Today, the media is celebrating Kamala Harris’ so-called girl boss appearance on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast. This is a show that normally traffics in episodes entitled “F Me with a Dildo.” I am not kidding. But this weekend, it decided that presidential politics may, in fact, be their thing. It isn’t. It was an utter fail.
You would never know that from the fawning media coverage though. The press is loving the comeback Kama Harris gave to the question about Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ comments from a town hall last month in which she said “Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble” because she doesn’t have biological children.
Harris responded that she is a “mamala” to her step-children and “not aspiring to be humble.” Yes, you go girl! The system is working exactly as the Democrats think it should. The Democratic presidential candidate avoids virtually all real questions from the press. She is in a new form of the presidential protection program.
Here is the real problem: Not one of those media enablers has reported on the story that we may be about to put a woman abuser in the White House as ‘first gentleman.’
Championing Women?
Kamala Harris’ husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, has been accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend 12 years ago outside a red carpet gala on the street in France. It happened in 2012 right before he met Kamala Harris, and not a single one of these same guffawing media outlets has written one word about it.
Now, we understand that Harris sat for this particular interview the day prior to The Daily Mail report breaking the news of Emhoff’s alleged assault. Fair enough. The host did not know, but Kamala Harris almost certainly did. Yet listen to her go on that podcast and talk about what a champion of women she is:
HARRIS: We still have so far go on the issues of child sexual assault. Just like in a previous time the issue of domestic violence, people didn’t talk about domestic violence. And part of it was this really warped idea that, well, what happens in the home is none of our business. But if it happened on the street, it would be our business, if we witnessed it on the street. And so the point being that abuse of anyone is something we should all take seriously, as opposed to saying it’s not our business. It’s something that we have to agree should not happen. And whatever resources and whatever attention we can put into reducing the likelihood that it happens is worthwhile.
“If it happened on the street, it would be our business.” You heard it from her directly. “Abuse of anyone is something we should all take seriously, as opposed to saying, ‘it’s not our business, and whatever attention we can put into reducing the likelihood that it happens is worthwhile.'” Then do that, Madam Vice President. Do that. Because this incident allegedly did happen on the street, so it is our business by your rule.
This is something that some of us are taking seriously as you ask. We here at The Megyn Kelly Show – as well as at The Daily Mail which broke the story – are putting attention into reducing the likelihood that it happens to someone else by reporting on the story.
Madam, why won’t you follow your own rules? We have gotten no comment from you at all. An unknown campaign spokesperson gave a benign statement to Semafor, saying: “The report is untrue. Any suggestion that Mr. Emhoff would have or has ever hit a woman is false.” That is totally generic and doesn’t respond to the vast majority of the report.
You sat idly by and you celebrated as this media has made a hero out of your husband knowing about the nanny he impregnated after cheating on his first wife and, if the second Daily Mail report is true, knowing that he paid her $80,000 to stay silent after she lost their baby, which she blames on him.
You watched as they said he has single-handedly redefined masculinity, that he is a “wife guy,” that “supporting women is just something he’s always done.” What a crock. We played the Jen Psaki stuff on Friday.
Doug Dodges
Another so-called journalist actually had Doug Emhoff sit for an interview after The Daily Mail story broke. What a great get. Maybe he will ask him about it. Does anyone give a damn about domestic violence? Maybe this guy does. Here is Tim Miller of The Bulwark – an entity whose very existence is due to their deep loathing of one thing, Donald Trump – interviewing Doug Emhoff:
MILLER: I don’t mind taking sh-t. I actually kind of like it and revel in it. I don’t mind if some jerk is, whatever, attacking me… I don’t mind the harassment. It’s fine. I don’t like it when my kid gets brought into it, and I do sometimes react poorly. And that has happened over the past few months, and that happens to you all the time. I mean, your kids are getting targeted. I see Ella getting targeted. I’m just, I just kind of wonder how you process that, how you deal with it.
EMHOFF: Well, first of all, sorry that what you’re going through.
MILLER: Oh, come on. It’s nothing compared to you.
EMHOFF: No… we got to call it all out. I mean… you’re a journalist. We believe in a, you know, free press. We need strong journalists out there calling it out. And for you guys to be able to do your job, you can’t do it being threatened and being targeted. And that’s part of their game, too. It’s all a distraction, so that the attacks on me personally, the kids, Kamala– look, it’s not fun, especially when it hits the kids. But right now, we have a mission, and that mission is to win this election.
They were talking about attacks, including attacks on his daughter Ella, for whom I have nothing but sympathy. I feel bad for her. Can you imagine having your dad cheat on your mom with your nanny and then create a love child who then gets miscarried, according to The Daily Mail, allegedly because of something your dad did? That is the claim. What we know is true – because he has admitted it – is he knocked up the nanny while he was married to this child’s mother. That is disgusting. But here, he would like to be the victim.
It is not nice to make fun of that child or any of the children. We have not done that here on the show. But I am interested in what happened to the nanny, and I am very interested in what happened to the girlfriend on the street in Cannes, France, less than two years before Kamala Harris started dating this guy.
‘Dereliction of Duty’
For Tim Miller to not ask him one question about the allegation that he is a woman-beater is a disgusting failure. It is yet another dereliction of journalistic duty. And he does consider himself a journalist now, amazingly. I don’t even care if you do. I don’t care if you consider yourself a journalist, a sex podcast host, or whatever.
If you get this guy sitting in front of you, you ask the question that is in the news that he has now responded to through a campaign spokesperson. You ask whether he actually hit his girlfriend in 2012 outside of a red carpet gala in Cannes, France, and whether there will ever be tape of such a thing, or if that person actually wasn’t the subject of his abuse, why he won’t put her forward. Can we expect to hear from her? Because you guys out there know that if you were wrongly accused of hitting or punching a girlfriend, you would go to her and say, ‘Please tell the world this is a lie.’ Where is she? Why hasn’t he? Why didn’t you ask, Tim Miller?
This media is too busy celebrating Kamala Harris’ ‘girl boss’ moment to talk about the fact that on her arm she may be escorting a woman abuser right into the Oval Office. How many women are going to get to go and have Doug Emhoff put their arm around them if she becomes president at the White House Christmas Party and wonder whether he used that same arm to smack a girlfriend across the face because she allegedly placed her hand on the shoulder of a valet to get a cab?
I mean, we have fallen so far I can barely hold on. I am holding on by my fingertips to see a press corps that I recognize as vigorous, and honest, and not owned by anyone in power.
You can check out Megyn’s full analysis by tuning in to episode 909 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.