Let The Gaslighting Begin
By Mitch Berg
To hear her partisans call it, Kamala Harris ran an amazing campaign – she just didn’t have the time to actually do interviews!
Harris was consistently criticized for shying away from substantive public interviews and appearances, enhancing a public image many associated with inauthenticity and empty spouts of “word salad.”
“Real people heard in some way that we were not going to have interviews, which was both not true and also so counter to any kind of standard that was put on Trump that I think that was a problem,” Jen O’Malley Dillon said on the liberal podcast Pod Save America. “And then, on top of that, we would do an interview, and . . . the questions were small and process-y.”
The interviewers didn’t ask the right questions?
Forget for a moment that most of the media she faced bent over backwards to make her look good – that’s HER job as someone who’s, you know, campaigning. To control the conversation!
If she couldn’t drive the discussion with Dana Bash or Bill Whitaker, what was she going to do with Putin, Xi or the Mullahs?
“I think back and think we should have signaled more of our strategy early on about podcasts and who we were trying to reach, but we had a limited amount of time to reach the people we were trying to reach, and we were trying to go to them,” the campaign’s chairwoman lamented…“Being up against a narrative that we weren’t doing anything or we were afraid to have interviews is completely bullsh**,” Dillon claimed.
“We’da done more, if we’d only had the time!”
Problem is, Harris had all kinds of time. She was too busy trying not to talk:
I’m pretty sure Harris could have cobbled something together inside a month.
December 2nd, 2024 at 6:23 am
It’s funny that none of these drooling sycophants asked her about the millions she wasted hiring or paying big name celebrities or building a set on a sex themed podcast. But hey, she’s following the left wing mantra; blame everyone else.
December 2nd, 2024 at 8:07 am
It would have been so very refreshing if they just came out and stated the obvious:
December 2nd, 2024 at 9:28 am
She’s correct about 1 thing. The standards surrounding the Trump Campaign were different than the standards surrounding the Harris Campaign.
Trump did a Townhall type event on CNN, and CNN was excoriated for platforming him.
Harris finally did a 1-on-1 on Fox, and Fox was excoriated for asking her questions and then following up when she attempted to not answer with word salad filibusters.
Yep. That evil, patriarchal, misogynistic double standard.
December 2nd, 2024 at 10:57 am
The thing that’s funniest to me is that somehow Harris spent $100k to make the room for that podcast, and….it looks like an ordinary room covered with sheetrock and a couple of chairs, a studio that can be found in countless places. One has to wonder whether it was incompetence, or the greasing of carefully selected palms.
December 2nd, 2024 at 1:17 pm
Meanwhile, the press corps that traveled with Harris was routinely being shut out by the candidate. The “work” they were doing was marginally more difficult than covering Biden in the basement in 2020 since they had to travel – but they weren’t up for any action in 2024.
An epic troll in the ’24 campaign – though it is hard to choose the best from so many – was when Vance saw that his jet was sharing the runway with Harris’s and sauntered over to press corps hanging around on the tarmac. He volunteered to answer any questions – ANY questions – they had since Kamala wouldn’t talk to them. And the “press” couldn’t think of a thing to ask him (or were too afraid to ask him anything lest they lose their cushy job and frequent flyer benefits).