by Jeff Childers
The long, storied list of political ‘-gate’ scandals expanded by one yesterday. It’s apostrophe-gate! The Associated Press ran the latest bizarre story yesterday headlined, “AP sources: White House altered record of Biden’s ‘garbage’ remarks despite stenographer concerns.” The gist was, the official stenographic team responsible for making an accurate historical record objected, strongly, to Team Biden’s stealthy, ex post facto addition of an apostrophe to their official transcript.
The White House historians called Biden’s Press Office’s after-the-fact revision a “breach of protocol” and “spoliation of transcript integrity.” In other words, Democrats only follow rules when the rules help them:
It’s so interesting that the Associated Press (and other corporate media) reported this story at all, a story that would have been very easy to ignore. Why are they covering it? How did they get a copy of the internal email? Who leaked it?
The added apostrophe affair is an awful look for Harris. At first it seems tiny — the apostrophe is, after all, the shortest scratch of a pen— but it circumscribes a much bigger narrative about Kamala feeling entitled to ignore basic rules, fracture fairness, and flout the historical record, and all that in a wild display of Stalinist revisionism — and for what gain?
After all, nobody seems to be buying the re-do anyway. Not even the deranged women on the View. Yesterday’s Entertainment Weekly headline:
When you’ve lost The View…
Between the coverage of this conflict and the big liberal papers’ withholding their endorsements, something seems to be afoot.
The left is always busy with the lie, the lie about the lie, the lie about the lie about the lie, so on and on and on…