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.
“When your enemy is doing something stupid, don’t interfere”. Napoleon Bonaparte
Um, professor, I love yer stuff and yer takes on things (usually)…but…she’s stoopid.
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“Not a thing comes to mind.”
What she really meant:
“Not a thing comes to [the hive] mind.”
Well of course it doesn’t…
What strikes me about the Kamala’s interviews is how awkward and uncomfortable she appears in almost any setting. She must really like power to put up with with what seems like torture for her. There must be a part of her that hopes she loses to avoid future embarrassment. So far her lust for power has defeated her fear of humiliation but the fear is very strong. It must be so much fun to be on her staff now after one bad performance after another.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/justice-department-charges-afghan-national-election-day-terrorist-plot
Community is just another word that has been co-opted by the left. Read Orwell or Jeff Goldstein.
Everything is projection by the left. The constant meme when O’Keefe had something juicy was that they were edited videos. O’Keefe, of course, put out edited videos so they could be played on TV but also posted the full video for anyone interested.
Gregory Harper:
That or, as she said in the “Daddy” interview, she’s not into humility.
Aktuale it is Call Her Dummy.
So many say Kamala is bright, intelligent, but those lyin eyes say something else.
Neo:
Yes, she does have a healthy does of arrogance to go along with her incompetence but there is no mistaking the fear in her eyes when she realizes that she is in over her head. It’s almost impossible to imagine her projecting any sense of strength in a crisis.
Re: Kamala / Intelligence
I’m sticking with Victor Davis Hanson. Harris is not stupid, she’s lazy.
She passed the California Bar Exam in 1990, admittedly on the second try. But the CA Bar, at least then, was no-fooling-around.
My best friend, D, passed the CA Bar in the mid-80s. His funny story was that the guy seated behind him was so nervous that he literally threw up on D!
D took it in stride and lost a few minutes charging to the rest room to wash his shirt then head on back to the exam.
Lazy, arrogant, and entitled.
Daniel Greenfield explored Kamala’s character on his Sultan Knish blog.
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/09/kamala-demands-life-of-luxury.html
“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?”
I’ve often wondered why that observation isn’t self-evident to the adherents of feminism. It seems pretty obvious to me.
Is Harris after power, or is it prestige and position she wants? Democrats say Trump wants power and won’t give it up. I can see that he wants attention and also has some things that he wants to do for the country, but he’s had power to tell people around him what to do for decades. He can have that without the headaches of the presidency. Joe Biden has wanted power, prestige, and position all his life, but now that he has it, is he anything more than a figurehead and rubber stamp for the people who really make the decisions? Many thought Obama wouldn’t quit politics until he had fundamentally transformed America. It looks more like he’s loving luxury and the good life now.
Harris likes the perks of the presidency. She likes to be at the top of the heap (“Good Morning, General!”). She loves being the Queen Bee and ordering her people around. Does she want power over the country, power to change things, or is that the price of being boss lady? I guess I’m asking if it’s power in the big political sense or a more petty and personal kind of dominance that our leaders want. She’s hitched her wagon to an ideology. How much does she want to fulfill and and impose the ideology and how much is it the price of the things she really wants for herself? She’ll do what Biden’s been doing and what Newsom’s been doing to California, but maybe her inability to articulate her policies has to do with the fact that that’s not what truly motivates her.
Is a woman wanting to be called “Daddy” when she shows power and competence an indication of how trapped by the “patriarchy” she really is? Or proof of how natural and inescapable “patriarchy” is? Lionel Tiger, call your office (the anthropologist and male chauvinist, not Mr. Rogers’s friend).
The conciser version of what I was trying to say above is, “Maybe Kamala is just an opportunist.”
@ Abaxas > “Is Harris after power, or is it prestige and position she wants?”
Daniel Greenfield is going for the latter, pretty much in agreement with your observations. Long excerpt posted a few comments above yours:
AesopFan on October 9, 2024 at 1:03 am said: