How utterly vapid is VP Kamala Harris? 

She just flunked an interview with a “journalist” who’d announced days before that demanding to know where the veep actually stands on policy is as unreasonable as wanting to live in a state of nirvana.

Under mild questioning from MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, Harris still managed to flop and flail and word-salad her way into ever greater depths of inanity. 

Consider this sample exchange on the subject of how Harris will pay for her estimated $1.7 trillion spending plan:

“If you can’t raise corporate taxes, or if the GOP takes control of the Senate, where do you get the money to do that? Do you still go for those plans and borrow,” asked Ruhle. 

A key question, one that every candidate should have a detailed answer ready for.

Harris’ response: “Well, but we’re going to have to raise corporate taxes.”

Ruhle let this nonsense pass with zero meaningful probing. 

But things somehow got even more sycophantic from there: Ruhle simpered, “You have laid out policy in great detail.”

To which Harris gave an utterly mendacious “Yes.”

That’s literally the one thing Harris hasn’t done — including in the interview Ruhle was conducting at the time, the first solo interview the candidate has given a major network so far.   

Kim Jong Un could only hope to be so adored by his pet media.

Underlying the interview was the new, all-too-popular journalistic “principle” Ruhle had voided before Harris reached out for the sitdown: There’s no need for specifics from Harris because Orange Man Bad. 

This approach got Joe Biden into office in the 2020 election, and most of the press clearly wants to run the same playbook again. 

This time for a candidate who is either totally vacuous on actual policy, or who knows that what she really believes would turn off voters so much, she has to obfuscate. 

Either way, the public is deprived of crucial information in a crucial election.

The fact that the very people who swear they live and die to inform America are behind it is a pathetic joke.