{"id":2308956,"date":"2024-07-26T04:29:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T08:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-wont-tell-you-corruption-defined-kamala-harris-affair\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T04:31:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T08:31:28","slug":"media-ignores-how-corruption-shaped-kamala-harris-affair-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-ignores-how-corruption-shaped-kamala-harris-affair-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Ignores How Corruption Shaped Kamala Harris&#8217; Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fmedia-ignores-how-corruption-shaped-kamala-harris-affair-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=2308956&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 article critiques the media&#8217;s portrayal of Kamala Harris following her emergence as the\u200c presumptive Democratic nominee. It argues\u200c that\u200b the press is attempting\u200b to downplay legitimate criticisms of\u2064 her political\u200d career, especially \u2062regarding\u2063 her relationship with influential California politician Willie \u200dBrown, claiming it was not significant to her success.\u2062 The author highlights statements from sources, including The New York Times,\u200b which \u2062frame criticism of Harris as\u200d sexist or racist, while also reinforcing narratives that minimize the \u200dimpact \u200cof her connections and past. The piece contends that Harris\u2019s rise in politics was heavily influenced by her association with Brown, who\u200d held significant\u2063 political\u2062 power and assisted in her election as San Francisco district \u200battorney. The\u2064 article emphasizes that Harris \u2062herself has acknowledged the benefits of her association with Brown, contradicting claims that she does not owe her career to him. Furthermore,\u2062 it raises concerns about ethical implications related to her tenure in office, suggesting that her decisions were influenced by \u2064her ties to Brown. the author argues that the \u2064media is engaging in a misleading narrative regarding\u2064 Harris&#8217;s accomplishments \u200cand relationships,\u2064 particularly in the context\u2064 of her potential candidacy for higher office.  <\/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>Kamala Harris hasn&rsquo;t been the presumptive Democrat nominee for even a week, and already the press is desperately trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-ignores-how-corruption-shaped-kamala-harris-affair-2\/\" title=\"Media Ignores How Corruption Shaped Kamala Harris&#039; Affair\">insist perfectly valid criticisms<\/a> of her are illegitimate. If you think the media were complicit in attempting and failing to hide Joe Biden&rsquo;s senility, the attempt to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikiwand.com\/en\/Retroactive_continuity\">retcon<\/a> her political career into something that resembles respectable and competent is even more brazen.<\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;She was never the border czar.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;She was never considered the most liberal senator.&rdquo; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;She was never a DEI hire.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;She doesn&rsquo;t owe her political career to her powerful boyfriend.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, but <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wesyang\/status\/1816305200560210095\">she was<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1816188767809704417\">she was<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/24\/why-is-it-offensive-to-call-kamala-a-dei-hire\/\">she was<\/a>, and she does.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dishonesty surrounding all of these issues is worth highlighting, but let&rsquo;s focus on that last point involving Harris&rsquo; relationship with California&rsquo;s political kingmaker Wille Brown, for no other reason than The New York Times has provided a terrific example of how the lies are coming in hot. <\/p>\n<p>The Times&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/24\/us\/politics\/kamala-harris-falsehoods-political-positions.html\">On Politics newsletter Wednesday<\/a> &mdash; think of it as political talking points for affluent wine moms, aka the Democrats&rsquo; base &mdash; was dedicated to combatting &ldquo;the sexist and racist rumors that have followed Harris for years&rdquo; with &ldquo;the facts behind several conspiracy theories and misleading claims about Harris that have spread widely in recent days.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly the whole thing is an orgiastic recitation of errant nonsense, starting with the fact that the Times is quoting <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/03\/6-dystopian-things-bidens-disinformation-board-pick-nina-jankowicz-has-done\/\">disgraced &ldquo;disinformation expert&rdquo; Nina Jankowicz<\/a> to make the case that Harris is the victim of a disproportionate amount of online attacks. (Harris&rsquo; competitor in the presidential race was shot in the head less than two weeks ago, and, unsurprisingly, there&rsquo;s been a dearth of media handwringing about the rhetorical climate that may have enabled an actual assassination attempt. That&rsquo;s because an honest discussion about hateful rhetoric would involve asking basic questions such as, &ldquo;Why did The New York Times win a Pulitzer for stories based on the false premise that Donald Trump stole an election by treasonously colluding with Russia?&rdquo;)<\/p>\n<p>But I digress. Again, the real lowlight of the Times article is its discussion of Kamala Harris&rsquo; relationship with California&rsquo;s powerful political boss, Willie Brown. One of my favorite things &ldquo;fact checkers&rdquo; do is introduce a proposition as false and then try to confirm that falsity by desperately spinning a bunch of inconvenient facts that confirm the proposition is actually true. The entire section on Harris and Willie Brown is a textbook example:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The sexist insinuations point in part to her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/21\/us\/politics\/kamala-harris-history-career-california.html\">brief relationship in the 1990s<\/a>&nbsp;with Willie Brown, who was 60 and the speaker of the California Assembly when Harris was 29 and rising in the Bay Area legal scene. He appointed Harris to two well<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-ignores-how-corruption-shaped-kamala-harris-affair-3\/\" title=\"Media Ignores How Corruption Shaped Kamala Harris&#039; Affair\">-paid state board positions<\/a> and introduced her to his political connections.<\/p>\n<p>When she was campaigning to be San Francisco&rsquo;s district attorney in 2003, her opponents repeatedly commented on her link to Brown &mdash; references that she told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/15\/us\/politics\/kamala-harris-san-francisco-da.html\">The New York Times<\/a>&nbsp;in 2019 were &ldquo;frustrating&rdquo; and &ldquo;designed to degrade, frankly, the conversation about why we needed a new D.A.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During the 2003 race, which she won, she told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170806061922\/https:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/news\/kamalas-karma\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SF Weekly<\/a>&nbsp;that there was nothing improper about benefiting from her ties to Brown, although she described the relationship as an &ldquo;albatross hanging around my neck.&rdquo; She said she &ldquo;brought a level of life knowledge and common sense&rdquo; to the board roles, adding that &ldquo;whether you agree or disagree with the system, I did the work.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She said that she had &ldquo;no doubt that I am independent of him&rdquo; and that &ldquo;I do not owe him a thing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just so we&rsquo;re clear, The New York Times is confirming Harris did in fact have a relationship with Willie Brown, who was 31 years older (and, for what it&rsquo;s worth, still married at the time). Harris herself admits her career benefited significantly from said relationship. Other Democrats shared the perception she did not earn her positions. And Harris, a lawyer who initially failed the bar exam, can only say that she &ldquo;brought a level of life knowledge and common sense&rdquo; rather than actual qualifications to the jobs Brown appointed her to. But it&rsquo;s a sexist insinuation to insist these facts are rather unflattering to Kamala!<\/p>\n<p>And this is just what The New York Times is admitting. In actuality, the details are far worse than the Times is letting on. Peter Schweizer, an investigative journalist who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/14\/us\/politics\/uranium-one-hillary-clinton.html\">worked with The New York Times in the past<\/a>, details quite a bit on the corrupt nature of the Harris\/Brown relationship in his book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Profiles-Corruption-Peter-Schweizer\/dp\/006289790X\">Profiles in Corruption<\/a><\/em>, which has been out for four and a half years. And the facts as he lays them out are damning.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who was repeatedly investigated by the FBI for corruption, was far more involved in Harris&rsquo; career ascent than appointing her to two board positions. He was kingmaker in California, and he was heavily involved in helping Harris get elected as San Francisco district attorney. Brown didn&rsquo;t do this entirely out of the goodness of his heart. Harris was working for the previous district attorney, Terence Hallinan, and quit when she got passed over for the No. 2 position in the DA&rsquo;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Hallinan found himself as the subject of criticism from other city officials, but others suggested the controversy was manufactured. &ldquo;This whole thing is about Kamala Harris,&rdquo; a source close to Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/matier-ross\/article\/Wine-Dungeness-Crab-Rice-a-Roni-on-Line-in-3315335.php\">told the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>. &ldquo;Cross one of Willie&rsquo;s friends and there will be hell to pay.&rdquo; Eventually, Harris ran for DA with Brown&rsquo;s powerful backing &mdash; a former Brown aide managed her campaign, and Brown played a key role in her fundraising, which was incredibly successful. After starting the race polling a distant third, she won the election.<\/p>\n<p>Once in office, Harris then dropped or pled out corruption charges against several of Willie Brown&rsquo;s friends that Hallinan had been pursuing. There were a number of Brown&rsquo;s friends let off the hook, but most notably this included a sweetheart plea deal for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-ignores-how-corruption-shaped-kamala-harris-affair\/\" title=\"Media Ignores How Corruption Shaped Kamala Harris&#039; Affair\">notorious city contractor caught defrauding<\/a> the city by using inferior recycled concrete in sensitive projects such as parking garages and the Bay Bridge. This compromised the structual integrity of those projects and endangered lives. But Harris droped all the fraud charges and accepted a guilty plea on a single count involving an environmental violation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Harris&rsquo; office had no explanation for why it dropped the concrete case,&rdquo; reported the Chronicle. A better explanation is that the contractor in question was generous with campaign donations and had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/EMPIRE-BUILT-ON-SAND-Businessman-allegedly-2516190.php\">previously been popped<\/a> for making an illegal $2,000 donation to, yup, Willie Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, there&rsquo;s a lot more alarming reporting in Schweizer&rsquo;s book that&rsquo;s worth revisiting, and it&rsquo;s not a stretch to say Kamala Harris has engaged in outright corruption throughout her career. Suffice it to say, when The New York Times takes Kamala Harris at her word that her relationship with Willie Brown was not &ldquo;improper,&rdquo; they&rsquo;re erasing the functional difference between lying and profound ignorance. And when she&rsquo;s credulously quoted saying, &ldquo;I do not owe him a thing,&rdquo; it&rsquo;s journalistic malpractice to believe her.<\/p>\n<p>To say that Kamala Harris had an affair with a man more than twice her age, leveraged his fundraising prowess and connections to launch her political career, and once in office did his corrupt bidding isn&rsquo;t sexist. It&rsquo;s well-grounded in fact.<\/p>\n<p>But facts aren&rsquo;t something The New York Times is much interested in. Kamala Harris&rsquo; late entry into the presidential race means they don&rsquo;t have much time to use what&rsquo;s left of their institutional clout to try to dishonestly sway a presidential race.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Mark Hemingway is the Book Editor at The Federalist, and was formerly a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. Follow him on Twitter at <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/heminator\">@heminator<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris has only been the likely Democratic nominee for less than a week, yet the media is already trying to dismiss legitimate criticisms of her as invalid. If you believe the press played a role in downplaying Joe Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline, their efforts to reshape Harris&#8217;s political history into something respectable and competent are even more audacious. Claims such as &#8220;She was never the border czar,&#8221; &#8220;She was never seen as the most liberal senator,&#8221; &#8220;She was never a DEI hire,&#8221; and &#8220;She doesn&#8217;t owe her political career to her influential boyfriend&#8221; are being made, but the truth is that she was, she was, she was, and she does.<\/p>\n<p>The dishonesty surrounding these topics deserves attention, particularly regarding Harris&#8217;s relationship with California political figure Willie Brown. The New York Times has provided a clear example of how these falsehoods are being propagated. In their &#8220;On Politics&#8221; newsletter, aimed at affluent Democratic supporters, they sought to counter &#8220;the sexist and racist rumors that have followed Harris for years&#8221; by addressing &#8220;the facts behind several conspiracy theories and misleading claims about Harris that have gained traction recently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Much of the article is filled with misleading information, starting with the Times quoting discredited &#8220;disinformation expert&#8221; Nina Jankowicz to argue that Harris is facing an unfair amount of online criticism. Notably, while Harris&#8217;s rival in the presidential race was recently the victim of a violent attack, the media has largely ignored the broader implications of such hateful rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>The most concerning part of the Times article is its treatment of Harris&#8217;s relationship with Willie Brown. The article acknowledges that Harris had a relationship with Brown, who was 31 years her senior and still married at the time. It also admits that her career benefited from this connection, despite her claims of independence. The Times attempts to downplay the implications of this relationship, framing it as a sexist attack rather than acknowledging the unflattering facts.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the situation is even more troubling than the Times suggests. Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer has documented the corrupt nature of the Harris-Brown relationship in his book, &#8220;Profiles in Corruption.&#8221; Brown, who faced multiple FBI investigations for corruption, played a significant role in Harris&#8217;s rise to power, including helping her secure the position of San Francisco district attorney. This support was not altruistic; Harris had previously worked for the district attorney who overlooked her for a promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Once in office, Harris dropped or reduced corruption charges against several of Brown&#8217;s associates, including a contractor who had defrauded the city. The contractor had previously made illegal donations to Brown, raising questions about the motivations behind Harris&#8217;s decisions.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, the assertion that Kamala Harris leveraged her relationship with a much older man to advance her political career and subsequently engaged in corrupt practices is not sexist; it is based on factual evidence. However, the New York Times seems more interested in protecting her image than in reporting the truth. With Harris&#8217;s recent entry into the presidential race, the media appears eager to use its influence to shape public perception in her favor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":2308957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-25-150926.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8773,32438,32490],"class_list":["post-2308956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-kamala-harris","tag-media-bias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-25-150926.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2308957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}