest. The mainstream image consultants have their work cut out for them. It&rsquo;s no easy feat covering for a vacuous presidential candidate who chooses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn05p714907o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campaigning at a sorority<\/a> over meeting with the prime minister of a nation that saw more than 1,000 of its citizens, raped, tortured, murdered and desecrated by terrorists. Still, something tells me the same accomplice media that has reinvented Hamas as &ldquo;freedom fighters&rdquo; is up to the challenge of reinventing Harris.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But here&rsquo;s the problem: American voters aren&rsquo;t buying Kamala&rsquo;s makeover. At least not yet. An MSNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\/watch\/-i-think-she-s-an-idiot-wisconsin-female-trump-voters-weigh-in-on-harris-215542853858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">focus group<\/a> of Wisconsin women interviewed in the wake of Harris&rsquo; campaign stop in the critical swing state had some <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/25\/msnbc-focus-group-of-swing-state-voters-trashes-kamala-harris-i-think-shes-an-idiot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">damning things<\/a> to say about the Democratic Party&rsquo;s presumptive presidential candidate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One voter told MSNBC&rsquo;s Elise Jordan that Harris is worse than Biden, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-medias-transformation-of-kamala-harris\/\" title=\"The Media&#039;s Transformation of Kamala Harris\">hit basement level popularity ratings<\/a>. &ldquo;She doesn&rsquo;t even know what&rsquo;s going on at the border and that&rsquo;s what she was supposed to be doing and in charge of,&rdquo; the voter said.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think she&rsquo;s an idiot,&rdquo; said Mary, one of the women interviewed. &ldquo;Because she hasn&rsquo;t done anything in the time that she&rsquo;s had. We don&rsquo;t know anything about her as far as her three years so far in the White House. She&rsquo;s not real smart.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Would the real Kamala Harris please stand up? She has, and Mary knows it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s the sad exclamation point to this rebuild: If the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/23\/secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle-resigns-in-disgrace-more-than-a-week-after-attempt-on-trumps-life\/#:~:text=A%20day%20after%20a%20House,Cheatle%20has%20resigned%20in%20disgrace.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Secret Service<\/a> had devoted as much attention to protecting the GOP&rsquo;s presidential candidate as the corporate media have in protecting the image of the Democrats&rsquo; candidate, former President Donald Trump wouldn&rsquo;t have been shot in the face, two rallygoers wouldn&rsquo;t be recovering from critical injuries, and one very brave American would be alive and at home with his family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transformation of Kamala Harris demands a level of disbelief that only Hollywood and its closely related corporate media can provide. It&#8217;s not surprising that the same marketing team that assured us President Joe Biden wasn&#8217;t losing his mental faculties is now asking us to accept that his inept vice president is capable of leading the free world. This is the same media that claims men can give birth, all white individuals are inherently racist, and that the phrase &#8220;from the river to the sea&#8221; isn&#8217;t a call for genocide, yet they are trying to sell us another flawed narrative about Kamala Harris. It&#8217;s as if the Joker has been rebranded as Captain America.<\/p>\n<p>The media that suggested former President Donald Trump was responsible for an assassination attempt is now engaged in damage control for Harris. Perhaps the most concerning aspect is how they are rewriting the narrative about her supposed role in the border crisis. <\/p>\n<p>As my colleague Jordan Boyd pointed out, the usual media outlets are now claiming that Biden never designated Harris as &#8220;border czar,&#8221; despite having reported for years that he did. For instance, Axios has recently asserted that Harris never held that position. They criticized Republicans for labeling her role unfairly, even though their own reporting had consistently referred to her as Biden&#8217;s border czar. After being caught in this contradiction, Axios issued an editor&#8217;s note admitting they had incorrectly labeled her.<\/p>\n<p>Why did Axios make this sudden change now? I reached out to them for clarification but received no response. My inquiry was straightforward: why the shift in narrative regarding Harris&#8217;s role in border and immigration issues, especially since they had previously identified her as &#8220;border czar&#8221;? It seems that Axios and other media outlets are trying to distance her from what has clearly been a failed initiative, but they have chosen to remain silent.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that mainstream media has a tough job ahead of them. It&#8217;s challenging to defend a lackluster presidential candidate who prioritizes campaigning at a sorority over addressing serious issues, such as meeting with a prime minister from a country that has suffered horrific violence. Yet, I suspect the same media that has rebranded Hamas as &#8220;freedom fighters&#8221; will attempt to reshape Harris&#8217;s image.<\/p>\n<p>However, the issue is that American voters are not convinced by Harris&#8217;s makeover\u2014at least not yet. A focus group of Wisconsin women interviewed by MSNBC after Harris&#8217;s campaign stop expressed harsh criticism of her. One voter remarked that Harris is even less competent than Biden, who is already at a low approval rating. Another participant bluntly stated, &#8220;I think she\u2019s an idiot,&#8221; criticizing her lack of action during her time in office.<\/p>\n<p>The sad reality is that if the U.S. Secret Service had dedicated as much effort to protecting the GOP&#8217;s presidential candidate as corporate media has to safeguarding the image of the Democratic candidate, former President Donald Trump might not have been shot, and two rally attendees wouldn&#8217;t be recovering from serious injuries. One brave American could still be alive and with his family.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist and an award-winning investigative journalist with three decades of experience in various media formats. 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