Kamala Harris
October 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
We have written about the radicalism of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, as reflected in Walz’s education policies, most recently here. A new ad, playing in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, hits Walz hard: The ad is sponsored by Restoration PAC. I don’t know how much money is behind it; I believe it is digital-only, not playing on broadcast television. But I hope it will have impact in the campaign’s
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October 28, 2024 — Steven Hayward
John Barnes is one of my oldest friends in the world of conservative journalism. We were fellow interns (along with John Fund and the late Martin Morse Wooster) at Stan Evans’s National Journalism Center back in 1981, and he enjoyed a career in opinion journalism at both the Detroit News and N.Y. Post. He wrote the following note for his friends a few days ago, and I thought it was
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October 27, 2024 — Steven Hayward
The special election issue of the New York Review of Books has landed in my mailbox, and it promises hours and hours of hilarious reading. Let’s start with the high comedy of Susan Faludi (who I didn’t know was still a thing, or even alive), with a piece about “the joyful Kamala Harris and the mirthless Donald Trump.” Here’s my favorite part: [Harris’s] high-wattage beams and peals of laughter, her sartorial
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October 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Post has announced it will not endorse a presidential candidate this year. Post publisher and chief executive officer William Lewis posted his statement explaining the non-endorsement on Friday. Lewis made the case that the Post was reverting to an old policy whose wisdom he defended. Consternation — consternation among the laborers on the news and editorial staff — has ensued. They feel that ownership is letting democracy die
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October 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Trump campaign has released the video of Holocaust survivor Jerry Wartski below. Wartski met Trump in Brooklyn at the Ohel of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. They prayed for the release of the remaining hostages held in Gaza. Wartski rejects the “Trump Is Hitler” theme that the Harris campaign is currently peddling in its quest to defeat President Trump. The New York Post has background on the video here, the
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October 24, 2024 — John Hinderaker
So Kamala Harris’s last, desperate ploy is to go full Hitler. There is nothing surprising about this; as we and many others have said, repeatedly, the Democrats have called every prominent Republican since Thomas Dewey another Hitler. Abraham Lincoln obviously predated Adolf, but the Democrats’ attacks on him as a would-be dictator, a threat to the fundamental human right to own slaves, was a precursor. Comparing any American political faction
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October 24, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Over the past several weeks we have noted that the Harris presidential campaign is not going altogether swimmingly based on signs emanating from the campaign itself. The latest is the campaign’s turn to the flyblown theme that “Trump is Hitler.” At the moment it comes courtesy of Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of the Atlantic, and his interview with former Trump chief of staff John Kelly. Park MacDougald reviewed it yesterday evening
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October 23, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday I weighed the evidence bearing on Kamala Harris’s claim of employment by McDonald’s in the summer of 1983. By contrast with the Washington Free Beacon story raising doubts about Harris’s claim, the New York Times asserted that there was no evidence to rebut Harris’s claim. “Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that Ms. Harris never worked at the fast-food chain,” the Times wrote said. “Her campaign and a friend
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October 23, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Maria Shriver moderated a series of conversations with Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania on Monday. Someone cruelly mocked it as a roundtable of women whose husbands knocked up their nannies. To do that, however, you have to leave Cheney out of the picture. Her participation in the roundtable is its own form of punishment. Below is a clip from one of Monday’s events. Vice President
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October 22, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In the classic self-parody supporting Kamala Harris’s alleged stint at McDonald’s, the subhead on the New York Times story reads: “Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that Ms. Harris never worked at the fast-food chain. Her campaign and a friend say she did.” The story is attributed to two reporters: Heather Knight and Nicholas Nehamas. It took two Times reporters to pool their resources and come up with a lead
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October 22, 2024 — Scott Johnson
For the title of The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary, then Columbia University undergrad James Simon Kunen drew on comments made by then Columbia vice dean Herbert Deane in an April 1967 interview with the Columbia Spectator. Speaking about the role of students in university policy, Deane commented that “student or faculty opinion should not in itself have any influence on the formation of administrative policy[.]” He explained:
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October 21, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Trump putting in his shift at a Philadelphia McDonald’s was a brilliant stroke. It served so many purposes at one time. I’m sure I’m overlooking a few, but a few themes that occur to me are: Pennsylvania, the billionaire businessman who is a man of the people, and Kamala’s inauthenticity. The Washington Free Beacon originally dug into Harris’s “I did fries” story in an investigative piece by reporters Joe
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October 21, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Jon Levine has the New York Post story: “Kamala Harris publicly agrees with protestor accusing Israel of genocide: ‘What he’s talking about, it’s real.’” What she’s talking about — it’s unreal. The imputation of genocide to Israel is an Orwellian phenomenon. Israel has taken many excruciating losses because of the IDF’s concern for innocent civilian life. WATCH — Vice President Harris in response to a heckler screaming that Israel is
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October 20, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Anyone recall how the media devoted substantial resources back in 2012 to investigate Mitt Romney’s prep school days, complete with tracking down classmates and school records? Apparently it wasn’t enough to report the massive scandal that Romney put a dog on the roof of his car once on a family trip. (Never mind literally killing someone with his bare hands when his private equity company upset someone’s health insurance.) No—the
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October 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Presidents Biden and Obama chatted at Ethel Kennedy’s funeral last week. Video of the funeral allowed the New York Post to hire a lip reader to decipher the conversation. Biden “griped to Obama,” as the Post put it, that “she” (Kamala Harris) is “not as strong as me” — with Obama agreeing “that’s true.” But, Obama assured him, they have time to rectify the situation. As I’ve been inferring from
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October 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson
After Israel announced the IDF’s elimination of Sinwar in Rafah yesterday, Vice President Harris made a congratulatory statement (White House transcript here, video clip below). This statement should fill a normal person with disgust. 🚨 Kamala speaks out about Sinwar. “Know this, we will always bring you to justice” Wait a minute… We? Sinwar was found in Rafah. Wasn’t it Kamala who said going into Rafah would be a “huge
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October 17, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Kamala Harris sat for an interview by Bret Baier for Special Report on Fox News yesterday. I have posted the video below. Baier was, well, loaded for bear. I thought he did an excellent job within the time allowed. I have just a few thoughts and observations. This was Harris’s first interview on Fox News. I take it that her appearance in this venue is a sign that her campaign
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