Don't ever forget that the corporate media is not your friend. They'll lie to you smooth as can be if they think the truth might hurt their bottom line.
After Kamala Harris came out in support of Medicare For All in her town hall on Monday, today CNN serves us up this misleading story to demoralize people who were energized by her clear declaration of support for the policy:
Kamala Harris is open to compromise on private insurers' role during 'Medicare for all' push
By stating she would eliminate private insurers as a necessary part of implementing "Medicare-for-all," California Sen. Kamala Harris during a CNN town hall Monday night sent a shockwave through the national health care debate. ...
As the furor grew, a Harris adviser on Tuesday signaled that the candidate would also be open to the more moderate health reform plans, which would preserve the industry, being floated by other congressional Democrats. It represents a compromise position that risks angering "Medicare-for-all" proponents, who view eliminating private health insurance as key to enacting their comprehensive reform.
Both the adviser and Harris national press secretary Ian Sams said her willingness to consider alternate routes to a single payer system should not cast doubt on her commitment to the policy.
"Medicare-for-all is the plan that she believes will solve the problem and get all Americans covered. Period," Sams told CNN. "She has co-sponsored other pieces of legislation that she sees as a path to getting us there, but this is the plan she is running on."
They go on to detail all the different bills she's signed on to over the past two years: Bernie Sanders' Medicare For All bill, Brian Schatz's public option buy-in to Medicaid bill, a plan that would let people buy in to Medicare, a plan that would create a public option within the Affordable Care Act, and so on.
So is she caving on her bold policy stand or isn’t she?
Way down at the bottom of the article, they quote her spokesman:
The Harris adviser told CNN on Tuesday that she is committed to the position she staked out in Iowa.
Meanwhile the CNN piece is being spun by the likes of bright person Chris Cillizza to make the backing off look even more explicitly real:
To which Harris's spokesperson responds:
He then retweets an analogy that perfectly sums up where she stands:
The corporate media, the establishment media, and centrist media commentators like Cillizza are the ones who want compromise. They want everything to stay the way it is. They’ll lie to you to get you to believe that politicians won’t deliver on their promises. They want you to lose faith that change for the better for the average person is impossible.
Don’t believe them for a minute.