We’ve documented how CNSNews.com nitpicked and misled about Vice President Kamala Harris the way it did about President Biden, and that negative coverage of her continued until CNS was shut down in April. A March 7 article by Melanie Arter carried to misleading clickbait headline “VP Harris: ‘Why Are Conservatives Bad, Mommy?’”
During a conversation on climate on Monday in Colorado, Vice President Kamala Harris said that as a child, she mistook conservationists with conservatives, which she thought were “bad.”
The vice president was asked how her life shaped her work on climate and the environment.
[…]“In fact, I’m going to share with you a very simple story, which is that I went home one day, and I said, “Well, what’s — why are conservatives bad, Mommy?” Because I thought we were supposed to conserve things. I couldn’t reconcile it. Now I can,” she said, laughing.
Susan Jones devoted a March 16 article to complaining about a TV interview Harris did:
In a lengthy interview with the “Late Show’s” Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris called it “inhumane” for states to pass pro-life laws; she touted U.S. boldness and leadership on climate change; she called Joe Biden a “true partner” and an “extraordinary leader”; and at the very end of the interview, she explained why she loves the United States.
An anonymously written article the next day grumbled that Harris didn’t hate a gay foreign official:
Leo Varadkar, the gay Taoiseach—or prime minister—of Ireland, celebrated St. Patrick Day’s with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris by attending a breakfast convened at the Vice President’s official residence in Washington, D.C.
Harris concluded her introduction of Varadkar by toasting him and his partner, Matthew Barrett. “I will now raise a glass to toast the Taoiseach, Mr. Barrett, and all of you on St. Patrick’s Day,” she said. “Cheers.”
The anonymous writer reminded us that “St. Patrick, who was born in Scotland in 387, was commissioned by Pope Celestine I in the fifth century to focus on converting the people of Ireland to the Catholic faith” — as you’d expect from the more-Catholic-than-the pope folks who ran CNS — then gratutiously called Varadkar a “gay Taoiseach” again, as you expect from a “news” organization run by a deeply homophobic managing editor.
Another anonymously written article, on April 7, grumbled about Harris’ support for abortion rights:
Vice President Kamala Harris this Holy Week put out a statement criticizing pro-life elected officials for seeking to “undermine and attack reproductive freedom.”
In doing so, Harris pointed to Tuesday’s election in Wisconsin, where voters elected a pro-abortion judge to the state’s Supreme Court.
CNS’ final attack on Harris came on April 18, when Jones began an article this way:
At a march for reproductive rights in Los Angeles on Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris (who uses the pronouns she/her) blasted the U.S. Supreme Court for taking away a “constitutional right, that had been recognized, from the people of America.”
That’s a reference to a previous CNS attack on Harris for announcing her pronouns at an even for people with disabilities where she was asked to do so.
Jones went on to complain about other statements by Harris, framing one by using “transgenders” as a noun:
She defended the right to abortion and “the rights of women” specifically. She also mentioned “the ability of people to be themselves and be proud of who they are,” an apparent reference to transgenders.
Harris touted her world travels, saying every time she goes to a new country, “I’ll meet with women to talk with them about how they’re doing. Because I fundamentally believe that you can gauge the strength of a democracy based on the strength of women in that democracy.
“So, when they dare attack the rights of women, understand, for all of you who are watching, who walk around wearing those lapel pins, requiring that people look at you with some level of respect: When you attack the rights of women in America, you are attacking America. All of this is at stake.”
Some Americans view transgenderism as an attack on women’s rights, particularly when biological men, with their innate physiological advantages, participate in biological women’s sports.
After Harris referenced “the next generation of the people who will help lead and fight in this movement for freedom and liberty based on our love of our country,” Jones sneered, “For the record, Harris included herself in ‘the next generation’ of leaders.”
Two days later, CNS was shut down.