The Washington Free Beacon has posted a video compilation of Democrats celebrating Kamala Harris’s mythical summer job at McDonald’s, which the Free Beacon exposed as a fabrication in short order. I have posted the video at the bottom. The accompanying story is flagged in today’s Free Beacon newsletter with this note:
When Democrats entered their party’s national convention last summer, the joy was palpable. Unburdened by Joe Biden’s elderly ramblings, left-wing politicos and pundits were ready to sell America on Kamala Harris. Many of them, from Bill Clinton to Jasmine Crockett, did so by pointing to what they saw as a storybook element of Harris’s résumé: her (alleged) summer job at McDonald’s.
It didn’t take long for the joy to disappear. Within days of the convention’s conclusion, a Free Beacon report found no evidence of the job. Donald Trump began accusing his rival of embellishing her biography. Team Harris melted down, spending weeks agonizing over whether and how to respond. In the meantime, Trump worked a made-for-TV shift under the Golden Arches, and it became the most known story of the election cycle.
Now, with the dust settled, it appears the best defense Harris’s allies can offer is this: Harris did work at McDonald’s as a college student, but only for two weeks, as the new book 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America reports without evidence. The allegedly short stint meant “most advisers didn’t want to lean into her time at McDonald’s,” according to the book, “but it polled well,” so they did so anyway. We salute them for their folly—and present to you a highlight reel of the 2024 joy-vention’s central theme: Mickey D’s.
The Free Beacon story runs as “She Greeted Every Person With That Thousand-Watt Smile’: Watch All the Times Dems Touted Kamala’s Alleged McDonald’s Gig.” Watch them all reading from the same page in the video below.
I will add this note of my own. 2024 is a campaign book by three mainstream media reporters: Josh Dawsey, of the Wall Street Journal, formerly of the Washington Post, Tyler Pager, of the New York Times, formerly of the Washington Post, and Isaac Arsndorf, of the Washington Post. As the Beacon observes, they don’t cite a source for their assertion that Harris worked for McDonald’s for two weeks. One can only infer that they are regurgitating what they were told by the Harris campaign staffers with whom they spoke. They offer what might serve as a case study in why we detest the MSM.
