With friends like CNN, Kamala Harris can not fail by Robert Bridge!
(2024-09-02 at 22:22:53 )

With friends like CNN, Kamala Harris can not fail by Robert Bridge!

After weeks without sitting down for an interview with the media, she finally agreed to a chat with liberal-friendly CNN. The results were telling.

More than a month after becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris finally agreed to sit for a pre-recorded, highly edited interview with CNN accompanied by her running mate Gov. Tim Walz.

Yet the "grilling" lasted just under 20 minutes, which translates into about 10 minutes of speaking time for each candidate. Critics say the shockingly brief face-to-face came off looking more like a slick campaign ad than a hard-hitting interview.

How pathetic, how lacking in confidence is this woman, that she is running for president of the United States, the highest office of the land, but will not agree to an interview with a friendly network without Tim Walz accompanying her.

On top of that, the Harris campaign picked the lowest-rated news channel (CNN) to do the interview, hours before a holiday weekend, and on the same night college football season kicked off. In other words, Harris handlers were desperately seeking to keep this interview as low key as possible.

While CNNs Dana Bash did ask several substantive questions in this closely watched interview, there was scant critical follow up to Harris answers although the vice president has flip-flopped on numerous occasions in the past, most notably on the question of Americas energy resources.

"When you were in Congress, you supported the green New Deal, and in 2019 you said, quote, "There is no question, I am in favor of banning fracking." Do you still want to ban fracking?" Bash asked.

Ms Harris responded that she no longer wanted to ban fracking and that she had emphasized that position in 2020. Bash reminded that Harris had previously said in a 2019 town hall that she did in fact want to prohibit fracking. When the CNN host went on to ask the vice president why she wanted to change her 2019 position, Harris made vague references to "scientific studies" on climate change, when the real reason for the flip-flop was to secure votes in the swing state of Pennsylvania where fracking is an important part of the economy. In other words, politics as usual.

Bash also questioned Harris for her role as "Border Czar" in the Biden administration. The vice president was asked if she is still of the opinion that border crossings should be decriminalized, a position she took during her 2019 campaign. Harris managed to largely evade the question, simply answering that she believes in "consequence" and that "we have laws that have to be followed and enforced." The problem is, the Biden administration has done very little to enforce those laws.

Conservative estimates report that under President Bidens watch, there have been over 8.5 million migrant encounters nationwide, 6.7 million of which have been at the Southwest border. Worse yet, 1.7 million known "getaways"-illegal immigrants who have evaded Border Patrol- are now living in the interior of the United States without documentation and without having undergone any vetting by immigration officials.

The number of illegal immigrants in the country has roughly doubled under President Biden. The United States had some 10.2 million illegal immigrants in 2020, and another 10 million have entered during Bidens presidency. In light of this escalating situation, Harris had a lot of answering to do in the interview, which regrettably never happened.

Meanwhile, many political commentators fear that a cloud of foul play surrounded the Harris-Walz sit down, and for good reason. Indeed, there is no reason to believe that CNN, a fiercely pro-liberal news channel, did not provide Kamala Harris with the questions prior to the interview.

Suffice it to recall that in the run up to the 2016 presidential showdown between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, former Democratic National Committee interim chair and CNN contributor Donna Brazile was caught sending town hall topics to Hillary Clintons campaign. News of the incident was discovered courtesy of leaked emails - a "hack job" conveniently blamed on the Russians, and despite the fact that a DNC employee, Seth Rich, 27, was murdered in cold blood on the streets of Washington, DC shortly after the revelations went public. Police say the young man was the victim of a robbery, although none of his private possessions were taken.

Bash also questioned Harris over Bidens disastrous debate performance that set in motion the effort to remove the president and replace him with Harris. After Biden stumbled through the June 27 debate against Trump, Harris took to CNN to defend the 81-year-old presidents health and mental acuity.

"Do you have any regrets about what you told the American people [about Bidens health]?" Bash asked.

"Not at all," Harris responded, with a hint of conspiracy.

Given Harris known inability for articulating complex ideas without the help of a teleprompter, many observers are of the opinion that Bidens departure at the 11th hour was a deliberate move that protected Harris from having to spend too much time in the public eye before November. We already know from past experience that Harris political shelf life is extremely short.

Just four years ago, Harris was forced to withdraw early from the presidential nomination process with poll numbers in the low single digits, yet today she has managed to advance one step from the White House without winning a single vote.

All things considered, some might call that very suspicious fortune. The only thing that can explain this surge in popularity is a media industrial complex that is willing to celebrate Kamala Harris as she prepares for her first and possibly last debate against The Donald on September 10. After that it is anybodys guess, but given the fact that almost the entire media complex has thrown its hefty support behind Ms Harris, Donald Trump is facing a formidable challenge.

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