When 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl are too tough for you, you ain’t all that tough. If you got to walk out of a 60 Minutes interview, then you’re never going to stand up to a dictator.
— Barack Obama, 10/24/20

The White House wisely shot their own video of the interview which actually lasted close to 40 minutes and what was left out would have given the public a totally different impression of the president’s demeanor and displayed Stahl’s avoidance and/or defense of topics inconvenient to Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Here is an exclusive side-by-side presentation of the interview with President Trump and Lesley Stahl.

Note: There are a few spots where the audio is out of sync. Because of varying bit and frame rates on the original sources, making these as tight as possible is meticulous, challenging and not exact science. It explains why Bob is the only video editor who takes the time to do these.

The President of the United States is a busy man. Not many people are given a couple of hours (set up, interview, tear down) of valuable White House time. 60 Minutes is a television “news” magazine that has set times for segments to allow for commercial breaks. The Sunday, October 25th episodic was divided between Stahl interviews with President Trump and Vice President Pence, and Norah O’Donnell interviews with Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris. Each segment would be shot and edited down for time so of course, much of the interviews would not be aired.

However as a matter of import, that’s also why television has what they call “specials” and this would have been a golden opportunity for all of the interviews to be run uninterrupted. What most Americans didn’t see and hear in the Trump interview was Stahl’s whining and defense of Joe Biden which could have been professionally and politically problematic.

Maybe that was the plan all along.

Not all were amused.

Security experts branded the prank a “wake up call” and said Kamala’s team failed to carry out simple checks to verify who was on the other end of the phone.
— The Sun (UK), 8/21/20

Of course, there is little being made of this by the American media because it shouldn’t be this easy to reach someone who could be president, and one would think someone as smart as Kamala Harris would’ve picked up on the voice that was clearly not of a 17-year-old.

Trump is intimidated by fierce, intelligent Black women. That’s why he doesn’t know how to undermine the California senator.
— Boston Globe, 8/13/20

We shall see….

If you search for any video of Senator Kamala Harris’ vice presidential nomination acceptance speech, there’s much you won’t see. Almost every news organization has edited off the footage after Harris ends her speech and the reason is obvious: the Democratic National Committee got busted.

Harris walks over to a virtual wall of ecstatic supporters, all giddy and clapping. She waves back.

The sheer number of faces implies there are so many enthusiastic women. But there’s one slight problem.

There are not as many people online as suggested.

As you can see, some of the women in the Zoom loop are repeats.

And it wasn’t a one time faux pas….

The media has edited out the reaction to Harris’ speech because it’s just another example of the amateurish, incompetent, arrogant pre-production of the 2020 DNC Convention OR their contempt for the intelligence of the Democrat Party and American people.

It’s not clear if the women in the feed are live or this is a video being replayed on cue, but with the millions of dollars the DNC had at their disposal, little things like this could have been avoided, especially will all the supporters the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket supposedly has.

Or do they…?

During Donald Trump’s first term, Democrats were in vocal and legislative opposition but they weren’t hurting financially either. Their personal portfolios have benefited like those of millions of Americans. But after the 2018 midterms, a political fissure erupted within the Democrat Party; a fissure that was unprecedented and probably horrifying to blindsided leadership.

It was called gross insubordination by punk ass freshmen.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi implored her majority, after days of high-profile public infighting, to focus on common goals — including defeating President Donald Trump — and to silence the sniping that threatens their fragile hold on power. The lengthy closed-door session underscored the broader divisions between her centrist and liberal members — and between Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with her “squad” of star-power freshmen — that are testing party unity and reshaping Democrats ahead of the 2020 election.

“We’re a family and we have our moments,” Pelosi told colleagues. “You got a complaint? You come and talk to me about it. But do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is just OK.”
— Associated Press, 7/10/19

Incoming freshmen were traditionally given closet-size rooms on the top floor of the Cannon House Office Building, furthest away from the elevator and closest to the stairs. They may receive insignificant committee assignments, if at all. Their first term was one of learning the ropes, and above all else, respecting the established hierarchy. The 2018 Democrat freshmen class, led by AOC, blew that up.

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York suggested that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been “singling out” freshman congresswomen of color — the latest charge in a growing rift between the leader of the party in the chamber and the high-profile progressive freshman.

“When these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm’s distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood,” Ocasio-Cortez told The Washington Post in an interview published Wednesday. “But the persistent singling out … it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful … the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
— CNN, 7/11/19

Democrats like to accuse others, rightly or wrongly, of racism. They, especially a Democrat speaker, don’t like it when they’re accused by petulant “women of color” freshmen. You know Pelosi was privately fuming….

According to the media, there was a reconciliation.

Really?

At that time, the Trump economy was rolling along like a freight train. If you go by James Carville’s “It’s the economy, stupid”, higher ups within the DNC were probably ready to throw in the 2020 towel. But there was another problem: AOC and the Squad had the attention of millions, they were driving a socialist agenda that was way too radical for a party that always tried to appear level-headed and “moderate”. The Squad’s followers were rabid and out of the control of Pelosi and other senior party members.

Could the total upheaval of norms we’re seeing today be a plot to assure Democrats lose ugly in 2020?

After every presidential election, there is that customary public postmortem.

Speaker Pelosi will not accept any blame for a Trump landslide victory. She will not pile on the Democratic National Committee or any party PAC. Democrat Capitol Hill leadership will not assume responsibility for an electoral beat down. Despite any political loss, Pelosi and her party leadership will personally weather any storm so burning down the house will not put them on the street.

However, Democrats might blame a 2020 presidential and down-ballot shellacking on the disastrous messaging from irrational freshmen and call for a more reasoned and traditional agenda for the Democrat Party. Translation: they’ll summarily set the insubordinate children up to be primaried and hopefully banished in 2022.

Seriously, even the staunchest of Democrats weren’t for a job-killing Green New Deal, let alone the violence and destruction associated with #BlackLivesMatter and a George Floyd crisis not wasted. Most Democrat voters aren’t for dismantling police forces around the country. Liberal CEOs, professionals, academics, entertainment celebrities, and other big money donors nationwide are being bit by the millennials’ #CancelCulture and you know whose private phone numbers they have on speed dial.

Maybe the party is giving their socialist know-it-all loudmouths the rope to hang themselves.

And given the media allegiance to the Democrat Party, all these polls implying President Trump being behind by double digits is not a fluke. The Democrat base is being set up for a face plant into the concrete. Look who they’re presenting to their base as the party presidential nominee. A possibly senile old man who really has nothing to lose when it comes to a political career, unlike those whose names are being bandied about. Why do you think it’s taking so long for Joe Biden’s campaign to find a running mate? Who’s going to want that on a resume once the long knives of finger-pointing begins the morning after a Trump landslide?

A mass defection to Donald Trump combined with a depressed party turnout mean Democrats could find themselves in the minority again. Do you really think Nancy Pelosi will accept blame when having to give up the gavel while positioning herself to be Minority Leader? Do you think any of the senior members will decide embracing and publicly justifying socialism, CHOP zones, vandalism and/or removal of monuments, and “mostly peaceful” protests in the streets will be the template for 2022 success?

Do you think they’ll allow themselves to be forced to kneel again… ever?

Washington, D.C. should be renamed to what it’s always been known for: Washington CYA. Specifically, that’s how Democrats become old Democrats.

There will be a concerted effort, should the Election 2020 Democrat ass-whuppin’ be felt from Capitol Hill down through every state legislature, to have a message publicly sent that things will go back to the ways they’ve always been done. Democrats will again want to appear moderate and they’ll promise to go back to their safer default where they can “pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it”.

The media will be directed to turn on The Squad. Their arrogance will be highlighted and replayed in slow motion. Apologies won’t be issued, making matters worse. The inside-the-Beltway establishment will assert their rightful authority, showing no desire to spare the rod. Like the old days, these children will be spanked in the street for all to see.

UPDATE

Not only has the Democrat Party put all their eggs in a basket carried by a man with clear cognitive issues, but now with a woman who was so popular with the base that she was the first to drop out during their presidential primary season.

Who does that?

Again, the question should be why….

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Ex-HUD chief Julián Castro, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Former Rep. John Delaney, Andrew Yang, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. Cory Booker, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Marianne Williamson, author and activist, and Miramar, Fla. Mayor Wayne Messam: all of these men and women are unabashed liberal Democrats and their defiance in running as “moderates” to hide their extremism is throwing up some early red flags.

Democrats in 2020: Unelectable Nonentities
It is uproariously entertaining to see the scurryings of the innumerable host of Democratic presidential candidates in what is already more of a lottery than a quest for the nomination of a great party to the world’s greatest office.

The Gadarene stampede to (and over) the edge of the abyss of all who advocate open borders, 70 percent income taxes, the green terror, socialized medicine, legalized infanticide, reparations to native and African-Americans, packing the Supreme Court, and vacation of the Electoral College, has finally elicited, in a Churchillian expression, a tiny mouse of dissent. The charge to oblivion reminds me of 1972.
— Conrad Black, 4/3/19

Let’s not forget hands-up-don’t-shoot, Russian collusion, anything “cisgender” and/or sexuality, Antifa, cultural appropriation, anti semitic, safe space, “angry white male” and anything else antithetical to American common sense and decorum.

No millennial was alive then so as a public service to those who assume nothing relevant happened before they were aware, we present to you an edited recap of Election ’72: the last time a true, publicly-announced liberal ran against a popular Republican incumbent.

To call it ugly would be a massive understatement.

While honesty is preferred, we all know very few Democrats reveal their true agenda to the public while a candidate. They run as a digestible “moderate” and later serve as arrogant leftists, much to the detriment of general public who ends up paying a heavy price for the deception. In 2020, mostly driven by hatred of everything Donald Trump, liberals running for president are letting us know just who they are and what they want to do.

Honest disclosure hasn’t been good for Democrats in the past and 2020 may be a case of history repeated.

2020 UPDATE

Now, add all of the George Floyd-inspired rioting, looting, and vandalism in the streets by the #woke Antfia youth, “defund the police” demands by the #BlackLivesMatter the far left, unreasonable #CancelCulture social media white millennials, tyrannical Coronavirus mandates from Democrat governors, mayors, and partisan unelected officials, millions of Americans forced to lose businesses and jobs, and you have the perfect storm (despite dubious polls to the contrary) for a historic Democrat presidential ass-whuppin’.

The ramifications for down-ballot Democrats could be profound.