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December 13, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Taking a sabbatical from daily blogging is a lot like dieting: It’s hard to keep it up and resist temptation. Especially when a fresh glazed donut or delicious, creamy chocolate cake rolls by your nose. In this case the irresistible treat of a news story concerns the social media blitz that “first gentleman” (the provisional label for Doug Emhoff, aka, Mr. Kamala Harris) spooled out on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
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August 10, 2023 — Steven Hayward
The New York Times is apparently trying to pass off satire as “news” with its latest feature about the awesome Veep Kamala Harris. The story is “Kamala Harris Takes On a Forceful New Role in 2024 Campaign.” The fake news begins with the subhed: “The vice president is trying to reclaim the momentum that propelled her to Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s side as a candidate and into the White House
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July 27, 2023 — Steven Hayward
I recall Daniel Oliver telling the story of being appointed chairman of the Federal Trade Commission by President Reagan, and immediately downsizing the FTC staff and curtailing its harassment of business. Sure enough, the Washington Post ran a front page “news” story a few weeks later about how Oliver had “brought the FTC to a standstill.” Dan said, “It was my proudest moment. Reagan appointees called up from other agencies
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July 10, 2023 — Steven Hayward
The drip-drip-drip of the water torture media campaign to force Joe Biden to step aside picked up steam in the last few days. First, Maureen Dowd, the weather wane of respectable centrist feminist opinion at the New York Times, delivers a well-deserved scolding for Joe Biden’s directive to make his son Hunter’s love child with a stripper into a non-person: “The president’s cold shoulder — and heart — is counter
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February 15, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I greatly respect the New York Post’s dedication to the exposure of the Biden family business. Today it comes in the form of a cover story with a classic tabloid cover. Inside the paper Emily Crane reports: “Biden’s brother was hired to broker secret $140M Saudi deal when Joe was veep, docs reveal.” Crane’s story draws on the reporting of Josh Boswell for the Daily Mail: “EXCLUSIVE: Jim Biden admitted
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October 4, 2022 — Steven Hayward
I have never watched a single episode of “Veep” on HBO, though I have heard it is excellent, and moreover that it presaged the banality of our actual vice president, Kamala Harris. And the Daily Show, of all places, has stepped up with “Veep” clips applied to Harris (a sign that Hollywood realizes Harris can’t be elected president). Here’s the Sky News account and excerpt: Here’s how the Daily Show
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September 23, 2022 — Steven Hayward
We got together for this week’s Three Whisky Happy Hour a day early because I was supposed to be traveling again, though another complete airline FUBAR—the second in two weeks—scratched the trip after all. On top of it all, I was all out of whisky and Lucretia was working from her “no alcohol” campus office, so this episode lacks a certain fluidity that comes from our favorite libations. This week
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September 12, 2022 — Scott Johnson
You may not have heard recently that “the border is secure.” It was one of the assertions embedded in the incoherent verbal rambling with which Vice President Kamala Harris responded to the question posed by Chuck Todd in the interview broadcast on Meet the Press yesterday. NewsBusters has posted the video excerpt below along with its story and the accompanying transcript cruelly documenting the exchange. Harris’s rambling belongs in our
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July 5, 2022 — Steven Hayward
It would seem Kamala Harris isn’t the only senior person in the Biden Administration afflicted with a case of Severe Banality Syndrome (SBS). Behold our boy genius and Rhodes Scholar Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who had this to say to CBS News about the large number of airline flight cancellations and delays over the weekend: This is something that’s affecting all of us and it’s affecting the economy when
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June 23, 2022 — Steven Hayward
I’ve come across Elsa Kurt, who is one of those self-starting YouTube/social media stars, and she has the best Kamala Harris impression that I’ve seen to date—far better than we’ve been offered on Saturday Night Live. Here is her take on Kamala making coffee that nails the Veep’s grating laugh (45 seconds): Meanwhile, we haven’t checked in with the great J.P. Sears. He’s had a steady string of terrific videos
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May 17, 2022 — Steven Hayward
I’m so old I can remember Bill Clinton blaming the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing on Rush Limbaugh. Heck, I’m so old I can recall MSNBC and the rest of the leftist hive mind blaming the 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords on Sarah Palin, when 30 seconds of observation showed clearly the shooter was severely mentally ill. Oh, wait—you don’t need to be old for that: the New York Times
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March 27, 2022 — Scott Johnson
Vice President Harris’s meditation on “the passage of time” got me thinking. Has she been listening to too much Al Stewart? Then I started writing down a list of songs that came to mind with a temporal theme somewhere in the mix. Perhaps we can take Harris’s rotten lemon and turn it into lemonade with selections from my list. My only object here, as always, is to take a pause
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March 17, 2022 — Scott Johnson
Many noted Vice President Harris’s apparent confusion about the status of Ukraine as a member of NATO (or not) in her remarks at the DNC winter meeting last week. It may deserve a place in the work in progress that I call Veep Thoughts by Kamala Harris. I thought it was nothing more than the usual blather. The clip pic.twitter.com/mdXtedk6kA — Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) March 14, 2022 Politico’s Alex Thompson
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March 16, 2022 — Steven Hayward
I have a new theory about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She is self-consciously trying to help out hapless Veep Kamala by comparison. If you set the bar low enough. . . How else to explain yesterday’s rambling comments about Ukraine (only 1:48 long, but it seems luch longer): And who can forget this weird Nancy moment in Biden’s State of the Union address:
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February 22, 2022 — Scott Johnson
Let us pause once more over the appearance of Vice President Kamala Harris at the Munich Security Conference this pasts weekend. Her prepared remarks at the conference over the weekend weren’t enough. She felt compelled to speak extemporaneously in a question and answer session that went on for 16 minutes on her way out the door yesterday. It may be somewhat unfair to highlight one quotable quote that displays her
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January 22, 2022 — John Hinderaker
Kamala Harris might be the only person in the U.S. who has had a worse year than Joe Biden. So Biden apparently tried to shore up her standing yesterday: President Joe Biden ignited a social media frenzy Friday with his overly enthusiastic affection for embattled Vice President Kamala Harris. “Hi Kamala, I love you,” Biden said robotically to his veep, while the two delivered remarks at a virtual meeting of
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January 6, 2022 — Steven Hayward
• Latest from the Kamala Kollapse Watch: Another Kamala Harris aide quits as claims of turmoil, ‘bullying’ mount Yet another Kamala Harris aide has joined the exodus of staffers leaving the vice president’s office amid claims of turmoil and dysfunction. Vincent Evans, the veep’s deputy director of public engagement and intergovernmental affairs, has quit to take on a role on Capitol Hill, CNBC reported Wednesday. Evans is departing the VP’s office
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