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Journalist ‘nervous’ that media is too ‘preoccupied’ with Kamala interviews: ‘So how many more times?’

August 31, 2024 | | Print Article

A CNN reporter/so-called “journalist” fretted on Thursday that the media is essentially being too hard on poor Vice President Kamala Harris.

Audie Cornish, who used to be with NPR, stressed that Harris doesn’t need to partake in interviews or press conferences because people are already receiving her message.

In fact, Cornish went so far as to complain about “how many more times” Harris will have to be interviewed before her critics are happy.

This assessment from Cornish was made right after Harris sat down with CNN’s Dana Bash for her first-ever post-nomination interview.

Listen:

“I think today it did show that she has the ability to sit down and have that back-and-forth that Republicans are talking about,” Cornish began. “So how many more times? I don’t know how much that matters.”

“And I do get a little nervous [because] in the media, we’re preoccupied with, like, how much access, how many conversations is she going to have, in the settings, we deem most valuable to voters, when this is a campaign that is actually making a mark in an interesting way, reaching out to people directly,” she added.

As noted earlier, Thursday’s interview with Bash was Harris’ first sit-down interview since she first became the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee and now the official nominee.

The media, for their part, have settled on the claim that Harris performed just fine during the interview, but conservatives have pushed back, arguing that her answers were mindless word salads.

The word salads started from the very beginning when Bash asked her why she’s flip-flopped on virtually all of her policy positions, including on the Green New Deal. The crazy thing about it is that Bash tried to hand Harris some easy answers by asking a leading question.

“Generally speaking, how should voters look at some of the changes that you’ve made?” she said. “Is it because you have more experience now, and you’ve learned more about the information? Is it because you were running for president in a Democratic primary? And should they feel comfortable and confident that what you’re saying now is going to be your policy moving forward?”

Harris’ word salad answer was quite telling.

“Dana, I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” she began, suggesting that her core positions do, in fact, remain the same.

“You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time,” she added in a helluva word salad.

“We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act. We have set goals for the United States of America and by extension the globe around when we should meet certain standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as an example. That value has not changed,” she continued.

Conservatives believe these sorts of word-salad answers are partly why Harris has so desperately tried to avoid sitting down for an interview, holding a press conference, or taking a single question from the press.

The other reason why, conservatives suspect, is because of Harris’ tendency to say outright false things. During the interview, for example, she claimed she’s for a strong border, despite presiding alongside President Joe Biden over the most porous borders in American history.

“I believe there should be consequences [for illegally crossing the border],” she said. “We have laws that have to be followed and enforced that address and deal with people who cross our border illegally. And there should be consequences.”

“And let’s be clear, in this race, I’m the only person who has prosecuted transnational criminal organizations who traffic in guns, drugs, and human beings. I’m the only person in this race who actually served a border state as attorney general to enforce our laws. And I would enforce our laws as president going forward. I recognize the problem,” she added.

Her 2024 presidential election opponent, former President Donald Trump, didn’t buy her rhetoric for one minute.

“Now she’s saying, ‘Oh, we want to build a strong border,’” he said at a Michigan rally Thursday afternoon, according to the New York Post. “Where has she been for three and a half years?”

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