The Kamala Harris CNN Interview Was Pathetic Journalism

Scratch that. The Kamala Harris/Tim Walz interview since Harris isn’t allowed to fly solo without a wingman to bail her out.

The overall goal of the extremely short and pre-taped Harris/Walz interview with CNN’s Dana Bash was about “moving forward” and “not going back.” In that context, is Harris speaking about the past three years under the Biden-Harris administration or doesn’t that part count?

It was an exercise in warped reality where Harris speaks in the third person as if she hasn’t been the Vice President since January 20, 2021. She of course has been the Vice President and still is so why does the country need to “move past” her own administration? It’s a tricky thread that anyone short of left-wing partisans can poke holes in with even the most innocent of questions.

CNN split it up into three parts when they posted it online to make it seem longer than it was. Here’s part one:

She repeated several lies in this segment including the purported reduction of child poverty by 50%, a stat that simply doesn’t exist.

The meat of this segment has to do with Harris’ obvious reversal of her goal to ban fracking. Bash asks her point blank, according to the transcript:

BASH: Do you still want to ban fracking?

HARRIS: No, and I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020, that I would not ban fracking. As vice president, I did not ban fracking. As president, I will not ban fracking.

BASH: In 2019, I believe in a town hall you said — you were asked, “Would you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking on your first day in office?” and you said, “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking. So yes.” So it changed in — in that campaign?

HARRIS: In 2020 I made very clear where I stand. We are in 2024, and I have not changed that position, nor will I going forward. I kept my word, and I will keep my word.

BASH: What made you change that position at the time?

HARRIS: Well, let’s be clear. My values have not changed. I believe it is very important that we take seriously what we must do to guard against what is a clear crisis in terms of the climate. And to do that, we can do what we have accomplished thus far.

So, her position changed but her values have not changed and she never supported it but she obviously supported it, or something.

“My values have not changed,” she says, a big *wink wink* to her climate buddies. Don’t worry pals, she’s still all in on the green energy scam, but she wants to win the Rust Belt first.

It’s a tortured exchange where Harris is so obviously lying about her past position but she cannot risk alienating a single voter in Pennsylvania. The side note is that leftists are mad because they feel like she’s dumping all over their climate change agenda by switching her position on the fracking ban.

The nuance here is that you don’t have to “ban” fracking to make it impossible to do. Federal regulations can be used to slow the process down and basically make it too expensive or slow to pursue resulting in a de facto ban. Democrats know this all too well since it’s how they frequently get around the law when it comes to enacting an agenda through the administrative state. Nothing about Kamala Harris screams “energy dominance” based on her past positions, she’s a Green New Deal prophet and will continue down the road of destroying America’s domestic energy production.

Moving on to part two of the interview, Bash opens with a question on immigration for Border Czar Kamala:

Bash basically asks why did your administration screw up the border so badly? Harris’ answer: it’s those damn Republicans, of course:

HARRIS: … But I will say this: That Joe Biden and I and our administration worked with members of the United States Congress on an immigration issue that is very significant to the American people and to our security, which is the border. And through bipartisan work, including some of the most conservative members of the United States Congress, a bill was crafted which we supported, which I support.

And Donald Trump got word of this bill that would’ve — that contributed to securing our border. And because he believes that it would not have helped him politically, he told his folks in Congress, “Don’t put it forward.” He killed the bill: a border security bill that would’ve put 1,500 more agents on the border. And let me tell you something. The Border Patrol endorsed the bill. And I’m sure —

That’s the only talking point Democrats have on the border is that Donald Trump worked to kill a bad immigration bill in Congress that would’ve been a disaster for the country. The Biden-Harris administration is working around the courts to try and wipe out student loan debt but it continues relaxing every border restriction and then acts like it can’t do anything without Congress.

Once again, Harris has been in charge in the White House the entire time, she presided over this border failure and she owns it as Biden’s Border Czar.

Bash, to her credit, did point out that Harris supported decriminalizing the border, a position even the some ardent progressives would cringe at:

BASH: Just one other question about something that you said in 2019 when you first ran. There was a debate. You raised your hand when asked whether or not the border should be decriminalized. Do you still believe that?

HARRIS: I believe there should be consequence. 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 consequence.

Again, another change of view by Harris because deleting the border would be widely unpopular and suicidal on so many fronts. Suddenly Harris believes there should be consequences for crossing the border illegally despite previously saying otherwise on multiple occasions, as Elon Musk pointed out quoting her position from 2017:

Please note that this is an actual statement from Kamala https://t.co/Os4I3cxE6C

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 29, 2024

There’s no denying Harris’ radical view on immigration, the record levels of illegal border crossings in the past three years speaks for itself.

On the topic of Israel and Gaza, at least Harris admitted that atrocities were committed by Hamas on innocent people attending a music festival. That’s a reality that many anti-Semitic parts of the Democratic Party are still unwilling to admit. Other than that, Harris has little to say about the subject other than the standard line of trying to reduce civilian casualties and making some kind of “deal” between Israel and a terrorist organization trying to destroy it.

Heading into part three, Tim Walz was finally allowed to speak and it was a waste of time:

First Walz question: why do you continually lie about your military service or lack thereof?

BASH: Governor Walz, the country is just starting to get to know you. I want to ask you a question about how you’ve described your service in the National Guard.

WALZ: Yeah.

BASH: You said that you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a war zone. A campaign official said that you misspoke. Did you?

WALZ: Well, first of all, I’m incredibly proud. I’ve done 24 years of wearin’ uniform of this country. Equally proud of my service in a public school classroom, whether it’s Congress or — or the governor. My record speaks for itself, but I think people are coming to get to know me. I — I speak like they do. I speak candidly. I wear my emotions on my sleeves, and I speak especially passionately about — about our children being shot in schools and around — around guns. So I think people know me. They know who I am. They know where — where my heart is, and again, my record has been out there for over 40 years to — to speak for itself.

BASH: And the — the idea that you said that you were in war, did you misspeak, as the campaign has said?

WALZ: Yeah, I said — we were talking about in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war. And my wife the English teacher told me my grammar’s not always correct.

Walz played the awe-shucks, I ain’t the smartest with the grammar card to weasel out of his oft-inflated and repeated claims that he carried some kind of weapon into some kind of war. Bash should’ve gone further to ask why Walz claimed to have spent time in Afghanistan when all records show he made it as far as Italy but never set foot into the Afghan theater.

So, that’s it, Walz just misspoke about inflating his military career on multiple occasions to multiple audiences across multiple years, that’s all. Just a grammatical error. It’s about guns in schools and the children, after all.

Bash presses beyond the National Guard claims and basically asks why voters should trust Walz at all given how much of a documented liar he is:

BASH: And just one other question, because, again, this is all new. This was not — however many days ago, this was not on either of your bingo cards, especially yours. You had to clarify that you had said that you and your wife used IVF, but it turned out you used a different kind of fertility in order to have children. And then when you ran for Congress in 2006, your campaign repeatedly made false statements about a 1995 arrest for drunk and reckless driving. What do you say to voters who aren’t sure whether they can take you at your word?

WALZ: Well, I’ve been very public. I think they can see — my students come out — former folks I’ve served with, and they — and they do, they vouch for me. I certainly own my mistakes when I make ‘em. The one thing I’ll tell you is I wished in this country we wouldn’t have to do this. I spoke about our infertility issues ‘cause it’s hell, and families know this. And I — I spoke about the treatments that were available to us that — that had those beautiful children there.

Again, he just misspoke about growing his experience with IVF or his drunk driving arrest, no big deal! Walz concludes his calamitous part of the interview by stating that he won’t apologize for speaking passionately about an issue which is apparently a license to lie about an issue.

After Walz finishes explaining himself, quite poorly, Bash moves on to the mental decline of Joe Biden and Harris’ role in covering it up. Once again, history revisionism is setting in on what happened to Joe. The Democratic Party propped him up and then sold him out. Harris was part of that, of course.

Harris gives some garbage answer but eventually says we need to “close the page” on the past decade without acknowledging her role in the past one-third of that decade:

BASH: With the last decade, of course, the last three and a half years has been part of your administration.

HARRIS: I’m talking about an era that started about a decade ago where there is some suggestion, warped I believe it to be, that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on you beat down instead of where I believe most Americans are, which is to believe that the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up. That’s what’s at stake as much as any other detail that we could discuss in this election.

Harris doesn’t mean her part of the past decade, of course, just the Trump part and nothing more. Then she spits out some word salad of nothingness and how she actually LOVES JOE BIDEN SO MUCH! 

That was pretty much the conclusion of anything resembling a probing interview. The rest of the questions were fluff about how amazing it was to accept the nomination and other sugar-filled softballs.

The end result was an interview that, without Walz, was only about 20 minutes of Harris talking to a friendly journalist in a heavily edited and pre-taped environment. In terms of kid gloves, Harris was swaddled and put down for a nap.

If this is how Harris expects to ingratiate herself with voters sick of inflation and Bidenomics, good luck.

This is why the Harris campaign is getting nervous about the Sept. 10 debate coming up. They want her to have note cards and open mics so she can go for a viral moment interrupting Trump while he’s laying waste to her record. Fortunately for voters, ABC isn’t playing the game and will keep the same rules as the June 27 CNN debate. Muted mics while the other candidate is speaking, standing at the lectern, and nothing more than an empty notebook and a pen. Harris will be on her own word salad island.