NewsBusters Supercut: Media Try to Purge the Record that Kamala Harris Is Joe Biden’s Border Czar

DICKERSON: “Quote/unquote ‘border czar.’ Vice President Harris was not a border czar.”
HOST 1: “Meantime Vice President and Border czar Kamala Harris facing some backlash.”
BERMAN: “What he said about Harris and immigration was not true. She was never appointed border czar.”
LAVANDERA: “And this will be her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border regions. And she was appointed as the Border czar by President Biden.”
Reid: “People kind of have to counter the misinformation. You already hear folks talking about the border czar. She wasn’t the border czar.”
Reporter 1: “President Biden tapped Kamala Harris, Vice President Kamala Harris to be the border czar.”
KARL: “Now she wasn’t the border czar, that’s what Republicans labeled her.”
WHITWORTH: “They were very critical of Kamala Harris, especially in her role as border czar.” GAY: “Now what she’s up against is folks lying about her border record, calling her a border czar.”
UNKNOWN MALE 1: “Kamala Harris, who was appointed as the border czar.”
HUNT: “The Biden team didn’t declare her the border czar, they wanted her to work on kind of the root causes of immigration.”
GILLESPIE: “There has been so much criticism against Kamala Harris. You know, she was the border czar.”
HOST 2: “Calling her sort of the border czar, which wasn’t necessarily the case.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: “So the border — if they weren’t planning to address it in a major way do not make her your border czar. She met with some of the Northern Triangle countries, but nothing has effectively changed.”