Kamala Harris
February 17, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Former Vice President Kamala Harris visited backstage with the cast and crew of Wonderful World on Broadway over the weekend. The New York Post helps with a transcription of a few of the quotable quotes from her remarks along with a great screenshot of Kamala in mid-flight. This is one of the quotes: “When we think about these moments where we see things that are being taken, but also let’s
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November 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
You may have heard of the appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober. In the Thanksgiving Day video below, Kamala Harris is filmed in the same location and attire that she appeared in earlier this week when some doubted her sobriety. It must have been filmed later the same day, by which time Kamala could walk a straight line. In the Thanksgiving video, however, Harris was joined by Doug Emhoff.
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November 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Democrats have released a message from Kamala Harris. As posted on X, it runs 29 seconds. It is illustrative of Harris’s vacuity and weakness as a national candidate running on her own steam. It’s so bad, you have to wonder — as the title of one of David Crosby’s contributions to the Byrds’ Fifth Dimension album puts it — “What’s Happening?!?!” Vice President @KamalaHarris’ message to supporters. pic.twitter.com/x5xMUGTtkz —
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November 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson
With apologies to Carole King, watching the video below puts me in mind of her song. When you’re down and troubled, and you need some lovin’ care, and nothin’, nothin’ is goin’ right, close your eyes and think of the bullet we dodged, and soon you will be able to brighten up even your darkest night. It takes a Kamala Harris to teach us that laughter is not always the
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November 19, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Someone may want to rewrite Traffic’s look at the dark side of the music business (I think) in “The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” to cover Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. Something like “The High Cost of Low-Heeled Joy” might work. Shane Goldmacher provides the raw material in his November 17 New York Times story “How Kamala Harris Burned Through $1.5 Billion in 15 Weeks.” Subhead: “Her frenzied spending has
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November 13, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross breaks the story that the Harris campaign doled out $500,000 to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network. This was Sharpton’s share of the action (forgive the long quote): Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign donated $500,000 to Al Sharpton’s nonprofit organization just weeks before the anti-Semitic MSNBC host—who once said that “diamond merchant” Jews have the “blood of innocent babies” on their hands—conducted a friendly interview with
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November 11, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In hindsight, Kamala Harris’s crushing loss to Donald Trump seems overdetermined. The Biden/Harris administration’s poor record and Kamala’s lack of political ability were more than enough to account for the outcome. But the New York Post is reporting on an exit poll that suggests that Harris would have run better with Jewish voters in Pennsylvania if she had stuck with her original decision to select Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as
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November 11, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Robert Gover wrote the cult classic One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding. It may have been cutting-edge in 1961, when it was published, but not for long. Indeed, Hunter Biden’s misadventures have taken reality far beyond Gover’s satire. However, I have found Gover’s title an irresistible source of headlines for comments on the news. Here we go again. The Harris presidential campaign reportedly raised and spent $1,000,000,000 in the course of its
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November 7, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Kamala Harris knew she had lost her race against President Trump on the evening of the election, but she chose to turn out the lights and go home without conceding. It must have been difficult for her to face the prospect of treating her opponent as something other than the fascist she proclaimed him to be during the course of her abbreviated campaign. She finally got around to the concession
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November 6, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Kamala Harris declined to address supporters on election night, but a person present at the watch party obtained what she claims is a draft copy of her speech: Ladies and gentlemen, friends and supporters, thanks for coming out but it’s time to get real. Despite what people might think, ancestry in Jamaica and India is not an accomplishment or qualification for office. I ran a terrible campaign but I really
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November 5, 2024 — Scott Johnson
I like to look back on the morning after last night, but I want to offer a few random thoughts on the election today — on what we quaintly used to call Election Day — before the polls open this morning. Herewith a set of reflections in the form of bullet points. • This may be the weirdest election in American history. It is certainly the weirdest election we have
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November 4, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
I am not going to talk about the vote on that. Because honestly it’s the Sunday before the election and I don’t intend to create an endorsement one way or another around it. That was Kamala Harris on Sunday, responding to a question about California ballot Proposition 36, a measure to reform the 2014 Proposition 47, which transformed theft of merchandise worth less than $950 from a felony to a
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November 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Democrats are trying to run on the issue of “democracy,” which polls tell us ranks around fourth in voters’ rating of issues. It has never been clear what Democrats mean by claiming that Our Democracy™️ is on the ballot. Ironically, though, in a very real sense it is. I have been in Europe for the last couple of weeks. A few days ago, I had a conversation with a
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November 3, 2024 — Scott Johnson
We turn to CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski for a review of Harris campaign ads running in Pennsylvania geared to an audience of Jewish voters and in Michigan geared to an audience of Arab Muslim voters (video below). They raise the classic Chico Marx/Duck Soup question: “Who ya gonna believe?” In this case the alternatives aren’t “me or your eyes,” but rather Harris in the Pennsylvania ad or Harris in the Michigan
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November 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Free Beacon has posted the final pre-election edition of its Veep Thoughts series (video below). This is volume 29 The Veep Thoughts archive to date is underneath the linked story. The brevity of the videos and the soothing musical soundtrack almost make them palatable. The big event this week was Vice President Harris’s “closing argument” at the Ellipse south of the White House. The Free Beacon reported on
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November 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In the last days of the presidential campaign, Democrats have cranked the hysteria up to 12. Start with Tim Walz, who referred to Elon Musk as “that gay guy,” and then, with a malicious leer, said “Michigan knows that word.” Walz’s aides now say he “misspoke,” and blamed it on a “stutter.” We have listened to Walz’s endless yammering for some years now, and we can assure you, he does
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October 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Since I wrote the post below this past Sunday, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has explained his decision to revert to the Post’s non-endorsement policy in “The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media.” My post was triggered by my old Weekly Standard editor Jonathan Last’s Bulwark column asserting that the Post’s non-endorsement and Elon Musk’s support of President Trump were inspired by fear of a pending Trump victory
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