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Progressive-Democrat Vice President and Party Presidential candidate Kamala Harris held a rally in Houston over the weekend, and Beyoncé appeared with her and announced her endorsement of Harris.

Beyoncé also was going to perform at the rally, and when she didn’t both she and Harris were booed.

But was she going to perform? Who said so?

NBC News‘ Kelly O’Donnell, Monica Alba, Yamiche Alcindor, and Alexandra Marquez were four pressmen making the claim:

Pop superstar Beyoncé will appear with Vice President Kamala Harris at her event in Houston on Friday evening, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
Beyoncé is also expected to perform, said one of the sources, who has direct knowledge of the preparations.

The voices in their heads and their childhood imaginary friends said so—that’s the source of their “information.”

Even Just the News chose to mislead rally goers and the public at large regarding a Beyoncé performance, both in its headline and its lede:

Beyoncé expected to perform at Harris rally in Houston on Friday
Pop music star Beyoncé Knowles is expected to perform at a campaign rally Friday in hometown Houston for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.

Expected by whom? JtN didn’t bother to attribute any source at all for its expectation. We’re just supposed to take the outlet’s metaphorical smiling face at its word.

Alternatively, these pressmen and outlet lied and got caught in their lie. Now they are letting Beyoncé and Harris take the heat for the outcome as these wonders scurry away from their own responsibility for the misapprehension.

Regardless of what anyone might think of Harris or former President and Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, this performance is just one more example of why the press cannot be taken seriously.

Favoring Illegal Aliens over Citizen Homeless

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That’s Chicago’s Progressive-Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson is doing while pretending to adjust down his city’s illegal alien sanctuary status. The subheadline makes the case clearly:

The Windy City is merging its migrant shelter system with the city’s traditional homeless shelter system

And

The overhaul will see 3,800 beds added to the city’s current homeless services system of 3,000 legacy beds….

Johnson is claiming in his press release on the matter that his system now is a unified sheltering system to serve all Chicagoans.

Where to start. Couple things, in particular. The first is that if Johnson had 3,800 beds all along, why didn’t he allocate them sooner and to the shelters that accommodate the city’s resident homeless?

Because, the second thing is that he’s confused about who is a Chicagoan. Illegal aliens are not at all Chicagoans, they’re illegal aliens.

This is Johnson treating illegals at the direct expense of Chicago’s homeless.

Teleprompters

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Progressive-Democrat Vice President and Party Presidential candidate Kamala Harris is famously dependent on teleprompters so she can read her speeches amid her inability to speak simultaneously extemporaneously and coherently.

Now it’s coming to light that she’s so dependent on those teleprompters that, in town halls where those devices aren’t present, Harris is dependent on friendly moderators to sub in for those teleprompters.

Journalist Maria Shriver admitted during a town hall event for Vice President Kamala Harris in [Royal Oak] Michigan that only questions that had been “predetermined” would be allowed to be asked.

In response to an attendee’s question, Shriver was clear:

We have some predetermined questions, and hopefully, I’ll be able to ask some of the questions that might be in your head. I hope so[.]

Is this person, one who so plainly cannot think on her feet, someone we want—we can afford as a nation—meeting in our name with the leaders of other nations, particularly with those running enemy nations?

Republicans Created Harris’ Title of Border Czar?

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That’s the claim of The Wall Street Journal news room writers.

Republicans exaggerated her role to label the vice president as “border czar,” though her initiative was much narrower.

They also claim that Progressive-Democrat Vice President and Party Presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ DOC was working with Northern Triangle nations to reduce the illegal alien flood. That last, not so much. Here’s Progressive-Democrat President Joe Biden’s own statement announcing his appointment of Harris to the post:

I’ve asked her, the VP, today—because she’s the most qualified person to do it—to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help—are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border.

Not just the Triangle nations—included in Harris’ portfolio are Mexico, which is our southern border and those “countries…going to need help,” which are the aggregated origin of all of the illegal aliens flooding across our southern border.

Regarding the title—label if you prefer—Border Czar, Andrew Arthur, writing shortly after Harris’ appointment in a piece for the Center for Immigration Studies, noted

the executive branch has used the term loosely for almost 60 years to describe an official with a portfolio that includes the duties of other officials.

That’s hardly a current, Republican, creation. Instead, here’s the press, specifically, the New York Post, just two weeks after her appointment. First, the headline:

Where is Kamala? Two weeks since being named border czar, Harris still hasn’t visited

And in the body:

Instead, in her first two weeks as czar, she has traveled….

And NBC News, referring to Harris’ immediate predecessor:

In a statement Friday announcing that Roberta Jacobson, Biden’s border czar who has played a key role….

And so on.

Maybe the WSJ needs to get a new crop of interns for its newsroom research function. Or more accurate writers.

Fact “Checking”

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USA Today now is claiming that Progressive-Democrat Vice President and Party Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has visited our southern border twice. Harris has visited US southern border twice as vice president | Fact check goes the paper’s headline. The outlet even cited the El Paso Times (it’s necessary to look to the byline under the headline to see that the article is from the live reporting of Times‘ writers).

That live reporting, though, carries only reporting of Harris’ visit to the Customs and Border Protection processing facility that sits well back from the border. Times writers do make passing references to Harris “heading to” the Paso del Norte International Bridge and her claimed intention to “tour” the border fence, but there’s no reporting by these on-scene writers that she actually arrived or toured—which surely they would have done had she done so.

My rating of USA Today‘s fact “check:” FALSE

USA Today misleads again.

O the other hand, even if she has visited the border twice, that’s still breathtakingly few times for the Border Czar to have visited it over her three-and-a-half years of being charged with dealing with her and Biden’s border crisis and the flood of illegal aliens pouring in.

The spacing of Harris’ visit(s) is illustrative of her own lackadaisical attitude toward our border. Her first visit, if it occurred, was ‘way back in June 2021. She’s been nowhere near our border (though she has successfully made it to Europe) since then until this campaign season when she made a campaign stop to visit the Arizona border (actually, this time) last September.