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New Yorker reporter urges media to ask Harris actual questions: ‘Job of the press’ to be ‘demanding answers’
Fox News ^ | 8/10/24 | Gabriel Hays

Posted on 08/10/2024 12:20:27 PM PDT by Libloather

A major liberal media outlet published a piece calling on journalists to ask Vice President Kamala Harris questions about her policies ahead of the election so that voters know who she really is.

The New Yorker staff writer Jay Caspian King wrote about Harris’ campaign strategy on Thursday, saying it involves her staying away from the press and waiting for former President Trump to make a mistake. However, he argued that it is the media’s job not to let the Democratic candidate get away with hiding prior to potentially assuming the most powerful office in the world.

He wrote that "it’s the job of the press in a healthy democracy to make sure that voters know whom they’re supporting. An unexamined candidate can become anything, and can work under the influence of anyone, when they assume power."

King agreed with GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance’s assessment that she has been dodging the media. Harris took questions briefly from reporters on Thursday in an informal Q&A on a tarmac in Michigan, but she has not held a formal presser or sit-down interview since emerging last month as the presumptive Democratic nominee in place of President Biden.

"This appears to be Campaign Kamala’s strategy: don’t make any unforced errors, keep things vanilla, and eventually Trump or Vance will implode. Harris – as Vance has repeatedly pointed out on Twitter, with the hashtag #wheresKamala – has taken almost no questions from reporters, and has spent most of her time giving stump speeches at rallies."

The writer continued, pointing out Harris' flip-flopping and lack of transparency on key issues. "She has not explained what, exactly, happened in Washington after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate; or why she has changed her mind on fracking, which she once said should be banned, and has wobbled...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; History
KEYWORDS: candidates; horizontal; interview; press
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Trump and Vance aren't imploding. Horizontal better bus a move.
1 posted on 08/10/2024 12:20:27 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Ministry of Truth has other ideas.


2 posted on 08/10/2024 12:21:18 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Libloather

They’re pimpin’ for her. They aren’t going to put her dumb, salad ass in a wringer.


3 posted on 08/10/2024 12:30:21 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you liked the Joe Pedo show, you're going to love the Jamaican Queen's "White Dude" Job Corp.show)
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To: Libloather

When the New Yorker has concerns, you know you messed up a bit.


4 posted on 08/10/2024 12:31:28 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: Libloather

I only have one question??

Would you encourage young women to follow in your footsteps to enhance and boost their career?


5 posted on 08/10/2024 12:41:00 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Ad Money rules the media. No questions, no votes for Kamala.


6 posted on 08/10/2024 12:44:01 PM PDT by FreedBird (w)
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To: Libloather

The media feels its job is to get Kamala elected. If that means not asking her questions, they won’t ask her questions. There are a few journalists who are exceptions, but by and large the media is the propaganda arm of the Democrat party.


7 posted on 08/10/2024 1:04:39 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: Libloather

Are we ready to admit that the “Democracy is great” ship has sailed?


8 posted on 08/10/2024 1:07:25 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Libloather

In the absence of her answering specific questions it may be said that she will do tomorrow what she he’s done in the past.


9 posted on 08/10/2024 1:10:59 PM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Libloather

Wow! Good for him. An actual journalist?


10 posted on 08/10/2024 1:20:04 PM PDT by MAGA2017
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To: ifinnegan

11 posted on 08/10/2024 1:30:49 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Libloather

It’s Kang, not King.


12 posted on 08/10/2024 1:35:33 PM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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To: FreedomForce

Never count on your opponent to make a mistake that will somehow give you an advantage in any encounter. That strategy means the party of the first part must perform flawlessly, making no errors, to gain anything from the engagement.

That is e-gre-gi-ous. And quite possibly fatal as well.


13 posted on 08/10/2024 1:41:21 PM PDT by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
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To: Libloather

“We were all about two sheets to the wind and someone said, “Who can tell the best short joke?” When my turn came, I said, “Let’s ask Vice President Kamala Harris questions about her policies ahead of the election so that voters know who she really is!” I won hands down.”


14 posted on 08/10/2024 1:49:32 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: Libloather

Looking at the internals of the new swing state polls in The NY Times no they are not imploding at all. They had to use a Biden Voter +6 model to generate any kind of lead for Harris and she’s still behind in Michigan.
The honeymoon is kinda over with her have to get by the convention now and then it’s a fight to the finish.


15 posted on 08/10/2024 1:50:58 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: Libloather

“Questions are a burden to others; answers, a prison for oneself.” Just relax. The State will tell you what to believe.


16 posted on 08/10/2024 1:57:23 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

17 posted on 08/10/2024 3:54:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Libloather

LOL - the job of the press? More like it is to cover up and suppress anything negative for the Democrats - unless doing so actually is designed to help the Democrats - like getting rid of an undesirable candidate.


18 posted on 08/10/2024 7:16:16 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Libloather

But if the press starts asking questions, then Heels Up will have to answer them! And there won’t be any hiding of what a profound idiot she is. Can’t let that happen!


19 posted on 08/10/2024 11:49:06 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: simpson96

Good one!


20 posted on 08/11/2024 1:36:37 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's not as if Biden has the nuclear codes or anything. 😳)
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