From an Angry Reader:
Have you even watched her interviews? She speaks with ease, no word salad, and what she says makes sense!
What a blathering idiot you are!
Jim Loss
Dear Angry Reader Jim Loss,
So, Kamala speaks with ease, fluently, and sensibly? Can you provide a single sentence to illustrate that assertion?
It is hard to grade your abbreviated angry reader letter, since there is no there, there other than the usual slurs and smears.
Nonetheless, in response to your single question: Yes, I’ve watched too many recently, even though Harris has done fewer than one-half the number of interviews as Trump. Note that she only began to meet the media when she started trailing Trump as her polls dived, and she pivoted to shout he was a fascist/Hitler/dictator, etc.
In this regard, note that she still has not done a single press conference.
Her town halls mark a new first in which she uses a teleprompter, suggesting—as a moderator of one such scripted event, Maria Shriver, confirmed when she announced that no questions would be taken from the audience—that the questions had already been “predetermined.”
So unfortunately, I have watched her interview with the local Philadelphia TV anchorman; her interview with the representatives of the National Association of Black Journalists; her Dana Bash interview, her Oprah interview; her “60 Minutes” interview; her Univision townhall, her Bret Baier interview; her Anderson Cooper Interview, her Maria Shriver/Liz Cheney interview town hall, and four or five others.
In all of them, she speaks with unease, staring at the questioner in deer-in-the-headlights stunned fashion should he offer anything but a T-ball question.
None of her answers match the questions asked. Instead, she often just reverts to her canned mini-autobiographies of the sort that begin with “I grew up middle-class….”
Her sole interview with an oppositional inquisitor, Fox News’s Bret Baier, was such a disaster that her handlers were seen off camera widely waving their hands to cut the train wreck interview short.
Almost all her interviews, in fact, do entail word salads, mishmashes of platitudes interspliced with cackling, batting of the eyes, and feigned seriousness as if she can act her way out of a question rather than answer it.
The impression gained is that Harris still thinks she is once again in her mid-20s when her hand gestures, weird out-of-place laughing, flirtations, weepy voice, and empty platitudes won people over in lieu of any rational statement. But what worked at 30 does not now that she is 60.
So, consider that by now Harris has serially failed to answer the following three simple questions that are asked frequently of her:
- If you are the change, move-forward, and turn-the-page candidate, why, a) did you not help to enact such an ambitious, transformative agenda in your current 3.5 years in office, or why, b) do you not, as vice president, move right now to implement your “turn the page” policies in the final 90 days of your vice-presidential tenure?
- Why have you suddenly disowned your previous life-long positions, such as opposing fracking and deportations, wanting to defund the police, cutting the Pentagon, calling for the end of the border patrol, ridiculing the border wall, mandating EV car sales, supporting the disastrous flight from Afghanistan, promising to sign a racial reparations bill, helping to bail-out violent jailed BLM/Antifa demonstrators, and a host of other flip-flops?
- Why—and how—are you now the Democratic candidate after neither entering nor winning a single primary and yet being anointed without an open-convention vote? Do you not nullify the votes of some 14 primary voters in removing Biden and replacing him with yourself? And why did you assure the nation for over three years that a clearly cognitively challenged Joe Biden was bold and fit as a fiddle—only to be part of a cabal that forced his abdication from the ticket on grounds he was clearly neither physically nor mentally fit? And can you cite one issue on which you and Biden differ?
You say what Harris says, “makes sense.” Here are a mere two examples of Harris’s riffs that she most frequently repeats. I suggest that both reveal that your own such assertions of her eloquence are utter nonsense:
Exhibit A:
The Governor and I and we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time. Right? The significance of the passage of time.
So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children and what that means to the future of our nation, depending on whether or not they have the resources they need to achieve their God-given talent.
Exhibit B:
Our election is about understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe as a democracy.
As a democracy, we know there’s a duality to the nature of democracy. On the one hand, incredible strength when it is intact. What it does for its people, to protect and defend their rights. Incredibly strong. And incredibly fragile. It is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it. And that’s what this campaign is about.
If you believe these two are unrepresentative, I’ll offer another direct quote from a White House speech she gave:
They taught us that we could do anything and should never be burdened by the limitations of other people to be able or not be able to see what can be. And this is that community who understands and can see what is possible, unburdened by what has been.
So, Mr. Loss, neither ending your letter with an exclamation point nor resorting to ad hominem playground invective makes your letter any more comprehensible than the words of Kamala Harris.
The precise reason that Harris is losing is because she had earlier avoided the media, given she cannot express thoughts coherently—should she have them. But then when her polls dived, and she was forced to do interviews, the results proved even worse than her silence.
In other words, most voters likely would have preferred Harris to have kept quiet and to have avoided the media, given the current alternative of embarrassing herself with hourly proof of her inanity.
Victor Hanson
Discussion (14)
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I thought Bozo died.
I would have just asked the appropriately-named Mr. Loss, "What color is the sky, in your little world?"
Listening to KH speak reminds me of an old SNL scene wherein Dan Akroyd spoofed false standing.
VDH could change the title to ''questions for a Kamala voter'' - it would get a wider audience
She is coherent when she gives her scripted stump speech. The same one, over and over and over again (it's easy to google side-by-sides of the same speech, same hand gestures, same intonation in every talk for the last couple months). Except for the weird facial expressions and odd laughter/nervous hair shifting (maybe she should try hair spray), they're all the same pack of hopeful dreams and lies about Trump/Nazis/Fascism/Dictatorship and miscellaneous Gaslighting Garbage. But if the prompter goes off - it's 'in just 32 days, 32 days, 32 days...' - she exhibits a software glitch and goes blue screen on us. If she goes off script, she starts blathering something about 'moving forward, see where we are'-ing'. Or maybe her deflects to her middle class upbringing in a rich neighborhood in Montreal. But it's all a swirl of repeated words and phrases looking for a point that never gets made. Crazily, she has even been aided by a willing press to 'fix' there problems in her responses. When she gave a word salad answer on 60 minutes to a serious question, they actually swapped in a better answer from a different questions. Trump may be right that the networks have violated campaign law and the terms of their FCC broadcase license....
She is coherent when she gives her scripted stump speech. The same one, over and over and over again (it's easy to google side-by-sides of the same speech, same hand gestures, same intonation in every talk for the last couple months). Except for the weird facial expressions and odd laughter/nervous hair shifting (maybe she should try hair spray), they're all the same pack of hopeful dreams and lies about Trump/Nazis/Fascism/Dictatorship and miscellaneous Gaslighting Garbage. But if the prompter goes off - it's 'in just 32 days, 32 days, 32 days...' - she exhibits a software glitch and goes blue screen on us. If she goes off script, she starts blathering something about 'moving forward, see where we are'-ing'. Or maybe her deflects to her middle class upbringing in a rich neighborhood in Montreal. But it's all a swirl of repeated words and phrases looking for a point that never gets made. Crazily, she has even been aided by a willing press to 'fix' there problems in her responses. When she gave a word salad answer on 60 minutes to a serious question, they actually swapped in a better answer from a different questions. Trump may be right that the networks have violated campaign law and the terms of their FCC broadcase license.... ( The woman is simply unable to think on her feet or without a text. Mr. Loss should change his first name to "Hearing'. But I suspect he's just an internet troll or campaign operative wasting our time.
It appears to that Jim is playing a losing hand.
I am under the impression that you have to have a modicum of intelligence to get a law degree. I’m going to assume that Harris is just not as good at the political showmanship as Obama or Hillary Clinton. In our modern age no one did the political carney better than Bill Clinton. She is a liar, it’s just that she is not smooth about it. She will to easily show the world her true Marxist self, so she is reduced to babbling incoherent nonsense. Looking at her old videos of her as a DA, there is no word salad, the tyrant is on display. Kamala is a snake in the grass, and not a garter type of snake that slithers away when confronted. She is a mean cotton mouth, that will pursue her enemies with extreme prejudice. I fear we will see the true Kamal come January.
Mr. Loss is clearly the blatherer... Thank you, VDH, for a clear response to this person...
Comedy blithering gold
I thought that Mr. Loss had erred in using the word: “blathering”, as I thought “blithering idiot” was the correct wording. I checked grammarist.com, and found this: “ The verb blither is a variant of blather, meaning to talk nonsensically. Aside from the a/i distinction, the words are the same except for slight connotative differences. Both usually appear in their present-participial forms, blathering and blithering. Blather is preferred by a wide margin in all varieties of English, although blithering is more often used in the phrase blithering idiot. Both words are pejorative, but blithering is harsher (because it’s usually followed by the obviously pejorative idiot).” Now I am left to ponder if Mr. Loss was deliberately being less harsh by using the word “blather”, or did “blather” attained the same harshness as “blither”, because it was combined with the word “idiot”. I am sure brighter minds than mine will resolve this most perplexing question. One thing is certain, Mr Hanson is neither a blitherer, nor a blatherer, and never an idiot.
One must earn votes, alas KH does not.
Perhaps Mr. Loss was speaking of her eloquent elaborations while explaining how she would enter someone's home sanctuary for a gun safety check, or how she will snatch the patents from the corporations for equity, and the like, while talking to her constituents.