Posted on 07/09/2025 11:18:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former Vice-President-turned-perpetual-gaffe-machine Kamala Harris just added another entry to her blooper reel, and this one was apparently so disastrous that even her own handlers begged to deep-six it.
TikTok star Kareem Rahma, host of the series Subway Takes, revealed on Forbes’ “Top Creators” show that a 2024 sit-down with Harris was spiked after she unleashed a “really, really bad” hot-take: “Bacon is a spice.”
Rahma — a practicing Muslim who doesn’t eat pork — said the remark was so baffling, tone-deaf, and politically radioactive that both sides mutually agreed never to let America see the tape.
Kamala Harris gave an answer so bad, even a left-leaning influencer feared it would tank her campaign and ruin his reputation in the process.
Rahma told Forbes editor Steven Bertoni that Harris’ staff originally pitched a harmless gripe about people taking their shoes off on airplanes. At the last minute, campaign staffers hit the panic button, swapped topics, and forced the veep to riff on bacon instead — a decision Rahma tried to stop in real time.
The result, he said, was a nonsensical word-salad so awkward it risked alienating Muslim voters and anyone with basic culinary knowledge.
Kareem Rahma: Her take was really confusing and weird—and not good. So, we mutually agreed that we shouldn’t publish it. I got lucky, because I didn’t want to be blamed for her losing.
Steven Bertoni: Her take was that bad?
Kareem Rahma: It was really, really bad. It didn’t make any sense. I can tell you.
Steven Bertoni: Yeah, tell me.
Kareem Rahma: It was “bacon as a spice.”
Steven Bertoni: Bacon as a spice? Do you think that was her opinion, or do you think she had a research group trying to figure something out—
Kareem Rahma: Research group. Originally, the take that I was pitched was great—it was that she doesn’t like to take her shoes off on airplanes… I was like, “100% disagree. You better be taking the shoes off.” I wear Birkenstocks and socks on an airplane so I can flip those mother-effers right off the minute I get on.
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Kareem Rahma: No, that’s awful. That’s disgusting. That’s not even a take. I would never, ever, ever do that. But yeah, at the last minute, I think the research group said, “This makes you look rich and snobby, and you need to appeal to the American people.” So she went with the bacon. I tried to pause the interview and say, “Trust me, we shouldn’t do the bacon thing.” And I was overridden by this guy—maybe her Deputy Campaign Manager or something. He said, “We’re doing bacon.” I said, “All right, we’ll do bacon.” An hour later, I got a call: “We can’t do bacon.” I said, “I know you can’t do bacon.” Then I tried to cut it into something else. It just wasn’t working. And I was like, “You know what…?”
Steven Bertoni: So they overrode the bacon themselves?
Kareem Rahma: First they rode the bacon, then they overrode the bacon. Then I tried to override their override by saying, “I didn’t just do all this work for no reason. I’m going to make it work.” And then I did make it work. Then they were like, “This makes her look—” And I said, “Whose fault is that?” Then I thought, “If I post this, a lot of people are going to be mad at me. If I don’t post it, I still have a cool photo with Kamala Harris.”
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Socialist Democrats are liars, idiots and pathological psychos through and through.
We all should be on our knees every morning and night thanking Heaven Above that they weren’t able to steal this election from us as well!
If Harris were president, Israel would be toast. You can count on that just for starters. Ugh!
One flake. Add boxed wine and Xanax. Viola! Harris
He doesn’t seem embarrassed at all that they actually hashed this stuff out before the interview. “Let’s drop the shoeless on the airplane take and go with bacon.” And these are the adults
If there were ever any good part of Harris it rolled down her old man’s leg.
What’s wrong with calling bacon a seasoning? She’s said a lot of stupid things but this isn’t one of them.
i wonder how much the tape of that interview is worth now ... you know, to the highest bidder: oppo research and deep-sixing oppo research? [assuming this moron runs for CA Gov (kamala, not the podcaster)]
Updating my shopping list.
Rhama should lose his audience. Who wants to listen to someone the likes of any CNN fake news reporter?
“First they rode the bacon, then, they overrode the bacon.”
I don’t see why the Bacon as a Spice should be controversial.
That was simply Kamala’s opinion, but perhaps the way she expressed that notion sounded so goofy, abstract and inarticulate, her team could not handle it
Everyone knows how Kammy tends to jump from topic to topic, like a squirrel hopping from twig to twig.
She rode a lot of bacon, sucked on it too. All the way to the top.
Yes, but that got put on the air. This one didn’t.............
I guess Doug doesn’t do kosher.
In time, the Biden-Harris administration will be remembered for epic corruption, incompetence, and a comedy gold level of shallowness, oddness, and sheer stupidity. Future generations will have a hard time believing that it was so.
I wonder how ancients ‘discovered’ bacon?.....................
> “Bacon is a spice.” <
This shows you just how dumb my local grocery store is. They put bacon in the meat section and not with the spices.
Here’s the way it should be, obviously:🧂🌶️ 🥓
a lot of her word salads are scripted
her staff is as bad or worse than she is
dodged a bullet indeed
muslim vote
the ancients ate the whole pig
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