CNN’s Dana Bash all but bowed to royalty when she interviewed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for a tricked-out hour broadcast this past Thursday. Bash’s attitude was proudly servile. Among other things, she scrupulously adhered to the party line on issues such as Harris’s disclaimer that she had the responsibility of a “border czar” for the overwhelming flood of illegal immigration that Biden and Harris have invited and facilitated.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Thaleigha Rampersad has compiled the video below contrasting Bash’s treatment of Harris this week with her treatment of Trump running mate J.D. Vance earlier this month. She notes:
Bash questioned Harris on her emotions when Biden called to inform her he was no longer running for a second term and what the “viral photograph” of her grandniece watching her accept the nomination at the DNC meant to her.
Earlier this month, Bash interviewed vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance, and the line of questioning hardly resembled the friendly questioning Bash offered Harris and Walz Thursday night. During the Vance interview, Bash defended Walz’s false claims that he had served in the Afghanistan war, saying the campaign had “corrected that.” When Vance said the American people shouldn’t buy into misleading media portrayals of Donald Trump, Bash retorted, “There aren’t media lies.”
Bash’s assertion that “There aren’t media lies” is a variation or close cousin of the paradox that Epimenides of Crete captured in his proposition that “All Cretans are liars.”
