{"id":2346828,"date":"2024-09-27T15:38:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T19:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philip-bump-media-should-give-kamala-benefit-of-the-doubt\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T19:40:33","slug":"philip-bump-media-should-give-kamala-benefit-of-the-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philip-bump-media-should-give-kamala-benefit-of-the-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Bump: Media Should Give Kamala &#8216;Benefit Of The Doubt&#8217;"},"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%2Fphilip-bump-media-should-give-kamala-benefit-of-the-doubt%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=2346828&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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-one-in-six-biden-voters-would-have-changed-their-vote-if-they-had-known-about-scandals-suppressed-by-media\/\" title=\"Poll: One In Six Biden Voters Would Have Changed Their Vote If They Had Known About Scandals Suppressed By Media\">national news media<\/a> for allegedly failing to scrutinize Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s campaign while instead focusing on other candidates, particularly Donald Trump. It highlights a \u2062recent claim \u200cby Harris about her past\u200d experience working \u200cat McDonald&#8217;s, which Trump \u200chas disputed. The \u200bauthor points out that instead of addressing the legitimacy of her claim, Washington Post writer Philip Bump deflected criticism by mocking Trump&#8217;s supporters for their skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>The article accuses the \u200bmedia \u2062of \u200bprotecting Democratic candidates by dismissing legitimate\u2063 controversies as partisan attacks and failing to investigate issues\u2062 that could reflect negatively on them. Examples cited include mishandling the story about Haitian migrants allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/migrants-eating-pets-kamala-harris-called-out-over-alarming-claims-as-border-crisis-rages\/\" title=\"Migrants Eating Pets? Kamala Harris Called Out Over Alarming Claims as Border Crisis Rages\">eating pets<\/a> in Ohio, as well \u2062as the Hunter Biden \u2064foreign bribery allegations, which have not been thoroughly reported despite evidence suggesting wrongdoing. The commentary \u200csuggests a broader pattern of media bias favoring\u200b Democrats while scrutinizing Republicans and right-leaning narratives.  <\/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>Because the national news media <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/29\/this-is-the-see-no-candidate-hear-no-candidate-campaign-the-media-are-forcing-on-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">can&rsquo;t be bothered<\/a> to actually scrutinize Kamala Harris&rsquo; campaign &mdash;&nbsp;they&rsquo;re trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/11\/abcs-democrat-moderators-interfered-to-help-kamala-and-she-still-struggled-to-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">help her win<\/a>, after all &mdash; they instead choose to scrutinize <em>anyone else<\/em> who tries.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s why rather than sincerely look into Kamala&rsquo;s relatively new biographical claim that she once slung Happy Meals <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/30\/is-kamalas-i-worked-at-mcdonalds-narrative-just-the-fast-food-version-of-stolen-valor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">working at a McDonald&rsquo;s<\/a>, The Washington Post&rsquo;s most willfully obtuse writer, Philip Bump, decided that this week his energy was best spent belittling anyone who questions it &mdash; most notably, Kamala&rsquo;s opponent, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Since Trump has been saying that the McDonald&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/controversial-receiver-kadarius-toney-gets-rough-update-from-chiefs-right-before-start-of-regular-season\/\" title=\"Controversial Receiver Kadarius Toney Gets Rough Update from Chiefs Right Before Start of Regular Season\">story isn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t true,&rdquo; Bump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/09\/26\/why-donald-trump-keeps-talking-about-kamala-harriss-mcdonalds-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote Thursday<\/a>, &ldquo;a lot of his supporters are saying it too, rushing to prove that Harris was being dishonest about her McDonald&rsquo;s employment with the same intellectual rigor that they applied to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-votes-to-remove-rep-cheney-as-conference-chair\/\" title=\"House GOP votes to remove Rep. Cheney as conference chair\">uncovering voter fraud<\/a> and pet eating.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To the extent that Bump had any interest at all in the unsubstantiated &ldquo;french fries and ice cream&rdquo; tale Kamala relays to make herself seem humble and relatable, it was to prove that he <em>couldn&rsquo;t prove<\/em> whether it&rsquo;s true even if he wanted to. &ldquo;Over the course of this week,&rdquo; he wrote, &ldquo;I spent some time looking into the story myself &mdash; not because I doubted Harris&rsquo;s claim (since there&rsquo;s no real reason to doubt it) but because I was curious&nbsp;<em>if<\/em>&nbsp;it was provable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This is what the national media do anytime a Republican or right-leaning news publication raises a legitimate issue that might be politically harmful to voters of the Democrat Party. They dismiss the controversy as a partisan-driven affair of no consequence or otherwise run interference on behalf of Democrats by debating and disputing its merits.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s what the media did with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/10\/exclusive-police-audio-report-confirm-haitian-goose-hunting-in-ohio-they-all-had-geese-in-their-hands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">animal-snatching Haitian migrants story<\/a>. Rather than investigate what Springfield, Ohio, residents had to say of the documented claims that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austin-bay-mexican-crime-cartels-wage-narcotic-and-demographic-war-on-usa\/\" title=\"Austin Bay: Mexican Crime Cartels Wage Narcotic and Demographic War on USA\">relocated migrants<\/a> were eating pets and wild animals there, the media busied themselves by asking local government officials if they could prove them. When the media got the answer they wanted &mdash; there was no proof &mdash; they wiped their hands clean and called anyone still interested liars.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s what the media did with the Hunter Biden foreign bribery scheme. Every development of that story, no matter how scandalous, has been brushed aside and regarded as a non-event by the media. Bump leaned into that particularly egregious round of media moral bankruptcy more than anyone. Congressional investigations, testimony under oath, and corroborated reports overwhelmingly indicate that President Biden&rsquo;s degenerate middle-aged son has for years been financially benefiting from foreign entities to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars &mdash; for providing no discernible product or service in return except direct access to the U.S. government, including his father. What&rsquo;s more, there&rsquo;s convincing evidence that Joe Biden was a key player in the dealings, an assertion made by one of Hunter Biden&rsquo;s years-long business partners.<\/p>\n<p>Asked last year to reconcile the irrefutable reality that there is at least an interesting possibility of obscene corruption implicating the sitting president of the United States, with the absolute lack of curiosity of the corporate media, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/09\/01\/washington-posts-philip-bump-embarrasses-himself-while-defending-joe-bidens-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bump yawned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A sample of Bump&rsquo;s remarks during that interview with podcaster Noam Dworman:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You have no evidence that Joe Biden acted on Hunter Biden&rsquo;s behalf, or that Joe Biden took money!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Find me evidence! There is none!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve offered no evidence beyond your parsing &hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This conversation is silly!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is why I keep saying it&rsquo;s silly!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To be fair to Bump, he did write in his column this week that he bothered to call up a couple McDonald&rsquo;s locations in the city Kamala identified for the job. He tried to get the corporate office on the phone but failed in every attempt. That takes at least a few calories of effort, though rather than leave it as an open question as to whether Kamala is being honest about her early life experience, he argued that the exercise was predictably silly because &mdash;&nbsp;<em>well, who cares?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Harris, unlike Trump,&rdquo; he wrote, &ldquo;has earned the benefit of the doubt on assertions that may not be immediately provable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And just like that, Bump was done with his  investment in questioning a story Kamala repeatedly tells as part of her pitch to voters. He&rsquo;s ready to move on from such things because he knows it&rsquo;s a problem for the political party he&rsquo;s trying to help win this election.<\/p>\n<hr><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media avoids scrutinizing Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign, focusing instead on those who do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2346829,"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\/09\/Phiilp-Bump.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[41866,32438,33295,41865,33017],"class_list":["post-2346828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-benefit-of-the-doubt","tag-kamala-harris","tag-media-criticism","tag-philip-bump","tag-political-analysis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Phiilp-Bump.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346828","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}