“60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris

The star of this “60 Minutes” interview is Bill Whitaker, because he’s a real journalist instead of an MSM propaganda bot. Note that Kamala’s speech consists mainly of slogans and catchphrases.

Her performance reminded me of Orwell’s ‘Politics and the English Language’, which noted:

As soon as certain topics are discussed, the concrete merges with the abstract and no one seems able to come up with non-hackneyed twists: prose consists less and less of words chosen for their meaning, and more and more of words chosen because of their meaning. sentences stuck together like the parts of a prefabricated chicken coop.

As Orwell notes later in the essay, this is an indication that the speaker is not really thinking about what he or she is saying. Reviewing the interview for the SpectatorFreddy Gray commented:

Perhaps the most revealing moment came when Whitaker asked Harris why voters say they don’t know what she stands for. “It’s an election, Bill,” she said with a dead smile. Whitaker then mentioned her slip-ups on issues like fracking, immigration and Medicare.

“For the past four years, I have been vice president of the United States and I have traveled around our country listening to people and looking for what is possible in terms of common ground,” she responded. “I believe in building consensus. We are a diverse people. Geographically, regionally, in terms of where we are in our backgrounds and what the American people want is that we have leaders who can build consensus, where we can make compromises and understand that as long as you don’t compromise, it’s not a bad thing . find common sense solutions. And that has been my approach.”

Note that the above statement has no substance. It seems to me analogous to something a philandering husband might say to his wife when she asks him why he’s been taking so many business trips to New York City in recent months — something he’s never done in the past — and most importantly, what does he? do when he turns off his phone in the evening between 9 p.m. and midnight.

To this question the husband answers:

For the past four months, I have been the lead regional sales manager for my financial products company and have traveled to New York to listen to our portfolio manager and explore what is possible in terms of what the market will do this fall. I believe in understanding what our analysts believe. Our stock market analysts are a diverse group. Educationally, in terms of where they are in their background and what our investors do want is to have analysts who can build consensus on how the market is likely to perform this fall.

Kamala Harris can’t think – at least not well. I believe the choice of her is an expression of the DNC’s contempt for its constituents. The Machiavellians who run that mafia syndicate believe that their voters have been brainwashed into voting for Kamala simply because she is not Donald Trump.

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