“Kamala Harris’s campaign handlers were no doubt giving each other high-fives on Thursday night watching their candidate’s interview on CNN. The Vice President got away for the most part with repeating her campaign’s platitudes about ‘the middle class’ and ‘a new way forward’ and was never seriously challenged on anything. That’s a shame because the voters still haven’t received a straight answer about whether, and how, she has changed her views from the far-left positions she espoused in 2019 as a presidential candidate,” wrote the Wall Street Journal’s douchey editorial board late Thursday, plainly let down by the lack of any real gaffes or verbal fuckups in the Veep’s performance during the CNN interview with Dana Bash after the Journal’s editorial board and others in both the mainstream and right wing media sphere had spent weeks agitating for a sit-down.
Horserace-y tip sheet Politico Playbook figured if they couldn’t bring themselves to giving Harris a solid review in her own right they would at least cast it as bad for the fat felon: “Overall, the interview suggested to us how tough Donald Trump’s job is now – and especially at the Sept 10 debate. His two main areas of attack are to cast her as left-wing and to tie her to the unpopular Biden. Last night, Harris showed how she will defend herself against both of those charges.”
Meanwhile Axios struggled to make lemons out of lemonade, writing “In a reflection of her campaign’s ‘move forward’ theme, Harris couldn’t bring herself to repeat a word that CNN’s Dana Bash used to describe the president’s approach to lowering unemployment and tackling high prices: ‘Bidenomics.’ Instead, Harris carefully took credit for America’s post-COVID economic recovery and lowering drug costs while acknowledging there’s more work to do… Harris is making a delicate argument. She’s pushing plans to turbocharge an economy her boss insists is already humming.”
“We have been waiting ever since the day Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race for Kamala Harris to sit down in front of a camera and take questions from an interviewer. And if nothing else, we have learned why: In the friendliest possible format — a joint interview with VP nominee and emotional-support midwesterner Tim Walz, conducted by Dana Bash with the delicacy of an ornithologist gently hand-feeding hatchling chicks — Harris has revealed that her gaseously mindless word-cloud of a campaign is in fact an accurate reflection of her own personal vacuousness. To be sure, Harris did not memorably self-destruct tonight,” writes the National Review ruefully.
This disappointments were far less subtle elsewhere:
Today's cover: NYC sprays ‘Christmas’ perfume near stinky Gowanus Canal — but it’ll take a lot more to fix stench https://t.co/5X74ECfB1U pic.twitter.com/Yax7ZZ7dAq
— New York Post (@nypost) August 30, 2024
The Gowanus Canal taking up far more space on the cover of the New York Post – and that their coverage of the interview doesn’t start until the eighth page – says as much as the Journal editorial.
And she's still absolutely horrible. https://t.co/Zdabtx9KnT
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) August 30, 2024
Sigh… The interview was pre-taped, so why not just say the whole thing was staged? Why do they need to make the conspiracy theory more elaborate than it actually needs to be?
Remember, the media already knows Harris is incompetent. In fact, they’ve been writing that story for years.
Now they are trying to hide reality, just like they tried to hide the truth about Biden.
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) August 30, 2024
Frau Ingraham should book a proctology appointment if her butthurt is this bad.
America deserves better than thishttps://t.co/sgTqRZYmyJ
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) August 30, 2024
Famously angry little man can’t even let anger override his disappointment.
Maybe Trump’s review summarizes the reactions best. Nothing useful to his campaign, thus boring.