CBS embroiled in ANOTHER editing scandal as announcer Mike Johnson accuses network of deceptive cutting

Spokesman Mike Johnson claims CBS News dishonestly edited his Face the Nation interview to make him look bad.

The accusation comes just a week after the network was also widely accused of manipulating her 60 Minutes interview with Democratic candidate Kamala Harris to help her.

The speaker posted side-by-side clips on his social media showing glaring disparities in what made the TV cut off during the Sunday Face the Nation interview and his much longer response that didn’t go emit

He accuses CBS of specifically editing answers he gave about Hurricane Helene damage and FEMA money, as well as the threat of illegal immigrants voting in elections.

This meant removing five “important minutes from my almost 15-minute interview.”

“You can be the judge of why,” he continued before going over the specific cuts.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., accused CBS News of deceptively editing his interviews to make him look bad just after the network was accused of editing his 60 Minutes interview in favor of from Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

“CBS selectively edited out this first-hand perspective,” CBS charged on social media about its response to Hurricane Helene.

“I recently traveled to North Carolina and was told by victims of Hurricane Helene that nearly two weeks after landfall, the Biden-Harris administration still had not provided them with all the resources they desperately needed,” she posted on X in a thread with a supposedly misleading edit of the net.

Johnson’s staff appeared to have filmed the speaker from the studio. Much of what he said in the staff-recorded video appears to have been edited out by the network.

He spoke in depth about the hurricane relief funds distributed by the Biden administration.

According to the on-air clip, he said Biden and Harris “obliged some funds, but they’ve only distributed two percent.”

But in the video released by the speaker’s office, Johnson went on for much longer.

“So they’ve obligated some funds, but they’ve only distributed two percent. When I was there on the ground, and you should go, I mean bring the cameras and talk to the people there, they’ll tell you,’ has affirmed

“Don’t take a politician’s word for it, or the administration’s word for it, talk to the people on the ground. They hadn’t been given the resources, almost two weeks after the storm, which they desperately needed”.

“And when I saw there, 13 days after the storm hit this state, people are still being rescued … trapped in the higher elevations and in the mountains because the roads are down … they need every resource available and all hands on deck. The rescue and recovery effort is still underway, and then we tackle the rest,” Johnson said in the video posted by the staff.

The discrepancies between the two versions gained viral attention online.

“Wow, that’s an active CBS hoax!” Elon Musk, owner of X, wrote on his platform to repost the Republican’s video.

The speaker’s allegations against the network come just a week after it was said to have edited Harris’ interview

In another post on the chain, Johnson accuses the network of editing his answers about the Republican governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin.

“Apparently CBS also doesn’t want you to hear about Virginia Governor Youngkin trying to clean up the state’s census records so non-US citizens can’t vote,” he writes alongside a new homemade video.

“We need more states to do this, but the Biden-Harris administration is suing Virginia and trying to stop it.”

In a third post, the Republican spokesman criticized the network for editing its response on immigration.

“The Biden-Harris admin let millions of illegal aliens into our country,” he wrote. “Therefore, the House passed the SAVE Act to ensure that only American citizens vote in American elections.”

“CBS edited it out and focused on 2020 instead of the immediate threats to the integrity of the election.”

CBS News is facing massive backlash, including from Trump, after the network edited out Kamala Harris’ “word salad” response to her 60 Minutes interview to allegedly portray her more positively .

Last week after Harris’ controversial 60 Minutes interview, Donald Trump asked CBS to release the transcripts.

The former president accused the network of trying to make his Democratic challenger look “more presidential” and accused them of committing a “campaign finance violation” for favorably editing the 2024 hopeful’s clip.

He said they tried to cover their answers with “word salad.”

Several lawmakers have joined in, demanding that the network produce the full transcript of the meeting.

The 60 Minutes interview as part of Harris’ pre-Election Day media blitz aired Monday night, and the network posted the episode on the show’s official YouTube page.

Since then, he has reportedly planned an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, as has Trump, who recently said, “I actually think I’m doing it.”