Column: In memes and money, Kamala Harris’ note-perfect political instincts are paying off

Los Angeles Times ^ | July 22, 2024 2:26 PM PT | Mary McNamara, Culture Columnist and Critic

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Never has an NCAA Sports Day been so widely and breathlessly covered as it was on Monday.

And never has it been clearer that Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, did not just fall out of a coconut tree.

With President Biden recovering from COVID-19, the task of honoring top college athletes from across the country fell to Harris, who performed the same duty last year with much less fanfare.

This year, of course, the event occurred the day after Biden announced he was ending his reelection campaign and endorsed Harris as the party’s replacement candidate for president.

Cue general insanity.

This made Sports Day, by logistics rather than intent, the first time Harris spoke publicly since that dramatic, and historic, turn of events. Suddenly, a low-key get-together, which included a series of brief remarks and a picnic, was the subject of breaking-news alerts as the world’s eyes, and news cameras, were focused on the White House steps.

But anyone who thought Harris would use the moment to talk up her presidential campaign, including many of the pundits who suggested as much, were sorely disappointed.

The very worst thing Harris could have done was to make that moment about her. And so she did not.

Harris spoke poignantly, and briefly, about Biden, whose presidential accomplishment she called “unmatched in modern history.” “I am a firsthand witness that every day, our president Joe Biden fights for the people,” she said, “and we are deeply, deeply grateful for his service to our nation.”

And then she spoke about the athletes. Even though Harris could become this country’s first female president just as women’s sports have finally begun to get the respect they deserve, this was not the time nor the platform for politicking. Harris spoke words of broad and...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The LA Times is a fake news outlet. Every word it publishes is either a lie or projection. Article presented for the benefit of people who want to know what their enemy is up, not for people who want to stick their collective heads up their collective Obamas and pretend it is nighttime.

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Whistling past the graveyard, Mary is.

[allblues]

Typical Demoncrat media tongue bath. These pukes have no shame.

[shanover]

They are trying desperately to change her image.

[Col Frank Slade]

Slobbering ass kissers.

[Brandonmark]

Here we go: https://tryparrotai.com/video?id=w_c44w5zr3

[UnwashedPeasant]

The press shifted from lying about Biden to lying about Kamala.

She is now as brilliant as Biden was the day before the debate.

[Zhang Fei]

The art of the tongue bath.

[JennysCool]

note-perfect political instincts

You, "Mary McNamara, Culture Columnist and Critic," are an obsequious, pandering dolt.

[NWFree]

Are they talking about the black Indian squaw Spreading Legs who refused to visit the border?

[Skooz]

Expect an endless stream of this bilge until November.

[skr]

Note-perfect, lol!

[Bob434]

by the time the msm are done with her, low info folks will think that she is mother Theresa and Joan of arc all rolled into one

[chrisser]

Kamala really can’t talk about herself. There’s nothing to say - she hasn’t accomplished anything of note.

[Menehune56]

[Huskrrrr]

The ass kissing will be unbearable the next four months.

[rlmorel]

[rlmorel]

LOL, no shame at all.

[IncPen]

One could almost forgive the democrats if they gave towels to the media to wipe off their chins after slurping out sycophantic propaganda like this…

[ExpatCanuck]

Can’t claim to have thought of this first, but it makes sense; the media needs to build her up to give credibility to the false polls they will start publishing, showing a very close race. Then, like 2020, they can cheat and make it look plausible that Kamala won the most votes ever, 100 million plus!

[Ken Regis]

Spinsters.