Monday, October 21, 2024

Audience Of One

Where does the money go?
On Monday night, Edward Paltzik, counsel to Trump, penned a demand letter to Gayle Sproul, senior vice president of legal affairs at CBS News, in which he claimed the statement conceded that Trump was "accurate in his assertion" that "60 Minutes" aired two different versions on Oct. 5 and 6 and that it was "doctored in order to mislead" the public ahead of the election. 
Paltzik pointed to Harris' answers about the Israel-Hamas war, in which a full transcript was provided online. 
"The open question is whether such posted transcript is original or whether is has also been doctored, edited, or manipulated in any way that is helpful to Kamala Harris' failing campaign," said Paltzik. 
He accused the network and producers of the program of intentionally misleading the public by broadcasting the edited version, while opting to release other portions online. "Such manipulative editing was aimed at causing confusion among the electorate regarding Vice President Kamala Harris' abilities, intelligence, and appeal," the letter said. 
"News organizations such as CBS have a responsibility to accurately represent the truth of events, not history an interview to try and make their preferred candidate appear coherent and decisive, which Harris most certainly is not. Due to CBS' actions, the public cannot distinguish which Kamala Harris they are seeing; the candidate or the puppet of a behind the scenes editor."
That is not a letter I would tell my client to take seriously. And my response on behalf of my client would probably start with the attempt to make “history” a verb. And take the rest of it less seriously than that.

I hope Trump thinks that letter was worth as much as he paid for it. He’s not gonna be able to spend other people’s money before long.
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