The quotation marks around tough are applied with a dash of side-eye. Of course mainstream media aren't tough on Kamala, especially when the outer boundary of modern political demagoguery is defined by comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
Still, it is remarkable that the corporate, leftist media are tripping Harris up less than two weeks before the election. Anderson Cooper of CNN seemed downright passive-aggressive as he pressed Harris on the border wall that she so vocally opposed during Trump's first term.
Typically, media sycophants chuckle along with Kamala when she delivers her signature cackle. In the clip below, Cooper (and the entire crowd), is silent.
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The CNN town hall yesterday isn't a one-off, however. The pointed questions Harris has faced are coming from other previous softball-tossers such as MSNBC.
Interviewer: "Why is Trump gaining with Latinos?"
Kamala: "This is not my experience."
Awkward!
It isn't just the "tough" questions. In the wrap-up after the CNN town hall--usually a time of massaging the truth, a time for reshaping the reality of what everyone just saw, Scott Jennings was especially brutal about Harris' performance, going so far as to say, "If [Harris] were an animal, she'd be a duck-billed platitude"--and the lefty talking heads laugh.
Granted, Jennings is the in-house conservative pundit for CNN, the lone voice to counter the other four liberal commentators, but for the famously progressive network to air his spot-on jibe, "I mean, she's like a true double threat. She's terrible on her feet when she gets unexpected questions, and simultaneously, she can't even answer the expected questions" is historically abnormal.
Jennings isn't entirely correct about Harris, however. On her feet, the vice president can be quite nimble. While stumping in Wisconsin this week, she responded with the reflexes of a cat to two Christian attendees who shouted, "Jesus is Lord!"
"Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally. No, I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street."
See? She can be sharp. The problem with candor, especially when it has to do with excluding people of faith, is that it can be off-putting for certain groups of voters...such as Christians.
Perhaps the Bret Baier interview on mainstream FOX News left blood in the water that the other networks couldn't help but notice. His gentle disembowelment of Harris garnered huge ratings. Or perhaps the heads of these titanic organizations are considering their posture in the election should Trump prevail, such as the LA Times, which has declined to endorse Harris.
The Democratic Party strategy of finally putting Harris in the spotlight has had two outcomes. She isn't answering the questions she's asked...but she is answering the larger question about her ability to lead.
