{"id":2308971,"date":"2024-07-26T04:44:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T08:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-wont-tell-you-corruption-defined-kamala-harris-affair\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T04:46:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T08:46:04","slug":"media-ignores-how-corruption-shaped-kamala-harris-affair-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-ignores-how-corruption-shaped-kamala-harris-affair-6\/","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-6%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=2308971&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 \u200cdiscusses the media&#8217;s defense of Kamala Harris \u2063as she \u2063becomes\u2064 the presumptive Democratic nominee, particularly highlighting criticisms regarding her political career \u2062and connections. The \u200cauthor argues that the press is attempting to retroactively reshape her political history to present her \u2063in a more favorable light while \u200bdismissing valid critiques as illegitimate.<\/p>\n<p>One focal point is\u200d Harris&#8217;s relationship with Willie Brown, a powerful political figure in California who appointed her to key positions \u200cearly in her career. The New York Times is singled out for\u200c allegedly portraying accusations against Harris \u2064regarding this relationship as\u2063 sexist\u2063 and unfounded, despite\u2064 acknowledging that her connections \u2064significantly\u2062 benefited her political ascent. Critics assert that Harris has attempted to distance\u200b herself from the implications of these connections, describing them as an &#8220;albatross&#8221;\u200d rather than acknowledging the advantage they \u200cprovided.<\/p>\n<p>The author further \u200dcites investigative\u200b journalist Peter Schweizer,\u2064 who purportedly reveals more\u200b damning details about the nature of Harris and Brown&#8217;s relationship, suggesting that\u200c it involved deeper corruption \u2063and raised questions about her integrity and qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>the piece calls\u200d attention to a perceived attempt by the media to shield Harris from scrutiny, particularly surrounding her connections to \u2063influential figures \u200dand the implications\u2064 those connections\u2064 have for\u2062 her political legitimacy.  <\/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-3\/\" 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-2\/\" 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 working hard 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 \u201cShe was never the border czar,\u201d \u201cShe was never seen as the most liberal senator,\u201d \u201cShe was never a DEI hire,\u201d and \u201cShe doesn\u2019t owe her political career to her influential boyfriend\u201d are being made, but the truth is that she was, she was, she was, and she does.<\/p>\n<p>The dishonesty surrounding these matters 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 \u201cthe sexist and racist rumors that have followed Harris for years\u201d by addressing \u201cthe facts behind several conspiracy theories and misleading claims about Harris that have gained traction recently.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Much of the article is filled with misleading information, starting with the Times quoting discredited \u201cdisinformation expert\u201d 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 troubling aspect 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 frame the discussion as sexist, but the facts they present are quite unflattering to Harris.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the situation is even more concerning 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; He reveals that 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. <\/p>\n<p>Harris&#8217;s campaign for DA was heavily supported by Brown, who managed her campaign and assisted with fundraising. Once in office, she dismissed or reduced corruption charges against several of Brown&#8217;s associates, including a contractor who had defrauded the city, raising serious ethical questions about her actions. <\/p>\n<p>The New York Times&#8217;s acceptance of Harris&#8217;s claims about her relationship with Brown as \u201cnot improper\u201d reflects a troubling disregard for the truth. To assert that Harris&#8217;s affair with a much older man, who helped her politically and financially, and her subsequent actions in office were not corrupt is not a matter of sexism; it is a matter of established fact. <\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the Times&#8217;s efforts to protect Harris from scrutiny reveal a lack of commitment to journalistic integrity, especially as she enters the presidential race with limited time for the media to influence public perception. <\/p>\n<p>Mark Hemingway is the Book Editor at The Federalist and was previously a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. Follow him on Twitter at @heminator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":2308972,"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":[8773,32438,32490,36257,36174],"class_list":["post-2308971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-kamala-harris","tag-media-bias","tag-political-affairs","tag-public-perception"],"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\/2308971","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=2308971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2308972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}