September 1, 2025

MONUMENTAL MEDIA MALPRACTICE: CBS Deceptively Edits Sec. Kristi Noem Interview.

Here is her statement that was presented on CBS:

And the one thing that we will continue to do is to make sure he (Abrego Garcia) doesn’t walk free in the United States of America.

Here’s what they cut; as you listen, think about whether this might be important information for their viewers to have to form an accurate opinion on this case:

This individual was a known human smuggler, MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater, and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors. And even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off, he was so sick in what he was doing, how he was treating small children. So he needs to never be in the United States of America, and our administration is making sure we are doing all that we can to bring him to justice.

Note that the first statement, the part CBS aired, gave you a small piece of the “what.” They left all of the “why” on the cutting-room floor. And there is a lot of “why” there.

This is journalistic malpractice of the first water. Oh, it’s a near-certainty that, if called on this, CBS will claim that all interviews are edited for time (probably true) and that only unimportant information is cut (demonstrably false). They will also claim that political bias is not a part of any editing calls (laughably false). What “Face the Nation” has done here is to obfuscate an important issue of the day. This case is just one of many where the Trump administration is trying to move illegal aliens out of the country, which the left and the legacy media (but I repeat myself) are pulling out all the stops to halt any repatriation. CBS, in this instance, deprived its viewers of critical information, in this case, namely, Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s criminal background. He’s an alleged thug, pervert, and wife beater in addition to being an illegal alien, and any honest news organization would present all this information, so their viewers could make an informed decision.

But then, it’s been some years since CBS was anything like an honest news organization.

Years? Try decades – about six of them.

UPDATE: They Shoot Cats, Don’t They?

We were told it was the first time Mike Wallace had ever apologized to an elected official on air on 60 Minutes. For all I know, it still might be the only time. And 15 years later [in 2009], in this age of Obama when the establishment media is hostile to conservatives, the episode still can teach lessons about how to fight back with the truth.

If the story is straight enough, there do remain honest liberal reporters and columnists who will come to your aid.

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THIS TIME, we called the president of CBS News. [Then-GOP Rep. Bob Livingston] played our audiotape for him. And then played it again. There was Wallace apologizing and admitting to having been “dishonest” and “stupid.” And yet the show had run again, without correction. It was clear we had a slam-dunk legal case if we wanted to press it.

The CBS president was irate at his own team. He made that clear. The tape did the trick. Apparently the news president then came down hard on Wallace. Really hard. Wallace soon called back. His voice was shaky. “Well, um, you know something? You’re a better man than I am, Congressman.” He promised to go on the air and apologize to the entire country. Then, after more of what can only be described as groveling, Wallace said this:

“You can get this on your tape recorder—I wish you told me you had a tape recorder going; that would have been the gentlemanly thing to do, the first time….”

Livingston interrupted, lowering the boom: “It would have been, but then I didn’t think that I was necessarily dealing with a gentleman.”

Wallace: “Well, in any case…”

Livingston: “And frankly, you’ve proven me right.”

Bingo. You could almost hear the phone line sizzle. Wallace had no answer. There was no good answer. Livingston was correct.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 6:55 pm by Ed Driscoll