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By Denying Kamala Harris’ Border Czar Role, Media Admits Biden-Harris Immigration Policy Is A Total Failure
The Federalist ^ | 7/26/24 | JOSHUA MONNINGTON

Posted on 07/26/2024 2:17:19 PM PDT by CFW

On March 24, 2021, Axios reported, “Biden puts Harris in charge of the border crisis.” The same day, The New York Times stated that Biden “gave the vice president a prominent role in the politically charged issue.” Numerous other legacy media outlets called Kamala Harris the “border czar” and heralded her prominent role.

At the time of the appointment, Joe Biden himself said, “So it’s not her full responsibility and job, but she’s leading the effort,” and “When she speaks, she speaks for me. Doesn’t have to check with me. She knows what she’s doing.”

But corporate media have engaged in a complete about-face this past week, now decrying the use of the term “border czar” and minimizing Harris’ role in the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the border. USA Today stated that “Harris was never put in charge of the border or made ‘border czar,’ immigration experts said.” Time declared, “Kamala Harris Was Never Biden’s ‘Border Czar.’ Here’s What She Really Did.” As my colleague Jordan Boyd detailed, Axios even reneged on its own 2021 coverage of Harris as border czar in the rush to exonerate Harris of culpability in the illegal immigration crisis.

The media’s about-face comes not as a result of a change in facts (in which case a reversal would not only be justified but necessary) but because of a change in circumstances. When Biden dropped out of the race, it became politically inconvenient for Harris to be associated with the immigration policy failures of the administration in which she serves.

In essence, the media pivoted because Harris has a messaging problem. But it’s not “a narrative problem” drummed up by right-wing misinformation. Harris has a problem because the Biden-Harris administration’s border policy has largely been viewed as a complete failure.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: borderczar; immigration; kamala; media
This is true.
1 posted on 07/26/2024 2:17:19 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW
So what are we going to do about it? Will we cancel our TV subscriptions and deprive them of much of the money they use to push their agenda?

Or will we continue to pay them for the privilege of sitting on our tails and being entertained by them, even as they use our money to push their agenda?

2 posted on 07/26/2024 2:24:55 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: CFW

On one hand they are lying and trying to convince the public that they inherited an insecure border that biden/Harris closed. And on the other hand attempting to distance themselves from the border crisis that they created.


3 posted on 07/26/2024 2:30:12 PM PDT by patriot torch (..)
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They admit the laughing hyena is a complete failure and now all they can do is cover it up for their buddies


4 posted on 07/26/2024 2:30:44 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: CFW

Heads we win - Tails they lose


5 posted on 07/26/2024 2:33:42 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It will be Michelle.)
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To: CFW

Actually, Camel Hairs should be addressed a Czarina as she is alleged to identify as female with appropriate pronouns.


6 posted on 07/26/2024 2:36:44 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy.)
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Absolutely - otherwise she and her media allies would own it as a badge of honor.


7 posted on 07/26/2024 2:43:35 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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Biden - Harris is a total disaster period and Harris is a train wreck by herself.


8 posted on 07/26/2024 2:52:21 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: patriot torch

They are also griping about the GOP talking about Harris being a DEI hire when just a few short weeks ago, Biden proclaimed the virtue of DEI and how it is the core of his administration. He literally said “It starts at the top with his selection of Kamala for his VP”.


9 posted on 07/26/2024 2:57:10 PM PDT by Right Brother (From Biden to Harris. From pee pads to kneepads.)
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The media whores are in full spin mode. “The border is a mess all because of Trump... “We had the most secure border bill but Trump told republicans not to pass it. (Forget about the previous 3 1.2 years and tens of millions walking right in)”


10 posted on 07/26/2024 3:03:56 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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The left are engaging in semantics and word games.  While there is no official Cabinet-level position of Border czar - or any of the other non-elected "czars" that sprouted up during the Obama administration - Harris was clearly put in charge of the border crisis.  And she failed miserably.

In fact, as has been pointed out, there are many instances where the leftist media gave her that moniker.

Heels-Up couldn't even be bothered to visit the border for a photo-op, a la AOC, so that tells us all we need to know about her commitment to fixing the border.

11 posted on 07/26/2024 3:06:35 PM PDT by mellow velo
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Camel Hairs should be addressed as Czarina, installed by a Palace Coup, not by any elections.


12 posted on 07/26/2024 3:57:11 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Camel Hairs should be addressed as a Czarina, installed by a Palace Coup, not by any elections!)
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Not a failure. Its a total success. Just look at what its accomplished for the liberal democrat agenda.


13 posted on 07/26/2024 4:47:14 PM PDT by know.your.why
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That’s a Texas sized 10-4 my friend


14 posted on 07/26/2024 4:55:40 PM PDT by onona
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The communists never never, never relent on their unstoppable acquisition of every possible control over their subjects...

One of the keys to perpetuating their power & control is the revision, distortion, and/or elimination of prior history that does not conform to their guiding totalitarian principles...

Border Czar ==> Border Savior...


15 posted on 07/26/2024 8:03:33 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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Its also an admission that all the claims about the border being secure were bald face lies.
(Thanks for posting that great article from one of my favorite web sites.)
16 posted on 07/27/2024 5:05:23 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Organic Panic
If the enemedia's efforts still mattered then Deep State wouldn't have to steal elections.

Then there's social media. Musk posted this yesterday. It's gotten over 56 million views so far...

Elon Musk posted this 3 minutes ago. A total burn of Kamala Harris. Musk is all in because if she wins they will ruin his businesses. All of them. So this is a good thing.

17 posted on 07/27/2024 5:18:02 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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