With just 48 days to go before Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris has now given her – wait for it – second national news interview. The courage! This time, the Democratic presidential nominee sat down with a panel of National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) members.
Remember, this is the group that cross-examined Donald Trump in an effort to extract his jugular last month at the NABJ annual convention in Chicago. That interview kicked off with this absurd question from ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott:
SCOTT: A lot of people did not think it was appropriate for you to be here today. You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals, from Nikki Haley to former President Barack Obama, saying that they weren’t born in the United States, which is not true. You have told four congresswomen of color, who were American citizens, to go back to where they came from. You have used words like ‘animal’ and ‘rabid’ to describe black district attorneys. You’ve attacked black journalists, calling them ‘a loser,’ saying the questions that they asked are, quote, ‘stupid and racist.’ You’ve had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar a Lago resort. So my question, sir, now that you were asking black supporters to vote for you: Why should black voters trust you after you have used language like that?
Well, guess what? It went a little different when Kamala Harris sat down with them. Even Politico, which has been completely in the tank for Team Harris, acknowledged “she did not break much ground or stray far from her talking points.”
Maybe it was because of the pathetic display of journalism that came her way. Honestly, I don’t even know if we can blame this one on Kamala Harris. I blame it on you, Politico, and the other journalists who completely fell down on the job. You were pathetic.
Lets Talk Joy
So, while they kicked off Trump’s appearance by basically asking him ‘why are you such a raging racist?’, it went a little different with Harris in the chair. Here was one example courtesy of Gerren Keith Gaynor of TheGrio:
GAYNOR: Republicans have, at times, weaponized you laughing in campaign ads, for example. Why is joy important to you to insert into this election, and what do you make of, of Republicans using that as a way to suggest that you’re not a serious candidate?
HARRIS: Well, sometimes, I think, and I’ll say to whoever the young people are who are watching this, there’s sometimes when your adversaries will try and turn your strength into a weakness. Don’t you let them. Don’t you let them. I find joy in the American people. I find joy in optimism, in what I see to be our future… I find joy in the ambition of the people. I find joy in the dreams of the people. I find joy in building community. I find joy in building coalitions. I find joy in believing that the true measure of the strength of a leader is not based on who you beat down, but who you lift up. And um, I think we should all find joy.
No, I don’t find any joy in the thought that that woman could be our next president. The question was: ‘Why is joy important to you?’ What in the actual eff? How does somebody even pretend that is journalism? ‘Seven different ways that Vice President Harris finds joy!’ It’s a no.
And her answer is no better. When Kamala Harris hasn’t been heavily coached and memorized note cards, this is what we get. ‘I find joy in everything!’ She thinks she is our “Momala” (thanks for that one, Drew Barrymore) and everything she says is profound.
But again, most of the fault is on this so-called journalist. The question is about joy? I guess that is exactly the type of substantive policy discussion the American people need to hear in order to inform their decision on Election Day? I guess that is going to inform them when they have those kitchen table conversations about how they are going to pay their bills? ‘Well, she’s joyful! She finds joy in believing that the true measure of the strength of the leaders is based not on who you beat down, but who you lift up.’
By the way, that is a line written for her by campaign experts. We have all heard it before. She keeps saying it. She likes it. She only has two gears:
- Repeat as I was told or
- Empty filler
‘Nails on a Chalkboard’
But it got better. Eugene Daniels, a White House reporter for Politico and the current president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, had his own hard-hitting question for the vice president:
DANIELS: We’ve seen school closures, parents worried about their kids leaving the home because of racist conspiracy theories that I won’t repeat here, but they have um been repeated um by leaders on the Republican side, President Trump, vice president– excuse me, former President Trump and vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance. From your perspective, is this just a case of irredeemable racism that can’t be mitigated by any rational action? Or is this a situation in which a federal response could help this community heal?
HARRIS: …It’s a crying shame. I mean, my heart breaks for this community… When you are bestowed with a microphone that is that big, there is a profound responsibility that comes with that that is an extension of what should not be lost in this moment, this concept of the public trust, to then understand what the public trust means. It means that you have been invested with trust to be responsible in the way you use your words, much less how you conduct yourself – and especially when you have been and then seek to be again president of the United States of America… I know that people are deeply troubled by what is happening to that community in Springfield, Ohio, and it’s got to stop…
The question is about the alleged racism in Springfield as opposed to the fact that Harris caused the Haitians to be there in the first place. The policies of the Biden-Harris administration are what let all of these people into the country. Why isn’t the question to figure out whether she has any regrets about dumping all of these people in a small town that obviously cannot handle them? People have died as a result?
Instead, what we got was this ridiculous question and then her fake profundities, which are like fingernails on a chalkboard.
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