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FOXNEWS.COM, October 24, 2024<\/a><\/h2>\n

McDonald\u2019s controversy shows media\u2019s \u2018You deserve a break today\u2019 approach to Kamala<\/a><\/h1>\n
by James Bovard<\/div>\n
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Presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump<\/a> are sparring over whether Harris ever worked at a McDonald\u2019s restaurant during her college years.\u00a0This dispute reveals the standard of proof the media will henceforth use if Harris wins the election.<\/p>\n

Any statement that President Harris utters will be treated as gospel truth, and any critic will be presumed scurrilous if not bigoted. This echoes how the media ridiculed the damning evidence disclosed in October 2020 from Hunter Biden\u2019s abandoned laptop.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Trump worked briefly at a McDonald\u2019s<\/a> restaurant in Pennsylvania to draw attention to the controversy. The New York Times responded with an article headlined, \u00a0\u201cHarris and McDonald\u2019s: A College Job That Became a Trump Line of Attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

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<\/picture>Except that the Times found no real evidence that Harris actually worked at McDonald\u2019s. Regardless, the Times railed that \u201cTrump\u2019s seeding of doubts about Ms. Harris\u2019s story\u201d was \u201cinsidious and outside the lines of traditional fair play in politics.\u201d Because Harris is a female, or what? When did a presidential candidate become exempt from scrutiny about belated revelations of youthful virtue? Trump did not hit Harris\u2019 McDonald\u2019s job claim until she made it Exhibit A of her middle-class pedigree.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Harris has refused to be interviewed in-depth regarding the McDonald\u2019s job. The New York Times stated that Harris\u2019 campaign<\/a> only disclosed the year and location of the specific McDonald\u2019s at issue but \u201cit has provided little information beyond that, including how long she worked there.\u201d The Times noted, \u201cThe campaign did not make any of Ms. Harris\u2019s friends or family members available for interviews about their recollections of her experience there.\u201d Oh bother, said the Times\u2019 reporters.<\/p>\n

Do we know if Harris worked more than one day at the Golden Arches? Maybe showing up for a single eight-hour shift would suffice to burnish Harris\u2019s middle-class halo in perpetuity, at least for her media cheerleaders.<\/p>\n

The Times conceded that Harris never prominently mentioned<\/a> working at McDonald\u2019s until 36 years later, when she was campaigning for the presidency in 2019 and joined a Las Vegas strike by McDonald\u2019s workers. She never mentioned the job in her two autobiographies and did not list it on a 1987 job application. Those glaring omissions did not stop the Times from putting doubts about that McDonald\u2019s job in the same odious category as disbelief that former President Barack Obama was born in the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leftist Washington Post reporter Philip Bump looked into the matter and admitted that \u201cI was able to find no evidence of her employment\u201d at McDonald\u2019s. No problem: Bump still condemned Trump.<\/p>\n

Bump concluded, \u201cThere is no reason to think that Harris didn\u2019t work at McDonald\u2019s in 1983 and\u2026 every reason to think that Trump\u2019s suggestion that she didn\u2019t is offered in bad faith and without evidence.\u201d The only fact necessary to exonerate Harris is that she is the Democratic Party presidential nominee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Snopes.com, which often leans left, investigated and found \u201cno tangible evidence of Harris working at McDonald\u2019s<\/a> as a college student. We reached out to Harris\u2019 campaign, as well as McDonald\u2019s headquarters, seeking tax records or other proof\u2026 such as a uniform or name tag. We also reached out to Harris\u2019 sister, Maya, as well as a close friend from Howard University seeking comment\u2026 to confirm the story, with no luck.\u201d Snopes labeled her job claim as \u201cunproven.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harris could settle this controversy with a simple request to the Social Security Administration to release her 1983 earnings statement.\u00a0 But Harris has neither done that nor provided any other facts to buttress her claims. Maybe the media presumes Kamala has a Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself by revealing evidence of her own whoppers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

At what point does deference to a prominent public official<\/a> go from being polite to being shameless? Nowadays, withholding evidence is the only proof of innocence required in Washington.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, similar media shenanigans are helping the Biden administration shroud scandals till after Election Day. Americans won\u2019t learn the hard facts about allegations on Tim Walz\u2019s connections to the Chinese Communist Party, insider machinations on the illegal immigrant tsunami, the full details on the Secret Service\u2019s failure to protect Trump, and federal censors muzzling countless Americans to safeguard the Biden administration\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n

Will a Beltway Iron Curtain around crimes and outrages shift another presidential election? The cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop story, aided and abetted by CIA officials, may have changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Harris\u2019s squirrelly claims on McDonald\u2019s may not shift many votes directly though it may erode her \u201cmore trustworthy than Trump\u201d polling advantage.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the cumulative impact of the ongoing cover-ups could swing far more votes this year than did the Hunter laptop in 2020.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kowtowing on the McDonald\u2019s controversy<\/a> signals that the media will likely be even more craven if Harris becomes the 47th president. Democratic politicians will be presumed innocent unless they publicly confess. But how many more cover-ups can self-government survive?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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