WaPo Caught Trying to Memory-Hole Cringe-Worthy Kamala Harris Story

Wapo shows that Democracy doesn’t die in darkness, it dies when WaPo and the media memory-holes unflattering stories about their now-beloved Democrats like Kamala Harris.

As TuskerDaily reported yesterday, the mainstream media is doing little to hide their blatant double-standard, and even more flagrant pandering to Democrats, and the Washington Post just proved they’re all in.

Back in 2019, the Washington Post published a not so flattering story about then-Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

But when they secretly tried to remove, and replace the most cringe-worthy part of their original story, they got caught red-handed.

Worse, WaPo revamped the article without even bothering to alert the author of the original version.

The scene was a brilliant bit of reporting and writing. It was a mask-slipping moment that seemed to perfectly capture Harris' warped sense of justice and lack of basic human dignity—all in just a few hundred words.

And now it's gone. https://t.co/F8LioFu3WM

— Eric Boehm (@EricBoehm87) January 22, 2021

WaPo’s feature focused on Kamala Harris’ close relationship with her sister.

It opened with a memorable anecdote in which Kamala Harris delusionally compared the rigors she was enduring on the campaign trail to…life behind bars.

Here’s how the first seven paragraphs of that article, published by the Post on July 23, 2019, and bylined by features reporter Ben Terris, originally appeared:

It was the Fourth of July, Independence Day, and Kamala Harris was explaining to her sister, Maya, that campaigns are like prisons.

She’d been recounting how in the days before the Democratic debate in Miami life had actually slowed down to a manageable pace. Kamala, Maya and the rest of the team had spent three days prepping for that contest in a beach-facing hotel suite, where they closed the curtains to blot out the fun. But for all the hours of studying policy and practicing the zingers that would supercharge her candidacy, the trip allowed for a break in an otherwise all-encompassing schedule.

“I actually got sleep,” Kamala said, sitting in a Hilton conference room, beside her sister, and smiling as she recalled walks on the beach with her husband and that one morning SoulCycle class she was able to take.

“That kind of stuff,” Kamala said between sips of iced tea, “which was about bringing a little normal to the days, that was a treat for me.”

“I mean, in some ways it was a treat,” Maya said. “But not really.”

“It’s a treat that a prisoner gets when they ask for, ‘A morsel of food please,’ ” Kamala said shoving her hands forward as if clutching a metal plate, her voice now trembling like an old British man locked in a Dickensian jail cell. “‘And water! I just want wahtahhh….’Your standards really go out the f—ing window.”

Kamala burst into laughter.

The new version completely removed these cringe-worthy paragraphs and replaced them with something far more flattering. 

We’ll just paste the opening paragraph so you can see how much whitewashing WaPo had done to the original version (you can read WaPo’s new whitewashed version in all its glory here):

Finding people to trust in politics — a field full of mercenaries with their own interests at heart — can be a tough thing to do. It is no wonder so many people turn to family members: John F. Kennedy had Bobby, Joe Biden’s sister, Valerie, once ran his campaigns and Ivanka Trump has been one of the 45th president’s most visible advisers.

Kamala Harris Cringe-Worthy Hall of Famer

Despite Kamala Harris setting the bar pretty high on being cringeworthy, like when she was asked ‘Who is your favorite rapper still alive?’ and she answered ‘Tupac‘.

Or when Kamala Harris telling a completely bogus story during an interview with The Breakfast Club, in which Harris admitted to smoking weed in college while she listened to Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur .

Of course, knowing Kamala Harris’ facts leave something to be desired it didn’t take much to expose her fiction.

Kamala Harris graduated from Howard University in 1986 and law school in 1989.

So at the time, Kamala Harris claims she was ‘smoking weed in school’…

• Snoop Dogg, didn’t get started until 1992
• Tupac’s “career did not take off until the early 1990s when he debuted in Digital Underground’s ‘Same Song’ from the soundtrack to the 1991 film Nothing but Trouble.“

Or Kamala Harris more recently, as TuskerDaily reported, Kamala Harris Plagiarized an MLK Story to pretend it was her own.

These examples still pale in comparison to what Harris stated in her Wapo’s feature, which should be enshrined into the cringe-worthy hall of fame.

WaPo’s Reasoning For Their Kamala Harris whitewash

What makes this whole story even more cringy is the reason WaPo gave for strip-mining their original article and replacing it with their blatant duplicity.

And doing so without bothering to mention to their readers the revisions they had made.

I asked the Post why the Harris feature was updated to remove quotes that showed the VP in an unflattering light.

The answer? "We repurposed and updated some of our strong biographical pieces about both political figures….The original story remains available in print."

— Eric Boehm (@EricBoehm87) January 22, 2021

Of course, this begs the question, which Eric Boehm asked:

The Post, of course, can do whatever it pleases with its own content. It can update or rearrange or delete any detail in any story at any time.

But would it have “updated” a months-old feature to remove an inartful comment from Mike Pence? I doubt it. And that’s the problem.

— Eric Boehm (@EricBoehm87) January 22, 2021

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