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Al’s Afternoon Tea: Tardy and Intemperate Kamala Harris Dodges and Disparages in Fox News Interview

Al’s Afternoon Tea: Tardy and Intemperate Kamala Harris Dodges and Disparages in Fox News Interview
By: The Stream - Politics Posted On: October 17, 2024 View: 0

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This article was originally published on The Stream - Politics. You can read the original article HERE

Welcome back in for Al’s Afternoon Tea, our chance to sip and savor the latest news.

Cranky Kamala Makes Mess of Fox News Interview

Kamala Harris showed up late, her frantic handlers cut her off early, and in the time between those two things, the Democratic presidential nominee demonstrated not only a pathological incapacity to answer questions but the reason 92% of her staff hightailed it out of the White House during her vice presidency.

Other than that, Harris’s interview with Fox News’s Brett Baier went perfectly.

Harris was combative and irritable from the jump with the cuddly teddy bear of a host, which is a flat-out terrible look. (Remember our election mantra from the start of this campaign: If Donald Trump is the nice one, he wins.)

Baier opened with a simple question about how many illegal immigrants the administration has released into the country, and if Harris regretted any of the early decisions she and Joe Biden made regarding the border.

Watch how quickly her answer falls off the rails.

When asked about her past support for all sorts of goodies for illegal immigrants, Harris offered a pathetic Bill Clinton-esque dodge of “I will follow the law.”

She was asked about her support for incarcerated criminals who entered the nation illegally getting taxpayer-funded sex changes. Her answer? Again, “I will follow the law.” She’s either too cowardly to say she still supports it, is convinced she’s being clever, or thinks voters are idiots. She then claimed that such surgeries took place during the Trump administration.

When reminded that Trump didn’t support the policy, Harris once again made life easy for Trump’s advertising people. “You are responsible for what happens in your administration.” You could hear the shouts of “Thank you, Kamala!” from Trump campaign headquarters.

Baier also asked the one question people have wanted answered since Joe Biden’s incapacity was laid bare at the first presidential debate: When did she know?

First she blathered a canned answer about how she’s seen Joe in command — which begs the question, “If Joe’s still mentally acute, why was he forced out of the race by you and Barack and the other people behind the scenes?”

Then she kept repeating, “Joe Biden is not on the ticket.” Which ignores the point, which is, “How long were you deceiving the American people by insisting he was well?” The question is about her dishonesty, not Biden’s incapacity — and she is on the ticket.

Rather amusingly, Harris kept trying to twist all the questions about her, her policies, and her record into attacks on Donald Trump. It was so egregious that it was quickly turned into a fun meme.

Pro tip: Americans want a Margaret Thatcher as their first female president. Not Amber Heard. 

But social media didn’t need to create funny memes. Harris managed to be hysterical all on her own. Baeir pointed out that 79% of Americans think the country is on the wrong track, and that she’s been in office for three and a half years. Her response? “And Donald Trump has been running for office … c’mon. You and I both know what I’m talking about.”

“I actually don’t,” Baier said. “What are you talking about?”

No wonder so many of her staffers threw in the towel early.

The Aftermath

After the interview, Baeir revealed that Harris showed up nearly 20 minutes late for it. That’s rude, inconsiderate, and a power play. The interview was supposed to last 25 to 30 minutes. But after 20 minutes, Harris’s four handlers were frantically waving for the interview to cut off, as if to tsay, “It’s got to stop!” (Pro tip: You don’t stop highly anticipated interviews on the top cable news network if things are going your way.)

It would have been easy enough for Harris, the vice president of the United States and Democratic presidential nominee, to turn to them and say, “No, it’s okay. Let’s keep rolling.” Especially considering that she was late. But she didn’t. Which also tells you what you need to know about her, both as a person and a candidate.

Harris’s spin doctors immediately posted that Trump’s campaign is “freaking out” after that interview. The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland found that hysterical.

A true sign everyone knew it was not a good night for Harris? David Plouff of the Harris campaign described it as an “ambush interview,” as if Baier had jumped out of the bushes to pepper her with gotcha questions on her way out of a coffee shop.

Baier didn’t even ask her about the recent revelations that she plagiarized significant portions of her book. Or the horrid allegations against her chief surrogate and husband Doug Emhoff physically abusing a former girlfriend. He didn’t ask her about her administration jailing pro-life protesters, labeling parents domestic terrorists, or the disasters associated with their policies on electric vehicle stations , the broadband effort , the Secret Service, or more pointedly, why she was partying with rich elites and doing a sex podcast while North Carolinians were drowning in the wake of Hurricane Helene.

If that’s an ambush interview, Tim Walz is Hulk Hogan.

As for the mainstream media, all those outlets got the same memo from on high: Describe the interview as “testy.”

Is “testy” a word you want associated with someone hoping to be commander-in-chief? “Combative,” perhaps. “Testy,” no.

As The Stream‘s Gayle McQueary points out, the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines testy as “easily annoyed, irritable, marked by impatience or ill humor.” Not much “joy” in that.

Harris’s “Three Virtues” According to Trump

We’re not spending our whole Tea time smacking Harris, though. We have an interesting moment from Donald Trump’s townhall session last night on Univision. Trump was asked if he could name “three virtues” of his opponent. Instead of the smart-aleck answer one might expect, he offered an insightful one.

  • Harris has an “ability to survive.”
  • She has long-term friendships.
  • And her campaign rhetoric aside, “she seems to have a nice way about her.”

Harris was asked the same question last week, and fumbled around before settling on saying that Trump loves his family. That might seem like a little thing, but leaders need to know the personal strengths and weaknesses of their opponents. In Harris’s case, she had the opportunity to show her humanity simply by pointing to his reaction to getting shot.  

Biden Rolls Out Another $4.5 Billion in Student Loan Debt “Relief” Right Before Election

Remember how the Supreme Court shouted that a president can’t cancel student debt because it’s unconstitutional? Add “hard of hearing” to Joe Biden’s list of infirmities. Or “contempt for the rule of law.”

This morning, Biden announced yet another effort to “cancel” student loan debt — this time, $4.5 billion in student debt held by public servants. Of course, this doesn’t actually cancel their debt. It passes it on to those who paid their bills or never went to college. The proposal is pre-election pandering to a Democratic base Kamala Harris desperately needs: the college-educated.

Wouldn’t it be nice if Biden instead pushed the $4.5 billion toward western North Carolina?

Biden-Harris Offering Another $425 Million in Aid to … Who?

North Carolina’s official state song is “The Old North State.” They might want to change it to Michael Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us.”

Yesterday, the Biden-Harris administration announced it will be shelling out another $425 million in aid to, you guessed it, Ukraine. Technically, another $425 million in military assistance, including air defense capability, air-to-ground munitions, armored vehicles and critical munitions.

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Al Perrotta is The Stream’s Washington bureau chief, coauthor with John Zmirak of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration, and coauthor of the counterterrorism memoir Hostile Intent: Protecting Yourself Against Terrorism.

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