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Media Lets Kamala Do Another Basement Campaign

Posted on Sunday, August 4, 2024
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by David P. Deavel
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You have to give Donald Trump credit. He boldly marches in where most politicians fear to tread. He has already done an interview with CNN. And, despite being called a racist at every turn, among Republican candidates he has been stalwart at talking to everyone of every race who will listen. His presumed opponent, however, is imitating the 2020 Biden strategy of hiding from the press and only giving preformulated images. It’s not exactly surprising, given Kamala Harris’s verbal incapacity. But it will need to be challenged.

Trump’s appearance this week at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) conference in Chicago was, as usual, depicted as “controversial” by most “mainstream” outlets, but that doesn’t tell us much. Everything the man does or says is labeled that way. A detail of the aftermath does tell us something. Immediately afterward, the calls not to “platform” Trump started coming out. It’s a strange business. If everything he says is so terrible, wouldn’t Democrats and their friends in the media want him platformed so that people can see how horrible the man is? Wouldn’t they want more of this kind of interview?

Of course they would, which is why the calls not to platform him again should be seen as a win. For all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about his 34-minute interview, much of it seems likely to be on account of how well he did in the face of hostile questioning. “I’m a lifetime member of NABJ,” tweeted the film producer Tariq Nasheed, “But they sat up here and got COOKED by Trump today by trying to act like shills for the Democrats. If they would have been more objective, their grilling would not have backfired on them.”

Nasheed wasn’t the only one. After Trump’s interview, several black callers to The Breakfast Club, a nationally syndicated talk show hosted by Charlamagne, gave support and/or grudging respect to Trump for daring to go into a hostile environment. One defended Trump’s statements on the problems mass immigration is creating for Americans. And the fact that Trump was willing to do the interview was contrasted with Kamala Harris’s absence. If Kamala can’t show up for an interview on friendly territory, where can she show up?

The answer, it would seem, is nowhere. Newsweek published a piece by reporter Carlo Versano this week about the fact that Harris hasn’t done an interview since June 24. In true MSM fashion, the piece has a “Republicans pounce” angle in it, seen not only in the article itself (“Republicans immediately pounced”) but even in the two-line title: “Kamala Harris Hasn’t Done an Interview in Weeks. Republicans Have Noticed.” But at least the magazine has been forced to notice themselves and give their various excuses as to why she hasn’t done any: she doesn’t want to take the focus off of Trump who is supposedly stumbling; she has given extended interviews in the past; she is doing fundraisers and political events; and so forth. What our regime media takes away from the Democratic candidate by reporting on flaws they must immediately give back by pouring forth a slew of DNC talking points.

Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky appeared on CNN this week and answered questions about this lack of journalistic opportunity to ask Harris about her “evolution” on various positions she has suddenly and miraculously abandoned (most likely upon figuring out that views like banning fracking are vote-killers in those swing states she needs). Roginsky explained that Harris is going to “spend her 300 million dollars defining herself on tv and social media in the way she wants,” though conceding she may well “sit with you” eventually. She urged journalists to focus on the issues that would affect ordinary people these days—presumably instead of asking about all the crazy things Harris has said over the years in the way of kookie leftism or her own thin record of accomplishment.

What Roginsky is saying in so many words is that Democrats sure aren’t going to let Harris talk on her own anywhere where there is a hint of trouble. This is not surprising. Reports going back to her previous offices indicate that the presumed nominee has made a habit of not looking at briefing materials her own staff gave her and then blaming the staff for her own unpreparedness. She certainly never seems prepared to address anything substantial…or even make much sense.

Two months ago, before Harris had been anointed by the media and Democratic bigs as the new candidate, the lefty Daily Show mocked her in a skit that blended actual footage and commentary by a “holistical thought advisor” explaining how she helped the then-Vice President. “It’s a process,” the woman says, “that I call speaking without thinking.” After saying that people don’t actually need to understand what their political representatives mean, the advisor opines, “I prefer to leave Kamala’s thoughts open to interpretation, like a work of modern art that you look at and go, ‘I wonder what that was all about?’”    

As a presidential candidate, she’s still that bad. In fact, this week her campaign issued edited transcripts of her remarks on the return of journalist Evan Gershkovich from Russia. She had rambled on about “having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy and strengthening alliances.” But apart from these very weird soliloquies, it’s probably her understandable comments that worry those Democratic strategists.

When she isn’t declaring that she will confiscate guns within her first hundred days in office, increase mass immigration, and grant amnesty to illegal immigrants, she is promising to impose rent control on all Americans, a maneuver Judge Glock calls “the best way to destroy cities besides bombing them.” Democratic strategists are right to want her to “define herself” in some vague and highly curated way, since everything she says that can be understood without dropping acid beforehand is the crazy stuff that Julie Roginsky’s “ordinary Americans” will find destructive to their own daily lives.

It’s pretty unlikely our sycophantic media will want to dig too deeply into Harris’s views. So it will be up to the Trump campaign and the American people to keep pressing Harris to actually answer some questions. Like the Joe Biden of 2020 and beyond, she looks as though she’s going to avoid any reporters with an impulse to ask difficult questions—or even any questions at all. She won’t want to answer them, but Americans need to know if there are any answers at all. We’re pretty sure we’re entitled to that.

David P. Deavel teaches at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. A past Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute, he is a Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative. Follow him on X @davidpdeavel.

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WJS
WJS
2 months ago

Yes David she’s isn’t going to answer any tougher questions. She will hides behind the fake facade the Democratic Party will putting in front off here throughout this campaign to make her feel like a superstar, but a lot of us know she isn’t. Pray that a lot of people see through this charade.

SCbubba
SCbubba
2 months ago

Hang the “difficult questions”. This is easy. NEVER vote for liberals in general, DemocRATS in particular, so-called “progressives”, or “the woke”, EVER, for ANY elected office whether local, state, or federal! You’re welcome.

Jeff Savlov
Jeff Savlov
2 months ago

I find it amusing that there are voters in this country who think a “D” is an appropriate reason to vote for an individual running for public office. Don’t they realize that substance is required ? Kamala has no substance. She has been a failure her whole political life and has either slept her way to her positions of responsibility or has lied to her supporters. If she had run for office anywhere but the state of California, she would have gone nowhere. The Democrat party used to be a respected institution but no more. Anyone who votes for Democrats today likely haven’t a clue about their makeup. This is no longer the party of JFK when political differences where put aside for the betterment of the citizens of the country. Today from their radical far left squad and lunatic fringe led by the likes of Bernie Sanders to their elder statesmen who are just trying to hold onto a government paycheck, they have lost their desire to do the right thing and spend their days scheming to hold onto power by whatever means are necessary. They waste valuable resources and time to demonize the opposition when they should be legislating for the betterment of the country. Some day, we can only home, that they will learn that their oath of office does not include “preserve and protect their collective asses” from losing their seat in congress.

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
2 months ago

Democrats don’t “flip-flop”…. they EVOLVE! Just like a man who innhis 50 year career of “gaffs” argued against school segregation on the Senate floor saying it would make schools a “racial jungle” can be President some day.

anna hubert
anna hubert
2 months ago

It is still Biden. This time in skirts.

Mark
Mark
2 months ago

Basement-bound Horizontal Harrass is actually less than an unqualified, pain in the ass puppet and thorn in the side of the Communist-Damnocrap Potty. It’s sickening how Ovomit, Killery, upChuck Shoemer, and the rest of the evil and corrupt Deep State low-lifes LIE THROUGH THEIR CORRUPT teeth about how they support her and how wonderful she is. All while they, off screen, wipe their diseased bodily fluids from their lying, drooling mouths. They are now (and have been) desperately trying to find a way to get rid of her (permanently), but in the mean tome, keep her confined to a quarantined-like restricted basement environment, not letting her near any reporter that could ask her a question with actual substance to it. I would be stunned if they let her debate with Trump. I have heard various guests on news channels that they wouldn’t be surprised if there was a Deep State assassination attempt on her, as well as another one (or two or three) on Trump). The evil secrete combinations of chaos creating thugs that have been running the country for the past 4+ years are consumed with power and are not going to relinquish it, no matter the legalities or cost.
Never has there ever been a VP, and now a candidate, that has been so very seriously UNQUALIFIED in the history of ANY country, let alone the US. God please FORBID this sad and tragic joke from becoming president.But if Satan gets his way, she’ll become a ghost puppet president (just like Decomposing Walking Corpse Joe was). She will be told exactly what to say, when to say it, when to shut up, who and when she can talk to anyone important, let alone the press, and any face-to-face meetings with any foreign leader will be few. The rest of those type meetings will be by phone or Zoom. And during those types, she’ll be wearing an ear piece, being told what to say and how to answer their questions.
So in this scenario, who then is actually running the country? The America-despising Communist Soros and America’s Enemies Within Socialists: Oblahmas, killer Clintons, the mega-EVIL Deep State, and the smaller maggots in the SINate, CONgress, and governors UpChuck Shoemer, Pisslosi, Bug-eyed Adam Schift, fossil Maxine Waters, Gavin NewSCUM, and pathetic and treasonous RINOs just to mention a few.

But far and away the most dangerous Enemies Within this country are the VOTERS that vote for, and continue to vote for the corrupt politicians mentioned above who’s main agenda and goals are to completely DESTROY AMERICA.
As Obama said in Columbia, MO, October 30, 2008 ” We are five days away from fundamentally changing America”. And he and George Soros, along with many others continue to do their destruction to America.

Morbious
Morbious
2 months ago

During the Civil War well wishers often sent Grant cigars as a token of their admiration. I propose lefties send Kammie bales of high grade ganja to help her get her thoughts together prior to debating Trump.

Dominick
Dominick
2 months ago

Harris is the DEI vice president and has accomplished nothing but agony, especially on the border…

Joe
Joe
2 months ago

It’s the 2020 election steal all over again. The dummybrats lie and dictate what the lamestream media reports or omits. Social media deplatforms conservative sites and opinions. Chameleon Kamala campaigns in safe spaces and only answers softball questions. Riots continue. And, any liberal with a retirement savings plan refuses to acknowledge that the crashing financial markets are a result of Bidenomics.

Ben
Ben
2 months ago

She has no moral mooring she’s not a Christian or believe in the word of God she has no common sense she’s like Chameleon just so she can get ahead no matter what the people want or think. Just think of it she was Jerry Brown governor of California is lover while he was married where is the morality and that and this is the type person you want to run our country . who on marijuana offenses minor Black men in jail for a long terms this is a record in California. leopard can’t change its spots and she can’t run from her past!

Mike CJ
Mike CJ
2 months ago

Quit wishing. There will be no interviews, except by a gushing supportive reporter. There will be no debates. Republicans must plan with those solid facts in mind. And, they ought to be screaming about the recession or worse coming.

RJ
RJ
2 months ago

UPDATE: The Stock Market Crash is going to hurt Kamala and her Campaign. Ask yourself, do you want another one in the Whitehouse that wants to continue to get rid of your guns, freedom of speech, for that matter our Freedom period, lies and more lies, another puppet where they can pull her strings and she will do anything, no Border Wall and let’s more in, more crime, digital currency where they can see your bank transactions and tell you how you can spend your money, Stock Market dwindling less with your hard earned money, telling you you have to get EV, can’t eat any red meat, get rid of our stoves, ceiling fans, gas lawnmowers and I could go on and on with no stopping. Wake up, you don’t want to live like that do you? I know I don’t.

mark
mark
2 months ago

id like for politicians to do more campaigns from their offices or homes or even basements rather than do rallies with adoring fans where they promise the world and then make excuses and blame others when they can’t meet those promises

JPop
JPop
1 month ago

New face. Same old strings (and evil man behind the curtain).

James Campbell
James Campbell
2 months ago
  • This piece is short on facts and honesty, and long on innuendo and nonsense. This is not real news.
Cordon Bleu
Cordon Bleu
2 months ago

In the vein of “Hidin’ Biden” I propose “Where is Harris?”
Make it stick.

Gary Lee
Gary Lee
2 months ago

A basement campaign? It seems like a pretty good strategy to me! If you’re a third drawer lightweight – let the MSM and the Democratic machine gush and sing your praises like you’re the second coming! Have them censor or delete any derogatory information – or even your past life -and threaten those reporters who might try to escape the typical Dem way into the land of nonpartisan independent thought! And of course, use the same mechanisms to savage your opponent and use censorship so they can’t get their message out! If you stay in your basement; you won’t have to do big physical rallies(where you could get shot),do hard hitting news interviews, or engage in risky debates with your opponent! In fact, if you win – you can use the same organizations and mechanisms to do your governing for you, they won’t mind a bit! – All in all, you won’t have to lift a finger. You’ll live in the White House, fly on Air Force One, let a staff of thousands do all your work for you, and because of all this you can vacation most of the time on the taxpayer’s dime!

RJ
RJ
2 months ago

Everyone quit panicking. I feel there will not be an election. Kamala is only filling the void right now and the joke is on her. It’s just a matter of time when SCOTUS will come forward with proof of the election fraud in 2020 and who has really been our President. Have you ever heard of watermarked ballots?!? Exactly of course you have. Keep all ears and eyes open. The rest of 2024

lothar
lothar
2 months ago

Trump needs to stay focused on the issues , dont get distracted by harris attacks and the whole “weird” thing , people dont care about weird they care about the issues that affect them on a daily base .
Right now there is a golden opportunity to link harris to the stock market rout , the timing of the markets crashing as soon as harris pulled closer to trump in the polls is pure gold , talk about the economy , the weak job numbers , inflation , harris radical positions , focus on PA ,MI and GA because she needs those, go to AZ and NV and talk about immigration there is plenty of ammo

RJ
RJ
2 months ago

I am not sure of what to think of her except she is an airhead. Do not agree with her policies and beliefs. She uses her hands and arms too much, if you study body language she does this as a distraction so you pay attention to her arm and hand movements instead of hearing what she is saying, which doesn’t really matter, because she never makes any sense of what she is saying anyway.

Dave
Dave
2 months ago

The woman has been campaigning in the swing states every day. She’s hardly in anyone’s basement and Trump is the one hiding in the basement. He won’t show up for the agreed upon debate on ABC

mark
mark
2 months ago

what has america come to?

thousands of people pack megachruches and the pastor spouts off untrue garbage yet every person in there blindly says amen to everything

many thousands more spend four figures to go to concerts where they form long lines are are only in for a max of a few hours obsessed with some pop star that they know nothing about

now it’s political rallies where thousands of people sometimes spend days waiting for a couple hour speech where the politician makes grand promises that will never be kept yet has a captivating voice which pulls the lemmings in, it was nuts with obama and even more so with trump

no one thinks for themselves anymore, they are mindless robots and that’s without ai

Proud
Proud
2 months ago

I’m a proud black man and I worn be voting for Kamala Harris

that’s what it would sound like if I was white lol

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