Kamala’s latest interviews
60 Minutes scored an interview with Kamala Harris and put out clips to advertise it. One of them got so much negative attention that the fabulously creative and helpful folks at CBS decided to fix that by editing it out of the “complete” [sic] interview as shown:
BREAKING: 60 minutes just quietly *edited out* Kamala’s word salad answer on Israel. Unreal.
Great catch by @mazemoore pic.twitter.com/u3SbMqKz7w
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 8, 2024
It’s so interesting what one can do with editing. For friends, get rid of the worst parts. For enemies, truncated quotes that seem to be saying something the person didn’t actually say, plus editing out the good parts. And that’s, of course, in addition to softball questions for friends and “have you stopped beating your wife?” questions for enemies. I must say, however, that 60 Minutes interviewer Bill Whittaker was far better – less partisan, somewhat more challenging – than Harris’ previous interrogators.
Then there’s the fact that Harris did an interview with a podcaster whose program is named “Call Her Daddy.” It’s basically a show that’s popular with young women and discusses sex. Why on earth would Harris choose that particular venue for a long-form – 45-minutes long – interview? She was asked the question by the podcaster and gave some nonsense answer about being able to be “real” there, but the question remains, at least in my mind. Why spend time catering to a demographic that she already has sewn up? Harris has a limited amount of time to explain herself to the American people. Isn’t this a waste, and doesn’t it have the added risk of turning off a group that she needs: men? Or has she given up on that? Byron York says that it’s about turnout and the calculation is that this appearance will motivate greater turnout in her supporters. But I think just the name “Donald Trump” is the greatest motivator of all for them.
Today Harris appeared on The View, which has got to be one of the friendliest shows of all for her – and again, it’s a show watched mainly by women. And yet she managed to say something there that was quite stunning, considering how she’s tried until now to sell herself as an agent of change:
CNN just ROASTED Kamala for saying she wouldn't have done anything different than Biden on The View:
"I'm surprised, frankly, that she doesn't have more to say about this…one of the main things she's been trying to establish as part of her candidacy is the idea that she would… pic.twitter.com/J5XoZu5jlm
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 8, 2024
Indeed, Kamala has a “delicate dance” to perform – not dissing the administration too much while nevertheless distancing herself from it. But her attempts have proven that she has two left feet.
NOTE: I was wondering where the name “Call Her Daddy” came from. To me, dinosaur that I am, it conjures up the question “who’s your daddy?”, which I don’t ordinarily think of as a “female empowerment” question. It turns out it’s supposed to signify this: “The podcast name ‘Call Her Daddy’ reflects female empowerment, originating from a conversation where cohost Sofia Franklyn suggested women should be seen as powerful by calling them ‘daddy’ instead of men.”
That makes zero sense. Does it mean that to disempower men we should call them “mommy”? Doesn’t calling a woman “daddy” to indicate strength imply that real power resides in men and the trappings of men, including words that signify manhood?
@ Neo > “60 Minutes scored an interview with Kamala Harris and put out clips to advertise it. One of them got so much negative attention that the fabulously creative and helpful folks at NBC decided to fix that by editing it out of the “complete” [sic] interview as shown:”
I listened to LoTT’s post and recognized the word-salad from a number of sources yesterday. So, NBC took it out AFTER everyone had heard the clips, and would KNOW it was missing?
Did I get that right?
That seems a bit blatant even for the Regime Media.
AesopFan:
I just corrected the error I had made – it’s CBS, not NBC.
But yes, that’s apparently what happened – they took out something people already had seen as an ad for the show. Strange.
I mentioned in an earlier thread that the Democrats were so confident about their victory in November that it does not matter one whit what Harris mutters, what Nutz mumbles, what the Corrupt Media airbrushes out or in (visually or audibly) or what fools—or “knuckleheads”—they reveal themselves to be…or liars or fakers or bums. Or cheats. Or criminals.
Or Stalinist wannabes….
IT DOES NOT MATTER.
(Wish it did, of course—hey! maybe I’ll be wrong…well, let’s hope so….)
But I greatly appreciated Harris’s gloriously inarticulate quip about “movements” (“airbrushed” out, alas), reminding me, as it did, of that old, if juvenile, “Beethoven” joke…even if Ludwig von would likely not have been amused….
MSM caught red handed spewing Democratic propaganda to favor Harris by editing, and as usual, not even ashamed or denying.
I keep being shocked by them, but I can’t figure why I still am shocked. They are evil partisan hacks.
Megyn Kelly does
a tapdancean Irish clog-dance on that 60 Mins interview (15:45): https://youtu.be/eSzU8Xp4nTEIt seems to me that 30 years ago, if this sort of thing had happened at 60 minutes, heads would have rolled at CBS. I doubt any repercussions will happen now.
“Not a thing comes to mind.” Relatively recently, the whole world has come to the post debate conclusion that Sloe Joe Biden is a doddering old fool. And yet she responds with that statement. I guess it saves her the effort of seriously reflecting on the last 3.7 years.
Was she giving the events and actions over that time any thought when they happened?? To be fair, the traditional role of a VP is to do absolutely nothing, and only in my lifetime has the President thrown a few duties to the VP. (If memory serves) Still, a thoughtful person would have been thinking. How hard would it have been to say that she would have done the Afghanistan withdrawal a little slower and better?
This post has transcripts of the before and after answers.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/10/08/60-minutes-caught-editing-kamalas-interview-responses-n4933161
At least the wait between crime and disclosure was only a few hours, unlike the Rather Memo. (Ah, the good old days when journalists were able to get away with their lying in relative safety. Almost.)
A commenter asked:
Largo Patriot “What’s the point of doing an interview if the responses the public hears are not the responses the interviewee gave?”
The point is that the interviewer’s regular audience will go with the edited version, and may not ever learn it was manipulated.
When will we start seeing interviews where the respondent is actually an AI creation “reading” the right script?
I’m only suprised 60 Minutes didn’t give her one to read.
(Why, yes, we learned over 40 years ago that 60 Minutes manipulates their coverage. First hand knowledge of a case they were “investigating,” having already determined what their conclusion would be.)
@ TommyJay
A comment on the Instapundit post in re Kamala vs DeSantis reminds us:
(h/t Christopher B)
https://instapundit.com/676633/#comment-6566415522
Oysteria
“She has been the lowest rated VP for as long as I can remember and she has also been the most consequential VP simply by virtue of casting the deciding vote on over 30 pieces of legislation. Anyone who tries to distance her from this administration’s policies, including herself only needs to be reminded of that one thing. She owns it, lock stock and barrel.”
Great point AesopFan.
I had heard something about those votes, but did not recall it was anywhere near 30 votes. Historically, a VP deciding tie breakers in the Senate more than once or twice is something of a rarity, I would imagine.
Re: Call Her Daddy
As an ex-denizen of San Francisco I assumed it was sexual roleplaying in which a woman assumed the dominant role and wanted to be called Daddy.
Unusual, but not terribly so.
VDH’s recent opinion is that as hard as Harris’s staff tries to prepare her with briefings, She Just Doesn’t Wanna. Hanson doesn’t think she’s stupid. She Just Doesn’t Wanna.
She hasn’t had to do so in the past, she’s been sort of getting away with it in the present, so why bother?
Maybe this is the best Team Kam can do.
If Harris can’t prepare adequately to appeal to undecideds, it’s better to shore up her base, which she can do, rather than risk going outside her comfort zone and be shown up absolutely as a know-nothing.
Maybe this is the best Team Kam can do.
A Red State commenter remarks on some of Kamala’s remarks.
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/10/08/new-heres-what-made-that-60-minutes-interview-even-worse-for-kamala-harris-n2180285#comment-6566376201
Be glad that America still has communities.
We have seen them in operation responding to the hurricanes.