Ah, at the White House, the gaffe-tastic gang that couldn't poop straight is at it again. Shuffling the deck chairs while translating and sanitizing the mumblings of the geriatric dementia patient who still technically owns the chair behind the Resolute Desk.

It has been a constant trial by self-induced fire for staffers because while they are all so unbearably arrogant, they are also so horribly bad at what they do.

Obvious and oblivious never work in concert for stealth actions, and yet, the WH staff tries both routinely. 

The president's public faces stalk to the briefing room podium, anticipating the chiding one gets for being caught with hands in the proverbial cookie jar. Nothing but stammering denials, flat-out lies, or binders slammed shut before skittering, expeditious flights from shouted press interrogatories flying at them like so many chickens and bovines launched from French parapets.

We will be here again today. 

Only this misadventure has quite a different feel to it because it's not just messy, blatant, and shady - it might even be illegal.

The CBS Harris-interview editing scandal - where the previews did not match the polished final, word-salad-free product...

BREAKING: Trump sues CBS for deceptive editing and election interference pic.twitter.com/vMglNpsTFW

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 31, 2024

 - was immediately exposed by sharp-eyed watchers on the outside, demanding answers about where the word salad had gone and why.

Granted, CBS has doubled down on not releasing a transcript of the entire interview (which may cost them dearly, considering Donald Trump's lawsuit for election interference and a filed FCC complaint)...

Common threads @realDonaldTrump lawsuit @CBSNews and @FCC complaint are allegations of "news distortion" which CBS has previously rejected as "more succinct” edits

Releasing full, unedited transcripts and video would stand behind integrity of final @60Minutes edit, rebut the… https://t.co/7lE1oxoYXg

— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) October 31, 2024

...but it is a private corporation. They are entirely within their rights to fall on their sword, committing public seppuku in whatever manner they choose.

That's not the case with White House staff attempting to clean up the steaming refuse that POTATUS has once again left strewn across the landscape with his propensity for blurting out tough guy trash talk.

There's been tons of hay made over these comments and lots of panicked legwork from MSM dashing in with firehoses full of excuses doing Harris damage control. 

The problem is we all heard it - not 'read' it - but heard it straight from the president's cranky mush mouth.

Sometimes the Democrat elite tell us what they really think of us. Hillary Clinton thinks we are “deplorables”. Joe Biden thinks we are “garbage.” Kamala Harris thinks we are so stupid as to believe her lies.

We deserve better. Vote Trump pic.twitter.com/cwEBnGSbLj

— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) October 30, 2024

The White House's next problem is that the WH stenographer's team, who had to transcribe that ridiculous Zoom call when POTATUS made those comments, heard them - and transcribed them for the official record - exactly the way the rest of us did.

As POTATUS calling Trump supporterS 'garbage.'

...Biden, according to a transcript prepared by the official White House stenographers, told the Latino group on a Tuesday evening video call, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

There was no ambiguity about it.

This didn't sit well with WH press officials, who kind of did the arrogant and unthinkable, at least to those of us who follow #rulez: they added an apostrophe.

AP: White House press office altered transcript of Biden’s offensive remarks calling all Trump “supporters” garbage by making it appear as if the president were referring to just one supporterhttps://t.co/43NFIgQXs1 pic.twitter.com/1wdstVFwIX

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) November 1, 2024

See? 

ALL BETTER NOW

Here's the difference between the CBS edits and this most egregious Biden WH protocol breach - someone inside the WH threw the BS flag on the changes. 

To the two-person stenographer team's great personal and professional credit, they immediately objected to the press office change. Then, they notified their supervisor, who sent off a scathing email alerting everyone to the staff skullduggery.

...The change was made after the press office “conferred with the president,” according to an internal email from the head of the stenographers’ office that was obtained by The AP. The authenticity of the email was confirmed by two government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.

The supervisor, in the email, called the press office’s handling of the matter “a breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices.”

“If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,” the supervisor wrote, adding, “Our Stenography Office transcript — released to our distro, which includes the National Archives — is now different than the version edited and released to the public by Press Office staff.”

BOOMITY

Basically, the WH press office tampered with an official document. There are also Presidential Records Act implications... 

The Presidential Records Act prohibits altering official transcripts, which is what the White House did. And the alteration makes no sense. The White House is now claiming Biden was referring to the racism of Trump's supporters, but the transcript refers to "his supporter's." pic.twitter.com/XaTFXowY2t

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) October 30, 2024

...besides the obvious election interference problems they've created for themselves.

It’s important to point out that several news orgs specifically cited that altered transcript as evidence of Biden’s intent.

Ex Politico: pic.twitter.com/7qhNFZPAD5

— AG (@AGHamilton29) November 1, 2024

Oh, well, classic. And nothing'll happen, right? 

Probably.

But, dang - it's heartening to know there are government employees of backbone and devotion to truth still in positions in the White House. I thought that was awesome news.

It's also kind of interesting how this is getting some airtime on the Associated Press and in other venues where, once upon a time, it would have vanished in the ether without ever seeing a peep of sunlight. Is that a tentative shift because news organizations are worried about the outcome on Tuesday?

I don't know, but it is different. 

The big tell will be if CBS carries the report on tonight's Evening News broadcast, no?

Hell will have had to have frozen over.

But there's still time for a couple more dumpster fires, so hang in there.