I don’t mind saying I told you so.
So here goes: I told you so.
I told you that the media’s fangirling over Kamala Harris was going to put you in a diabetic coma.
I told you it would make their devotion to Barack Obama pale by comparison.
I told you so.
In my July 27 column, “Sugar High,” I wrote:
The media has less than 100 days to convince the American people that the vacuous politician they despise is the Second Coming of Obama, and the only way to do that is to oversaturate every medium with hagiographic, sickeningly sweet rubbish.
There is no free press in this country.
During the Obama years, I referred to the American corporate media as “The Enslaved Press.” Their job was not to hold the Obama administration to account or “speak Truth to Power.” Instead, the press willingly indentured itself to the Obama administration, unquestioningly regurgitating its talking points while attacking anyone who criticized the sainted Barack.
They even helped get a rodeo clown fired.
For Kamala Harris, the corporate news media is taking it even further. No longer satisfied with enslaving themselves to a politician, they have castrated themselves in service to their Queen.
Eunuch Scribes without an ounce of shame, the lot of them.
Donald Trump holds a press conference and reporters respond by pointing out every falsehood or exaggeration while suggesting that Trump was deranged and confused.
Kamala Harris refuses to hold a press conference and doesn’t plan to sit for an interview until the end of the month, and on Friday, the Associated Press runs a story with this headline:
Kamala’s vice presidential pick is mired in a scandal over his repeated false claims about his military service, and The Atlantic gives us this:
Meanwhile, over at Politico:
Politico admitted on Thursday that Kamala is speaking with reporters traveling with her on the campaign trail but only off the record.
So far, Harris’ rally speeches, delivered via teleprompter, have been well received. And she has routinely interacted with the reporters that travel with her — but on her terms. She often visits with the press pool seated at the back of her plane (something Biden did just twice in more than three years), but speaking only off the record. And when she has chosen to comment on the record on something in the news, Harris has spoken to the pool on the tarmac, making statements but not taking questions. [Sorry, Grammarly. I didn’t write that; a paid professional did.]
This is why the Eunuch Scribes aren’t complaining more about the lack of press access. They’re getting access but their job isn’t to report what the presidential candidate says. Their job, such as it is, is to sit starry-eyed while Kamala makes their day by walking to the rear of Air Force Two and talking to them off the record.
You don’t hate the corporate media enough.
You might think you do but you don’t.
Walz’s military scandal is metastasizing to the point where the Eunuch Scribes are unable to frame it as “Republicans seize on Walz’s military record.” So what does Team Kamala do? It releases a statement to friendly outlets claiming that Walz “misspoke” this one time in a 2018 video in which he claimed to have carried an “assault” weapon “in war.”
What about all the other times Walz “misspoke” about his military service or sat nodding while others “misspoke” about his military service? Well, that’s irrelevant because SHUT UP … and JD Vance is worse!
Team Kamala expects all inquiries into the matter to cease now that they’ve released a statement and the Eunuch Scribes will accommodate them.
Kudos to Trump campaign spokesman Steve Cheung for the statement he gave to NBC News:
“Why won’t Tim Walz address his lies himself? Why does he need to send out lowly spokespeople to clean up his own mess?”
Team Kamala needed this scandal to disappear so the Eunuch Scribes grabbed a shovel and started digging its grave.
Meanwhile, Politico reporter Eugene Daniels, who is one of the traveling press covering the Kamala campaign filed this all-important nugget on Twitter:
And this:
Great work, Eugene! You’re doing a bang-up job speaking Truth to Power and holding the powerful to account!
The enthusiasm surrounding the Kamala for President campaign is entirely manufactured — with the Kamala campaign busing in supporters to fill up large venues and the Eunuch Scribes selling their souls for access and churning out articles more suited to an adolescent fanzine than a news outlet.
Meanwhile, Kamala’s regurgitated lines at campaign rallies go far beyond the repetition common in political stump speeches. Instead, they give the feel of a scripted and rehearsed performance by someone playing the role of a presidential candidate in a Broadway touring company.
The other day, Fox News host Jesse Watters highlighted two campaign speeches Kamala gave on Wednesday — one in Wisconsin and another in Michigan. Not only does she repeat the same memorized lines, but she also deploys the same choreographed hand gestures.
Former Senate staffer Matt Whitlock had this to say about the Watters’ segment:
I remember seeing Kamala Harris in the entrance to a Senate hearing room preparing to go in front of cameras with her staff – the prep looked exactly like theater kids before going on stage.
It wasn’t going over facts or points, it was getting into character.
As a side note, I earned a second, “I told you so” for this one.
In my August 9 column “Cowardly Kamala,” I explained that the reason Kamala couldn’t do the Fox News debate scheduled before the ABC News debate was because she needed the added time to rehearse her lines, adding:
Agreeing to debate Trump on September 4 would be like opening a Broadway play a week before the final dress rehearsal.
Kamala Harris is playing the part of the presidential candidate in the Democrat Party’s 2024 production of “Madam President.”
This is why her campaign website does not include policy proposals. The website is as simulated as an on-screen sex scene in a PG-13 film.
This is why reporters are covering the Kamala campaign the same way they cover the stars of the latest summer blockbuster release. Instead of hard-hitting questions about what a Harris-Walz administration has planned, the fangirling reporters write fawning profiles and cutsie tidbits about Kamala’s favorite food and Dad-Bod Tim’s fashion choices.
The American corporate media would never dream of asking Scarlett Johansson or Ryan Reynolds challenging questions. Why would they challenge the star of the Democrat Party’s latest summer blockbuster?
Is it sickening and infuriating?
Yes. It is.
But don’t expect it to change.