Vapid '60 Minutes' sitdown shows why Harris avoids reporters
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Every interview Kamala Harris does reminds us why she does so few. Even with a sympathetic questioner in CBS' Bill Whitaker and a lot of editing, her pre-recorded "60 Minutes" sit-down that aired Monday didn't go well.
Harris gave us a glimpse into her mind, and there's not much there.
Be thankful for small favors: At least she didn't deflect anything with "I grew up a middle-class kid."
But her canned evasions still aren't actually answers to the big questions of this election: What she really believes, how she'd offer "change" from Joe Biden, what she plans to do, or why anyone should expect any of her policies to work.
Whitaker challenged Harris on a few points, but this shouldn't have been a hard interview.
There were no "gotcha" questions. There were no surprises.
Nearly every topic he broached was something Harris had been asked before, in her debate with former President Donald Trump and in her few prior interviews.
Harris wasn't asked to defend her administration's lackluster performance in the response to Hurricane Helene, or its execution of anything other than opening the border to illegal migrants.
Airing as it did on Oct. 7, the interview opened with questions about the war in Gaza. Harris stuck to the administration's usual weaselly formulation, saying that Israel had a right to defend itself — but immediately pivoting to declare that too many Palestinians have died and "this war has to end."
So long as she won't say that Israel can and should disable Hamas and Hezbollah to prevent further attacks on Israel, that's not a real right to self-defense, but a recipe for a never-ending war in which more Israelis and more Palestinians will die.
So much for "Never again."
Whatever else she may have said about the topic was cut off from a broadcast that was replete with edits.
Whitaker talked up the economy, but even with his encouragement, Harris could only say she had "a plan" to bring down prices. But she still can't explain what that plan is, despite having had multiple opportunities to do so, including on the debate stage.
We do know it involves the government printing more money, which is exactly how we got in this mess in the first place.
Whitaker asked Harris twice how she would pay for her anticipated trillions in new spending. She said the richest taxpayers should pay more, but you can't raise that much money only from them.
And everyone who got a tax cut during the Trump years should notice that her only other answer was to blame the former president's tax cuts — all of them. Watch your wallet.
Her answers on the border crisis were even worse.
Asked why the administration reversed course on Trump's policies and let so many people into the country, Harris blamed Congress for not passing a bill in 2024 — ignoring the fact that her own administration had unilaterally acted without Congress for three years to create the problem.
She simply had no answer as to why the Biden-Harris administration hadn't taken steps sooner to undo its own executive policies. She looked pained that Whitaker pressed her on the question.
Harris didn't just insult the intelligence of voters — she insulted them, period. When Whitaker asked how Harris could brand Trump's rhetoric racist when nearly half the country supports him, she scoffed that "most reasonable people" do not.
So Trump's voters are either racist or unreasonable? Got it.
When pressed on her many apparent flip-flops on fracking, immigration and health care, Harris claimed she had shifted after traveling the country as vice president and had discovered — shockingly! — that America is a big, diverse country in need of common ground.
Of course, she still has no regard for letting thorny issues be decided at the state level, as she would if she truly respected our differences. The next time Harris works out a compromise will be the first.
What about the gun she claims to own? Harris revealed she has a Glock, which she has used at a firing range (laughing awkwardly as she did so).
That makes it worse, not better, that she's been so determined to take other people's guns — and once filed a Supreme Court brief arguing there is no individual right to own a handgun.
Harris is running a campaign of slogans, not ideas or proposals — and certainly not a campaign of records and accomplishments.
On taxes, on immigration and on so much else, there are questions she can't answer, and she can't hide her inability to do so.
That doesn't bode well for us if she's our next president.
Harry Truman used to say, "The buck stops here." Harris thinks she can always just print more bucks.
Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review.Twitter: @BaseballCrank
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A liar even about what she truly believes.
Meanwhile the other 'vapid' contender sent in the usual bucket of excuses/lies for not showing up.
For a deflection, this one is very weak.
I match what I am responding to.
He has no reason to show up.
Funny how things turned around. Now it's all about her!
It is for you, 5-6 seeds today alone. Should we classify it as HDS or KDS? 'We' would hate to confuse 'our' readers.
Earlier it was all about Trump............6-7 seeds.
Compare:
60 Minutes lies and defends the veracity of the Biden laptop when interviewing Trump.
60 Minutes edits it product to make Harris look she she actually gave a coherent answer by substituting a statement from a different portion of the interview to cover for her inability to address a topic.
Why would Trump, or any other Republican, sit for an interview with 60 minutes?
The 5-6 I mentioned came as a block of seeds from 1 source.
I find it funny that his main reason for backing out of the 60 Minutes interview was that they would factcheck him. At least he and Vance have that in common, the absolute fear of factchecking.
So were mine. You must have missed them.............
Happens in the morning, that's usually the time I spend over at National Post jousting with the rude T(rudeau) DS crowd.
Coward can't face an actual interviewer who will expect answers and not demented ranting rambling endless word salads
How many times has Harris gone on Fox.........hmmmm?
Why the fuck would she go on Fux 'news' ........hmmmmm?
Moronic.
See 2.3 above. That's why.
No fucking reason whatsoever.
Why would she go on a channel that has already lost almost 800 million dollars for falsifying their reporting to favor Trump?
She's a coward. Got it.
That was Dominion that sued them for carrying supposed false stories about their machines
No fucking reason whatsoever why she would and it shows that the former 'president' traitor convicted felon rapist is the biggest wussy coward whiny sniveling little coward bitch out there - hence why he isn't going on 60 minutes.
Thank you for proving our point, Kamala has no ability to think on her feet. Before you rant look at her when the teleprompter went out and all she could do is mumble 32, 32 days, she's a fucking imbecile.
Correct, false stories designed to favor Trump in the 2020 election.
Have you ever even listened to the other candidate?????
will someone list the non right wing media interviews Trump has done this year ?
Going on 60 minutes for Harris is like going on Newsmax for Trump.
Off the top of my head I know Bloomburg and Time. I'm sure there are many more because he talks to everyone.
That is two more than non left wing interviews Harris has done.
NABJ for one.........and 20 with Bob Woodward.........and this..........
And the Leslie Stahl 60 Minutes interview
CBS edited it to take a sentence from a different part of the interview and replace a word salad answer she actually gave. That's (1) how bad she is, (2) how much in the tank CBS is for her.
Wow. She showed she is unfit to be president and an even bigger idiot than I thought