Thread by @DrewHolden360

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The media are already hard at work to mislead about VP Kamala Harris.

The latest is an effort to memoryhole Harris’s role leading Biden’s disastrous immigration policy as “border czar.”

Who’s up for some side-by-sides, lest we forget? ⤵️

There’s no better place to start than with @axios, who made waves today when they claimed that Harris was never the “border czar.”

The problem?

Axios had called her exactly that back in 2021.

They added a truly Orwellian editors note after the backlash, claiming that they had misreported initially.

Really.

Oh and this headline from @axios.

“Biden puts Harris in charge of border crisis”

How can @axios believe both of these things?

I feel like I’m losing my mind.

But it wasn’t just Axios.

One of my favorite was @nytimes, who tried to explain why Republicans were “misleading” in tying Harris to Biden’s immigration policies.

In 2021, they called Harris “the face of President Biden’s plan to bolster the region and deter migration”

I mean, @nytimes even said the old “border czar” stepped down because Harris’s new “role as one of the administration’s top border officials” had “eclipsed” the position!

@USAToday “fact checked” the claim that Harris was “in charge” on immigration despite a previous “fact check” where they said that Biden had tapped Harris to “lead a federal effort to deter migrants.”

@USAToday also said that “Harris will lead U.S. efforts to stem migration.”

Hello?!

I feel like whatever little is holding me to this temporal plane is fraying.

@CNN should probably get their talking points in order.

Particularly rich is this from @politico, who claimed tying Harris to the border was misleading despite a headline from 2021 that called her “the point person on immigration issues amid border surge.”

To be clear: The idea that Harris was in charge on the border isn’t some figment of your imagination.

Look at these headlines from 2021. The facts were so damning that CNN reported that Harris was trying to distance herself from the mess at the border.

Now why would that be?

But, no, that hasn’t stopped outlets from pretending that Harris’s role had nothing to do with the border and immigration.

Here’s @CBSNews

@PolitiFact on another planet as usual.

@VOANews continues to disappoint me after I once went to the mat to defend them.

“Experts”!

@MotherJones called it a “myth” that Harris was tasked with doing what Biden told her to do.

Methinks it isn’t Republicans who aren’t interested in the “facts” here, @voxdotcom

Look I’m not waiting on @TIME to be honest, but cmon guys.

What the coverage quite deliberately elides is that Harris was, unequivocally, tasked with leading Biden’s immigration policy to combat the surge at the border.

Biden’s own remarks say so.

Whether she accepted the title of “border czar” is totally irrelevant.

But get used to this. I suspect the media’s efforts to paper over VP Harris’s shortcomings—in office and otherwise—are only just beginning.

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@Holden_Court The press is still going. @ddale8 is the latest to join the circus. (H/t @CurtisHouck)

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