Imagine running for President of the United States and not speaking with anyone. Not “to,” you have to do lots of “speaking to” people, but “with,” as in having a conversation, an exchange. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have been trying that for the past month and a half but finally caved to the reality that they would have to speak with someone and choose the softest target they could find that the public would accept. And the whole thing went about as well as you’d expect when the candidates hold the public in complete contempt.
Yes, that’s right: Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and the entire left-wing establishment hold you, the American people, in contempt. They treat you with a twist on the old saying about children – you are to be preached to, not heard. You don’t treat people you respect like they are unworthy of addressing you, having their questions answered, or talking at them like a condescending kindergarten teacher.
Yet, that’s what these people do.
When they finally sat down for an interview, it was with CNN because going to MSNBC would have been dismissed as the partisan hackery it clearly would have been. Since NBC News has literally no one who could pass for a journalist, the campaign chose Dana Bash because she’s on the team but can still ask a semi-serious question. However, questions to politicians are only as good as the willingness of the person asking them to follow up and insist on an actual answer. The person asking them has to know or have a rough approximation of the answer to hold them to account.
But for any of that to happen, you must be interested in getting an answer, not simply getting through it. Bash was not.
Her time was limited—just 20 minutes was allotted. Imagine a campaign holding the American public in such contempt that they would only allow 2 minutes shy of a sit-com, which is 22 minutes long, for anyone to question their candidates. Bash ended up getting 27 because no campaign in their right mind would stop the tongue bath Harris and Walz were receiving, but if it had been serious, staff would have stepped in.
They went as far as they felt comfortable – dumb people and frauds can only hold it together for so long, even during a massage session where the interviewer asks leading softball questions without threat of follow-up.
What did we get? Not much. Kamala still couldn’t articulate a single priority for “day one,” even though that question was so obvious Stevie Wonder could’ve seen it coming. There is no pressing on any of her egregious flip-flops on fracking, the border wall, socialized medicine, etc. Bach simply lumped them all together into a question that any strip mall lawyer would have objected to as “leading the witness.”
Bash asked, “Generally speaking, how should voters look at some of the changes you've made that you explain in your policy? Is it because you have more experience and have learned more about the information? Is it because you were running for president in a Democratic primary? And should they feel comfortable and confident that what you're saying now will be your policy moving forward?”
Pathetic, but not surprising.
The whole thing went like that with Kamala. She still offers up meaningless word salads like, “I am so proud to have served as vice president to Joe Biden and to I'm so proud to be running with Tim Walz for president of the United States and to bring America what I believe the American people deserve, which is a new way forward, and turn the page on the last decade of what I believe has been, contrary to where the spirit of our country really lies.”
Considering Democrats controlled the White House for 6 of the last 10 years, that’s quite a slam on what Barack Obama clearly started, isn’t it?
Tim Walz, the coked-out college mascot, wasn’t any better. He was, in fact, worse. Fraudie Murphy got one question tangentially related to his decades of stolen valor, but it was couched in the friendliest terms possible, of course.
He asked about his “weapons of war I carried on war” lie, and he brushed it off as bad grammar. Is it bad grammar that only one of the people he served with in the National Guard for over 24 years came forward to speak favorably about his character? ONE! Dozens have gone the other way, and the silence of the rest speaks volumes.
But Bash didn’t bring it up. She just let him adopt the cowardly Hamas tactic of hiding behind children. Fraudie said, “I said we were talking about, in this case, this was after school shooting, the idea of carrying these weapons of war. My wife, the English teacher who taught me grammar, is not always correct. But again, if it's not this, it's an attack on my children for showing love for me, or it's an attack on my dog. I'm not going to do that. And the one thing I'll never do is I'll never demean another member's service in any way. I never have, and I never will.”
He can’t demean another person’s service because, unless they abandoned their men right before a deployment, lied about their rank for 20 years, and pretended to be a combat veteran, there’s no way they are even as bad as, let alone worse than Tim Walz is.
What do his kids have to do with anything? Like all sewer water, he seeks the path of least resistance and kids offer that. No one attacked his kids, they simply pointed out how his son appeared to have lost control of his entire body at the convention, screaming, “That’s my dad!” I’ve heard his son is autistic and non-verbal, which seems odd since he was screaming that, but whatever – he’s not the awful candidate; his father is, so I don’t care either way. But that’s hardly an “attack on his children.”
They’re both frauds; they’re both awful. The idea that Kamala is simply rushed in her candidacy is undercut by the fact that she’s plotted for this moment most of her adult life, and definitely the last 5 years. And she’s been Vice-President – “ready on day one” to be president, just not ready on day 39 to answer questions about, apparently.
Walz is just a liar about everything. He tries to “awe-shucks” his way through his public appearances, bouncing around the stage like a coked-out college mascot for a team that sucks – prancing and dancing, pointing and clapping, desperate to get the wave started in a stadium out 20 percent full. You almost feel badly for him until you realize he’s a bad person.
The final question – and imagine having what may well be the only chance to ask someone running for president questions, and you waste time on something like this (have you ever heard a softball question remotely close to this asked of Trump or Vance? No.) – was, “And last question, Madam Vice President, the photograph that has gone viral, you were speaking one of your grand nieces that you were just talking about was watching you accept the nomination. You didn't explicitly talk about gender or race in your speech, but it obviously means a lot to a lot of people. And that viral picture really says it. What does it mean to you?”
First, there’s no such thing as “grand nieces.” There are nieces and great-nieces. Kamala is not a grandmother, nor is she a mother. She is childless by choice (you can decide if you think she’s had abortions or how many, but you can’t deny she sure loves them) and only became a stepmother when her husband’s kids were in their late teens. How much time do you think California's Attorney General spent “mothering” teenagers who mostly lived with their real mothers? None? Less than none?
Second, what a stupid question. What should the audience get from any answer that could be offered in response to it? Is some pointless rambling about “historic” or whatever doing to serve as a 25 percent off coupon at the grocery store or gas station? Do you get a discount on your rent, mortgage, or electric bill if you sit through it? No. Are you even remotely more informed about what Kamala Harris would do as president? You are not.
It was just a final example of how to waste an opportunity. The whole “interview” seemed to be conducted to get more future access by being nice to them. Journalists should conduct every interview with a politician like it’s the last time they will ever be allowed to speak with them, so they’d better ask tough questions.
I know the mentality; I’ve dealt with many people who do it on both sides. They suck up to the people they like hoping to get them back later. They all insist they’re tough, that they’re not friends with these people, but love telling their audience how close they are to them. And you come away with nothing as an audience except the inflated sense of self-importance from the questioner.
Dana Bash didn’t give her audience anything of use Thursday night, but she also didn’t allow Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to hurt themselves, which was more important to the left. The public knows nothing more about either of them or what they’d do in office other than they want to make things better. If the truth were on the side of Democrats, they’d be eager to tell it to anyone willing to listen. That they hide tells you all you need to know.
Democrats view the public as a feckless mass of humanity in desperate need of leadership in every aspect of your life. They hold you in contempt. Return the favor.