Since a soft coup ousted President Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee in late July, the media have developed a pathological obsession with shielding Vice President Kamala Harris from any criticism or inconvenient fact.
To protect their anointed favorite, the media have engaged in a masterclass of revisionism, unleashing every trick in the book to manipulate their audience into buying the new, carefully crafted image of Harris. They’ve tried to claim that a woman whose office was described by her own staff as “soul-destroying” will bring back “joy” to American politics and that one of the most reviled vice presidents in modern history is actually the nation’s darling.
In 2021, the media reported that Harris played a critical role in Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Politico stated that Harris “was the last person in the room” before Biden made the decision to pull out. The Washington Post characterized Harris as “as a vice president deeply involved in key moments.” The Los Angeles Times noted that Harris was “front and center as President Biden has overseen America’s retreat from Afghanistan.”
Yet the media screeched in unison when former President Donald Trump correctly identified Biden and Harris as the primary culprits behind the debacle that resulted in the deaths of 13 American servicemembers. Now the media is trying desperately to separate (Vice President!) Harris from Biden’s administration entirely, with outlets firing out patently ridiculous headlines like Politico’s doozy: “Vance tries to tether Harris to Biden during Michigan rally.”
One of the more egregious examples came from The Washington Post on Tuesday. The outlet attempted to “prove” that Biden’s disastrous tenure will in no way negatively affect Harris’ electoral prospects with a nifty little graph. “The GOP is trying hard to tie Harris more closely to Biden on the economy, immigration and the border,” Washington Post Senior Political Reporter Aaron Blake claimed. “One big problem: Americans don’t think she played a particularly central role.”
Blake included a graph taken from his article (headlined “Why Biden isn’t dragging down Harris”) that showed that only 11 percent of Americans believe Harris has had a “great deal of influence” on Biden’s economic policy. Likewise, only 15 percent said that she has a “great deal of influence” on immigration policy despite, as Blake notes, “the ‘border czar’ stuff.”
See? The chart says so, so it must be true! But take a look at that graph again.
Did you notice that there’s not an option for “no influence?” The least amount of influence respondents can choose is “very little.” That means 64 percent of respondents believe she has at least some influence on economic policy and 66 percent believe she has at least some on immigration policy. What’s more, 100 percent of Americans believe that she has at least a little influence on both issues, according to this poll.
In short, the poll shows that everybody believes Harris has at least a little influence in the White House, but The Washington Post wants readers to believe the poll proves that Harris has totally separated herself from the toxic dumpster fire of the Biden administration.
Of course, people who don’t mindlessly swallow everything the biased media feeds them know that Harris was indeed “front and center” on the two issues that matter most to voters this election cycle. As already mentioned, she served as the border czar for years, during which she only managed to squeeze in one heavily staged visit to the southern border. On the economy, she cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to pass both the Inflation Reduction Act and the American Rescue Plan, both of which contributed to the runaway inflation that has plagued Biden’s time in office and made Americans poorer.
Just because she was completely incompetent on both issues doesn’t mean she had no influence.
It’s crystal clear to any casual observer that Harris’ campaign is only being kept afloat by a pervasive and cynical media effort. She’s had her hands all over the past three years of American decline, and no amount of obfuscation or outright lies from the press will make voters forget it.