Posted on 09/21/2024 4:46:05 AM PDT by george76
‘Can you feel the joy rising in here?’ Oprah Winfrey asked Vice President Kamala Harris to open Thursday’s prime-time special..
Oprah Winfrey’s glitzy hour-long special with Vice President Kamala Harris Thursday night was not a feature of a serious presidential campaign, but instead a celebrity-obsessed public relations program intended to win what’s become a popularity contest.
If anyone tuned in to hear a few substantive questions about why Harris has changed so many of her policy positions, it should have been obvious what to expect by Oprah’s first question.
“Can you feel the joy rising in here?” she asks after screaming Harris’ name.
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The virtual rally in Michigan marked one of Harris’ few media appearances since she became the nominee. She had only previously done one joint interview with her running mate on CNN, one brief 10-minute interview on a Pennsylvania television station, and one daytime forum with journalists at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).
On CNN, Harris barely got pushed on anything; in Pennsylvania, she barely got asked anything; and at the NABJ conference in Philadelphia, she was merely warmed up for the town hall about girl power with Winfrey. Her first question at the NABJ summit was also about how “joy” makes Harris feel all sweet, cute, and cuddly inside.
“Why is joy important to you to insert into this election?” was literally the first thing moderators asked Harris.
Compare that to when ABC’s Rachel Scott welcomed Trump to a NABJ conference in July by slamming him for criticizing black politicians and reporters, including an instance when he mocked questions from a black reporter as “stupid and racist.”
“Now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you, why should black voters trust you after you have used language like that?” she asked.
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ABC's Rachel Scott opens her interview with President Trump at the NABJ conference by calling him a racist for criticizing black politicians and journalists.
Trump gives a masterful response while also mentioning how he showed up while Kamala Harris did not.
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Scott never named the reporter Trump apparently referred to, but if the question was something about Trump’s rejection of far-left identity politics, then it probably was stupid and racist. Trump decided to respond to the routine ridiculousness with equal exaggeration. After mocking the moderators for flailing around with equipment before the forum, Trump came right out of the gate to loudly proclaim, “I have been the best president for the black population since Abraham Lincoln.”
“That’s my answer,” Trump said.
The Republican presidential nominee still agreed to go on last week’s debate moderated by Scott’s home network, ABC.
After relishing the “joy” of Harris running for president with Meryl Streep on the Zoom screen, Winfrey ran segments featuring guests who have experienced hardship over abortion and a school shooting in order to segue into Harris’ talking points. The producers outright exploited a girl who explained she aborted a pregnancy that resulted from her molestation at age 12. They then used a school shooting survivor as a hook so Harris could go on to rant about “gun violence.”
But Oprah never would have platformed the Afghanistan Gold Star families who hosted Trump’s visit to the Arlington National Cemetery. Harris previously characterized Trump’s appearance at a wreath-laying ceremony on the anniversary of the Kabul bombing that killed 13 servicemembers as “disrespect” to “sacred ground.”
“All for the sake of a political stunt,” Harris said.
Winfrey would not want to feature the responses from these families on her show:
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“Our kids were MURDERED because of YOUR administration”
Gold Star Families of Americans killed in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal are REBUKING Kamala Harris for her attempt to slander President Trump’s visit to Arlington with them
The gloves are off
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Nor would the administration’s “border czar” be eager to share town hall airtime with the victims of migrant crime after more than 10 million illegals entered the country under her watch.
On Wednesday, the House Homeland Security Committee heard from Patty Morin, whose 37-year-old daughter and mother of five was murdered by an illegal immigrant who had been previously apprehended three times.
“Since my daughter’s death,” she said, “the Biden-Harris administration has not reached out to our family to offer condolences.”
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Trump would probably have no reservations about a televised Winfrey sit-down, but there’s no question whether Harris would agree to an appearance on Fox News’ “Gutfeld.”
As I understand it, very few people watched the Oprah show. On the other hand, Gutfeld had an audience of 5 million for the Trump appearance with very little promotion ahead of time.
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Kamala sounded drunk again
Recall when Oprah said that she was unwelcomed in the Obama White House because Michelle didn’t like having fat people around. There’s some black unity right there.
BTTT
It showed how inept Kamala really was. Those in the audience and those who watched had to be shaking their heads. Even the woman on camera who asked the question had the look of “ugh” on her face when Kammy answered.
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Yesterday, Dan Bongino was mimicking the Oprah-kaMAla dialog. I could not stop laughing.
I watched part of the show.
I thought Harris appeared drunk or stoned. Endless word salad from her.
Oprah ran an unabashed campaign event in that show and covered for Harris’ deficiencies (lack of depth, lack of policy). It was truly joyous.
Maybe it will appeal to emotion-driven, low information voters.
I finally figured out what I MOST dislike about Kamala. I resent any woman who speaks to me as if I'm a guy and she wants to charm me. It's such a California FAKE shtick.
Kamala goes into her smarmy act while she speaks, just like a woman who got WHAT she got and WHERE she got, by knowing her way around a man (what women doesn't?) .... but ain't ashamed to do it.
Well ... I'm not a guy on the make and I really resent a woman who thinks she can persuade me with the same shameless blather that worked for her in her 'career path' ! I wish she'd stop behaving like that because (to intelligent people) it's insulting!
Of course it was. Why else would Harris do the gig?!
I have zero respect for Oprah. She used to be a decent human being but she lost herself somewhere along the line. Now she is just a soulless hunk of refuse. Sad really.
“Oprah. She used to be a decent human being”
We don’t know that for sure.
I have zero respect for Oprah.
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No matter how you slice the Orca, for her, color of skin is number one. She sold out bigly when the half-rican ran in 2008. The stupid, guilty to be white, suburban woman was and still is her core audience. They will vote for whomever the Orca approves of.
I can’t feel the joy. I might be able to feel the audience’s unemployment.
The person who wanted Trump to run for President.
She was always a fat, smelly, dark-souled lesbian.
When Harris said she owned a gun, why didn’t Orca ask her what kind? Where did she buy it? Whay kind of gun safety training she has had? Where did she do it? Has she fired her weapon?
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