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  1. @ 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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….

  4. 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.

  5. It 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?

  6. 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.)

  7. @ 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.”

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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

    Cafeblue32
    When she says “in terms of” and “community” a lot, you know she’s making it up.

    It grates on me to no end they have appropriated the word community to mean millions of people who share common physical characteristics. No, you dolts, it’s a demographic. My part of town and my neighborhood is a community. In communities, we socialize, we help each other, we join civic groups, we pick up after ourselves, and we share our lives together. My neighbors all have each others phone numbers so when one of us is out of town and something bad happens to their property or a pet runs off, they can let each other know. Heck, we even borrow eggs and sugar from each other still.

    Democrats are flooding communities with foreigners who share neither our language or our values, creating unassimilating foreign enclaves in their new homes which destroys community. Democrat want to build low cost housing projects in residential neighborhoods across America. Obama talked about it. In every case it’s been tried since the early 60s, it has been a miserable failure and has destroyed every community they exist in without exception. That is the point for democrats. You can’t control people who rely on themselves and each other. In order to destroy conservatism, they must destroy community and redefine the meaning of it.

    Be glad that America still has communities.
    We have seen them in operation responding to the hurricanes.

  12. “When your enemy is doing something stupid, don’t interfere”. Napoleon Bonaparte

  13. Um, professor, I love yer stuff and yer takes on things (usually)…but…she’s stoopid.
    – – – – – – –
    “Not a thing comes to mind.”

    What she really meant:
    “Not a thing comes to [the hive] mind.”

    Well of course it doesn’t…

  14. 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.

  15. Community is just another word that has been co-opted by the left. Read Orwell or Jeff Goldstein.

  16. 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.

  17. Gregory Harper:

    That or, as she said in the “Daddy” interview, she’s not into humility.

  18. Aktuale it is Call Her Dummy.

    So many say Kamala is bright, intelligent, but those lyin eyes say something else.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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

    “She wants to live the life of someone in the White House,” a strategist described Kamala in 2015, “and she hasn’t even won the Senate yet. Her hanging around the president and first lady”, referencing the Obamas, “it’s gotten her hooked. She thinks it’s her birthright and it’s not.”

    While Kamala falsely claimed that she was raised in “a middle-class household”, she was actually the “privileged child of foreign grad students” who traveled the world, and grew up surrounded by wealth. Her career as a prosecutor failed to satisfy her taste for luxury so she turned to Willie Brown: the first in a series of men who would support her in high style.

    Brown also bought her a political career and her lifestyle by backing her run for the city’s DA. Despite polling in the single digits, money from San Francisco’s elites poured into the unknown candidate’s campaign.

    The state attorney general’s race was a replay with Kamala behind in the polls and up against a well known DA, but backed by endless money from wealthy donors. And by the time Kamala ran for Senate, she had learned to live large on the millions coming in from donors.

    After raising over $15 million and outspending her opponent almost 4 to 1, while enjoying the lavish perks of the lifestyle donors were buying her, she became Senator Kamala Harris.

    When she ran for president, the donors who had invested so much stayed with her and blew through $40 million to finance a trainwreck of a presidential campaign abandoned by her top staffers and eventually by Kamala herself who never actually competed in a single primary.

    While the millions in donor money didn’t buy Kamala the top spot, it did buy her the vice presidency. What actually made Biden pick Kamala as his VP? Kamala’s fundraiser for Biden topped every other Democrat fundraiser, including Hillary’s, with the exception of Obama’s.

    In 2024, donors, many of whom had backed Kamala, revolted against Biden’s debate performance, ousted the party’s actual nominee, and replaced him with their protege.

    The media gushed over the announcement that Kamala had raised $81 million in the first 24 hours and $200 million in the first week after the donor coup. It glowingly reports each fundraising total as if it were a validation of the candidate rather than an indictment of a political campaign fueled by donors, not the 14 million who actually voted for Biden in the primaries.

    And it asks no questions about where the money is coming from. Or where it’s going.

    Kamala’s political career was never powered by charisma or conviction, but by cash.

    Her current race, like her past races for DA, AG and Senate, is mired in contradictory messaging, no coherent platform and a dysfunctional campaign. Kamala has never learned how to run for office. What saw her through each race were political connections, identity politics and, above all else, the wealthy donors that invested unlimited amounts in her career.

  22. “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.

  23. 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.

  24. 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.”

  25. @ 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:

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