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Episode One Hundred Seventy Five: Kamalapalooza · The Death Of Journalism

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Welcome to episode number one hundred and seventy five of the Death of Journalism podcasts.
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My name is John Zigler. I'm your host on today's show. As
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expected, Kamala Harris is appointed the Democratic nominee, and the news media dramatically
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flips the switch to proper up. Is it possible the assassination attempt on Trump
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ends up being a neck negative for him politically? And why it appears that
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we already know that the Harris candidacy is not going to be immediately rejected like
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the infamous New Coke disaster. I warned you in episode number one hundred and
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seventy four that Kamala Harris was going to be clearly the Democratic nominee, As
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I have said continually, if in fact Joe Biden was forced to withdraw from
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the race, that there was only one remotely viable option for Democrats, and
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that was to nominate Kamala Harris. Even I've been a little bit surprised by
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how quickly and how how clearly that has resulted in being the case. I'll
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get to how and why, and a little bit of negative reaction from oddly
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enough, Black lives Matter to that whole situation a little bit later on in
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the episode. But I also warned you in the in episode one seventy four
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to prepare yourself for a nearly unprecedented media propping up of Kamala Harris, that
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this was going to be a kamapalooza, That there was a perfect storm of
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circumstances that was going to generate a pro Kamala Harris tsunami of media coverage that
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was going to be reminiscent of what happened with Barack Obama in two thousand and
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eight, when the news media basically blew a hurricane wind at his back and
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in my view, actually essentially stole the Democratic nomination from Hillary Clinton and then
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paved Barack Obama's path to win the presidency in the general. Well, all
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of that has come to pass. There is zero question, zero that Kamala
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Harris is going to be the Democratic nominee. She already has enough delegates pledged
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to her. These were all former Biden delegates that have publicly stated their intention
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to vote for Kamala Harris, even though she didn't receive one primary vote,
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and in fact it's never received the primary vote in her entire career. But
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she's going to be handed the democratic nomination. But this is not a coup,
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This is not undemocratic, according to the media and the Democrats. No,
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no, we're just going to ignore that hypocrisy, that elephant in the
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corner of the room, and instead we are going to openly cheerlead for Kamala
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Harris, at least in the left wing media and most of the mainstream media.
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I have several clips I want to play for you to prove the case
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that was always obvious that this was going to happen, but it's probably been,
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like I said, a little bit more dramatically, a little bit more
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quickly then even I anticipated. I want to start with the reaction of MSNBC.
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Now, obviously MSNBC is the most far left major network. There was
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no chance that they were going to do anything other than what they did,
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especially since they played at least somewhat of a role in the ouster of Joe
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Biden. I mean, there was someone MSNBC that held out to the last
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minute, but by and large MSNBC decided to go along with the coup.
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And then once the coup was finished materialized and Biden had announced his withdrawal,
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MSNBC quickly flipped in very dramatic fashion, totally embracing Kamala Harris and really getting
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the Obama chills when talking about how awesome Kamala Harris is. And here's a
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montage of that reaction on MSNBC. I'm jumping out of my seat over here
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watching this. People have been sting for this, and I'll just say this,
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you know, and I'm with Tim, Tim, I'm jumping out of
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my seat higher than you, my brother. I'm just gonna say that.
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It was a twinkle in her eye. There was a kick in her step
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that you know when you're vice president. You know, I don't You're not
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loops you can't. You know there's somebody above you, there's somebody you don't
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want to overshadow them. You want And this was quite the coming out.
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And I got chills when she said, Donald Trump, I know you're tight.
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I was blown away. I was like, I kind of fell in
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love with her. I thought she was smart, engaging, She's just funny,
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feisty, twinkle in your eye, punch you in the gut, I
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mean everything you want. I just thought it was a great, great opening
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act. She looked completely comfortable tonight with the with the words she was speaking,
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they felt organic and genuine. Obviously, none of that is particularly surprising
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giving the nature of MSNBC, but I think it's still worth contemplating what's really
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going on there. I sense a lot of relief on the part of those
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liberal commentators who now no longer have to worry about, forget about the politics
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of who's going to win and lose, just from a programming standpoint, not
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having to go through four months of a slog pretending to support Joe Biden,
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basically by just saying that Donald Trump is hitler, knowing that you're probably going
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to end up with the loss, and that the ratings are going to suck
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because the programming is going to suck, Your audience is going to be demoralized.
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This is just a bad scenario for a liberal media outlet. And so
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there's relief and there's excitement that they can wipe the slate clean, that they
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have a brand new, theoretically exciting programming to be providing for their viewers,
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and they don't have to go through the same old narratives. They don't have
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to pretend that Joe Biden isn't way beyond his years and is somehow capable of
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being president for another four years, and they have this new, exciting,
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shiny object that they can pretend is awesome in Kamala Harris. So none of
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that is particularly surprising, but I do think that it gives you an insight
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as to what's really going on. And it's not just about the fact that
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Harris may have a better chance of beating Trump than a damage Joe Biden did.
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Although let's be clear, most of the damage done to Joe Biden was
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by left wing media after the debate, so it's kind of a self owned
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and that's been part of why I think there's a perfect storm here for the
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news media to really really go all out in embracing Kamala Harris, because this
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is their dirty work. They're going to have some guilt and they're going to
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feel invested in making sure this all works out. And in order for this
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to work out, from the liberal perspective, Kamala Harris is going to have
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to be propped up. She's going to have to be seen as viable.
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She's going to have to be sold to at least to forty seven forty eight
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percent of the American public for this to work, and for them to one,
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and I will acknowledge that they probably most of them want to avoid a
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Donald Trump presidency, even though a Donald Trump presidency, it should be pointed
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out, would be economically very good for MSNBC, just like a Kamala Harris
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presidency would be very good for Fox News Channel. That's one of the many,
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many reasons why journalism is dead, because the incentive structure is all messed
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up and often completely and totally upside down. But I think mostly those that
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an MSNBC are just excited to have new, fresh material and to know that
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their audience isn't going to be completely demoralized and that they're going to actually have
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something theoretically fun to talk and exciting to talk about for the next four months.
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But it wasn't just MSNBC. This was throughout the media. On CBS.
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We're already seeing the major media, including a clip about to play for
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you that involved Margaret Brennan and Nora O'Donnell, the CBS news anchor who I
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have had some pretty high profile run ins with in the past when she was
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on MSNBC and she was very very parsison and now she's pretending to be a
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news anchor on a formerly prestigious outlet like CBS. But they got into a
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discussion that I think is very significant because it's representative of what the media is
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going to try to do to protect Kamala Harris from any and all attacks.
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We are already seeing the theme that any attack on Kamala Harris is either a
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sexist or it's racist. That's really going to be the theme. This is
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not surprising. They don't have a real deep playbook, but they keep going
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back to it because oftentimes it works. And so they are setting up a
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firewall for Kamala Harris. And in this particular case, Margaret Brennan and Nora
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O'Donnell women to women are talking about how it would be sexist in this particular
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case, I guess to even discuss issues regarding staffing problems related to Kamala Harris
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because this is something that has become a way to attack women. I don't
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even know where this really comes from, but this is what they decided to
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go with, and this is what it sounded like on CBS. She had
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this illustrious career in California, but there's that criticism. California is its own
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country, right and can that kind of democrat relate to and persuade the rest
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of the country. There'll be a lot of criticism if you remember Nora from
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the early part of the Biden administration, about how she is as a manager
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and the turnover in her office. They'll be recombing over all of those stories
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about what does then indicate in terms of her leadership style and executive leadership style.
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I'm sure Ashley knows something about that that may fall under the criticism that
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has leveled at a lot of women, sometimes stereotypical criticism that no doubt she
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will face that Hillary Clinton faced about her style as well during the campaign in
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twenty sixteen s Clobar, as well Senator Clobshar who joined us earlier. So
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we're already establishing the major media is that there are certain attacks on Kamala Harris
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that are sexist, even though there's no logic or evidence to that particular one
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qualifying as sexist. In fact, frankly, it sounds sexist to me that
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you're not allowed to treat Kamala Harris like you would a man if they had
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a particular problem, whether it's staffing or otherwise. You ought to be able
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to go after somebody if it's legitimate, you ought to be treated equally.
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But I guess in their minds women aren't capable of being treated equally, with
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which to me is the definition of sexism. But this is the upside down
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world in which we live. But of course it's not just going to be
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sexism, going to be racism as well. And Mika Brazinski, who was
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one of the last of the Mohicans at MSNBC still on the Joe Biden train,
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but now has decided to go full on for Kamala Harris. She wants
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you to know that the pronunciation of Kamala Harris's name or Kamala Harris. See,
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I subconsciously I screwed it up there. I guess I'm a racist,
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But you know, I've actually struggled with this because we are now supposed to
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believe that it's Kamala Harris, right, Kamala Harris is the dignified way,
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I guess, the way that she would prefer to have her name be spoken
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and pronounced. But there are a lot of people who you still use Kamala
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Harris and it's almost impossible to kind of google this kind of thing, which
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I've tried to do. But it's my recollection. I could be wrong about
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this, but it's my recollection that this controversy first came up when she was
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running for president in twenty twenty. And you have to remember when she was
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running for president in twenty twenty, she was an outsider candidate and she was
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trying very hard to appeal to the black vote. She's known as a woman
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of color. I'll get into her actual demographic background in a moment, and
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she went to a historically black college in Washington, d C. Howard University,
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so she was trying to make a play for the black vote. Well,
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in order to make a play for the black vote, right, the
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pronunciation of your name could be critical, and it's my recollection. At the
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very least, she allowed, if not facilitated, people to call her Kemala,
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which would be I guess, the more black pronunciation. I don't even
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this is such a stupid conversation to begin with. But I didn't start this.
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This is because of what Mika Brazinski said on MSNBC, which you're about
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to hear. So there's zero question in my mind that there's no racism here.
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We're just trying to figure out, Okay, how are you supposed to
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pronounce her name? And I've used both pronunciations without even thinking about it,
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completely subconsciously. But I presume now we're supposed to go with Kamala. But
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that's not just an understandable confusion over how to pronounce someone's name in Mika Brazinski's
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mind and in the minds of many in the left wing media. No,
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no, no, no, this is much darker. This is much more
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nefarious, And this is another firewall we have to put up in defense of
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Kamala Harris to protect her from any attack whatsoever, because this one is a
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silent attack that has racial overtones, and that this is I guess a dog
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whistle. If you call her Kamala, that somehow that is racist, even
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though I'm quite sure she had no problem with people calling her Kamala when she
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was desperate to try to become the black candidate in twenty twenty. Anyway,
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as bizarre and as absurd as the whole thing is, here was Mika Brazinski
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talking about this on MSNBC. And I've heard from inside Republican circles and right
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wing media that the hate campaign against Kamala Harris has begun. You'll notice they
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purposefully pronounce her name wrong. They say Kamala. They do it all the
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time. It is on purpose. But the talk is to start that hate
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campaign and get it going and start it churning. I mean, this is
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just completely ridiculous. At worst, it is an understandable confus over Okay,
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how do you pronounce her name? I'm happy to go with Kamala. And
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if I say Kamala as I supposed to Kamala, it's s purely just a
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mistake. It's just a slip of the tongue. It's basically a confusion over
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okay, which is the right way to go. But Kamala, Now,
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I guess they wanted to have that be the right pronunciation because Kamala would be
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somehow racist, because that sounds more black, which again, much like with
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the sexism thing, frankly sounds racist to me if we lived in a rational
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world. But this is the lens to which they want to go the Kamala
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versus Kamala controversy to protect Harris and to create the impression that any criticism of
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her, even unintended, even in the pronunciation of her name, is illegitimate
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because in this case, it is racist, but the race issue doesn't stop
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there. Van Jones from CNN Black Commentator. I've talked a lot about in
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the past, who I generally like, although I'm starting to question my judgment
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on that because he said a lot of things that I think are completely off
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the wall and frankly inappropriate, And you know, I'm just that have actually
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irritated me quite a bit, both about JD. Vance and in this case,
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about Kamala Harris. And this is Van Jones on CNN going way overboard,
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emoting virtue signaling in some ways fantasizing politically about a reality that probably doesn't
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exist, while the rest of the panel at CNN sits back, speechless,
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terrified to push back on any of this. They all go, oh yes,
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oh yes, yes. Van Jones making the argument that Kamala Harris is
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a sister. I think he says sisters opposed to sister. But okay,
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fine, so she is a sister. And if you attack her, black
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men, Republicans beware, black men are going to instinctively rush to her defense.
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And here's what that sounded like on CNN. You start insulting black women,
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you're gonna see something you haven't seen before. Black men are not gonna
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put up with that. I was on a phone call with twenty thousand black
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men. The word protect came up about a thousand times. Protect the sister,
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Protect the sister. We're going to protect her. Protect her. You're
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about to see something you haven't seen before. You're look, people messed around
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with Hillary Clinton and said a bunch of mean stuff to her. Black men
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set that out. We won't set this out. So I don't think that
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the Republican Party understands that all all the work that they did trying to get
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us over there, two more days of this, it's gonna be a problem
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now. That was really something that you know. To me, that's one
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of C and n's great weaknesses is that they are so concerned about not offending
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black people in any way that when a black person starts to go down a
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path like Jones just did there, everyone else on the panel is just terrified
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of pushing back even a little bit. Instead, they just all non agreement
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and oh yeah, you go, brother, because that's just the culture there.
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And I don't understand what Jones was trying to say. I don't think
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there's any reality to it. Mostly because I don't understand how Kamala Harris gets
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called a sister. Now, I've already referenced that she went to Howard University
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and HB so that gives us some street cred. I'll fully acknowledge that,
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although academically, I'm not sure that really cuts the mustard to be president of
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the United States, at least not historically. It doesn't because it has nothing
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to do with Howard being an HBCU. It's just not an elite university.
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Not that being an elite you know, going to an elite university is everything
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when it comes to being president, but you know, traditionally that has been
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the case. But much more importantly than that, let's be clear. If
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you're going to bring up her racial background, let's talk about who Kamala Harris
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really is. She has an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, by the
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way, a Jamaican father who is a Marxist college professor. That's a fact.
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That's not hyperbole, that's just reality. And you know, a lot
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like Barack Obama, she lived a very mixed life, a mixed race life,
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which is nothing wrong with that at all. There's a lot of positives
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involved in that but how you get being a sister that black men in America
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are going to feel compelled to need to feel compelled to rush to the defense
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of even if those attacks against her are completely and totally legitimate. That's maybe
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the most important part of this whole thing is that Jones seems to think that
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there are no legitimate attacks or criticisms of Kamala Harris. They don't exist,
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and that any criticism at all is inherently, I guess racist and should provoke
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black men to rush to Harris's defense. Well, that would be in my
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view racist once again, international world. But it's particularly bizarre given the fact
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that Harris is half Indian and half Jamaican. I was told that the whole
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racism thing was about African Americans. That's what I was told, at least
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that's what I was led to believe. So I don't even get how she
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can lay claim to this other then going to Howard, which she's going to
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talk about constantly, I'm sure, and she already has, And so I'm
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not denigrating Harris at all. It's not even really it has. She obviously
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had nothing to do with her genetic background or demographic background, but a fact
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is a fact, and you know, it is interesting that some in the
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media will try to be careful by referring to her as a woman of color,
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which is how I generally refer to to Kamala Harris as a woman of
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color. Okay, fine, that that's pretty broad general and accurate. Some
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people will call her black, which I don't think is accurate. I haven't
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seen as many African American, you know, references, because that has happened
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a few times. But I guess, you know, the media has kind
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of learned that, Okay, that's not technically true, and maybe we should
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stay away from that. But the reality is that Van Jones is just making
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us up. And this is all out of a very deep seated desire to
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make sure that Harris is a success or, at the very least, not
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a failure, and that she needs to be propped up and defended and there
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needs to be a firewall put around her to make sure that none of these
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attacks stick and that people might even be afraid to attack her because they're either
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going to be called a racist or they're going to be called a sexist.
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And we saw hardcore evidence of how this is going to actually work in real
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life. Just this morning as I'm taping this. On Wednesday morning, Brian
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kill me the Fox News Channel in the Morning Show on Fox News Channel was
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criticizing Harris for not meeting Benjamin Netanyahoo and the fact that she had a previous
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engagement where she was supposed to speak at what he referenced as to my ear
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and to the ear most people, a college sorority, a college sorority,
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and he felt like she could have canceled that well, there are as of
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this taping, numerous major media members, including the black president of the White
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House Correspondence Association. The president of the White House Correspondence Association tweeted out what
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Kilmeade said and in my view, completely lied about what he said and claimed
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that he referenced a colored sorority and not a college sorority. Now I've tweeted
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it out. If you want to check it out, that's fine. Someone
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even put out a version of the audio that was slowed down, which makes
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it even more obvious that he said college sorority, and it didn't make take
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any damn sense that he would say colored sorority, although even then I would
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be confused. Okay, wait a minute, so the NAAC, the National
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Association of Colored People, is perfectly fine. But somehow if Brian killed me,
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either accidentally or maybe even on purpose, but she did not do says
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a colored sorority, that that would be inherently outrageous and somehow racist. But
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this is the lens to which they're gonna go. They're gonna make shit up.
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Even the president of the White House Correspondence Association is lying about what Brian
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killed me and said it didn't even make any sense. Forget about what it
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sounded like to your ear. It wouldn't have made any sense in the context
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of how he was saying it for him to reference the colored sorority. He
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clearly said college sorority. But this is what's gonna happen. This is the
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new world we're in. They're gonna take this very, very, very personally.
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This could be the first female president and she's a woman of color,
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and we have to make up for what we did with Joe Biden. We
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have to make sure this works. We are all hands on deck. My
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God, the whipl the whiplash that has occurred in the news media from for
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you know, a couple of weeks actually being a real fourth estate being actual
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pitfulls when it came to making sure that Joe Biden got taken down, and
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then the switch boom flipping immediately and dramatically to being lap dogs again more so
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than they probably would have been if I truly believe that if the Biden thing
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had not happened. Let's pretend Biden never ran for reelection and Harris ran and
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she won the primary, There's no chance we would be seeing this level of
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obscenely over the top, head in the sand, delusional thinking positive media coverage
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for Kamala Harris. We just wouldn't. And it doesn't stop just at getting
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the chills at MSNBC, or you know, don't be sexist by criticizing her
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at CBS, or you know, don't mispronounce her name an MSNBC, or
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you know she's a sister that black men are going to defend at CNN,
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or you know Fox News is racist for sake that she's speaking at a college
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sorority. No, No, maybe taking the cake only because of its weirdness
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and its awkwardness and how far over the top it is. CNN and Jake
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Tapper and Jamie Gengel and a panel at CNN We're giggling like schoolgirls over this
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narrative that Harris has gen Z appeal, and she has gen Z appeal because
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somebody called her brat, which I guess is a positive slang word that you
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know, the gen Zers are using. And this was This was just so
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weird and awkward, but also very very telling about where the news media is
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and how far they are willing to go when it comes to promoting Kamala Harris.
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And here's what that sounded like on CNN. For the record, I
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was tipped off about this what I'm about to share with our voters, our
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viewers, rather by my sixteen year old who is an actual member of gen
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Z. Kamala Harris appears to be leaning into this. The singer Charlie XCX
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tweeted last night Kamala is Brat's and this is in reference to her album It's
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called Brat. Kamala has branded her Kamala HQ Twitter page with the same esthetic
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of the album. That's a knowther gen Z word aesthetic. It's even becoming
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a trend on TikTok special gen Z correspondent Jamie, What can you tell us
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about so? First of all, just for my producer Elizabeth Stewart, who
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will spit out her coffee as I say this, I am supposed to say,
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that's Bratt. And for those who don't are not in the note the
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way I am. That is a cool thing. It has a color.
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Char True's is the color, and Kamala Harris has adopted that for whatever social
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media page that is. But I have brought some notes because I knew you
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would want a definition. Okay, here we go. Charlie XCX, who
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I do know. Quote Bratt, You're just that girl who is a little
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messy and likes to party and maybe says some dumb things some times. End
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quote. So it's the idea that we're all kind of brat, and Vice
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President Harris is brat. I don't. Well, if you're us right,
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you become brat. Oh, okay, to try, you can work at
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it. I will. I will aspire to be Brad. I'll aspire.
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But I mean the point is that she is, whether it's her or some
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very clever people who work for her going right for them in the language of
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their own that apparently nobody at the table speaks to quote another general except for
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you. Maybe this is your generation. She's going to your millennial take it
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easy. So can you tell me is this yourck? She's going to own
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it. She's going to own it, own it. It's going to be
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a very long four months, folks, if that's what we're in for.
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It's going to be a very very long four months. But it's not just
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going to stop at promoting Kamala Harris and pretending about her. I mean,
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my guy, we're already pretending. Major media outlets are that she was never
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really the borders are. That's the new narrative this morning, that you know,
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that was the one job Joe Biden gave her. So called borders are.
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Well, there are now numerous major, mostly left wing media outlets that
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are claiming, you know, it's a fallacy that Kamala Harris was ever the
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borders are. No, no, no, that never really happened, folks.
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In fact, at Axios, the left wing media organization, the very
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same reporter who reported three years ago, very clearly, succinctly and directly that
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Harris was the borders are, put out an article today say no, no,
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that's that's false. She was never actually the borders are. But it's
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not just Axios. Time Magazine did a similar situation. Others are trying desperately
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to absolve Harris from any responsibility for the border disaster. No, no,
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no, she wasn't really the borders are folks. It's very Orwellian nineteen eighty
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four. It's I don't know if they're going to be able to get away
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with it, but they're trying, and this is the very strange world we're
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now living in. But it's not even just going to be about what they're
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willing to do to defend Harris and rewrite history, like when it comes to
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her being put in charge of the border. Now they're gonna completely expose themselves
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as hypocrites, although it's hard for them to do that when they already are
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exposed as much as they theoretically could be on this issue of, for instance,
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Biden's age and lack of mental acuity. But this I just felt like
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I had to play because even though it might be an example of trolling,
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I'm not one hundred percent sure. Brian Stelter, who used to be the
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media critic, reporter commentator on CNN and is now in liberal academia and still
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taken very seriously, is allowed on liberal shows all the time. He he
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put out a video is saying that, you know what, now that Trump
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is the older candidate in the race, he's seventy eight, we need to
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take a look at his mental acuity, which is clearly declining. Based upon
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comparisons of him and his rallies and his statements today, when you compare them
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to four years ago or eight years ago, you just can't make this stuff
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up. And so that's why I'm playing it here. Here's Brian Stelter on
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this. But if you go back and watch Trump's convention speech, he does
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sound diminished compared to twenty twenty and compared to twenty to sixteen. We are
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going to hear Democrats point that out again and again that Trump is too old
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and too reckless to be president. And now, of course, this is
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a campaign of contrasts rather than having two elderly men. Now, it's a
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real campaign of contrast. So let me get this straight. We just went
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through a situation where the news media universally engaged in the cover up of the
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Democratic candidate and the Democratic presidents declining mental acuity, rebuffed all criticisms, called
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them right wing conspiracy theories, called videos that were not edited cheap fakes in
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a desperate attempt to make people not believe what their eyes were telling them about
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Biden, saying that he's still sharp as attack. They completely reversed themselves once
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that cover up got blown up by Biden himself at the debate, and now
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all of a sudden, Trump's mental acuity is a legitimate issue to be discussed,
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even though this is a guy who I criticize all the time, I've
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never voted for, don't like, and probably has declined to some degree since
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twenty sixteen. But the guy just got shot and was able to immediately stand
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up and pump his fist and chant fight, Fight, Fight. The guy
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just participated in a remarkable golf event with Brys and d Chambeau, which are
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going to get to a little bit later on in the episode. The guy
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clearly just wiped the floor with Biden at the debate, even though it really
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wasn't because of him. It was because Biden was that bad. But the
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idea that somehow you can compare what Trump is today to what Biden was when
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you were defending him is just so far beyond ludicrous, And again part of
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me thinks Stelter might be just trolling people. But it's not just stealter.
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I've seen this same narrative now on the left all over the place. Now
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that Trump is the seventy eight year old old guy, now all of a
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