Bob Maistros – Issues & Insights
. . ."Which makes one wonder (wink, wink, nod, nod): Might Ms. Harris have actually been tipped off just a bit as to possible subject matter? Nah. Who needs that when the questioner is lobbing up not softballs, but beach balls?" . . .
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| Does this location give her street cred? |
"Why? Because real reporters’ obsession is gettin’ ya in a “gotcha.” Pushing, prodding, twisting words out of context, and generally making nuisances of themselves. Especially hard-bitten, cynical, and largely antagonistic business journalists.
"Ah, that word. Journalist. A concept sorely lacking in the “interview” of Kamala Harris by MSNBC/NBC’s Stephanie Ruhle.
"Put aside that if you were playing the drinking game and had “dreams,” “ambitions,” “aspirations,” “opportunity economy,” and “middle-class family” on your Kamala bingo card, you were smashed before the first break.
"That her veepness trotted out the usual canards about the “border security bill” (that ensured the polar opposite). The “worst economy since the Great Depression” Donald Trump supposedly left behind (a fiction recently dispatched on these pages). Women dying because of post-Roe restrictions (as opposed to complications from medically induced abortions).
"And that the airhead who once claimed that smaller tax refunds reflected a middle-class tax hike called Donald Trump “not very serious” about economic issues.
"The real issue with the “interview” – the individual styled as “NBC News Senior Business Analyst” seemed curiously uninterested in analysis.
"Talk about “not very serious.” Instead of questions, Ruhle offered up the Democratic candidate’s own campaign stump soundbites – and then re-affirmed and reinforced her responses.
"Don’t take my word for it. Check the transcript:
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