As they’ve done since Day One of the Democrat National Convention, the mainstream media continued with the obscene fangirling over Day Four festivities in Chicago, with Vice President Kamala Harris’ speech accepting the presidential nomination prompting the birds to chirp merrily and the harps to strum beautifully on the sets of purported “news” outlets like ABC News.
But one of the elephants that remains in the room for Harris going forward is her calculated press avoidance strategy, something that has been written about often here and elsewhere, while her apologists in the MSM treat it as no big deal and debate how much longer she’ll be able to get by with it.
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Over at KNN CNN, though, the suggestion was not that Harris should begin doing interviews now but that perhaps she should continue avoiding them and instead “directly connect” with the people since in their view she seems to be doing so well at it.
Watch below as during two different segments, the idea was floated by people we’ve been reliably informed are journalists that the Democratic nominee for president should continue circumventing the media as long as it benefits her campaign:
CNN’s Erin Burnett wonders if Kamala Harris should “ignore all those calls to talk” to the media “and just keep doing what she’s doing.” pic.twitter.com/UsiaKDebMP
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) August 21, 2024
Later, we learned that this is a “vibes election” and that everyone should just chill and roll with Kamala Harris’ strategy of not taking tough questions:
ERIN BURNETT: And then you hear the criticism, “Oh, she has to do more interviews. She has to talk about policy.” Interesting from insiders, you’re speaking to, there’s sort of like, “No.”
MANU RAJU: Yeah.
BURNETT: “Absolutely not. Haven’t needed, to do it so far. Why start now?”
RAJU: And that’s exactly it. They’re concerned about her doing that could potentially trip her up and give Trump some ammunition. In fact, a lot of those Democrats I spoke to today said, avoid those policy prescriptions.
[…]
KASIE HUNT: Maybe. If you go with the vibes, it’s a vibes election!
BURNETT: That’s right!
Watch:
“It’s a vibes election!” proclaims Kasie Hunt.
CNN doubles down on encouraging Kamala to NOT do interviews and NOT talk about her “policy prescriptions.”
CNN joined with Dems in scoffing at the idea that Americans care to learn about policy. pic.twitter.com/BHT7urKZQJ— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) August 22, 2024
Now, we shouldn’t be surprised by this, of course, considering CNN is the same network that had a reporter once gush during the 2020 campaign that Harris was “fabulous!” And just days after the election, they were already pushing Joe Biden out the door with their commentary on the “historic” nature of a Harris vice presidency.
But though we shouldn’t be shocked by it, it should prompt serious concerns because, although the distrust of the media among the people has been earned, interviews still need to be done. Outside of rare exceptions, average Joes and Janes aren’t going to be the ones asking the candidates the hard questions about policy. The MSM for all their faults eventually gets around to it.
But in the case of Harris, a “tough” question for her would be any question, including the softball ones, as we’ve seen in past interviews where the reporters who went light on her were rewarded with non-sensical word salads and “unburdened by what has been” types non-answers.
In other words, Harris isn’t avoiding the press because she feels she’s better off connecting directly with the people; she’s avoiding them because she knows the interviews will be a disaster and will sink the image she’s carefully trying to craft with an electorate that has consistently given her low approval ratings.
This is all the more reason the press should aggressively be demanding sit-down time with her, not suggesting she keep the strategy in place because it’s “working for her.” That CNN would even put that out there (especially when you know they’d never dare suggest such a thing for Trump) just confirms all over again their role as a propaganda outlet for Democrats rather a credible media source.
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