{"id":2309441,"date":"2024-07-26T11:41:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2309441"},"modified":"2024-07-26T11:45:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:45:29","slug":"media-wont-tell-you-corruption-defined-kamala-harris-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-wont-tell-you-corruption-defined-kamala-harris-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Won&#8217;t Tell You Corruption Defined 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\">18<\/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-wont-tell-you-corruption-defined-kamala-harris-affair%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=2309441&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 discusses \u200bthe\u200b media&#8217;s attempts to reshape perceptions of \u200bKamala Harris \u200cfollowing her recent \u200dnomination as the presumptive Democratic candidate. It criticizes\u200d outlets, particularly The New York Times, for denying legitimate critiques of her political career, such as her past relationship \u200bwith Willie Brown and her positions in power which some allege were secured through that connection. The author argues\u200d that\u200d while the media claims to combat &#8220;sexist and racist\u200c rumors,&#8221; it ignores\u200b the fact that Harris has openly acknowledged benefiting from her ties \u200dto Brown, who was\u2062 significantly older and politically influential.<\/p>\n<p>The piece suggests that the\u200b New York Times&#8217; defense of Harris \u200coverlooks troubling facts, including the nature of her \u2062relationship with Brown and\u2064 implications of favoritism in \u2062her career \u200cadvancement. It mentions her ties to\u200d Brown&#8217;s political influence \u200dand how this may have affected \u2064her roles and decisions when she became San \u2064Francisco\u2019s district attorney. Ultimately, the article presents a\u200b critical view of how the media is responding to discussions about Harris, asserting that\u200b it is engaged in\u200b a \u200cconcerted effort to downplay problematic aspects\u200b of her past.  <\/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 powerful political boss 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\">&ldquo;On Politics&rdquo; newsletter Wednesday<\/a> &mdash; think of it as political talking points for affluent wine moms, a.k.a. 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 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-4\/\" 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 a 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 friends of Willie Brown 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 structural integrity of those projects and endangered lives. But Harris dropped all the fraud charges and accepted a guilty plea on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-ignores-how-corruption-shaped-kamala-harris-affair-5\/\" title=\"Media Ignores How Corruption Shaped Kamala Harris&#039; Affair\">single count involving<\/a> 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 in her career. Suffice 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 <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\">corrupt bidding isn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;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. 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, despite evidence to the contrary. <\/p>\n<p>The dishonesty surrounding these issues deserves attention, particularly regarding Harris&#8217;s relationship with Willie Brown, a powerful political figure in California. The New York Times recently published a &#8220;On Politics&#8221; newsletter aimed at countering &#8220;sexist and racist rumors&#8221; about Harris, presenting it as a response to various conspiracy theories and misleading claims that have gained traction. However, much of the content is a misguided attempt to refute valid criticisms, including the fact that the Times cites discredited &#8220;disinformation expert&#8221; Nina Jankowicz to argue that Harris faces an unfair amount of online scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>The article&#8217;s treatment of Harris&#8217;s relationship with Brown is particularly telling. It acknowledges that Harris had a relationship with Brown, who was 31 years her senior and still married at the time, and that this relationship significantly advanced her career. Despite her claims of independence and hard work, the reality is that many perceive her rise to power as being heavily influenced by her connection to Brown. <\/p>\n<p>The New York Times&#8217; portrayal of this relationship downplays the implications of Harris&#8217;s career trajectory, which has been scrutinized for potential corruption. Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer has detailed the problematic nature of the Harris-Brown relationship in his book, &#8220;Profiles in Corruption,&#8221; revealing that Brown was instrumental in her ascent to the position of San Francisco district attorney. After securing her election with Brown&#8217;s backing, Harris dropped or reduced charges against individuals connected to him, raising questions about her integrity.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, the assertion that Harris&#8217;s relationship with Brown was not &#8220;improper&#8221; ignores the substantial evidence of corruption and favoritism in her career. The New York Times&#8217; willingness to take her statements at face value reflects a troubling disregard for the facts. The narrative that Harris&#8217;s rise was purely a result of her own merit is not only misleading but also fails to acknowledge the complexities of her political journey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":2309445,"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":[546],"tags":[8773,32438,32490,36257,4633],"class_list":["post-2309441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-corruption","tag-kamala-harris","tag-media-bias","tag-political-affairs","tag-scandal"],"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\/2309441","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=2309441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2309445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}