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The Fox News Interview: Why Can't Kamala Answer a Simple Question?
Townhall ^ | 10/18/2024 | David Harsanyi

Posted on 10/18/2024 7:29:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A few months into Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential run, her handlers faced a dilemma. Should they continue cocooning the candidate or unleash her on the public? Both options came with serious political risks.

Sure, Democrats could keep pretending Harris was a generational talent, but her refusal to sit down for an interview, much less give a press conference, was eroding this fantasy.

On the other hand, as her handlers surely understood, the more people hear from Harris, the more concerned they tend to get.

Indeed, Harris is a thermonuclear platitude dispenser. Few people in American history have expended so many words to say so little.

Her turns of phrase are often so cartoonishly ludicrous they should be used in college textbooks to explain what a "tautology" is to students.

After watching Fox News' Bret Baier interview Harris, it is clearer than ever that extemporaneous speaking isn't Harris' strong suit. The presidential candidate has an uncanny ability to respond to straightforward questions in circuitous, mind-bending arrays of irrelevant non sequiturs.

To work around this problem, Harris' "media blitz" was initially curated to ensure the candidate would never find herself in the vicinity of a tough inquiry. Before going on Fox, she visited sycophants like sex podcaster Alexandra Cooper and one-time shock jock Howard Stern. She spoke to allies at MSNBC and the cheerleaders at "The View."

Even in these friendly venues, Harris could barely generate a substantive answer to any questions.

During an unscripted Univision town hall, non-journalist audience members finally pressed her on inflation. Harris let everyone know she was not just of middle-class stock but working-class stock. Which is to say, no one in the audience heard anything new.

And maybe they were the lucky ones.

During a pre-recorded interview with "60 Minutes," correspondent Bill Whitaker threw a bunch of reasonable, if predictable, questions at Harris. No gotchas, no deep dives into policy. Yet, when the Israel-Palestinian situation came up -- it's been in the news, I'm sure you've heard --Harris unleashed such a torrent of gibberish that CBS News had to go back and splice in an answer.

Surely, in a healthier political era, a presidential candidate incapable of articulating a lucid foreign policy worldview would find themselves put under tremendous scrutiny. These days, though, political journalists literally rearrange the Democratic candidate's words to make her sound normal. I can assure you former President Donald Trump, who is also often at war with syntax, was never afforded such favorable treatment.

So, the important question is, why does Harris always sound like a ninth grader biding time during an oral exam?

No one can speak fluently on a topic relying solely on scripts and talking points. She doesn't know what she thinks. She doesn't know what you want her to say. She has no reserve of knowledge to pull from.

Judging from her meandering nonanswers, it is highly likely that Harris has never thought about any of these issues in a serious way. Indeed, Harris' most memorable quote on foreign policy reads as so: "Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country."

Then again, if she's offered anything beyond a banality on the economy or faith or governance or culture or constitutional law or anything else, I've yet to run across it. This is a woman who, for years, was under the impression that the phrase "what can be, unburdened by what has been" made her sound like the next Martin Luther King Jr.

I've also heard people contend Harris is probably stifled by imposter syndrome, a crushing self-doubt about her intellect, knowledge and skills compared to those around her.

What if her anxiety doesn't stem from a feeling of inadequacy but inadequacy itself? Take the incessant cackling. This tic is probably symptomatic of a well-earned lack of confidence. Her awkward syntax often betrays an imposter desperately attempting to convince you she's a deep thinker.

Obviously, most politicians triangulate, flip-flop and "evolve" on policy. It's unlikely, however, that any major politician in history has dropped as many positions as dramatically and as quickly as Harris. The likelihood she has a cogent explanation for guiding moral or political philosophy is slim.

Unless, of course, by a belief system, we're talking about "empowering Kamala."

The Bret Baier disaster was the crescendo, but it was nothing new. If you carefully listen to Harris' words, you are confronted with vapid political creation in way over her head. Though, alas, if history is any guide, she has all the qualifications we expect of a president.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bretbaier; harris; kamala
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1 posted on 10/18/2024 7:29:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Her speaking style is to say a lot of nice-sounding words and overwhelm the listener, hoping that he will think there’s some meaning behind the words. She knows the media will willingly change her words to make her sound competent.

This will not fool Putin and Xi. They know she’s a bag of bullshit and hot air with absolutely no substance or principles.


2 posted on 10/18/2024 7:33:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m in MA where most people are insane.

I know a number of people who think Trump is a train wreck and see Kamala as an absolute savior. But you can’t talk to them about any of this. It’s just “Trump lies” and “Trump is a racist”. They have nothing more than that. But for them, it’s enough.


3 posted on 10/18/2024 7:36:41 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: I want the USA back

I still say she doesn’t have to say anything she doesn’t want to because either she doesn’t care if she wins or not... OR she knows the fix is in.


4 posted on 10/18/2024 7:38:37 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: SeekAndFind
She is a Marxist. She cannot say what she really believes because that would be (even in today's America) a negative mark against he. So she spouts bull crap. Then, if she gets elected, she will continue the 'fundamental transformation of America'.

I can just hear her cackling now as president. "Everyone knew what I have always stood for."

5 posted on 10/18/2024 7:39:06 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: SeekAndFind

Because it might require telling the truth.


6 posted on 10/18/2024 7:41:17 AM PDT by Don@VB (THE NEW GREEN DEAL IS JUST THE OLD RED DEAL)
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To: SeekAndFind

Like the dumb blonde housewife character in the recent movie, “REAGAN,” Kamala is mentally lost. In the movie, the woman answers the door and it’s Ronald and Nancy Reagan campaigning for California governor in her neighborhood. The woman sees the initials “R.R.” on Reagan’s lapel campaign button, turns to the unseen husband and exclaims, “Honey, Roy Rogers is here...and he’s running for governor !”


7 posted on 10/18/2024 7:43:42 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: SeekAndFind

She can. But you, a peasant, do not deserve such attention from her.

She knows that what YOU think is irrelevant. Only mailin ballots do, as they did in 2020 and 2022.


8 posted on 10/18/2024 7:47:21 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: SeekAndFind

IOW as Trump but it succinctly, coarsely, but accurately , she’s retarded. A poster child for DEI.


9 posted on 10/18/2024 7:47:48 AM PDT by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I see people like Harris and wonder what they are like ordering a meal in a fancy restaurant. I would hate to be their waiter. It must be a nightmare.


10 posted on 10/18/2024 7:49:00 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Vermont Lt

You make sure they get the menu where all the choices have only one syllable. /s


11 posted on 10/18/2024 8:05:00 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: Don@VB

Which demonrats are incapable of doing.


12 posted on 10/18/2024 8:05:25 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: SeekAndFind

. . . thermonuclear platitude dispenser . . .


Apt.


13 posted on 10/18/2024 8:05:26 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (In a world of parrots and lemmings, be a watchdog.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

And yet they don’t care that demonrats lie all the time about everything.


14 posted on 10/18/2024 8:07:20 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: SeekAndFind

The real truth is that the “Democratic party” (the political elites who are actually currently running the country) don’t want a President with any intellect or moral position. That was one of the primary reasons for choosing Biden and keeping him in office through the entire term. They just want a friendly face and someone who can read a teleprompter (which is of course the basis for ditching Biden since he could no longer do the latter). Sadly there is such a strong anti-Trump mentality that people will actually cast a ballot for Harris with full knowledge that she is completely unprepared and incompetent.


15 posted on 10/18/2024 8:08:13 AM PDT by visually_augmented (I was blind, but now I see)
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To: I want the USA back

And I don’t think North Korea 🇰🇵 is so fooled by Commielaw either.


16 posted on 10/18/2024 8:10:02 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: SeekAndFind
The Fox News Interview: Why Can't Kamala Answer a Simple Question?

 

Because the warranty on her Rosetta Stone expired

17 posted on 10/18/2024 8:11:18 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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18 posted on 10/18/2024 8:59:30 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: SeekAndFind

“”Harris is a thermonuclear platitude dispenser. Few people in American history have expended so many words to say so little.””

The writer’s first words are so TRUE! It only took those six words to say exactly what she is!! Someone on FR wrote the other day we are all dumber on hearing her!! Or perhaps it was an article I read - who can remember?

I have to add that I have never found anything to laugh about that much in all my years either - adding them together - NOPE!!! Everything is funny to her!


19 posted on 10/18/2024 9:09:44 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: SeekAndFind

BTTT


20 posted on 10/18/2024 9:16:52 AM PDT by nopardons
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