Closing the holistic tabs as holistically as possible ...

NEW: Vice President Kamala Harris says "holistic" three times in a 15-second period.

The VP proudly showed off the word during an interview with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle.

"Looking holistically at the connection between that and housing and looking holistically at the… pic.twitter.com/Z9DMdR97Qj

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 25, 2024

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Since Ms. Harris began granting more interviews in recent days, her media strategy has been to sit with friendly inquisitors who are not inclined to ask terribly thorny questions or press her when her responses are evasive.

Nothing about that changed during her interview with Ms. Ruhle before her audience on MSNBC, the liberal cable channel whose viewers overwhelmingly favor Democratic candidates.

It’s not quite clear what Ms. Harris gained, aside from giving her campaign aides the ability to say she held a one-on-one cable television interview.

Ed: That's from the New York Times, although you have to dig into their analysis to find this conclusion. Other media outlets had more effusive coverage of the word-salad extravaganza, but this is one salad the Gray Lady can't swallow. 

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Some reaction from me on @cnn tonight to Kamala Harris’s MSNBC interview, and what she and Biden said today about their failed policies and pathetic class warfare. pic.twitter.com/EA65h1QIL2

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) September 26, 2024

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Luntz appeared on “Squawk Box,” where co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin played a clip of Harris’ interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle where she repeatedly asserted that wealthy Americans and corporations need to “pay their fair share” of taxes. Luntz said voters do not want to hear that phase, as they want more specific policies from Harris that she is not delivering.

“Some of what she has said in the last few weeks are exactly what voters want to hear. That is not. ‘Pay their fair share.’ We’ve heard it now for how many years, 30, maybe 40? What exactly is fair share? … And the issue for that is it’s a sound bite, it’s a slogan. And I know that I’m a messaging person so that’s my job,” the pollster said. “However, the public demands a detailed plan of action and they’re not getting it from her[."] 

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MSNBC: You criticize President Trump on tariffs, but you and Biden kept many of his tariffs in place — and even expanded them...?

KAMALA: "One must be serious!"

Does Kamala have any idea what a tariff is? pic.twitter.com/UOlrPoTuLz

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 25, 2024

Ed: I didn't include this exchange in my post, but I believe it was in Duane's. Bear in mind that Harris got asked the exact same question in the ABC debate, couldn't answer it then, and still can't answer it more than two weeks later. 

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Her campaign has been criticized for dodging the press and only choosing outlets who will give her softball questions, but they have argued that they have spoken to a wide variety of nontraditional media..

The vice president has done a total of eight recognized interviews since Biden stepped down from the race, including an interview with CNN alongside her running mate Tim Walz, three local radio hits, a sit down with Philadelphia’s ABC station, Spanish-language radio host Chiquibaby and a three-person panel at a gathering of the National Association of Black Journalists.

Ed: She blew the interview with Brian Taff at ABC's Philly affiliate with the same lack of depth on policy. Her NABJ appearance wasn't much better either, and she knew it. 

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Reporter: If Kamala is such a proud gun owner, then why did she sponsor a bill when she was DA that aimed to ban handguns in San Francisco?

KJP: This is about responsible gun ownership!

Reporter: It sounds like she wanted NO gun ownership. pic.twitter.com/AXJrygGwQ0

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 26, 2024

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We’ve seen that they’re trying to get her elected, the worst possible candidate they could put there. But in 90 days, they’re trying to get her across the finish line. She’s the first ever AI presidential candidate, all done by social media, media, TV, radio.

They’re doing everything they possibly can. They’ll spend billions of dollars to get her across the line. She is the worst candidate. There are some Democrat, Democrat senators up here that are wondering how in the world did she get in front of me? I’ve been up for forever. I know the policies. I know how to get things done. No chance. Didn’t talk to them. She’s the one they wanted because they can control her. That’s what it’s all about.

Ed: That's from Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on Fox Business. Mediaite seems nonplussed by the AI reference, but anyone who's used it to get answers to specific questions knows precisely what Tuberville means. 

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This kid was raised right. pic.twitter.com/81u5QAdGTQ

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 26, 2024

Ed: Why was CNN asking kids about politics in the first place? Kids this age repeat what their parents say, sometimes embarrassingly. This tiresome tradition deserves to get sent to the corner for the next few decades.

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“For those of us who have been waiting for more specifics of what does that childcare policy look like? What is it that she’s calling for? We’re not getting that at this point in the campaign,” an ABC News reporter Elizabeth Schulze said on air, following Harris’s speech in Pittsburgh.

“As she is putting forward a ‘new way forward,’ she is currently in office,” Real Clear Politics White House reporter Philip Wegmann said told Fox News. “She currently has access to the levers of power.”

Harris faces a conundrum: She cannot campaign on policies to fix crime, inflation, and border security without undermining the Biden-Harris administration’s policies, but she must tout the administration’s policies to validate her record and candidacy.

Ed: Call it the Kamala Conundrum II: Incumbency Boogaloo. 

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LOL of the day — from the White House: pic.twitter.com/JbJwLNLO89

— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) September 26, 2024

Ed: That's a little more holistic than most of us prefer. It's a typo; they meant "pool report." Still worth a laugh. 

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Harris also leaned on the word 'holistic' during her conversation with the National Association of Black Journalists earlier this month.

'The trauma that exists in communities around the violence of losing their children, losing a brother, losing a father, an uncle — all of that must be addressed, and we have to have a holistic response to it,' she said, when asked about how she planned to address gun violence.

She continued, 'It's about understanding what we need to do to, again, understand that, to your point, we have to have a holistic response to this issue and prioritize it, instead of reacting to the tragedy that, sadly, they are too predictable.'

Ed: So are her word salads. 

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Kamala: "There's a time for patience and there's a time for impatience. That's not an Ecclesiastics."

Pretty sure it's pronounced "Ecclesiastes" lmfaopic.twitter.com/UywbU3OX8J

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 25, 2024