Kamala Harris’s 60 Minutes Interview was “Prince Andrew-Like in its Awfulness”
In his 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, CBS’s Bill Whitaker broke new ground and actually did journalism, says the Spectator‘s Freddy Gray, asking challenging questions about key issues. And her performance was “Prince Andrew-like in its awfulness”. Here’s an excerpt.
Somebody give Bill Whitaker a prize. In his 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, which aired last night, the CBS correspondent did what no other journalist has successfully done since the Vice President was thrust to the top of the Democratic ticket: journalism. He asked Harris challenging questions about the matters voters care about most. He was civil, unaggressive, but professional enough to push her for clear answers. And Harris just couldn’t cope. Her performance was Prince Andrew-like in its awfulness.
On immigration, for instance, Whitaker asked Harris why the Biden-Harris administration had only recently started tackling the issue, after almost four years and an unprecedented surge in illegal border crossings. Harris robotically blamed Congress and Donald Trump, “who wants to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem so he told his buddies in Congress ‘kill the bill, don’t let it move forward’.”
Whitaker was not deterred. “But there was an historic flood of undocumented immigrants coming across the border the first three years of your administration,” he continued. “As a matter of fact, arrivals quadrupled from the last year of President Trump. Was it a mistake to loosen immigration policies as much you do did?”
That caused the Harris-bot to malfunction. “It’s a long standing problem,” she warbled. “And solutions are at hand and from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions…”
So Whitaker interrupted: “What I was asking was, was it a mistake to allow that kind of flood to happen in the first place?”
“I think the policies that we have been promoting have been about fixing a problem not promoting a problem,” she added.
“But the numbers did quadruple under your watch?” tried Whitaker, again.
Harris, ruffled, returned to square one: “And the numbers today… because of what we have done, we have cut the flow of illegal immigration, we have cut the flow of fentanyl, but we need Congress to act.”
Oh dear. That’s Harris’s overwhelming weakness as a political candidate. She can talk in soundbites and managerial slogans about “solutions not problems” but on issues of substance she can’t actually offer any solutions, which is a problem.
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This is the best possible thing that could happen. —-Americans might finally realise, if there ever was any doubt that this silly woman should stick to what she does best —Laughing smiling waving and cuddling people.
I do agree with Elon Musk here though, in that this could very well be the last election where a Republican such as Trump actually has a shot at winning. The rate that the Demtards are importing voters and the fraudulent lengths they’re going to to give these masses of immigrants citizenship is unreal. So much so that once so-called ‘swing states’ become majority Demtard then it’s game over, isn’t it? For pretty much the foreseeable. And I’m totally expecting another hit attempt on Trump before November. Imagine importing all of these migrants then he wins and deports the ones who haven’t got their papers by then? Plus he’s said he’d release the Epstein Island client list so no wonder they want him dead. All of their evil plans will be for naught if he gets in, which he’d flaming well better do;
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1843458287620239427
The moment it suits Mr Musk to back Kamala he will do it. The man is a crook, through and through, Mogs.
I agree he’s not perfect but he’s one of the better types at the top and genuinely does fight for free speech, sorry Marcus, your way wrong about Musk!
I really do think it’s the last chance for the US! It will disintegrate if the thick cackling Kindergarten teacher wins another’s term.
The bricks will become the new world power within a decade
There must be something in the water in California that makes “women of colour” spout vacuous nonsense. Another example is the self-promoter who married Harry.
The Biden Harris experience has unmasked and laid bare the reality of western governance. Namely that the people that are voted in as “leaders” are merely front men for an establishment.
The US government isn’t run by Biden or directed by him. Never was. It won’t either by Harris. She’s obviously self evidently not capable of anything of the kind.
The reason the establishment has been so aggressively anti-Trump from the outset is because they don’t control him.
Truss slipped in, went off the reservation and was quickly taken out and disposed of.
Harris is “awful” only in that she makes the farce of the system so obvious
One of the great oddities of this is why the Western Globalist Regime can’t seem to get itself a better class of puppet. To go from the Biden-dolt to Harris-Airhead is stretching plausibility to beyond breaking point. Is it incompetence? Or is it indifference based on the idea that the person who occupies the role of President of the United States is of no real significance?
This is the moment described above. It’s all just massively cringe, all of the time. If that debate with Trump hadn’t been so rigged against him, Trump would have handed Harris her arse on a plate. They knew she’d be toast on the night and so they had to play dirty.
“But the numbers did quadruple.”
When a broadcast journalist pushes back against a politician’s lies, it is a powerful thing.
You can see the fear in Kamala Harris’ eyes when she realizes this CBS journalist is not going to fall for her gaslighting.”
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1843467312684511527
Just look how they had to edit her answer here about Israel. Even her handlers must’ve despaired at yet another puppet malfunction. I actually thought it might even be AI. And she’s still wearing her ‘lucky’ earrings!;
”Remember Kamala’s word salad answer about Israel on 60 Minutes? It’s gone.
This is what many Americans will now see.”
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1843691643234644383
Am interesting question is why the mainstream is challenging her a bit?
Trying to preserve some semblance of respectability?
A bit of a sea change?
Good question. CNN asked tough questions of Biden during his disastrous debate, but it did so to humiliate him and push him out of the race. Maybe the media think she’ll lose anyway or wreck the Dem brand. Other Dem politicians are waiting in the wings for the next election. Can’t see leftists giving up power, though, when they have an opportunity to further control–and it would just take a bit of election shenanigans. I thought the UK had fair elections until Andrew Bridgen just lost his long-term seat.
There are individuals in mainstream media organisations who don’t necessarily agree with what the mainstream media organisations are pushing, who would rather be proper journalists, but these individuals are constrained by fear of losing their jobs etc, but they can sometimes get away with being proper journalists within these restraints, up to a point.
Regardless of her political affiliations, there is just a frightening sense of emptiness emanating from her. Starmer is the same.
It’s the emptiness they filled him with in his years at the Trilateral Commission, perhaps?
They’re both like bots ….. they regurgitate the lines they’ve learned; but are incapable of reacting spontaneously to a “curve ball” question/event.
Is that why he appears to be growing a 2nd chin? You know, to fill the emptiness.
Well, she’s obviously ‘unburdened by what has gone before’ and seeks to ‘holistically’ embrace the ‘solutions to the long standing problem’ if only Congress would take its finger out and act. Translation: “It’s not my doing so don’t blame me”
No wonder Joe is starting to actively undermine her fakery.
It’s obvious that the main problem the US faces today is critically bad governance. This is leading to a downward spiral of all facets of life in the US. Dealing only with specific problems created by poor governance will not solve the bigger problem. Many of the western countries have this same debilitating problem.