My latest in PJ Media:
When even that indefatigable cheerleader for the hard Left, the New York Times, admits that a Leftist politician is in trouble, you can be sure that the trouble is very deep. The Times’ lengthy exploration of “the frustrations of Kamala Harris” was sympathetic, but the article’s subtitle summed up the crisis Harris is experiencing: The vice president’s allies are increasingly concerned that President Biden relied on her to win but does not need her to govern.” Of course, the people who are running things don’t need Old Joe to govern, either, but that’s another story. Harris, in any case, has a ready explanation for why she is failing at one of the easiest jobs in the world: racism, of course. Come on, man! What else could it be?
Harris’ explanation for her failings and the concomitant negative coverage she has received is buried in the thirteenth paragraph of the Times article, and even there it is tossed off casually: “Ms. Harris has privately told her allies that the news coverage of her would be different if she were any of her 48 predecessors, all of whom were white and male.”
This is exactly the explanation that will fly with much of the vice president’s base, who see themselves as perpetually victimized in this inveterately “white supremacist” country. That’s what the Left’s hysterical propaganda about “systemic racism” is all about: anytime a “person of color” such as Harris fails, she or he has a ready means to deflect responsibility onto someone else, that is, onto everyone’s favorite whipping boy, the white man.
And so now if Harris were “any of her 48 predecessors” as vice president, she says she would be receiving more favorable news coverage because if anything is true of the far-Left propaganda organs known as the mainstream media, it is that they are so systemically racist that can always be counted on to be kinder to a white male than to a female person of color.
Thus if Harris were Mike Pence or Dick Cheney, or Dan Quayle, or Spiro Agnew or Richard M. Nixon, she would be getting better press coverage now. If she were tainted by connection to Trump, or linked to the Iraq war or to corrupt dealings or Watergate, or thought of as an imbecile, the media would be giving her a pass right now, if only she were a white male. After all, the media never whispered a negative word about those vice presidents, or other luminaries who held the nation’s second spot, did they? They had the magic key: they were white men.
It’s hard to imagine that Kamala Harris actually believes this. Was she asleep for the first 56 years of her life? Did she not witness the staggeringly negative coverage those men and others got, which demonstrated that white men do not get and never have gotten a pass in the media?
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Michael says
She owes her position to her sex and her colour.
Infidel says
Most importantly, to Willie Brown
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, if she were white and a man she would NOT now be Vice President or, for that matter, even have been considered eligible for the position of Vice President.
yojb says
Yo Kamala – If you were a white man,
you wouldn’t be veep. You’d be sweeping out the DC bus station, not taking up space at Blair House as the beneficiary of a stolen election.
mike says
Harris if you actually did your job color has nothing to do with it
Keith O says
Mike, Pretty much sums it up.
Most people don’t give a rats arse what colour you are, so long as you can do your job.
The only ones who like to squeal about “racism” are the loony left to use it as an excuse for not doing their job or getting their shit squared away in their own lives.
They all seem to forget the privileged white men and women who are living in abject poverty.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mike.
WPM says
Was she asleep for the last 56 years of her life? I do not know if she was asleep for the last 56 years of her life, but it seems she got herself on started to climb the political ladder by sleeping with the right elected official .Biden pick her as a running mate solely because of her plumbing and skin color. She is a walking insult to any educated, smart ,strong, moral women of any color ,Harris message is I am a victim I must be obey to, bowed down to because I am a victim. Say what you want about Pence ,Cheney, Quayle with there relationship was with the press none of them played the victim card to try to get positive press coverage .She refuses to finish any task given her, she cannot even answer softball questions given to her in friendly talks with MSM media talking heads. No wonder her rating are in the mid 20s she is a aging parity girl caught in the cutthroat world of Washington who refuses to learn from her mistakes even Biden,s handlers cannot bring her up to speed or make her likable or even make her look like a team player.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
Kamala Harris said that fool statement as an excuse to cover because she refuses to admit that she has approval rating because she’s callous , incompetent and irresponsible .
In addition to those three terrible things the information has gotten out from the staff who worked for her that they quit because of her character for Harris is described as a boss who is a”bully”
Harris is likewise known for being rude, abrasive, disgusting obnoxious ,and self-centered and conceited.
eduardo odraude says
She strikes me as a small-minded ideologue full of hate. But that’s admittedly little better than a first impression.
somehistory says
Logic says, *if she was a White man and not who she is, she wouldn’t be who she is. and if she was not who she is, she would be different and maybe she wouldn’t be such an idiot and so whatever was said about her as a While man would be more favorable.*
the fact that she is trying to stir trouble in this way, and the fact that she said something so stupid, just shows she deserves the negative coverage.
eduardo odraude says
Yes. She’s making excuses. It’s not a good look for her.
eduardo odraude says
I mean, most of the media were more than ready to give her a fair shake precisely because she is a woman of color though I don’t see how genitalia or skin color are relevant. If she were a likable, brilliant, and ethical person of color on the left, large parts of the media would essentially deify her, drool over her, and throw her mostly softball questions or worship masked as questions.
Infidel says
She’s the single reason that I’m hoping that Brandon lasts out his entire term
Kim M says
Or two terms. ?
gravenimage says
I’m afraid this makes no sense, Kim–hoping Biden remains healthy enough for us to avoid a Harris presidency is *not* the same thing as wanting to see a second Biden term.
PMK says
No one would even know her name if she were a white man OR woman. She would never have become VP since Joe Biden had promised to select a woman of color. Kamala, senator or not, would not have qualified.
eduardo odraude says
ouch
eduardo odraude says
Kamala Harris is a white man who long ago secretly changed to be a female of color in order to be higher on the victimhood totem pole and get a leg up toward power.
Myron J. Poltroonian says
That’s It! She’s the Black Beto! A shallow, clueless, yet Politically Upwardly Nubile one at that.
gravenimage says
Kamala Harris Claims She Would Get Better Media Coverage If She Were a White Man
………….
Boy, this crap gets old. Her boss Joe Biden is a White man, and he gets pretty bad press himself.
Westman says
Dan Quayle had worse deserved coverage than Harris. Some of his quotes:
“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.”
“Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.”
“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”
“We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.”
“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.”
“I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.”
“It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”
And how Quayle could have known about about Kamala Harris, prescient!:
“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”
If Harris wants this White VP notoriety, it’s hers for the taking.
gravenimage says
I take your point, Westman. It is true that Dan Quayle was hardly the most articulate–or even perhaps brightest–of politicians. But he was a decent, patriotic American–I wish we had a VP like him now.
Walter Sieruk says
The reason , or better yet reasons., why Kamala Harris has such a low popularity rating isn’t because she’s a Black woman but because has has a distasteful and nasty personality along with constant habit of incessant inappropriate annoying laughing.
Rufolino says
Harris’s cackle is a defence -mechanism, it distracts attention from the question in hand which she is usually not competent to answer. If you aren’t sure what you should say, laugh. It’s a schoolgirl trick and labels her as an amateur.
OLD GUY says
As a poker player would say her cackle is a TELL, she’s bluffing, off in her case she hasn’t a clue.