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Veep on Fox = Disaster Zone

Slant Eyed Polack

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What a shit show. She’s been running scared from challenging interviews the entire cycle. 60 minutes was the sole exception, and CBS had to slice & dice her responses to make her appear marginally less retarded. Fox didn’t do that; none of her bullshit was swept under the rug. He kicked it off by asking how many illegals have been shoveled into the country during Biden/Harris, and she immediately ducked. She WOULD NOT ANSWER. When asked about Laken Riley & others who’ve been snuffed out by the illegals she’s let in, she blamed it on not passing a border bill in 2023. Nevermind those millions had already been shoveled in, long before the bill was even proposed. When asked if she owes an apology to the Laken Rileys of the world, she WOULD NOT ANSWER.

When asked if she supports transing illegals & minors at taxpayer expense, she WOULD NOT ANSWER. When asked about covering for Biden’s senility, she pivoted to spewing sharp and together he is, but it doesn’t matter cuz he’s not running. Baier followed up by noting how the world can see he’s diminished, that’s the only reason you’re here – she WOULD NOT ANSWER.

What really jumped out was her demeanor, facial expressions & body language. I think she was furious Baier had the audacity to do anything other than kiss her ass. She is either unwilling or unable (my money’s on the latter) to answer a single question about policy. She is the living embodiment of the old saw “there’s no there there.” The only arrow in her quiver is “but Trump!” She doesn’t know her own policies well enough – or at all – to make coherent arguments how her positions differ from Trump’s or Biden’s or Rumpelstiltskin’s, nevermind how they’ll benefit anyone.

What’s really breathtaking is how this moron is guaranteed a minimum of 45% of the vote.
 
She had 'talking points' and no matter what/how he asked, she parroted out her points, even if they had little to do with the question.

And she got mad and showed she can't perform under even modest pressure.

Trump gets mad too, but he can eventually pull his head out and regain composure.

She was uncomfortable. She fumbled under pressure. She bleated out "Trump" a couple dozen times. Baier pushed her. I think a couple times he came off a bit like a schoolyard bully, but he typically gave her a few moments to try to speak intelligently before he would re-ask or follow up. Overall, he did well. Overall she flailed like a 3rd grader who only knew what she memorized but had no depth beneath the surface.









But MSNBC, very predictably, pulls out the "race" card based on comments after the interview.

 
And the liberal spin on the interview, from THE HILL website. Honestly this article is pretty fair and honest. I give them credit.



5 takeaways from a contentious Bret Baier, Harris interview

Vice President Harris sat for her toughest interview yet since becoming the Democratic nominee on Wednesday, when she was peppered with questions from Fox News’s Bret Baier.
The two sparred frequently, at times speaking over each other on the matters of immigration, President Biden’s mental fitness, transgender prisoners and cases involving alleged murders by migrants.
Harris took a risk by appearing on the network just three weeks before Election Day as part of a recent media blitz in which she’s trying to cobble together enough of a coalition to beat former President Trump.
Here are five takeaways from the Bret Baier interview.

Harris’s faces toughest interview so far

Harris and Baier sparred from the outset when Baier asked about the number of migrants who have entered the country illegally since the start of the Biden administration. The Fox News host followed up several times with questions related to immigration, a subject that took up nearly half the airtime.
Multiple times throughout the interview, they had a back-and-forth over Harris not responding to a question or pivoting on an answer, at times talking over each other.
At one point, Baier asked Harris what she made of such a large contingent of Americans expressing support for former President Trump, while the two candidates remained largely neck and neck in polling, asking her, “Are they stupid?”

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“Oh God, I would never say that about the American people,” she responded. “He’s the one who tends to demean and belittle and diminish the American people.”
Harris also pushed back when Baier tried to move on from a question regarding Trump’s “enemy from within” remarks about his own rivals at home.
Baier played a clip from a town hall that aired earlier Wednesday on Fox News’s “The Faulkner Focus,” during which Trump said, “I’m not threatening anybody.”
“That clip was not what he has been saying about the enemy from within … that’s not what you just showed,” Harris told Baier. “You didn’t show that and here is the bottom line, he has repeated it multiple times, and you and I both know that, and you and I both know he has talked about turning the military on the American people.”
Harris was referring to Trump’s remarks in another interview in which he called his Democratic opponents the “enemy within” and suggested the military could quell unrest, which drew backlash and became a centerpiece of one of Harris’s campaign rallies.

Baier puts Harris on defense over immigration

Baier pressed Harris on the Biden administration’s decision to end a Trump-era policy that forced potential asylum-seekers to stay in Mexico to wait out the results of their case in U.S. immigration court, to which Harris responded by noting the first proposed piece of legislation by Biden was an immigration bill.
Baier also brought up Rachel Nungaray, Laken Riley and Rachel Morin, who were all young women allegedly killed by men who entered the country illegally, and he asked the vice president if their families are owed an apology.
“Those are tragic cases, there’s no question about that,” Harris responded, adding that she was “sincerely” sorry for the families’ losses.
Baier also asked about her 2019 stance that border crossings should be decriminalized. That is one of several issues Harris has been accused of flip-flopping on. She told Baier she does not believe in decriminalizing border crossings.
“I do not believe in decriminalizing border crossings and I have not done that as vice president, and I would not do that as president,” she said.

Harris addresses tenure as VP, ‘turning the page’

Baier played a clip from Harris’s interview on “The View,” during which she said there was nothing that “comes to mind” when it comes to what she could have done differently from Biden in the last nearly four years.
“Let me be very clear, my presidency would not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency. And like every new president that comes into office, I will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences and fresh new ideas,” she told Baier. “I represent a new generation of leadership.”
She noted that she has not spent the majority of her career in Washington, as Biden has.
When Baier pressed her on why one of her campaign promises is to “turn the page” when she has been the sitting vice president for more than three years, Harris pivoted to talking about Trump.
“Well first of all, turning the page from the last decade in which we’ve been burdened with the kind of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump that has been designed and implemented to divide our country and have Americans literally point fingers at each other,” she said.
Baier then reiterated that she has been vice president for three and a half years, questioning why people think the country is on the wrong track.
“Come on, you and I both know what I’m talking about,” she said.
Baier responded, “What are you talking about?”
“Over the last decade it is clear to me … he is unfit to serve, he is unstable, he is dangerous and people are exhausted,” she said, referring to Trump.

Harris fields question on transgender prisoners

Baier played a Trump campaign ad that argues Harris supports taxpayer-funded sex changes. He then asked if she still supports inmates having access to medical procedures to transition to another gender.
“I will follow the law and it’s a law that Donald Trump actually followed,” she said, referring to a New York Times report that people in the federal prison system were provided gender-affirming care under the Trump administration.
“I think frankly that ad from the Trump campaign is a little bit of throwing stones when you’re living in a glass house,” she added. “You have to take responsibility for what happened in your administration.
When Baier pressed her on whether she would advocate for taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries, she said, “I would follow the law.” She added that the Trump ads are an effort to “try to create a sense of fear in the voters.”

Harris sidesteps Biden’s mental acuity

Baier asked the vice president when she first noticed when Biden’s “mental facilities appeared diminished.”
Harris, in turn, defended the president by saying “he has the judgment and experience to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people.”
But, she quickly added that Biden is not on the ballot, while Trump is, suggesting that it is instead the former president who is unfit for office.
Harris has been criticized by Republicans for staying loyal to Biden while he was facing a pressure campaign from other top Democrats to drop out of the 2024 race, which he ultimately did.
“Trump is on the ballot,” she said.
Baier replied, “You met with him at least once a week for the past three and a half years. … You didn’t have any concerns?”
She sidestepped the question, saying, “I think the American people have a concern about Donald Trump,” adding that Trump critics, including those who worked for him, have said he is unfit and dangerous.
Brett Samuels contributed to this report.
 
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From left leaning POLITICO comes this piece. A bit more of a reach, from a somewhat more lefty source.

Politico says the interview was 'contentious' but honestly I think that the only reason it might have been contentious is because she was evasive and refused to answer simple questions. She was the one who was seemingly offended by follow up questions. This was her first 'real' interview and she seemed to flail a bit, seemed to fall apart with follow up questions. She was good at repeating and pivoting and evading but miserable at actually answering.

Harris states, and people seem to let her get away with it, that the US is a democracy but we are actually a democratically elected 'representative republic' and that is different than a direct democracy. Not sure why she keeps getting away with that.



Harris tries to make her case in contentious Fox interview

The vice president subjected herself to an interrogation as she tries to reach more conservative voters.
Kierra Frazier

10/16/2024, 7:42PM ET
Kamala Harris ventured into enemy territory Wednesday, trying to reach voters who get their news through the filter of Fox News. But first, she had to get a word in edgewise.
The half-hour interview with anchor Bret Baier was contentious from the start and stayed that way throughout. He recycled Republican talking points into accusations and frequently interrupted the vice president — the two talking over each other at times.
"I would like that we would have a conversation that is grounded in the full assessment of the facts,” Harris said at one point when Baier apologized for speaking over her.
The interview reflected an attempt by the vice president to reach some of the more conservative voters she may need in what polls show is a close race against Donald Trump. Whether she succeeded remains to be seen.
Harris' Fox News interview gets tense over immigration
Baier started with immigration, echoing Trump campaign talking points that seek to blame the Biden administration, and the vice president by extension, for the large number of illegal border crossings that have subsided in recent months.
Harris pivoted to the border security bill that failed in Congress after Trump pressured members to oppose the measure — or she tried to at least.
"We've had a broken immigration system, transcending, by the way, Donald Trump's administration, even before,” she said. “Let's all be honest about that. I have no pride in saying that this is a perfect immigration system. I've been clear,” Harris said.
Baier asked how she would be different from Biden. She said she would bring in a fresh perspective, using that to talk about the Republicans who are supporting her candidacy because of their disapproval of Trump.
“Let me be very clear, my presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden's presidency,” Harris said. “I, for example, am someone who has not spent the majority of my career in Washington, D.C. I invite ideas, whether it be from the Republicans who are supporting me, who were just on stage with me minutes ago.”
Harris also tried to steer the conversation to Trump’s threats in recent appearances to use the military to go after his critics — something they weren’t likely to hear about on Baier’s network.
"This is a democracy,” she said. “And in a democracy, the president of the United States should be willing to be able to handle criticism without saying he would lock people up for doing it."
 
"This is a democracy,” she said. “And in a democracy, the president of the United States should be willing to be able to handle criticism without saying he would lock people up for doing it."

When and where did Donald Trump ever say that?

"Trump will use the military to deport everyone who is against him."

Kamal frequently implies, or says outright, Trump made such statements. Why does she get away with it?
 
She had 'talking points' and no matter what/how he asked, she parroted out her points, even if they had little to do with the question.

And she got mad and showed she can't perform under even modest pressure.

Trump gets mad too, but he can eventually pull his head out and regain composure.

She was uncomfortable. She fumbled under pressure. She bleated out "Trump" a couple dozen times. Baier pushed her. I think a couple times he came off a bit like a schoolyard bully, but he typically gave her a few moments to try to speak intelligently before he would re-ask or follow up. Overall, he did well. Overall she flailed like a 3rd grader who only knew what she memorized but had no depth beneath the surface.









But MSNBC, very predictably, pulls out the "race" card based on comments after the interview.


You know what I'm tired of? The trope that it's a trope to notice that a black woman is angry. If you observe something, and give voice to that observation, that's not racist, sorry. Nice try, but this same old tactic of calling something racist every time you have nowhere else to go is getting pretty stale. A trope, you might say.
 
Started Late.
Finished Early.


Of course. Kamala's handlers did everything they could to limit the amount of time for questions.

Here was their game plan: When he asks a direct question that you don't like, pivot to your talking points, pivot to Trump, and keep talking as long as you can to run down the clock so he doesn't have time for follow-ups. If he tries to break in, hit him with a "I'm talking" type line, so he looks like a bully and you look like a strong, black woman. If the interview gets to the point where it seems like he might pin you down on something, we'll give the hand signal for the interview to be over. No worries.

Disgusting, transparent, crap.
 
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