Kamala Harris sat down for a brief chat with the friendly Brian Taff of 6abc Action News Philadelphia this past Friday. Taff traveled to Johnstown to conduct the first solo interview Harris has given. Taff wrote up the results here. I have posted full video at the bottom.
This clip catches the opening of the interview. Taff asks her, “When you talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people, what are one or two specific things you have in mind?” Harris achieves complete vacuity.
Kamala offered an unintelligible pitch to bring down prices (which are up 20.3% since she took office):
"I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who were very proud of their lawn. Ya know?" 🤨pic.twitter.com/XbRpRHaLKs
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As in her debate with Trump, Harris is tightly scripted. She has been coached to say nothing, yet the nothing sounds familiar. Indeed, at the opening of the interview, she provides the same memorized non-response to Taff that she did in her opening nonresponse in the ABC debate with Trump. I found the transparent falsity and evasion at the top of the interview almost shocking.
We know Harris says she loves Venn diagrams. Her professed love for them produced a great Kamala cackle. The overlap between those who take in the Taff interview and those who previously watched the debate must be large. Anyone who watches both with an open mind will conclude that the Harris candidacy is an artifact of advisers who have instructed her to say nothing meaningful. She is not to let the cat out of the bag, if we can still use that expression.
The viewer is invited to project his own hopes and wishes into Harris’s vast emptiness. In one sense, she comes across like Chance the Gardener in Being There: “As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.”
The Harris team calculates that it can sell her as the candidate of hope and change, much as Barack Obama sold himself in the course of the 2008 presidential campaign. Indeed, old Obama campaign hands have joined Harris’s team and we can infer they are writing Harris’s script. We can observe that Harris has dutifully memorized it. She nervously recites it with all the authenticity she can muster, which isn’t much.
Harris, whoever she is, is not there. She is hidden away. They think we are fools.
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