{"id":2330342,"date":"2024-08-23T21:35:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T01:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mainstream-media-fact-checkers-rip-kamala-harris-dnc-speech-to-shreds\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T21:38:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T01:38:12","slug":"mainstream-media-fact-checkers-rip-kamala-harris-dnc-speech-to-shreds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mainstream-media-fact-checkers-rip-kamala-harris-dnc-speech-to-shreds\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream Media Fact-Checkers Rip Kamala Harris&#8217; DNC Speech to Shreds"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmainstream-media-fact-checkers-rip-kamala-harris-dnc-speech-to-shreds%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=2330342&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 text discusses Kamala Harris&#8217;s \u2064keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, criticizing her performance and claims. During her speech, she was accused of\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-new-congress-can-hold-big-pharma-accountable-for-covid-evils\/\" title=\"How the New Congress Can Hold Big Pharma Accountable For COVID Evils\">making misleading statements<\/a> about former President Donald Trump regarding issues such \u2064as abortion, foreign policy, \u2064and tax policy. Various news outlets, including liberal\u200d ones, noted that Harris&#8217;s claims were factually\u2062 incorrect.\u2062 For instance, she \u2064misrepresented Trump&#8217;s supposed plans to appoint a\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/everything-harris-said-about-abortion-at-the-dnc-was-a-lie\/\" title=\"Everything Harris Said About Abortion At The DNC Was A Lie\">national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/14-lies-kamala-harris-told-during-her-dnc-speech\/\" title=\"14 Lies Kamala Harris Told During Her DNC Speech\">anti-abortion coordinator<\/a><\/a> and falsely stated that he encouraged Russian aggression. The article highlights a perceived pattern of dishonesty from\u2063 Harris and emphasizes\u2064 that even traditional media allies had difficulty defending her remarks. It concludes by suggesting that Harris&#8217;s attempt\u2062 to reintroduce\u200c herself was not well received, and it urges voters to\u200c be cautious about her campaign&#8217;s integrity in\u2064 the upcoming election.  <\/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<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>For a candidate whose campaign is based entirely on surface impressions, Kamala Harris managed to make a terrible&nbsp;one on Thursday night &mdash; even to her biggest cheerleaders.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic nominee for president, a woman who has never received a single vote outside the state of California in any election, took the stage for the keynote address of the Democratic National Convention at Chicago&rsquo;s United Center.<\/p>\n<p>And amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-starts-off-dnc-speech-strange-nature-trump-didnt-let-go-unnoticed-going\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faking friendship<\/a> with her audience of the faithful, she managed to spit out lies so blatant even the &ldquo;fact-checkers&rdquo; of the establishment media couldn&rsquo;t ignore them.<\/p>\n<p>From former President Donald Trump&rsquo;s stance on abortion to foreign policy to tariffs and taxation, Harris reeled off a series of falsehoods about her Republican opponent, analysis by even reliably liberal news outlets like The Washington Post, The New York Times and USA Today noted.<\/p>\n<p>And while they didn&rsquo;t speculate on Harris&rsquo; potential motivation, even an American with the mental capacity of Joe Biden could figure it out: To give the viewers a deliberately distorted view of Trump&rsquo;s plans.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/news\/factcheck\/2024\/08\/23\/fact-checking-kamala-harris-on-abortion-trump-accomplishments\/74915102007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a> pointed out, Harris lied about an alleged Trump plan to establish a national &ldquo;anti-abortion coordinator.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The outlet noted Harris was distorting an idea put forward by the conservative Heritage Foundation&rsquo;s &ldquo;Project 2025,&rdquo; a Democratic bugaboo Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/top-project-2025-director-trump-campaign-issues-ominous-warning-afterwards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hasn&rsquo;t at all endorsed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/08\/23\/fact-check-dnc-kamala-harris-day-4\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>, &ldquo;fact checker&rdquo; Glenn Kessler (who&rsquo;s too often too willing to go easy when it comes to the Biden-Harris administration) also found Harris had strayed from the truth describing Trump&rsquo;s vision for NATO, Russian aggression and the impact of the Trump tax cuts of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The bit about dealing with Russia was particularly egregious, since she claimed Trump &ldquo;encouraged&rdquo; Russian President Vladimir Putin to &ldquo;invade our allies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump never encouraged Putin to &ldquo;invade&rdquo; any country. And there are plenty of Americans old enough to remember that Putin did not, in fact, invade <em>anyone<\/em> while Trump was president. It was actually Joe Biden who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/worse-obamas-red-line-biden-gives-putin-green-light-invade-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&ldquo;encouraged&rdquo; Putin&rsquo;s invasion<\/a> of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Trump wants the country&rsquo;s quasi-socialist European allies to pay their fair  for a defense now being shouldered largely by the American taxpayer &mdash; only Democrats would have a problem with that idea.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, of course, wasn&rsquo;t the only Democratic liar taking the stage in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times &mdash; again, no hot-bed of conservative thinking &mdash; managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/08\/22\/us\/dnc-harris-fact-check\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">put together a list<\/a> of other Democratic speakers at the convention with their own lies about Trump&rsquo;s past.<\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s important here isn&rsquo;t so much that Harris lied about Trump. Democrats and their establishment media allies have been doing that since he announced for the presidency in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>What matters is that, for a change, some outlets have broken from their Praetorian guard posture when it comes to Harris and publicized, if only temporarily, exactly how deceptive her campaign actually is.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is a cut-out candidate &mdash; a cardboard concoction whose attraction is based solely on the impression she makes in contrast to the feeble meanderings of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/even-longtime-far-left-outlet-admit-bidens-inner-circle-worked-conceal-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">octogenarian Biden<\/a>. (Even that low bar is apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-vp-harris-goes-viral-word-salad-moment-just-cant-stop-saying-passage-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">too high sometimes<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>After almost four utterly unimpressive years as vice president, Harris had been given a chance to re-introduce herself to the American public by a mainstream media almost entirely devoted to defeating Trump in November.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, she got a chance to make a second first impression on American voters.<\/p>\n<p>But on Thursday night, not even her supporters in the establishment media were entirely buying it.<\/p>\n<p>American voters in November should know better, too.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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The Democratic presidential nominee, who has never garnered a vote outside California in any election, delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention held at Chicago&#8217;s United Center. While attempting to feign camaraderie with her loyal audience, she uttered blatant falsehoods that even mainstream media fact-checkers could not overlook. <\/p>\n<p>Harris made several inaccurate claims regarding former President Donald Trump&#8217;s positions on issues such as abortion, foreign policy, tariffs, and taxation. Analysis from typically liberal news sources like The Washington Post, The New York Times, and USA Today highlighted these inaccuracies. Although they did not delve into Harris&#8217;s possible motivations for these distortions, it was clear to anyone with basic reasoning skills that she aimed to present viewers with a skewed interpretation of Trump\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by USA Today, Harris falsely asserted that Trump intended to create a national &#8220;anti-abortion coordinator,&#8221; misrepresenting an idea from the conservative Heritage Foundation\u2019s &#8220;Project 2025,&#8221; which Trump has not endorsed. Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post also pointed out that Harris strayed from the truth regarding Trump&#8217;s views on NATO and Russian aggression; particularly egregious was her claim that Trump &#8220;encouraged&#8221; Putin to invade allied nations\u2014something he never did during his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, many Americans remember that Putin did not invade any countries while Trump was in office; it was Biden who effectively encouraged Putin&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. Trump&#8217;s stance has been for European allies\u2014who benefit from U.S. defense spending\u2014to contribute fairly instead of relying predominantly on American taxpayers\u2014a notion Democrats seem opposed to.<\/p>\n<p>Harris wasn&#8217;t alone in spreading misinformation at the convention; The New York Times compiled instances of other Democratic speakers making similar false claims about Trump&#8217;s past. What stands out is not just Harris&#8217;s dishonesty but also how some media outlets have momentarily shifted away from their usual protective stance towards her and exposed the deceptive nature of her campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is essentially a manufactured candidate whose appeal hinges solely on how she contrasts with President Biden\u2019s lackluster performance (a standard that&#8217;s sometimes still too high). After nearly four unimpressive years as vice president and amidst an overwhelmingly anti-Trump media landscape eager for change this November, she had an opportunity to reintroduce herself to voters\u2014a chance for what could be seen as a second first impression. However, even her supporters in mainstream media seemed unconvinced after Thursday night\u2019s performance\u2014and American voters should be equally discerning come November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2330343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kamala-is-fact-checked-at-DNC.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[38697,13420,32438,33831,33017],"class_list":["post-2330342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-dnc-speech","tag-fact-check","tag-kamala-harris","tag-mainstream-media","tag-political-analysis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kamala-is-fact-checked-at-DNC.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330342","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}