Infantalizing

Women!  You are strong and confident girl bosses!  Watch out world!

Also: "Julia Roberts Reminds Women They Don’t Have to Tell Their Husbands They Voted for Harris." 

Losers and suckers

This story has the ring of veracity:

BREAKING: Biden is telling advisors the election is “dead and buried” and called Kamala an “innate sucker” - per WH official pic.twitter.com/Mb2uXfe2mg

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 27, 2024

Buh-bye, clown show paper

Spectator: "The end of the Washington Post"

The Washington Post is collapsing. Once one of America’s great media institutions, the paper lost $100 million last year and has shed 500,000 subscribers. Recent reports reveal that Post owner Jeff Bezos is going to be more hands-on to try and save the paper.

Yet trying to get employees of the Post to do their jobs is like trying to get dogs to play baseball. Dogs just aren’t interested in baseball, and the breed of journalist now at the Post is just not interested in journalism. Always a liberal paper, the Post is now pure propaganda.

It's not just that they're wrong, it's that they're condescendingly smug about it.

We've disappointed the Obamas again, America

Legal Insurrection: "Michelle Obama Suggests Those Who Don’t Support Harris are Sexist, Racist."

There's really no other explanation.

The ol' bait and switch

The Harris campaign promised a Beyonce concert but got Kamala instead: "Harris Booed at Rally Because Beyonce Didn’t Perform."

Extra - "Harris Is Cratering at the Worst Possible Time."  Sure is!

Cleanup on aisle Biden

The White House transcript crew cleans up Biden's latest gaffe:

Thank you to Senator Mark Kelly, a great friend, who also is married to an incredible woman who is my friend. 

Emphasis added.  Biden very clearly said "was" as if Gabbie Giffords is dead. 

Resign

Sixteen Washington Post columnists are very upset that the Washington Post didn't endorse Kamala.  Let's see how many quit out of this terrible transgression. 

Good question

Federalist: "The Pravda Press Still Won’t Ask Harris If She’ll Accept The Results Of The Election If She Loses." 

Learn to code, bro

Breitbart: "Washington Post editor resigns Robert Kagan resigns after newspaper's non-endorsement of Kamala Harris."

Can Jennifer Rubin be far behind?  Stick to your principles, Jen!

Remember when Trump was President and we weren't on the verge of World War 3?

Fox News: "Israel begins retaliatory strikes against Iran following missile barrage targeting Israelis."

The humiliating resignation of the Washington Post

Ace: "Confirmed: Washington Post Will Not Endorse Kamala; Leftwing Activists Pretending to be Journalists Cope and Seethe."

These smug bastards at the Washington Post rolled out their new slogan - "Democracy dies in Darkness" - right after Donald Trump took office.  They have been consistently against him in every way.  So why did they decline to endorse Kamala over Literally Hitler (TM)?

I'll give you my answer: the Washington Post is a dying newspaper and they can't afford to sully their reputation any more than it's already fallen.  This is about saving their phony-baloney jobs.

Suck on it, you self-important prigs.

Extra - This is great: "The Meltdown is DELICIOUS as the Word Spreads WaPo Will Not Endorse a Presidential Candidate."  These people, man.

On the other hand they really could just think Kamala Harris is that bad.

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 25, 2024

Into the belly of the beast

Red State: "Ben Shapiro Took on 25 Kamala Harris Voters in a Debate, and the Results Were Incredible."

I watched much of this video and it was pretty civil (with some exceptions.)  Every time I see these videos, it becomes abundantly clear why the Left tries to shut down free expression while the Right regularly welcomes debate.

Sleepy time!

Hot Air: "For the Second Day in a Row, Harris Not Campaigning."

She's given up.  All she has is her ridiculous "Trump is Hitler!" lies.  Good luck with that, Kammy.

Extra - NY Post: "Despite the media caterwauling, voters aren’t buying that Trump is a ‘threat to democracy’." 

Nate Silver: Trump's gonna win

Hot Air: "Nate Silver: It's a 50-50 Race but My Gut Says Trump."

One reason that Silver gives is "nonresponse bias" in which Trump supporters believe the mainstream media is full of s--t and they are not going to participate in your biased poll.

CNN Town Hall tonight with Kamala

Harris is in a "doom loop" where every interview she gives is a disaster but the only way to reverse her decline is to do interviews.  I don't know if I can watch her give her same canned lines again.

If I could ask a question it would be this: "The Biden administration recently did an executive action to curtail illegal crossings at the border and bragged that it has lowered crossings significantly.  Why couldn't this executive order have been given in 2022 or 2023?  Also: I do NOT want to hear about the amnesty bill you introduced or the legislation that failed in 2024.  I want you to talk about the executive order ONLY.  Don't talk about the legislation.  Understand?  Just the executive order."

That would be my question, not that it would matter.

Wow, NBC News pressed a question

Fox News: "Harris claims she was 'honest with the American people' about Biden's mental acuity: 'Capable in every way' - NBC News' Hallie Jackson pressed the vice president on her 'judgment' during an interview."

Nobody believes this.  If Biden still had his marbles, he'd still be the candidate. 

Town hall? More like Clown Hall, amirite?

Daily Mail: "Kamala Harris town hall host Maria Shriver says crowd can't ask questions because they're 'pre-determined'." 

This poor amnesia victim

Legal Insurrection: "Trump GA Case: Nathan Wade Met With WH Counsel, Fani Willis Started Investigation Before She took Office - Wade also admitted he had to attend “RICO school” because he never handled a RICO case before."

Wade colluded with the Biden White House counsel's office which we know because he billed Georgia for multiple meetings.  He just can't remember anything about them.

Put this in the Louvre

Red State: "The New York Times 'Fact-Checks' Kamala Harris Working at McDonald's, and It's Absolutely Incredible."

"Good enough for us!" - NY Times

For real: the greatest fact check of all time pic.twitter.com/A5lkL759zl

— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) October 21, 2024

Kamala's mom told somebody she worked at McDonalds

This NY Times article is infuriating for the way so-called journalists accept their preferred narrative and lose all curiosity for contrary facts.

Mr. Trump’s latest allegation also appears to be false.

It does?  What kind of evidence does the NY Times uncover?  A teenage friend of Kamala who says her mother told her she worked at McDonalds:

Answering questions by email, Ms. Kagan said that Ms. Harris’s mother, who died in 2009, had told Ms. Kagan about the summer job years ago.

That's it.  That's all the hearsay evidence we have.  Say, can we ask Kamala's sister?

The campaign did not make any of Ms. Harris’s friends or family members available for interviews about their recollections of her experience there.

No.  How about McDonalds themselves?

McDonald’s corporate representatives have ignored media requests for corroborating information.

Oh.  In fact, the McDonald's job was never mentioned by Kamala until she started to run for President:

Harris’s work at McDonald’s, which allegedly took place at a franchise in the California Bay Area the summer after her freshman year in college, is a recent addition to her carefully curated life story. For decades, Harris never mentioned it, not on the campaign trail nor in two books. It’s absent from a job application and résumé she submitted a year after she graduated from college. Third-party biographers did not write about it. Not until Harris ran for president in 2019 and spoke to a labor rally in Las Vegas did she mention the job, telling the crowd that she "was a student when I was working in a McDonald’s."

This McDonald's story doesn't pass the smell test and an objective press would seek out the truth instead of depending on a single friendly source who didn't even have first-hand knowledge of this alleged job. 

Extra from Clay Travis:

 

Kamala lying about working at McDonald’s would be the dumbest thing possible to lie about. But there doesn’t appear to be any record she ever worked there. https://t.co/1ZPwrWwZTI

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 29, 2024

They were historical reenactors

Red State: "The Strange Case of the 'Nazis' Noshing at a Massachusetts Restaurant."

I used to work in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, home of Old Sturbridge Village.  Every once in a while you would see somebody at the McDonalds dressed in 18th Century garb.  

Orange Man good!

Just the News: "Democrats in tight Senate races run ads touting their work with Trump - "It's not exactly the behavior you'd expect from candidates who believe their nominee is winning," the Trump campaign said." 

Harris is incapable of answering a question

Legal Insurrection: "Harris: Men Support Me to be ‘Unburdened by Who They May Have Voted for in the Past’."

It's bizarre.  

Inviting another assassination attempt

Breitbart: "The Atlantic gets desperate: Trump like 'Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini'."

Playing those golden oldies from 2015.

Reality vs. fan fiction

I like this commentary from David Strom on the Democrats' singular strategy of demonizing Donald Trump:

The problem they have is that they have been saying this for a decade, and somehow, everybody who opposes him is still alive, still not in jail, and still able to say whatever they want without fear of consequences. In fact, the Democrats keep doing what they accuse Trump of doing. 

So now, when a respected columnist at a respected magazine pulls out the "Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini" card, everybody but the already Trump-deranged shrugs. They have heard it endlessly already. It no longer has the power to shock. It becomes background noise for everybody except the brainwashed.

For all Trump's "lock her up!" bluster of 2016, Hillary was never going to be prosecuted and indeed she wasn't despite her many indisputable crimes.  The same can't be said for the baseless lawfare against Trump.

This, then leads to the Boston Globe editorial endorsing Kamala Harris.  Here are the concluding paragraphs:

Some of Trump’s supporters seem to not take him seriously, as if all the threats, extreme positions, rants, and oddball ravings are just part of an insult comedy routine. But we would urge every Trump supporter to ask themselves this question before casting their ballot: Do you really want to take the chance that it was all just an act?

Consider, instead, the candidate who has pledged to be “a president who leads and listens; who is realistic, practical and has common sense,” as Harris told the nation in August. The candidate who has not sought to bully or demean, but who instead urges the people of America to “show each other and the world who we are and what we stand for: Freedom, opportunity, compassion, dignity, fairness and endless possibilities.”

Seriously this is fan fiction.  It's make believe.  What is the evidence for the assertion that 1) Trump is going to turn into a dictator and 2) Kamala is remotely competent to be President?  Where is it?

The only evidence of the former is January 6th where Trump offered security forces which were turned down by the House Sergeant at Arms before Trump urged supporters to march "peacefully."  Otherwise, there are the mean tweets.

As for Kamala, she certain had "pledged" but what she hasn't done is shown any capacity for the job.  This is why supporters run away when you ask them to name a single accomplishment.

It's all wish-casting and story time.  This is all they have.

Joyful warrior

NY Post: "Donald Trump obliterates Kamala Harris, Biden, de Blasio and more Dems in scorching Al Smith dinner roast: ‘Shows there is a God’."

Some good zingers here.

Wasted

Federalist: "That Fox News Interview May Have Done To Kamala What The Debate Did To Biden."

Oh that's not news

Reason: "The Media Shouldn't Overlook Kamala Harris' Plagiarism."

That's (D)ifferent because you know why.

Not a single answer was offered

Byron York: "Finally faced with hard questions on border, Harris has no answers."

I went back and listened to the part where Bret asked about the women killed by illegal immigrants and noted - three times - that it happened way before the February 2024 legislation was a thing.  It didn't matter: Kamala went right back to her standard talking point. 

Good review:

Well that was another dumpster fire

PJ Media: "Kamala Shouts, Whines, Cannot Answer Basic Questions in Fox Interview."

I look forward to reading the transcript of this interview since I don't think Kamala answered a single question.  Not one.  In fact, the very first question was "how many illegals crossed the border?" and she simply ignored the question to start her standard filibuster on immigration.

When Bret Baier asked why Bad Orange Man was getting support from half the country, Kamala responded with this information: "We're running for the President of the United States of America."

Wisdom received, sister.  That's some deep analysis. 

It was reported that Kamala showed up 15 minutes late to the interview and then her staff cut off questions after a half-hour.  Because of course.

Know why?  Because Kamala Harris is an idiot.

Harris isn’t “vague” or “careful” or disinclined to “delineate her stance.” She’s wildly, catastrophically, incontestably out of her depth. She’s not “light”; she’s dull. She’s not a “dodger”; she’s a fool. She’s not “joyful”; she’s imbecilic. As Gertrude Stein once said of Harris’s hometown, Oakland, there’s no “there there.” She’s a nullity, a vacuum, an actress, an empty canvas that is incapable of absorbing paint. Search through Harris’s historical press clippings and you will be astonished by the vastness of space, for, in more than two decades of analysis and reporting, Harris has not once been credited with a single valuable or original idea. What you see on TV is what you get in private: a broken battery-operated toy that can’t talk, that can’t argue, that can’t laugh in the right places, and that badly malfunctions if expected to transcend the superficial.

I'm going to call it: this interview will be the end of Kamala's campaign.  Her numbers have been steadily declining since she ended the "basement" stage and this train wreck will only accelerate the swoon.  She's on a rocket ship to defeat.

Buh-bye.

Update - It's not too late for another switcheroo!

To my Democratic friends: maybe you should consider swapping Kamala Harris for Joe Biden.

— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 16, 2024

Finally

I'll have more to write about the Bret Baier's interview with Kamala Harris but I'm so happy to finally hear an interviewer ask why Democrats didn't pass the Biden-Harris amnesty bill when they controlled the White House, the House, and the Senate.

Why didn't Nancy Pelosi do her job?  

Of course, Kamala filibustered with her same ridiculous talking points.  She cannot be pushed off her only narrative on immigration. 

This poll goes to eleven

Breitbart: "Poll: More Americans lean Republican than Democrat by 7-point margin."

Headline is a little misleading but it's a seven-point swing in party identity between Republicans and Democrats, now 31%-28%.  What I find more interesting is that Independent learners are 49%-42% Republican-Democrats, which is an eleven-point shift from the last poll a couple weeks ago.

An earned new low for the media

Gallup: "Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low."

Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” similar to last year’s 32%. Americans’ trust in the media -- such as newspapers, television and radio -- first fell to 32% in 2016 and did so again last year.

For the third consecutive year, more U.S. adults have no trust at all in the media (36%) than trust it a great deal or fair amount. Another 33% of Americans express “not very much” confidence.

It's a mystery why this downward trend continues.  I chalk it up to selective editing in the interest of "time constraints." 

I don't believe this. I shant.

Kamala Harris is going to do an interview on Fox News.  Good gravy, how bad is their internal polling?

Red State: "Grab the Popcorn! Desperate Kamala Harris Finally Agrees to Fox News Interview."

Wednesday at 6pm.  Mark your calendar.  

It's 2019 all over again

Legal Insurrection: "Democrats, Media Get Panicky As Kamala Harris’ ‘Momentum’ Stalls."

This campaign is following the trajectory of Kamala's first run for the White House in 2019: a brief moment of enthusiasm followed by steady decline once America realizes she's an airhead. 

Grumpy old man

NY Post: "Biden sabotaging Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign after being forced to drop re-election bid, pundits say."

Hank Sheinkopf, a New York-based Democratic strategist called Biden’s refusal to embrace Harris’ campaign a possible “power move” to “ensure that people understand who the boss still is.”

“It would be absolutely ridiculous to assume that he has no resentment over how he was treated or how, frankly, he was forced out in what some would describe as a coup,” the veteran campaign consultant said.

“Why hasn’t he appeared in places where he could do some good, like parts of Pennsylvania and states that the president has buoyed during his term? Nobody wants to give up being president of the United States – it’s the one job you don’t want to leave.”

I totally believe that Joe is trying to sink Kamala's campaign.  First of all, as mentioned, is the lingering resentment against Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Kamala over forcing him out of the race.  Second, Biden needs to feed his ego in the belief that he's the only person who could beat Trump.  Finally, don't underestimate the raw hatred that Jill Biden has for Kamala and what she's whispering into Joe's ear.

Extra - Red State: "A Jilted Joe Biden (and Jill) Quietly Wreak Their Revenge on Kamala Harris."

The MSNBC movie

Shot: "‘Apprentice’ Crushed by Trump Derangement Syndrome."

Chaser: "Anti-Trump ‘Apprentice’ Bombing at Box Office." 

Our national scold

Intelligencer: "Barack Obama’s Tiresome Condescension Toward Black Men." 

Extra - Legal Insurrection: "Dems in Disarray as Backlash Against Barack Obama’s Lecture to Black Men Grows Louder." 

She's a dimwit

Washington Examiner: "Why can’t Harris answer a simple question?" 

I grew up in the middle class, amigos

Keep talking, Kamala, keep talking: "This Is Beyond Insane: Kamala's Univision Disaster."

3,400 comments on Kamala’s town hall disaster.

This is the *Univision Noticias* channel, so it’s mostly Hispanics commenting.

Not a single positive comment. Fake, liar, scripted, teleprompter, terrible, brainless, and fake accent top the list of adjectives used. pic.twitter.com/KQEesRYvhP

— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) October 11, 2024

Gutfeld on Howard Stern

Twitchy: "'Got My PERIOD Listening to It': Greg Gutfeld Takes Howard Stern APART for His Kamala Lapdog Interview." - "Not that I like that Stern, but this pendulum swing from saying the most tasteless thing in the universe to putting your balls in a tic tac container. You got to wonder what's going on here. It's striking that the king of the most misogynistic humor ever now turns into a breathless over a progressive, hopelessly shallow candidate." 

The old Howard Stern would have asked Kamala if Doug has stopped slapping women.

Do Democrats still want to get rid of the filibuster?

Hot Air: "NY Times: Yup, Republicans Are Going to Win the Senate."

Dear Democrats: shouldn't we get rid of this "relic of the Jim Crow era?"  Let us know!

Republicans pounce!

Twitchy: "Republicans Plan to Use Kamala's Terrible Appearance on 'The View' to End Her Campaign."

Well...yeah.  Keep doing those interviews, Kamala!  

The debt bomb grows

Reason: "Budget Deficit Hit $1.8 Trillion After Huge Increase in Borrowing Costs." - "The federal government posted a $1.8 trillion budget deficit during the fiscal year that ended on September 30, despite an increase in tax revenue, thanks to higher spending and the rapid growth of interest costs tied to the $35.6 trillion national debt." 

What happened to Howard Stern?

Outkick: "Kamala Harris-Howard Stern Interview As Cringe As You Could Imagine."

He was once the most daring, unpredictable, and interesting voice in the media. He was a menace to the establishment. Now, he is part of the establishment. Stern is nothing more than a neurotic useful idiot for the Democratic Party – see his interview with Joe Biden from April.

As we argued at the time, we can't say for certain what changed Howard Stern. Maybe it was age, maybe it was guilt, maybe it was his irrational fear of COVID-19. 

I used to listen to Howard Stern in high school before he hit the big time with satellite radio.  He was an equal-opportunity offender and had a devil-may-care attitude towards, well, everything.  Now he's a 80-year-old grandmother.

Kudos to Bill Whitaker

I watched his interview with Kamala Harris on "60 Minutes" where he repeatedly and assiduously tried to crowbar her off her teleprompter-speech talking points.  The immigration exchange, in particular, was quite good when he asked why this Administration didn't take executive action (such as the one they're now touting) three years ago.

Bottom line: none of the immigration debacle is Joe Biden or Kamala Harris's fault.  It's the fault of Congress for not passing a law in 2021 and then it was Donald Trump's fault in 2024. 

This will minimize the perception that Kamala is a lightweight

Fox News: "Andrea Mitchell says Kamala Harris has a 'big problem' connecting with men, who don't take her seriously."

"I think that there's misogynation in all of this, Black and White men, [it's a] big problem. But also the business world. They don't think she is serious. They don't think she's a heavyweight. And a lot of this is gender, but she's got to be more specific about her economic plans," Mitchell continued. "I think they've got to double down on doing more interviews and serious interviews." 

Harris has taken heat for largely avoiding the press. Since becoming the Democratic nominee 72 days ago, she has yet to hold a single official press conference. In response to the criticism, Harris has shifted her strategy, stepping up interviews. This week, Harris will make appearances on The View, The Howard Stern Show, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. 

Was Joy Reid unavailable? 

"Republicans buy sneakers too"

Fox News: "ABC's David Muir sees newscast ratings decline after controversial debate performance - Muir's 'ABC World News Tonight' sees 12% drop in viewers."

NY Post: "Columbia donations drop nearly 29% to $21.4M in wake of anti-Israel protests."

What a shame. 

I was already going to vote for Trump

...but thanks for the support, Bobby.

I was unaware that Robert Reich had started campaigning for Republicans but I certainly appreciate it. https://t.co/WPigGApttl

— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) October 5, 2024

Damn, Biden really doesn't want Kamala to win

Fox News: "Conservatives joke Biden made Trump campaign ad by calling Harris a 'major player in everything' admin does." 

And yet the Kavanaugh standard will live on

Jim Treacher: "#MeToo Is Dead, and Doug Emhoff Killed It."

For the record, I don't believe the Emhoff slapping story from these anonymous sources.  But I didn't make up the Kavanaugh standard of evidence and if the media applied it equally this story would be the lead on CNN for a week.  It's now obvious that standard only applies to Republicans.

The Left hates free speech, continued

Federalist: "Tim Walz Endorsed Censorship In Front Of Millions Of Americans And No One Cares" - "The Democrat vice presidential candidate doesn’t understand the First Amendment and clearly disdains free speech."  

That's why they have to mute the mics. 

How Vance won: trial by fire

Sasha Stone: "America Finally Got to See the Real JD Vance - The media was caught out once again lying."

Vance has learned a thing or two from battling a hostile press. Walz has avoided them and it showed last night. He did what Biden did - he stared with a terrified look on his face as Vance spoke.

But for Vance, there isn’t a nasty question he hasn’t already had to answer at least ten times. If you’ve been watching his press conferences as I have, you already know he can handle them. He was born to do this. You can tell when he’s about to give a really good answer because he blinks very slowly to show he’s tolerating their terrible question as he locks and loads.

But it wasn’t so much how he batted the moderators around — always a fun thing to watch — but how he directed his message straight at us, those watching at home.

Vance soared in this debate because he absorbed the lesson that Trump did not in his debate: the mainstream media is your enemy.  At every campaign event, Vance invites questions from the press which is almost universally hostile to him and Trump.  And he answers them.  So when it came time for the debate, Vance was well-practiced and tempered by fire.

On the other hand, Democrats in general are so used to the kid-gloves treatment that the result is Walz's fumbling and bumbling performance.  Me?  Answer questions?  What is going on?

J.D. Vance won the debate

Is it too late for a Vance-Trump ticket?  Vance did a great job even in the face of yet another 3-1 pile-on from the CBS moderators.  Climate change as the second question?  FFS.

Your new meme:

When it's important to stand

Twitchy: "Who Ordered Word Salad for Dinner? Watch Kamala Harris Botch Easy Question on National Anthem."

Should Americans stand for the National Anthem?  Kamala: "Meh."

Should Americans stand for Kamala as she enters a room?  Kamala: "Hell, yes!" - "Kamala Harris viewed White House aides not standing when she walked into a room as 'a sign of disrespect,' book says." 

Kamala's Katrina

PJ Media: "The Biden-Harris Federal Response to Helene Is a Total Disaster."

Don't worry: the "President" was working the phone from the beach.

"I was on the phone for two hours" as a response to Americans dying in floods ought to be remembered as one of the most shameful statements ever uttered by an American president. https://t.co/VbEe7uey3p

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) September 30, 2024

The Left hates free speech

The Corner: "California Leads the Way in Undermining Freedom of Speech" - "This is a cautionary tale of what would happen if progressives get the chance to load up the judiciary with their brand of ideological judges." 

These people

Legal Insurrection: "Leftist Icon Fran Lebowitz to Bill Maher: Biden Should ‘Dissolve’ the Supreme Court."

Sure thing, toots.

Tricky Ds

Derek Hunter: "Why Can’t Kamala Harris Prove She Worked At McDonald’s (And Why It Matters)."

There was a third-party political ad shown during the football game that alleged that Harris worked at McDonalds while Trump is a billionaire.  Did she work at McDonalds?  Isn't it false advertising to say so when there isn't a shred of evidence this is true?

She’s never told a story about her summer at McDonald’s, never explained why she allegedly worked in a McDonald’s in California while living the rest of the year with her mother in a rich area in Montreal. Was she visiting her dad, who is still alive and she never, ever talks about (we don’t know why because no one asks) for the summer? Did the wealthy Marxist economics professor force his daughter to work at the absolute symbol of capitalism during their limited time together? Was he just really into irony?

These are questions a normal media would ask. Since we don’t have normal media, they aren’t asked.

We've noticed.  We'll never find out what kind of gun she owns either although some suspect it's a "Focusgroup 3000." 

There's nobody home

Washington Examiner: "White House Report Card: Total failure by Mr. Potato Head as US becomes irrelevant." - "This week’s White House Report Card may be the worst yet for President Joe Biden and his administration, a rare double “F” from our conservative and Democratic graders." 

"Thank heaven he wasn't a Republican" - Washington Post

Washington Free Beacon: "'Father Figure': Mainstream Media Eulogize Hezbollah Butcher Nasrallah, Who Slaughtered Innocents Across the Globe - 'Nasrallah was seen as a father figure, a moral compass and a political guide,' writes WaPo." 

But was he an "austere religious scholar?"  

I support this practice

Reason: "Kids Should Be Blindfolded and Dropped in the Woods at Night - In the Netherlands, kids grow up with more independence than in the United States."

At the risk of dating myself, my youth was spent playing Nerf football in the street during the day and then playing "Manhunt" well into the dark.  Never once did I have a "playdate" and I walked to school every day of my life (yes, even kindergarten).  Some have suggested that the declining birthrate in America is connected to the time and expense of driving your kid to soccer practice or ballet lessons every other day.  

This guy is representative of the entire media

Federalist: "Washington Post’s Incurious Philip Bump Says The Media Should Just Give Kamala The ‘Benefit Of The Doubt’" - "Bump is ready to quickly move on from any issue that could be a problem for the political party he’s trying to help win this election." 

Extra - "Greg Gutfeld: The Media Would Rather Have You Die Than Trump Be Right." 

The Hezbollah org chart is getting thin

Fox News: "Israeli military says Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in Beirut strike." 

Yeah, it's called an election year

NY Times: "Harris, at the Border, Shows Democrats’ Hard-Line Evolution on Immigration."

The gaslighting is amazing.  Of course, the media will play along: "'In the Real World, She'd Be Toast': Gutfeld Slams Media for Covering Up Those Damning ICE Numbers." 

Not a true story

White House transcript:

When I was a senator and I introduced the first effort to ban them, those weapons, I literally was walking through the swamps of eastern — the Northeast Cor- — excuse me, in southern Delaware, down in the area where the r- — where the swamps and rivers are. There was a guy fishing, and he looked at and me and he said, “Biden, what the hell you going to take my gun for? Why are you going to take my assault weapon?” He was fishing. And I said — (laughter) — true story. And I said, “You need that?” And he said, “Yeah.” (Laughter.) I said, “You must be one hell of a lousy shot.” (Laughter.) “And I don’t see a lot of dear running around here wearing Kevlar vests.” (Laughter.) He said, “Well, that’s not” — “Well, why do you have it?” “Well, I hunt.” “You hunt? Like hell.” (Laughter.)

Sure thing, chief.  Kamala covered this up. 

The IDF takes it to 11

World's worst jobs

1. Hezbollah
2. Spinal Tap drummer

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 27, 2024

The simplest explanation is that Kamala is a moron

People are starting to (finally) notice that Kamala Harris is a complete airhead.  The softball MSNBC interview yesterday only underscored this conclusion and even the New York Times couldn't deny the obvious: "Even the NY Times Admits That Stephanie Ruhle Is a Hardcore Kamala Harris Partisan Who Did Not Press Her on Any Issues, Says Kamala Harris Failed to Offer Any Substantive Answers."

Charles C.W. Cooke says we should apply Occam's Razor here:

Now, I hear similar questions about Kamala Harris. Why can’t she talk in public? Why can’t she answer elementary questions? Why can’t she provide any details of what she believes — or outline her political agenda — without descending into indecipherable platitudes? I think the answer is similarly simple: Harris is incapable of any of that, because she doesn’t have anything useful in her head. Hers isn’t a language problem, it’s an ideas problem. The issue is not that Harris possesses all manner of well-considered notions but struggles to translate them into English; it’s that she’s never engaged with politics as anything other than an electoral exercise, and she probably couldn’t if she tried. Last night’s interview with Stephanie Ruhle further persuaded me of this. Words follow thoughts — and Harris doesn’t have any.

She's a dimwit.  That's the answer.  

MSNBC, natch

The Corner: "Kamala’s First Very Big One-on-One Media Interview Will Be with . . . an Ardent Kamala Booster" - "Since the Ruhle interview is going to be pre-taped — of course it was going to be pre-taped, God only knows what might need to be edited out — you can safely assume it will make no news and present Harris in the most flattering light possible. Harris is too fragile a candidate to face an actual journalist. She needs loyal servants instead, and she has no shortage of them in the media." 

No kidding.

PDFs attached

Just the News: "Bombshell transcripts: Trump urged use of troops to protect Capitol on Jan. 6 , but was rebuffed" - "Key lawmaker says interviews prove Pentagon wrongly allowed optics to overwhelm security concerns in lead-up to fateful day. The Pentagon's top brass did not comply with Trump's orders because of political concerns and "optics."

I knew the J6 Committee was a complete farce when they pumped up Madison Cornbread's testimony about Trump allegedly grabbing the steering wheel of the "Beast" without requesting the testimony of the President's driver who could have easily confirmed such an event happened.  

Spoiler alert: it was a physical impossibility for Trump to grab the steering wheel.  Nice try, Liz Cheney.

Biden: "Kamala was right by my side!"

PJ Media: "Biden Is Totally Trying to Sabotage the Harris-Walz Campaign." 

New Trump ad just dropped pic.twitter.com/kVRDPg33tg

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 25, 2024

Speaking of lowering the temperature

Legal Insurrection: "Washington Post Accidentally Admits Earth at Coolest Point in the Last 485 Million Years - Arguably, the Earth can be considered in a C02 famine."  

So much for lowering the temperature

Daily Wire: "Historian Douglas Brinkley After Trump Assassination Attempts: ‘Doomsday’ If Trump Wins."

As the article notes, this was said on "Morning Joe," the show so embarrassingly left-wing that they pulled the Monday show after Trump's first assassination attempt for fear the show would go off the rails.

Kamala the Punchline

Townhall: "Even Al Gore is Roasting Kamala Harris."

The Paper of Record: "'I Was Born Into A Middle Class Family,' Explains Wife When Husband Asks Why The Car Is On Fire." 

Say anything

When you have no core beliefs, you'll go wherever the wind is blowing: "'Shame on Her': Harris Backs Ending Filibuster to Codify Roe, Manchin and Sinema React."

FBI: Crime is down if you ignore all the crime

RETRACTION: Based on the Community Note below, it looks like L.A. and New Orleans did report their homicide data.  I regret the error.  

Must be an election year for the Democrats.

The FBI's data showing violent crime dropped last year relies on the idea that there was not a single reported homicide in Los Angeles or New Orleans last year. https://t.co/rgRvRemWyD pic.twitter.com/Vo3XBQxoZP

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 23, 2024

The Left hates free speech

Ace: "The Left Has Only One Agenda and It Is Outlawing All Dissent Against Them So They Can Do Whatever They Like and Never Be Held Account for Their Catastrophic Failures." 

The invisible candidate

CNN: "Kamala Harris to skip historic Al Smith Dinner in New York before election, campaign official says."  Of course.

Extra - Real Clear Politics: "Can Harris's Cynical, Run-Out-The Clock Campaign Succeed?" 

More - Speaking of hiding: "WH Press Corps Explodes at KJP on Biden's 'Photo-Ops,' 'No Press Conferences' at Delaware Summit."  That's adorable, the White House press corps doing its job...now.

Run from the border

Byron York: "Kamala Harris’s never-ending border dodge."

The dodge is that all the problems of illegal immigration during the entire Biden-Harris administration stems from the failure to pass an unpassable piece of legislation in 2024.

Edith Wilson has entered the chat

What is this all about? "People Have a Lot of Questions About Report That Jill Biden's Signature Is on Legislation Folders." 

No kidding

Reason: "Kamala Harris Is Not an Ideas Candidate - Columnists keep trying to find a coherent philosophy behind Harris' confused and contradictory policy agenda." 

Kamala Harris is Chance the Gardener

I finally remembered where I saw a politician like Kamala Harris.  She is exactly like Chance the Gardener from the 1979 movie "Being There."

But first, here's some context about our dimwit Vice President from Charles C.W. Cooke: "The Oprah Interview Eliminated All Pretense — the Press and Harris Are on the Same Side."

Cooke pointed out that the interview, in which Harris was asked how she would bring down prices, “really verged into metaphysical . . . almost poetry. And Winfrey sat there and said, ‘Yes, yes, mm, mm, mm, mm, yes, mm.’

“It’s absurd,” Cooke said. “I am aware by now that people are voting against, and that they are going to pretend, whether they’re Republicans or Democrats, that their candidate is therefore fine, but they’re not, they’re not fine. Kamala Harris is not an acceptable candidate for president of the United States. She can’t answer elementary questions. She can’t talk. And the reason that she can’t talk is because she can’t think. . . . The mouth follows the mind.

“There are lots of people in this country with whom I strongly disagree who are able to present their worldview in a manner that is comprehensible and even compelling. But she is not one of them.”

In the movie "Being There" an illiterate (actual) gardener - in an improbable turn of events - finds himself in the midst of the Washington political elite.  When asked for his opinion, he mouths words about there being "growth in the spring" which the President seizes on as a deep and optimistic analysis of the economic cycles.  Overnight, everybody in Washington hails him as a purveyor of wisdom and honest intelligence.

But he's a moron.  Only the maid who raised him knows his secret:

It's for sure a white man's world in America. Look here: I raised that boy since he was the size of a piss-ant. And I'll say right now, he never learned to read and write. No, sir. Had no brains at all. Was stuffed with rice pudding between th' ears. Shortchanged by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass. Look at him now! Yes, sir, all you've gotta be is white in America, to get whatever you want. Gobbledy-gook!

Well, 45 years after this movie came out, it's clear all you need to be is a Democrat to get away with this insipid vomiting of words.  The media won't say a thing about the rice pudding between Kamala's ears.

This vapid shell has done three interviews - if you can call Oprah's love-fest an interview - and she still can't answer the most basic questions about any subject. 

Who could have predicted this outcome?

Post Millennial: "Chipotle hires robots in California to make food to avoid paying $20 min wage." 

"No definitive support"

"How do polls work?" - the Teamsters, probably.  "Teamsters Members Overwhelmingly Voted to Endorse Trump, But Leadership Wimped Out." 

Playing with fire

John Podhoretz: "The assassination wish fulfillment."

I wish he’d accepted the results of 2020, I wish he hadn’t done the things that helped inspire January 6, I wish he hadn’t made disgraceful moves in Senatorial races that gave his rivals enough control in Washington to pass ruinous and bad legislation, and I wish he had allowed the Republican party to move on and find new leadership. His presidential candidacy is an unhealthy thing for his party and his country, though it’s probably more a manifestation of the country’s ill political health than the cause of it.

But, dear God, would it be worse for us if these assassins had succeeded. And will it be worse for us if one were to succeed between now and election day, or after, should he win. So much worse, infinitely worse—because that event will tear the country to shreds. That’s not even remotely metaphorical.

So go ahead, Washington Post, say Trump’s golfing is the real threat. Go ahead, MSNBC and the Atlantic, say the real problem is Trump talking cruelly about migrants in Ohio. Go ahead and find excuses for a thing that cannot be allowed to happen. If we do reap the whirlwind from the fulfillment of your darkest desires, history will know whom to blame—not that it will matter, because the damage will have been done. 

I've believed that if Trump loses this election, it would open up the floodgates for ballot disqualification (the Colorado case) and bottomless lawfare.  Now I'm terrified it would open up eye-for-an-eye assassination as a now-normalized method of retribution.

The un-fact-checked lies of Kamala Harris

Why so happy, Joe?

Here's Dementia Joe's statement after the latest assassination attempt on Trump:

President Biden departing the White House commented on the second assassination attempt made on Donald Trump.

Before departing on Marine One, Biden said ‘thank god the president is ok.’

This you?

Why aren't you upset, Joe, that this threat to democracy and all the freedoms we cherish escaped another assassination attempt?  You've been spreading this rhetoric for years and Kamala repeated the exact same false allegations in the debate.

Let's face it: They Want Him Dead. 

The DEI grift is very lucrative

Daily Wire: "‘Am I Racist?’ Opens As Third-Highest Grossing Film In The Country."

I saw "Am I Racist?" last night and it was good.  I had some minor quibbles (e.g. I wish he had let the people in the roundtable meeting talk more before he got thrown out for interrupting) but overall it was a pretty entertaining piece of social commentary.

One thing that absolutely blew me away was the amount of money these race grifters are charging for "consulting" or an interview.  The mother whose kids were ignored by a Sesame Street character (likely inadvertently) got 50-large for a sit-down with Walsh.

Not a typo.  At least they got $30 back from Robin Diangelo.

ABC News: "Sounds good to me!"

At the start of the debate, ABC said that it was going to fact check everything that the candidates said. So why didn't they fact check something that many of them already knew to be false?

This was so obvious, that it leaves us with no alternative but to believe that one of…

— Moonshadow 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@DouglasReimer) September 13, 2024

The answer is either "racism" or "climate change"

Hot Air: "Why is Chicago's Mayor Dumping ShotSpotter?" 

Word salad city

Please watch this Kamala interview! declares the Trump campaign.  Red State: "WATCH: Kamala Harris Completely Bombs Her First Solo Interview."

Ten minutes with a local Philadelphia reporter and she still couldn't clear the bar. 

Black jobs

Red State: "Joe Biden Laughably Hoist With Own Petard During Bumbling Remarks at Black Excellence Brunch."

If you're not sure what a "black job" is, here's a helpful list from the Grio, who will be issuing an angry denunciation of Biden's remarks any moment now.

Debate fallout for ABC News

Ace: "Former Clinton Advisor Mark Penn: ABC "News" Should Submit to a Full Third-Party Investigation to Determine If They Schemed to Fact-Check Only Trump."

Nothing, of course, will come of this investigation despite "assurances" from ABC to Kamala that the debate would be to her liking.  What's much more likely is that we'll never again see a Presidential debate on a mainstream media network.  Republicans have been burnt by this scam too many times.

If there are debates on a network, it will 100% come with a stipulation that the moderators can ask questions and otherwise keep their g-ddamned mouths shut. 

U.S. hits a new benchmark

Breitbart: "Interest on U.S. debt tops $1 trillion for the first time."

I'm done talking about this because nobody in Washington ever faces any consequences for putting spending on the credit card.  The sad fact is that the Federal government is now spending a cool trillion dollars every year for...nothing.  Not a shiny new battleship, not a program, not an interstate highway.

Trolling level: Expert

Daily Wire: "DEI Activists Delete X Accounts Ahead Of ‘Am I Racist?’ Premiere - New Matt Walsh doc hits theaters on Friday, September 13." 

Christian Toto gives it a rave review.  

Some canned answers would have helped Trump

Me, last night: "Did he do any debate prep?"

Rich Lowry, today: "Is It Too Much to Ask That Trump Prepare for Debates?"

We’ve now had two presidential debates, and at neither one has Trump managed to say one specific thing about his economy (the stock market was up and inflation was low don’t really count). He hasn’t deployed one figure about how real wages were up in his first three years and have been stagnant under Biden-Harris — perhaps the best argument for himself. It’s all been foggy generalities.

Same on immigration, his signature issue. All he ever says is that millions of people are coming in, they commit crimes, and foreign countries are emptying their jails — over and over.

He never makes any arguments that are designed to convince anyone or that connect outcomes in his administration to his specific polices.

Trey Gowdy is right: this was a "Land of Missed Opportunities."  The very first thing Trump should have said on the economy question was a prepared response like: "When I left office, inflation was 1.4% and now four years later, after spiking to 9%, inflation is costing Americans 20% more for everything from bread to shampoo."  Solid, specific, and relevant to the concerns of Americans.  Instead, brother, I can't even remember what he said except for the Haitians eating cats.

I feel like his debate prep was "we'll wing it - it'll be fine."

Kamala won the debate

Are we going to pretend otherwise?  Yes, she lied several times and never answered several questions but she also effectively baited Trump who took the bait every time.  Kamala's answers were canned speeches, regurgitated on cue, but they were delivered with a smooth aplomb.  She had a plan to repeat her teleprompter speech and followed that plan.

Trump's responses were unstructured and unfocused, bouncing from one topic to another.  He had so many opportunities to push Kamala on her non-existent policies but couldn't stick the landing.  Trump got a question on immigration and - instead of driving home his most potent issue - he went into a diatribe about rally sizes.  Because of his ego.  Did he do any debate prep?

What's the point of complaining about the bias of ABC News?  (For example, they did the Candy Crowley to save Kamala early on but let the "very fine people" hoax pass without mention.)  All Republicans should assume that the mainstream media is going to put their thumb on the scale and prepare accordingly.

Will this change the trajectory of the race?  I dunno but I can see how some Americans would take a second look at Kamala.  Which is terrible news. 

Fight night!

Red State: "Kamala Harris Is Still Refusing Unscripted Interviews - Why? To Hide Her Insecurity and Incompetence."

There's some chatter and polls showing that Americans think Kamala will "win" the debate tonight.  If so, this would be the greatest rope-a-dope in political history.  Instead, Occam's razor applies: Kamala will fail in a public arena because she regularly fails in the public arena.  For example, after her disastrous interview with Lester Holt, Kamala didn't do another interview for an entire year.  Now we're supposed to expect her to spring to life?  Good luck with all that. 

Afterthought - What's the over/under for Kamala to shoehorn in an "I'm speaking" moment?  I'm guessing 20 minutes.

Also - Trump should come out, act confused, and ask: "Where's Joe?"

Clear as mud

COMMERCE SEC. RAIMONDO: "She's been crystal clear on her values...She talks to people!"

CNBC: "She hasn't talked to the press, Gina...She sat down for one interview that was taped...It has been a masterclass in avoiding any questions!" pic.twitter.com/sD9keyG2l9

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 9, 2024

That has been memory-holed

We've always been at war with Oceania.  Byron York: "Remember when Democrats (and everybody else) thought Kamala Harris was a bad vice president?" 

Another magazine broken by Trump

Twitchy: "Check Out The Atlantic Cover Meant to Make Donald Trump Seem Scary, but Makes Him Look Badass Instead."

Show me on this doll where Donald Trump hurt you, Atlantic.  Sheesh, another magazine that I used to subscribe to has succumbed completely to TDS.

Say nothing

Federalist: "Harris And Walz Avoiding The Press Isn’t A Savvy Campaign Strategy — They’re Just Cowards - Even The New York Times thinks Kamala Harris’ answers are ‘vague’ and ‘vacuous’ — why is someone this scared of opening her mouth running for president?" 

In vino veritas

Hot Air: "DOJ Public Affairs Chief Says Alvin Bragg's Case Against Trump Was 'A Perversion of Justice'."  We know, brother, we know.

Wow, the Boston Globe published this?

Boston Globe: "Admit it, Democrats — Greg Abbott was right about the border - The Texas governor warned that President Biden’s lax border policies were unsustainable. Now, as Massachusetts and other blue states buckle under the costs of migrant housing, he’s been vindicated." 

Acknowledging the administration had the power all along to stop the flow:

But for blue state leaders to now act like the Biden administration had no agency, beyond being able to provide funding to struggling states and cities, allowed the administration to dodge accountability for too long. That the administration announced an executive order in June limiting asylum claims, which has been followed by lower numbers at the border, proves it does have agency — and did all along.

The past year could have been, and could still be, a reality check for Democratic leaders away from the border. What Abbott did by shipping migrants to blue states on buses — a distasteful stunt — did expose the hypocrisy of Democrats who expected border states to be endlessly welcoming but weren’t prepared to write blank checks themselves.

Who's the racist now?

When price controls failed

Like they do every time: "The ‘Beefsteak Election’: When Meat Changed the Course of American Politics." 

That's Bidenomics, baby!

PJ Media: "The August Jobs Report Is Bad, July’s Decline Far Worse Than Reported."

The markets responded accordingly.  CNBC: "S&P 500 tumbles Friday to post worst week since 2023, Nasdaq drops 2% for worst weekly performance since 2022."  

Uh-oh, looks like you're going to have to beat him at the ballot box

Lawfare misfire: "Merchan Delays Trump Sentencing -- and Immunity Review -- Past Election Day." 

EV mandate? Never heard of it

Outkick: "Kamala Harris Now Against Electric Car Mandate After Proposing An Electric Car Mandate."

Hunter awaits Papa's pardon

Fox News: "Hunter Biden pleads guilty to all nine federal tax charges brought by special counsel David Weiss."

Hunter tried to make an Alford plea but the prosecution wasn't going for that so he entered a guilty plea for all counts.  If you're wondering why Hunter didn't try to negotiate a plea deal, Andrew McCarthy explains what's going on:

First, Hunter’s move is rational only if he knows he is getting a pardon. The tax indictment charges him with multiple counts that, if memory serves, could run to 17 years of imprisonment. A normal defendant engages in plea negotiations in order to minimize his potential penal exposure — you offer to plead guilty to a count or two, and the government agrees to dismiss the rest of the charges, and your potential imprisonment is capped. That’s not what Hunter is doing. He’s saying he’ll plead guilty to all charges. He can only be doing that because he’s playing with the house money — he knows he’s not going to prison, so he doesn’t need to worry about capping his potential sentence.

There is zero chance that Dementia Joe will keep his promise not to pardon Hunter.  Sentencing is December 16th which means he'll be home for Christmas although Joe might wait until January 19th just to maintain some suspense.  

The Left hates free speech

David Harsanyi: "Kamala Harris’s banana republic on free speech"

In 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN’s Jake Tapper that social media companies “are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation and it has to stop.”

Does it?

Every two-bit authoritarian in history has justified censoring its citizens as a way of protecting them from the menace of disinformation.

If there's free speech, somebody might ask Kamala about her policies.  Can't have that.

Extra - Powerline: "Free speech for her."  Not for you.

Man, did I pick the wrong time to buy NVDA

Investor's Business Daily: "Record Nvidia Sell-Off Fuels Market Expectations Breaker; What To Do Now."  What to do?  Hold on for the ride, I guess. 

KJP is back

The worst press secretary in history is back to her old ways: "White House falsely claims grocery prices have ‘come down’ under Biden — while Harris revives price-gouging claim." 

Switchblades and nunchucks for all

Reason: "Massachusetts Switchblade Ban Overturned on Second Amendment Grounds = The Second Amendment doesn’t protect guns; it protects the human right to self-defense." 

Kamala won't debate

Kurt Schlichter: "Dodging The Debate Would Be Smart Because Kamala Isn’t"

But putting that aside, Kamala has got a problem. It’s a big problem. She’s not very smart. The only thing she is smart about is knowing that she’s not smart. She knows enough not to speak extemporaneously. She knows enough not to be interviewed. And I suspect she knows enough not to debate.

I only learned yesterday that the Harris campaign has not officially agreed to the ABC News debate with Trump because they don't agree to the muted-mic rule.  Looks like they're keeping this in the back pocket as a pretense to back out.  So much for the "say it to my face" bravado.

This is what happens when the media treats you with kid gloves and invents a persona that is far from the truth.  Because when Kamala crashes into Trump, he's not going to her to weasel out of her past statements, flip-flops, and horrible record particularly as Border Czar.  Interviews and press conferences steel a candidate for debates but Kamala won't do those either.

Disclaimer: I was wrong about Biden dropping out of the debate but I was really right.

Sure, let's keep talking about Afghanistan

Powerline: "The Democrats swing and miss"

If the Democrats were smart, they would avoid like the plague any reference to Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. It was universally, and correctly, seen as a debacle, and the Afghanistan fiasco precipitated a drop in Biden’s approval ratings from which he never recovered. Normal observers see that the current controversy was stirred up by the Democrats in hopes of political gain. The controversy, kept alive by Democrats, mostly serves to remind voters of one of the Biden/Harris administration’s worst failures, and to tie that failure more securely to Kamala Harris.

Let's juxtapose the videos from the Gold Star families with Biden checking his wristwatch.

All they do is lie and cover

Red State: "Tom Cotton Takes Down NBC News Anchor After She Shamelessly Lies Defending Kamala Harris."

COTTON: You know who those families also invited? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Where were they? Joe Biden was sitting at a beach. Kamala Harris was sitting at her mansion in Washington, DC. She was four miles away. Ten minutes. She could've gone to the cemetery and honor the sacrifice of those young men and women, but she hasn't. She never has spoken to them or taken a meeting with them. 

WELKER: Well, they did meet with them during the dignified transfer. They were with them during the dignified transfer. 

COTTON: It is because of her and Joe Biden's incompetence that those 13 Americans were killed in Afghanistan.

MSN: "NBC's Kristen Welker incorrectly claims Harris was at dignified transfer commemoration for 13 service members."

Surprise surprise: another media "mistake" that only and always go in one direction.  Every day in the mainstream media is "Hunter's laptop is a Russian plant" day.

On our broadcast this morning, we incorrectly implied that both President Biden and Vice President Harris attended the dignified transfer of 13 American service members killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal. Biden was in attendance but Harris was not.

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) September 1, 2024

Sad news

Fox News: "American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 5 others 'brutally murdered' by Hamas right before rescue: IDF."

NFL player shot

Gateway Pundit: "49ers Star Rookie Ricky Pearsall Shot During a Robbery Incident in Crime-Ridden San Francisco."

Looks like "wearing a Rolex in San Francisco" is the new "wearing a short skirt at the club." 

Why would Trump do this?

Hot Air: "Amandla Stenberg: The Acolyte Got Canceled Because of 'Hyper-Conservative Bigotry'."

I haven't seen it but by all accounts "The Acolyte" was hilariously bad and the subject of multiple YouTube videos ripping every episode.  This coping mechanism may be funnier.

Damning with faint praise

Of course conservatives are going to opine that Kamala's interview was a train wreck, but a lot of figures on the political left don't seem to think it was great shakes either.

CNN (!) even had to note that she lied about her position on fracking.

Any more interviews planned, Kamala?

The tell that Kamala didn't do great is that literally no one in the Harris camp or the media are calling for her to do more interviews today. They're going to treat that one as THE interview and then hope to run out the clock, at least until after the debate.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 30, 2024

On the other hand

PJ Media: "Kamala's First 'Interview' Was the Dumpster Fire You Expected It Would Be."

CNN anchor Dana Bash actually asked some decent questions, but what really struck me about the interview was that Kamala Harris, more often than not, avoided answering most of the questions, and Bash didn't seem to be concerned with getting an actual answer.

You knew things were going to be bad when Harris really struggled to give a coherent answer to the cliché question about what she would do on "on day one."

For a moment, I thought Bash was going to corner Harris on the Administration's immigration policy when she asked (paraphrasing) "Why did you wait three-and-a-half years to implement the executive order that slowed down border crossings?"  Biden has bragged about how border crossings are (now) lower than when Trump left office after an EO - why the wait?  This could have been dong long before that placeholder legislation for future excuses was written.

Instead Harris just repeated Biden's tired excuse: it's Trump's fault.  There was no follow-up.

Extra - Outkick: "Kamala Harris-CNN Interview Continues Plot To Hide The Real Kamala"

Congresswoman Nancy Mace said it best. "Shout out to commercials... at least I think I've learned more about Sleep Number beds than I have about Kamala Harris' policies and plans."

That's a good line.

More - The Corner: "The CNN Interview Revealed Only That Kamala Harris Is as Vacuous as Her Campaign."  

We have been waiting ever since the day Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race for Kamala Harris to sit down in front of a camera and take questions from an interviewer. And if nothing else, we have learned why: In the friendliest possible format — a joint interview with VP nominee and emotional-support midwesterner Tim Walz, conducted by Dana Bash with the delicacy of an ornithologist gently hand-feeding hatchling chicks — Harris has revealed that her gaseously mindless word-cloud of a campaign is in fact an accurate reflection of her own personal vacuousness.

(Cackle) 

Dana Bash is doing a good job

As a conservative who believes the mainstream media is hopelessly biased, it's jarring to see some even-handed and probing questions.  The fracking part was particularly good.

The Left hates free speech

Jonathan Turley: "Meta CEO Zuckerberg admits he was part of the Biden-Harris censorship scheme. You've been warned, America - Zuckerberg is suddenly very, very sorry about censoring opposing views but only came after his company fought for years to conceal the evidence." 

Kamala dons the MAGA hat

USA Today: "Kamala Harris steals another idea from Trump. Now she wants to build the wall – no joke. - The border wall is just the latest example of Kamala Harris' backtracking on former stances. Her convictions seem about as deep as what the polls tell her to support."

Never change, NY Post:

This is kinda funny

Twitchy: "What About Tim? Politico Admits Tim Walz Avoids Interviews Because Has No Idea What Harris' Policies Are."

A Vice Presidential candidate is usually designated as the "attack dog" of the campaign but Tim Walz won't do interviews for fear he'll be asked what Kamala believes.

Kamala won't debate

Here we go: "Kamala Harris Is Trying to Back Out of the Debates."

Hot Air: "Trump: Kamala Wants to Duck Debates."

Legal Insurrection: "ABC Must Announce the Rules of the Trump, Harris Debate - Hot mics, seats, and notes? It’s a “he said, she said” situation. Tell us the debate rules, ABC."

What's this "notes" B.S.?  Who brings notes to a debate?  The whole point of a debate is that you must stand and deliver on your position.  This only confirms the belief that neither Biden nor Harris can survive separated from a teleprompter.

Also: the hot microphone ploy is just so Harris can do her girlboss "I'm speaking" schtick if Trump clears his throat.  It's all so obvious.

This is just setting up for an excuse to back out.

Politico and Axios

National Review: "Two Publications That Might as Well Be Run by the DNC" - "In a market positively saturated with fawning and propagandistic coverage of the Harris campaign, two Virginia-based newsrooms stand out for their commitment to that mission." 

Related - ABC "News" Jonathan Karl beclowns himself this morning shilling for Harris.

Accurate

Remember, kids, Donald Trump is responsible for every page of Project 2025, which he did not write, is not on his campaign page, and has explicitly disowned, but Kamala Harris not responsible for ANYTHING HER OWN ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE WHILE SHE IS VICE PRESIDENT.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 23, 2024

"In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it."

Transcript of Robert F. Kennedy's remarks: "RFK Jr. Exits Race, Endorses Trump: In The Name Of Saving Democracy, The Democratic Party Is Dismantling It." 

It's for your own good, peasant. 

Testify, brother, testify

Hot Air: "RFK Withdraws, Endorses Trump in Court Filing"

"Democracy has become little more than a slogan for our political institutions, for our media," Kennedy lamented, "and for the Democratic Party." Kennedy blasted Democrats for their "lawfare" against both his campaign and against Trump, while committing "a palace coup" against Biden after the "predictable" outcome of the debate. He also tore into Democrats for anointing Kamala Harris without any democratic process at all, "only smoke and mirrors ... at the Chicago circus." And he ripped the media for its complicity in covering up the coup and shrugging off the Harris strategy of hiding from reporters. 

Kennedy accused American media outlets of colluding with both the DNC and government agencies on censorship. It's a "naked exercise of executive power" against its political opponents, and told reporters in the room that they and their employers are responsible for the decline of American democracy as a result. 

"Governments don't censor lies," Kennedy observed. "They don't fear lies. They censor the truth."

Look who has been red-pilled.  Kennedy also tore into Kamala for her basement strategy and the media's collusion in that strategy.

Kamala got zero votes, has given zero press conferences, has given zero interviews, and had to stage buying a bag of Doritos.

This is the most ridiculous, anti-democratic, laughable joke I’ve ever seen in politics.

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) August 22, 2024

Fantasy football draft night!

Picked up Patrick Mahomes and A.J. Brown - not bad.

Whoopsie part 2

CNN: "New data shows US job growth has been far weaker than initially reported."

How does it happen that certain reporting keeps getting retracted?  It's a mystery!

Whoopsie!

Fox News: "PBS host apologizes for reporting Trump pressed Netanyahu to abandon hostage deal: 'This was a mistake'."

"PBS NewsHour" anchor Judy Woodruff apologized Wednesday for reporting a story about former President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that both leaders have staunchly denied.

Woodruff posted an apology to X expressing regret for reporting this week that in a phone call, Trump urged Netanyahu to delay a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas until after the 2024 presidential election to benefit him politically.

"This was a mistake and I apologize for it," Woodruff wrote. 

Mistakes were made, the media said.  It's astonishing how these mistakes only - and always - go in one direction.  

Has the AP ever made a “mistake” that favored Republicans that you had to correct?

— Joseph Gelman (@ifofgot) August 20, 2024