White House's Orwellian attempt to alter record of Biden's 'garbage' smear might be criminal, say lawmakers



President Joe Biden upheld the long-standing Democratic tradition of belittling Republican voters this week, claiming in a videotaped call Tuesday with Voto Latino that Trump supporters are "garbage."

Keenly aware of how damaging Biden's remarks were to Democrats in general but especially to Kamala Harris, who has recently been juggling Nazi accusations and promises of unity, elements of the liberal media attempted to fudge the record. They were not alone, however.

The White House also tried to gaslight Americans into thinking the president said something else entirely. It turns out that doing so not only resulted in a discrepancy between public and official records but was likely illegal.

Citing two U.S. government officials on an internal email, the Associated Press revealed Thursday evening that the White House press office ultimately released a transcript different from that prepared by official White House stenographers.

According to an internal email from the head of the stenography office, the change was made after the White House press office "conferred with the president."

'The Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently.'

In the email, the supervisor claimed that the press office's revisionism constituted "a breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices."

Here is what the White House transcript claimed that Biden said when complaining about comedian Tony Hinchliffe's Puerto Rico joke at President Donald Trump's Oct. 27 rally at Madison Square Garden:

In my home state of Delaware, they're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter's — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American.

This is the version posted on the White House website and repeatedly shared online by White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates.

The addition of an apostrophe to "supporters" radically changes the meaning such that in a world where there was no video of Biden's remarks, Democrats could argue, perhaps with greater success than they have this week, that the president was just suggesting Hinchcliffe's supposed demonization of Latinos was unconscionable garbage.

There is, however, video evidence of remarks, where Biden clearly says:

The Puerto Rican that that I know — or Puerto Rico where I'm fr — in my home state of Delaware, they're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His, his, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American.

The Associated Press confirmed that "supporters" in the original transcript prepared by the White House stenographers contained no apostrophe.

"If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently," the supervisor noted in the internal letter. "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."

'The move is not only craven, but it also appears to be in violation of federal law.'

The stenography office supervisor reportedly wrote to White House communications director Ben LaBolt, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and other Biden officials, "Regardless of urgency, it is essential to our transcripts' authenticity and legitimacy that we adhere to consistent protocol for requesting edits, approval, and release."

The supervisor apparently declined to comment, whereas Bates doubled down, suggesting, "The President confirmed in his tweet on Tuesday evening that he was addressing the hateful rhetoric from the comedian at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally. That was reflected in the transcript."

On Wednesday, House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) penned a letter to White House counsel Edward Siskel, demanding that the Biden White House retain and preserve all documents and internal communications pertaining to the release of the doctored transcript.

Stefanik and Comer suggested that by releasing a false transcript, the Biden White House may have violated the Presidential Records Act.

"Americans were rightfully insulted when President Biden, seeking to boost Ms. Harris's presidential campaign, referred to an enormous swath of the country as 'floating ... garbage,'" the Republicans noted in their letter. "President Biden's vindictive words were unsurprising, given his previous statements regarding people who choose not to vote for his preferred candidate. Unsurprising too were the White House's actions after he said them."

"Instead of apologizing or clarifying President Biden's words, the White House instead sought to change them (despite them being recorded on video) by releasing a false transcript of his remarks. The move is not only craven, but it also appears to be in violation of federal law, including the Presidential Records Act of 1978," added the letter.

The lawmakers also demanded that the White House issue "a corrected transcript with the accurate words."

Biden and his allies should by now be accustomed to correcting the record.

The Biden-Harris FBI recently had to change its crime statistics for 2022. Whereas the bureau originally claimed that violent crime fell by 2.1% that year, it actually spiked by at least 4.5%.

Blaze News reported in August that the Biden-Harris Bureau of Labor Statistics came clean about overstating job gains by 818,000 and was forced to revise down the total in its preliminary annual benchmark review.

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Harris haunted by her revisionism and past attacks on Columbus Day



Leftists have worked feverishly in recent years to deracinate and disorient the population, severing America's ties with its history and vilifying those dynamic figures who paved the way for the United States to ultimately become the envy of the world.

Over the course of this resentment-fueled campaign, iconoclasts and revisionists have changed place names, renamed species, toppled hundreds of statues, melted down busts, removed church windows, advanced bogus alternate histories, dug up graves, and built a parasitic industry geared toward racial division.

The Trump campaign and other critics issued reminders Monday that Kamala Harris has long been a proponent of this campaign — and that Columbus Day is one of her many targets.

Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, told Fox News Digital, "Kamala Harris is your stereotypical leftist. Not only does she want to raise taxes and defund the police, she also wants to cancel American traditions like Columbus Day."

Leavitt appears to have been referring to Harris' indication prior to the collapse of her previous presidential campaign that she would officially change "Columbus Day" to "Indigenous Peoples' Day."

When asked at a 2019 town hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, whether she supported the controversial name change, the Washington Times reported that Harris first began by talking about legislating to make lynching a federal crime.

'Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease.'

"People did not want to deal and accept and most importantly admit that we are the scene of a crime when it comes to what we did with slavery and Jim Crow and institutionalized racism in this country, and we have to be honest about that," said then-Sen. Harris. "If we are not honest, we are not going to deal with the vestiges of all of that harm, and we are not going to correct course, and we are not going to be true to our values and morals."

Harris added, "Similarly when it comes to indigenous Americans, the indigenous people, there is a lot of work that we still have to do, and I appreciate and applaud your point and your effort, and count me in on support."

On her first Columbus Day as vice president, Harris issued a statement effectively condemning the immigrants who first diversified the continent:

It is an honor to be with you this week as we celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day, as we speak truth about our nation's history. Since 1934, every October the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas. But that is not the whole story. That has never been the whole story. Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease. We must not shy away from this shameful past, and we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on native communities today.

In 2022 and 2023, Harris doubled down, celebrating the Columbus Day alternate.

Columbus Day, which commemorates the daring 15th-century Italian whose four transatlantic voyages opened the way for European exploration of Americas, is one of 11 official federal holidays.

The Pew Research Center noted that it was first observed as a federal holiday in 1937 — initially conceived of as a celebration of Italian-American heritage and largely the result of lobbying by the Knights of Columbus.

The Knights of Columbus is a Catholic fraternal organization known for its charitable outreach. Not only does Harris want to rename its hard-won holiday, she has suggested that the group's members' Catholic faith disqualifies them from serving in federal courts.

As of October 2023, only 16 American states and the territory of America Samoa observe the second Monday in October as an official public holiday called Columbus Day.

Axios noted that the day is officially known as "Indigenous Peoples' Day" in New Mexico, Maine, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.

President Joe Biden proclaimed Oct. 14, 2024, both "Indigenous Peoples' Day" and Columbus Day.

"President Trump will make sure Christopher Columbus' great legacy is honored and protect this holiday from radical leftists who want to erase our nation's history like Kamala Harris," added Leavitt.

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HarperCollins radically changes Agatha Christie novels to satisfy revisionists' preferred vernacular



Amateur sleuths and keen-eyed detectives may have noticed something amiss about the new HarperCollins editions of several Agatha Christie novels. Words are out of place. Entire passages have been cut. One character was eliminated from a reissue altogether — without the fictional detective Hercule Poirot having been left so much as a clue.

Dame Christie's novels have received a similar treatment to that of Roald Dahl's and Ian Fleming's: They have been transmogrified by so-called "sensitivity readers."

The purpose of these rewrites is apparently to accommodate the sensitivities of those delicate readers who are ill prepared for language and ideas predating the latest leftist awakening.

Christie's detective novels: Meta-victims

The Telegraph reported that new HarperCollins editions of Christie's Poirot and the complete Miss Marple mysteries have been revised and "reworked" for "modern sensitivities."

Some of the doctored Christie books have been in print since 2020, whereas others are on their way.

There are "scores of changes," including alterations to Christie's narration. Miss Jane Marple and Herule Poirot's monologues have been sliced and diced. Unpleasant characters have had their dialogue tailored or dropped. References to ethnicity have been stripped, along with certain characters' innocuous racial observations and humor.

According to the Telegraph, the character of Mrs. Allerton in the 1937 Poirot detective novel "Death on the Nile" expresses her disdain for children. How she originally expressed this disdain was evidently unacceptable for the revisionists at HarperCollins.

Christie had Allerton say that the group of kids bothering her would "come back and stare, and stare, and their eyes are simply disgusting, and so are their noses, and I don’t believe I really like children."

Courtesy of "sensitivity readers" at HarperCollins, the quote now reads: "They come back and stare, and stare. And I don’t believe I really like children."

LGBT propagandist Juno Dawson noted in the Guardian that a "sensitivity reader is an additional editor who works alongside the publishing house staffer who acquired the rights to your book. This individual will conduct a very specific read of the manuscript, and offer notes on characters from marginalised groups, or elements which may cause offence."

Whereas a black servant in one Christie book had previously been described as grinning, now he is no longer black or emotive. Sensitivity readers dehumanized and reduced him to base mechanics, such that he is left just "nodding."

Just as smiling black men are verboten, references to "beautiful teeth" were all scrubbed from the Miss Marple novel "A Caribbean Mystery."

Sensitivity editors found various metaphors too troubling for today's readers. In the same novel, a description of a prominent female character — as having "a torso of black marble such as a sculptor would have enjoyed" — was edited out, thereby denying the character the suggestion of firmness, elegance, and classical beauty.

The sensitivity editors have reportedly committed literary genocide as well, eliminating the Nubian people from "Death on the Nile."

Instead of the "Nubian boatman," for instance, there is now only "the boatman" traversing the Nile, despite the fact that the Nubia is an ancient region extending from the Nile River valley to the shores of the Red Sea, inhabited today, in part, by hundreds of thousands if not millions of Nubians or Nobī.

HarperCollins' sensitivity editors have eradicated gypsies from Christie's works, too. Similarly, a character in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" who had once been recognized as Jewish now enjoys no such heritage.

"Natives" are no more. There are now "local."

Jake Berry, a Conservative member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, denounced this latest revisionism with a quote from George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four": "Every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. … Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."

Those who control the press control the future

Christie is not the first well-known author to have her works butchered posthumously in recent months.

TheBlaze previously reported that "James Bond" author Ian Fleming and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" author Roald Dahl suffered similar erasure in their works.

Like HarperCollins, Ian Fleming Publications Ltd hired sensitivity readers to purge the James Bond books of undesirable content ahead of their re-release in April to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the publication of "Casino Royale" – the first novel in the 007 franchise.

In addition to racial descriptors being eliminated and the cast of characters ultimately being rendered homogeneous, entire scenes have been edited out.

Bond originally witnessed a striptease at a nightclub in Harlem, New York, in "Live and Let Die."

"Bond could hear the audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough. He felt his own hands gripping the tablecloth. His mouth was dry," Fleming had written.

The sensitivity readers reckoned the following was instead suitable for a modern audience: "Bond could sense the electric tension in the room."

One character was originally given an accent described as "straight Harlem-Deep South with a lot of New York thrown in." Now he has no accent to speak of.

The sensitivity readers who aided in the changes to the 2022 Puffin (Penguin Random House) editions of various Roald Dahl works — such as "Matilda," "James and the Giant Peach," "The Witches," "The Twits," "The BFG," and "Fantastic Mr. Fox" — denied the long-dead author even his own allusions.

TheBlaze noted that whereas Dahl had made passing mention of Rudyard Kipling, now the novel references Jane Austen instead.

In "The Witches," a passage that formerly read "'Here's your little boy,' she said. 'He needs to go on a diet.'" now only says "Here's your little boy."

This Dahl book and others underwent hundreds of changes, which some have suggested effectively collectivized the works, transforming them into Dahl-esque narratives that substitute the "contemporary sensibilities" of his publishers for Dahl's own.

Emboldened revisionists

Revisionists have not just targeted the works of dead authors, but have recently sought to rewrite the works of authors still around to raise a fuss.

TheBlaze reported earlier this month that R.L. Stine, author of the "Goosebumps" series of kids' novels, noted that the over 100 edits made to his book series, which have sold over 400 million copies, had been done without his knowledge.

Sensitivity readers and Scholastic editors covertly sanitized the language, removing references to slaves, language about being "crazy," and language suggesting characters are fat, among other edits.

Scholastic issued a statement after its covert efforts had been exposed, claiming that it had "reviewed the text to keep the language current and avoid imagery that could negatively impact a young person’s view of themselves today, with a particular focus on mental health."

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